I use The Bat! primarily for one reason - it's MailTicker feature.
I do not want to open my mail program to see what new mail has arrived, and the standard feature of small icon showing a flag is simply not informative enough.
The MailTicker is a semi-nonintrusive black small ticker-banner which becomes visible at the bottom of the screen (or whereever I want it to appear) when certain mails has arrived. It contains two lines: author and subject - just enough for me to see wether it is interesting or not.
The MailTicker could easily be enhanced to be even less intrusive and flexible, but unfortunatly I have not found any time (or projects) that could let me do that:)
Is it just me or could this SmartTag feature not be utilized to provide world largest WikiWikiWeb (http://www.c2.com) with limited editing capabilities that is) ?
By having MS introducing this novel feature into the browser/OS whatever AND (remember the AND) the system is extensible by 3rd parties without paying MS royalties it would be a worldwide accesible feature in no time at all....
It is then up to all the others to play catchup (Opera, Netscape(?), Mozilla, whatever program) to embed similar features....and you would be able to link to places without knowing the destination in advance (and that IS an advantage - just see WikiWikiWebs...)
I could easily see this smarttag feature extended with some fancy collaborative editing features or other usable features.....
It should of course be customizable by the user wether he wants it or not.
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I use The Bat! primarily for one reason - it's MailTicker feature.
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I do not want to open my mail program to see what new mail has arrived, and the standard feature of small icon showing a flag is simply not informative enough.
The MailTicker is a semi-nonintrusive black small ticker-banner which becomes visible at the bottom of the screen (or whereever I want it to appear) when certain mails has arrived. It contains two lines: author and subject - just enough for me to see wether it is interesting or not.
The MailTicker could easily be enhanced to be even less intrusive and flexible, but unfortunatly I have not found any time (or projects) that could let me do that
By having MS introducing this novel feature into the browser/OS whatever AND (remember the AND) the system is extensible by 3rd parties without paying MS royalties it would be a worldwide accesible feature in no time at all....
It is then up to all the others to play catchup (Opera, Netscape(?), Mozilla, whatever program) to embed similar features....and you would be able to link to places without knowing the destination in advance (and that IS an advantage - just see WikiWikiWebs...)
I could easily see this smarttag feature extended with some fancy collaborative editing features or other usable features.....
It should of course be customizable by the user wether he wants it or not.