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plingme #1: 
plingme was designed to run on Windows XP, is entirely free for personal use and can be downloaded here (3.5Mb). Some basic help can be found here. 7th Feb 10: Revision 3 now expected mid-June. With luck and a prevailing wind the new site and shop will be ready May or earlier. Please direct any business or trade enquiries to mrpling@plingme.com 1st Jan 10: New version and shop now furiously under development. 5th Oct: plingme can now be downloaded as a self-extracting installer. 5th Oct: plingme #1 rev 2: More revisions including individual transparency settings for materials, a fixed bug in design mode when resetting the physics and support for the ic3 extension. The last now means that a shape can be installed by double-clicking it or choosing 'open' from you browser when downloading a shape, should make life a little easier... 12th Sep: plingme #1 rev 1: Small revisions including HomeKey functionality, multi-select for materials and objects and the removal of recycle bin checking which was causing some machines to experience a delay on starting it up.
plingme is entirely free for personal use and does not contain any spyware or adware The aim of this site is to create a large and comprehensive library of user generated 3d interfaces that can be freely downloaded and installed by other users of plingme. This release is not a demo and is fully functional. You should be able to produce and share your own shapes straight away (there are a couple of blank shapes included). If you create a shape please forward it on... NB: plingme doesn't store programs or documents, it stores shortcuts which are just links to the real files - it isn't meant to be a replacement for the desktop. It's just another way of organising your system, your way.
I hope you like it! Best regards, mrpling mrpling@plingme.com |
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not-before-time help plingme stores links (shortcuts) to your programs, documents, bookmarks, pictures, system resources and tools on a 3D shape. The links can be stored individually or as group - there is scrollbar button type for linking to and browsing system folders. Saved positions can be created to help navigate around the shape. plingme allows any different shape to be used to store the links. It can accept 3DS format files as a basis for a shape. A shape's settings can be modified including it's physics, colour, visibility and texture. Just a few changes can make a shape appear completely different. For instance go to 'Shape Settings' then 'Options' and click 'Hide' for the shape and 'Two Sides' for the button. Links are placed on 'buttons'. Buttons can be added to virtually any part of a shape at virtually any size. Buttons can be placed on top of each other. Buttons are added using the inbuilt button designer, just click wherever it says 'Add Buttons'. Everything on a shape including all the links, pictures, textures, bookmarks, shape settings, sound and positions is stored within the shape. Actual files and the links to them are not stored. A populated shape can be saved out of plingme to be shared or submitted to plingme.com. Shapes can be installed directly into plingme. A shape consists of one file with an .ic3 extension. The shape screenshot you see above was all generated from one file of about 1Mb. Links have actions. If you click with your right mouse button on a file on your desktop a menu appears (the context menu) with a list of actions that can be performed on that file. plingme lets you assign these actions to a link instead of the action your computer would normally perform. So if you want to perform a virus check of your C drive with one click (and you have a virus checker installed that adds an entry to your context menu) then you can do it. Application or System wide hotkeys can be assigned to any link you add. If you want a key combination to instantly shutdown your system, start your screensaver or fire your favourite bookmark then you can do that too. Everything that you see on a plingme panel that does something can be added to a shape and vice-versa (with the exception of scrollbars which cannot be added to a panel). Java applets can be added as plugins to a shape and actions performed thanks to a great addon created by Richard Buck. Some sample plugins and an explanation of the API have been shipped with this version.The eye is great! See the 'Spark' folder for more info. The panel 'Panel One' that the shape initially appears in is a popup bar and can be docked on a side of your screen. You can set it to auto or manually contract by clicking anywhere other than a link and choosing 'Panel' and then 'Expand & Contract' from the menu. The funny triangle thing in the middle of the bar manually contracts the panel. A panel is resized by moving your mouse pointer over an edge (like you would normally) until you see two opposite arrows. If there is a link nearby the arrows won't appear and you'll have to move the mousepointer somewhere else. A panel is moved by moving your mousepointer near an edge until you see four arrows all pointing in opposite directions. There is an invisible band just in from the edge all the way around the panel that when clicked will move it. Once again if there is a link in the way it won't work (the first panel does have a move button next to exit if you get stuck). You'll soon get the hang of it. Back to Download |
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plingme contains some code not
written by mrpling but which has helped him greatly in his continuing endeavors
to attempt to create the world's most addictive desktop toy:libpng copyright © 1995-2008 contributing authors plingme is Copyright 1999-2008 Andrew Brier. plingme is a registered trademark of Andrew Brier. OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc Windows XP, XP, Windows Vista and Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. |