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Father of the PureBasic logo?

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I was perusing through shell32.dll today looking for an icon to use for a small utility I had written when I ran across this one that I'd never seen before:

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I thought, "Hmmm.... That looks vaguely familiar..."

:mrgreen:
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OK, you found out. Bill Gates is really Fred's evil twin ;)

P.S. someone get that black helicopter and a team over to Tipperton's house right now :)
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Radio Transmission:
*crrrt*
enemy contact!
SAM found us, far before Tipperton's house...
Black Hawk down, I repeat, Black Hawk down!
oh... and have a nice day.
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> Bill Gates is really Fred's evil twin

:roll:
I compile using 5.31 (x86) on Win 7 Ultimate (64-bit).
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Re: Father of the PureBasic logo?

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Tipperton wrote:I was perusing through shell32.dll today looking for an icon to use for a small utility I had written when I ran across this one that I'd never seen before:

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I thought, "Hmmm.... That looks vaguely familiar..."

:mrgreen:
all my Apps have a similar icon on KDE

click here !
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Re: Father of the PureBasic logo?

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Check out this "Vista Gadgets" logo:

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:shock:
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Post by Kaeru Gaman »

wtf is "Vista Gadgets"?

...I thought the word "Gadget" was only used in PureBasic?
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> I thought the word "Gadget" was only used in PureBasic?

Microsoft is now using the word "gadgets" for the little apps that run in the
sidebar of Vista. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Gadgets

So for those who thought "gadget" is unprofessional, what do you say now? ;)
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Post by Kaeru Gaman »

that is a dirty trick... in a year they will try to tell Fred he isn't allowed to use the word "Gadget", because it's a MicroSoft-Element....... :?
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Kaeru Gaman wrote:that is a dirty trick... in a year they will try to tell Fred he isn't allowed to use the word "Gadget", because it's a MicroSoft-Element....... :?
They'll have to sue Inspector Gadget first... :lol:

The gearwheel is actually not really part of original PB logo.
I think the guys at PureBasic.de invented that one.

I later used it to create an icon for MacOSX, as it was the easiest to do in a good quality (i am not that good with graphics)
Now that we have a much nicer version of the famous Z icon, we're of course using that again ;)
Too many other projects have a gearwheel as a logo, so we stick to our very own one.
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Btw freak, what font did you use in your FR34K logo?
Cute?
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Kaeru Gaman wrote:that is a dirty trick... in a year they will try to tell Fred he isn't allowed to use the word "Gadget", because it's a MicroSoft-Element....... :?
I doubt it, Fred was using "Gadget" long before Microsoft did....

Though if they did, they'd probably win because they'd have all their money to throw at it... :(
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They might give Fred millions just to stop using the word Gadget. :lol:
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Derek wrote:They might give Fred millions just to stop using the word Gadget. :lol:
So does this mean PB v5.0 won't really be a major upgrade so much as a rewording from such things as GadgetList to ThingyList?
That would be just another major M$ pain in the Arse.
Oh well, I guess thats what M$ calls progress :P
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