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Custom Screen Method
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Custom Screen Method
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want your Chocolate Notebook to display the If you have a real computer, color printer, the right software and some basic computer graphic skills, you can put your own favorite web site page on your Chocolate Notebook screen. |
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PROCEED
AT YOUR OWN RISK!
WE MAKE NO GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL WORK FOR YOU.* |
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Set your computer desktop to 1024 x 768 pixels (High Color or True Color). |
| 2. | Open your internet browser and maximize it so it fills the desktop. |
| 3. | Open
your favorite web site page in the browser. (The page you want to appear on your Chocolate Notebook.) |
| 4. | "Capture"
the desktop. (If you're using Windows, press the "Print Scrn" key on your keyboard.) |
| 5. | Open your favorite image editing program. |
| 6. | Paste the clipboard into a new image. (In Photoshop, choose File/New, then Edit/Paste.) |
| 7. | Save the new image as "Page". |
| 8. | Download the Chocolate Notebook Browser frame (called.screen.jpg). |
| 9. | Open screen.jpg in your image editing program. |
| 10. | Cut out the portion of your "Page" image and scale it so it fits within the screen portion of the "screen.jpg" image and save it as "newscreen." |
| 11. | Scale your "newscreen" image to make sure it measures 10-1/2" wide by 7-1/8" high. |
| 12. | Load your color printer with a 8-1/2" x 11" full sheet blank label paper (such as Avery 5165 for laser printers). |
| 13. | Print your "newscreen" image, then carefully trim off the excess paper. |
| 14. | Remove the backing from your "newscreen" print, then carefully adhere it onto the standard Chocolate Notebook screen, covering the existing image. |
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NOTE: If you are making your custom screen for a Chocolate Notebook that you plan to give as a gift, and you make a mistake that ruins the appearance of the Chocolate Notebook box, follow these steps: |
| A. | Eat all of the RAM and CPU chips. |
| B. | Dispose of the ruined Chocolate Notebook box. |
| C. | Buy a new Chocolate Notebook, complete with chips and manual. |
| D. | Try again. |