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Daymation User Guide Welcome Requirements Installation • Animations Registration • Updating Getting Started
Welcome Daymation supports any Palm® device with OS 4.0 or later and 1 MB of free memory. A color device is recommended. The Daymation application and databases can be downloaded from the internet in .zip compressed format. If the file doesn't automatically de-compress onto your computer, please refer to your Web browser's instructions to obtain the necessary plug-in. Inside the Daymation folder are three files: daymation.prc, ufo_files.pdb and wedding_daze.pdb. Daymation.prc can be installed on either the handheld device or an external memory card. The application should be placed in the /PALM/Launcher or the /Applications directory of the memory card. If you install via HotSync, this will occur automatically. Animations: Animations (such as ufo_file.pdb and wedding_daze.pdb) must be installed on the handheld itself and not to memory card. New animations are free so visit the Downloads section regularly to check for new releases. Once you have purchased Daymation you will receive a registration code with your receipt. Launch the Daymation application on your device and tap the faded blue date bar to display the menu. Select Options > Registration... to activate the Registration dialog. Enter your code on the dotted line labeled Registration code. Tap Register to activate the software. Be sure to store your registration code in a safe place as it will no longer be displayed within the application. Updating: Updating to the latest version of Daymation is as easy as installing the current demo version over your previously registered copy. Your registration information will be retained and the new full version automatically enabled. Updating is free so visit Daymation regularly to check for new versions of Daymation and added animations.
Getting Started
Daymation's main screen features a daily animated cartoon, date in large red numerals, day & month in blue, and a small calendar. Calendar: The calendar shows the days of the month that have expired in light gray, the current date in red, and the remaining days in black.
Flip Clock: Tap on the calendar to peel it away and reveal the flip clock. If the time shown is not correct, use the Prefs application on your device to reset the time and then relaunch Daymation. Tap the flip clock to re-apply the calendar slip.
Navigation: Tap the lower right page curl to reveal the sunrise screen. Tap anywhere on the animation to proceed to the story screen.
In addition to showing the current phase of the moon, the sunrise screen features four arrows that indicate sunrise and sunset times as described below.
Twilight: Twilight is the time before sunrise or after sunset when sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere and the surface of the Earth.
Civil twilight (yellow arrows) begins in the morning when the center of the Sun is less than 6° below the horizon, and ends at sunrise. Evening civil twilight begins at sunset and ends when the center of the Sun is more than 6° below the horizon. Nautical twilight (purple arrows) is defined as the time when the center of the Sun is more than 6° below the horizon but less than 12°. This is the time when sailors can take reliable star sights of well known stars, using a visible horizon for reference. The end of this period in the evening, or its beginning in the morning, is also the time at which traces of illumination near the sunset or sunrise point of the horizon are very difficult if not impossible to discern (this often being referred to as "first light" before dawn and "nightfall" after dusk). Moon Phase: The bottom portion of the screen displays an approximation of the current moon phase. In the northern hemisphere the moon always grows (waxes) and shrinks (wanes) from right to left.
In the southern hemisphere, the above is reversed. For example: Navigation: Tap the small date icon at the top of the screen to return to the main screen.
Enjoy a new story, fact, anecdote, trivia item or tip every day of the year. Use the purple arrows located at the bottom right of the blue border to advance the text up or down one page.
Menu Bar Animations: You may assign a different animation for each day of the week. After you have loaded your desired animations, tap the pick list to the right of a day and select your choice. You may have the same animation assigned to several days if you choose.
Preferences: The 24-hour clock is a convention of time-keeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, numbered from 0 to 23. This system is the most commonly used time notation in the world of today. The United States and Canada are the only industrialized countries left in which a substantial fraction of the population is not yet accustomed to it. The 24-hour notation is in the US and Canada also referred to as military time, and (now only rarely) in the United Kingdom as continental time.
Daylight savings time (DST) is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually by one hour, from its official standard time for the summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "saved" daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn. Edit Location: Latitude gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. Latitude is an angular measurement in degrees (marked with °) ranging from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the poles (90° N for the North Pole or 90° S for the South Pole). Longitude describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. Longitude is given as an angular measurement ranging from 0° at the Prime Meridian to +180° eastward and -180° westward. Unlike latitude, which has the equator as a natural starting position, there is no natural starting position for longitude. Therefore, a reference meridian had to be chosen. In 1884, the International Meridian Conference adopted the Greenwich meridian as the universal prime meridian or zero point of longitude.
To look up the latitude and longitude settings for a city near your home try visiting: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Frequently Asked Questions Customer: Can animations be placed on the SD card? Sensei: Because animations need to be accessed quickly, they cannot be read from the SD card. Customer: What if I want to see the same animation all week long? Sensei: Simply assign the animation of your choice to every day of the week using the pick lists within the Animations dialog. |
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