Decorate your Newton

* * * Neat ideas for Newtonia's Holiday Season * * * * Trawl the web for Christmas (or other) stories. The usual blogs are good pointers, Project Gutenberg is a sure winner. Grab 'em and bookify them. Hey, if you click here http://www.google.de/search?newwindow=1&q=site%3Awww.gutenberg.org+christmas+recipe+cooking you could even make a Christmas cookbook! (-- Want to know how to make a Newton eBook? It's really easy, everybody can, and the WikiWikiNewt will help you: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/MakeNewtonEbooksIndex * Compile your own favorite XMas/Hannukah/Kwaanza/Solstice/Vhatevah-recipes and traditions in one sweet Rich Text Format document, edit for nice looks, run Newton Press (get it free at http://www.unna.org) and File/Add it, set page breaks, add topics (for a table of content) and maybe insert some illustrations and give us something personal! * Else you might want to create Season backdrop images for the usual backdrop apps... * ...or record short AIFF or WAV sounds on your desktop to be used as system sounds. How to get them on your box? Easy--set up the new release of Mail V by Simon Bell, mail the sounds over and put them away from In Box, presto!--they are available as system sounds for all these fun tricks here http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/ChangeSystemSounds . * Another customisation: You can change the Newton startup screen, at least on NOS 2.0: http://tmurai-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/computers/freeware/newton/sscreen/ startupscreen.html . Does it work on MP2x00 and eMates, too? Research this, write a small, newbie-proof manual and give this gift. Fun for the whole family! * You could follow this HowTo http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/MakeNewtonSing and teach the Newton a new tune, taking lyrics from a Christmas song and transcribing it so it sound nice via TTS. Follow the linked Macintalk-instructions and create more Text-to-Speech caroling goodness... * Or do anything else you'd like to do--give a new release of a software you're developing, or a new hack from the heart, or a new Moron's Manual(TM) documenting something step-by-step, or... Be creative. Santa 'Kasko The Temporary Newton Library http://www.stillnewt.org./library Newton Christmas Challenge 2005 http://www.stillnewt.org/library/_Fiction/_Newton%20Christmas/