Well once Windows Phone 7 is out we can say goodbye to custom home screen interface. Today though, iPhoneToday is a good finger-friendly option for those of us who like the iPhone style interface. There are a few glitches here and there that need to be ironed though. Read on to see if this suits your taste.

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Changelog v1.5.1 (Apr 3, 2010)

1. Using registry notifications instead of polling for updating notifications (bubbles, date, time, etc.). Notifications (and reloadIcon) should now appear immediately. Battery foot print should also be smaller.
2. Icon, text, circles, offset sizes, etc. are scaled automatically if the application is launched in a different resolution than the one in settings.xml (LastConfiguredAt).
3. Bubbles are alpha blended.
4. Position, size, text, etc. of bubbles are configurable.
5. Added background image support for static bars (bottom bar and top bar). Gradient background can now be used even when a wallpaper is set. The background (gradient or image) of static bars can be alpha blended to the wallpaper.
6. ShrinkToFit option of static bars now shrinks the text height in addition to the icon width.
7. Added font settings dialog.
8. Renamed “GPRS State” icon to “Cell Network State”.
9. Added “Missed Calls & Signal Strength & Operator Name” icon.
10. Added “Unplayed Voice Mails” icon.
11. Added “Irda State” icon.
12. Added “Phone Profile” icon.
13. No sound or vibration on launch if current profile is silent.
14. When battery is charging a dot is shown before the battery percentage to indicate charging.
15. If operator name is empty show NA for signal.
16. Changed the field “type” in the icon settings dialog from dropdown to droplist.
17. Fonts in the fonts subdirectory are automatically added/removed.
18. Load strExec and strParameters (in addition to nScreen, nIcon, strName, and strImage) from HKLM\Software\iPhoneToday\Icon…\ when HKLM\Software\iPhoneToday\reloadIcon is set.
19. Added a separate text quality option for text inside icons.
20. Added new pressed icons.
21. Added minimize OnLaunchIcon option (you have to manually edit settings.xml).
22. Added UpdateWhenInactive option (you have to manually edit settings.xml) to always update notifications even when window is inactive. The default value is 0 to save battery.

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Changelog v1.4.9 (Mar 15, 2010)

1. Fixed degraded quality of images of previous release (image resizing is done by the Windows Imaging API again).
2. Fixed a bug with background resizing.
3. Added RoundRect option (for now only in the XML, no dialog yet) to display a black rounded rectangular behind the text (like Android).

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Changelog : iPhoneToday v1.4
1. Support for Pocket PC 2003
2. Support for Portable Navigation Devices (Windows CE Core)
3. Today item height is automatically figured (you can have multiple today items and it should still work properly as long as iPhoneToday is the last one)
4. Vertical scrolling
5. Added header text for each screen
6. Support for BMP files without using the imaging API (BMP images are actually a lot faster)
7. Made almost everything configurable
8. Bottombar can have different settings from the mainscreen
9. Icon text can be set to 0
10. Icon offset can be set to a negative value to make the text overlap the icon
11. Commandline arguements and special icons with the same commands (–reload, –relaunch, –add, –options, –close, –exit, –goto:, –goto:next, –goto:previous, –goto:down, –goto:up)
12. Added copy icon and copy here in the right click (long tap) menu
13. Paths can now be relative to the application directory
14. Better orientation and rotation support
15. Special characters such as “, < , >, & are properly handled in the XML (if you manually edit the XML make sure you escape them!)
16. Use the last indexed LED as the vibration LED
17. Scroll through the pages with the directional pad.
18. Many other bugfixes, improvements, and optimizations

Request : I know some of you guys hate the iPhone UI and flame everything that tries to mimic this UI. But there are many users who like these UI on Windows Mobile. So keep the flaming to a minimum ;)

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iPhoneToday is a iPhone interface for windows mobile.

Features and Todo :
- Multiples screens (With animates transactions)
- Notification on icons for calls, sms, etc
- Is a Today (No problems when we push the home button, no problems with incoming calls, …)
- Compatibility with others todays (By example: Date Today and iPhoneToday after), today height configurable
- QVGA, VGA, WVGA… (The user define the icon size and height screen)
- UI for Icons configuration
- Write on C++
- For now, only 62Kb + Icons in memory

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