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awesomeness! anyway to get it to save other then a .png?
why would you want to? jpeg is designed for photographs, not graphic art, and a screenshot is comprised of primarily graphics (in the form of art and font). Graphics are preserved in a .png format to prevent the compression and pixellation that occurs often when saving a graphic as though it were an image.

ex;

windowscreenshot.png


Graphics saved as jpeg will almost always be fuzzy, so I'm just curious as to why you'd screenshots in the jpg format?

Not trying to be a jerk or anything, just curious!
 
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why would you want to? jpeg is designed for photographs, not graphic art, and a screenshot is comprised of primarily graphics (in the form of art and font). Graphics are preserved in a .png format to prevent the compression and pixellation that occurs often when saving a graphic as though it were an image.

ex;

windowscreenshot.png


Graphics saved as jpeg will almost always be fuzzy, so I'm just curious as to why you'd screenshots in the jpg format?

Not trying to be a jerk or anything, just curious!


I just learned something! thanks :)
 
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PNG is clearer and better, TBH. It was developed for the first dynamic websites (PHP) and meant to improve on the GIF, which took up a ton of space for lossy quality.

There was a time when trying to view a PNG was a pain, but now-a-days, it's as easy to share/view as a JPG or GIF. Believe it or not, the BMP file is harder to view these days, which at one time was the standard for HTML image coding.
 
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Does anyone know if there's a way to get ADW EX to rotate the dock icons without changing their order? I emailed the developer, but he has yet to get back to me. I had everything else set up to my liking except that.

Then I switched to Launcher Pro when I installed Broken Out (I run LP on my old Incredible). I love how the dock icons simply rotate without changing their relationships to the capacitive buttons. But ADW EX seems to work better for me in every other respect...
 
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I like the dock and feel of zeam, but the inability to hide apps in the drawer is a really needed feature.

Hmm... Never heard of app hiding, I just use app organizer and have category folders on one of my side home screens.

I knew it could be done, but hate hidden items. I'd prefer to unhide apps rather than hide them
 
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