MikeTheApeman

To make a transparent bitmap you must make sure that the bitmap has been converted to Indexed 256 colour. 24bit Bitmaps will not make a transparent image. Make sure that pixel (0,0) in the top left most part of thepicture has the colour you want to be transparent. If you have a background colour that you do not want to be transparent put another colour at pixel (0,0), preferably 1 that doesn't appear in the rest of the image. Someimage allow you to add a colour to the palette if needed. In some cases setting colour 0 in the colour index also can help.

Being's that it's Monday morning, I will let the fact that you incorrectly called it a monkey slide. It's a Chimp. There's a difference. remember - I am the Apeman. Primates are my thing. Now, Here's something incorporating the Chimp.

Here's a few Umbrella ones. Truthfully, I may put one of these on my F-Series tonight cause I like the concept.

Since ya never answered me back, this is what you're getting and you'll like it!

Here's the one with the Earth for ya. I couldn't fade it too much, any more than I've got it and it starts looking like a blob.

Ya know Boris, it seems so stupid that I didn't think of that before. The manual is a little cryptic about this, but now that I've figured this one out, much better. BTW, I didn't remember seeing in the manual that you could pick Mute, Att, OR Normal.

My 4th Gen has been relegated to being used in my old car only, until I get around to listing all the crap I've got to go on eBay. As others have reported, it does not work, and there's no way that I have seen to make it work. I did think about putting it into disk mode and trying to see if the AVIC would recognize it as a hard drive, but kinda defeats the purpose that way since you lose the iPod interface functionality....I think...hell, I haven't finished the 1st cup of coffee yet so I'm rambling.

Nothing coming to mind just yet, but I'll see what I can come up with. With a lot of these things, it's easier for me to come back to it after a little while and look. Believe me, I'm no artist. Most of my experience with photoshop was for webpages for hockey equipment. I would take raw pics of the gear and edit the backgrounds to make them useful for a corporate website...and that was as a favor to a friend. I'm an engineer by trade, so this is all hobby stuff.

Here's one with the logo smaller. That Acura one would be easier if I could find that background they used. Trying to edit the Acura logo and text out will never look right. (I'm good, but not that good.)

Okay, didn't know Seat was a car company. Now that we got that straight, here's 2 more for you. First one is just a simple stock-ish one, second one has your favorite babe in the background.

Sure, I think I know what you're asking for, but you have to point me to a Seat logo. When I searched Google for the one I used above....yeah, try searching "SEAT SPORT LOGO" and you get everything under the sun. That was the only one that looked like it might be right.

Dude, no way that pic you posted of Britney was going to be useful. That flower background gave me a headache trying to filter it out, so I had to find a new pic. (Cause finding pics of her is soooo hard!) Anyways, you wanted mainly black and red, so I had to pull the flag out of the logo. If you want the flag back in, I have attached a 2nd option.

Aight, try this on for size....

To the above poster, for an F-Series? I'm only askin because the above pic doesn't look like it's sized for an F-Series.

Nope, no can do as far as I know.

I don't think anyone has figured out how to change the background yet.

Okay, I need some direction on this very issue, so I'm bumping an old thread. I read the manual, see where I can change the setting to not mute the music when playing. According to the manual, AV1 has to be set to off. I changed mine to OFF, turned the unit off, turned it back on - MUTE input/GUIDE is still grayed out. Do I need to turn the AV1 off, then reset the unit, or is there something that I'm missing here?

Yours is a different issue. I don't believe that gen is compatible with the F-Series. I had to ditch my 4th gen and get a 5th Gen Video.

What size is the D3? And maybe a link to an image off Google images?

I am still trying to figure that one out myself. My first thought was price, with everything built in and being the current model, I thought maybe they got a better price on a new F series. But after seeing the bill, that isn't the case. In fact the charges are so high I now want to get into the insurance-replacement-equipment business. Loan sharks don't have a profit margin as high as these guys. With that said, if you were happier with the D3, I'd go back and fight to get them to replace it like for like rather than try to fit the 900 into what you want.

Wrapping your HU in foil is a bad idea all around. Not only will that not help your problem, but it'll also retain heat in your radio which could cause a problem. The only sure cure is to move the phone, sorry.

I've been following this thread, and I have to admit that the price seems high to me....BUT, that is probably because I have no issues using the knob as is and can't see spending $30 to improve something I have no issue with. I also see the other side of this. No one else is making knobs like this. He has what appears to be the only viable solution at this time, so he can pretty much charge what he wants. It's kinda like baseball cards. A McGuire rookie card may be worth $100...but only if you find someone willing to pay that much.

Question that stands out in my mind is why did they replace the unit with a 900 when D3's are still available?

On the FM side of things, don't the buttons read "Preset 1 - 89.5"? I'll admit also that I'd like to see the numbers change on the Sirius side of things....hey Pioneer, are you listening?....but I've also had pretty much the same 6 stations on the same presets since I got Sirius 6 years ago so remembering what's on what isn't the issue.

For $10, I'd be willing to give that thing a shot. I'm just trying to find a non-Sprint branded one.