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Universal Ticker 2.1.1

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Scrolling ticker in the menubar (was Tigger). Shareware ($12)

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Universal Ticker displays a scrolling ticker - either in the menubar or in a floating window. The actual content is provided by plug-ins, third party applications or by yourself using the AppleScript interface.

These plug-ins are included:

RSS - RSS and Atom feeds
Time - time and date
iTunes - current iTunes track
Battery - battery status
Birthdays - birthdays from your address book
Mail - count of unread mail in Mail.app
Text - lines from any text file

What's New

Version 2.1.1:

Bugfix: Status Item did not show up
Universal Binary
Sparkle software update
use arbitrary gradients as background
RSS plugin uses system library (that includes Atom support)

Note: Keys for Tigger will continue to work with this version.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Universal Ticker User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 2.x:

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Andreas Mayer commented on 13 Sep 2004

Try to increase your update frequency. I have a Dual 1.25 G4 and get smooth scrolling at 40 Hz while the scrolling speed is set to 80 pt/s.
Please also note that right after startup most plug-ins will need to do some setup tasks. The Smiley Ticker will load it's images, News Ticker loads the feeds etc.

[Version 1.3.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 13 Sep 2004

I just installed this app onto a dual 2 G5 and the ticker still doesn't scroll smoothly. It jitters quite a bit. Must be something else other than the CPU speed causing this.

[Version 1.3.3]

Furrysoft (developer) commented on 11 Sep 2004

But scrolling is the way the content updates. Please suggest what should happen when a number of plug-ins want to show different values at the same time while the display is supposed to stand still.

[Version 1.3.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 11 Sep 2004

Please allow users to set the scroll speed to zero so that the content doesn't scroll at all.

[Version 1.3.3]

Furrysoft (developer) commented on 30 Aug 2004

Oh. And I don't know what you mean by "make it better looking" either. Please explain. :-)

Andreas

[Version 1.3.1]

Furrysoft (developer) commented on 30 Aug 2004

I don't know what you mean by "too slow". The scrolling speed is configurable and is not bound by your machine's processing power.

You might get a jerky scrolling ticker if your Mac is too slow, though.

As for CPU usage - I know it takes a lot. I just haven't found a way to make it use less. But the app renices itself so it won't take power away from other, more important apps.

Andreas

[Version 1.3.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 11 Apr 2004

Can we make this a news ticker?? haven't a good news ticker for the mac at all.

[Version 1.1]

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Anonymous commented on 11 Apr 2004

Auntie is a nice newsticker for the Beeb.

Ww Vp Syco reviewed on 10 Apr 2004

This is pretty neat, but give the thing a contextual menu (control-click) with options like Preferences, Quit, disabling a plugin right from there, etc, and make it less of a proc hog.

[Version 1.1]