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Action News Desktop Alert

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Action News Desktop Alert:
A small bug with BIG benefits

(Sample Weather Alert)
The Desktop Alert is an innovative News and Weather Information Alerting System that allows users to apply unique filter mechanisms, so they receive only news and information of personal interest. Alerts can be in the form of popups, or through a news ticker. The user chooses what form alert notifications should come in and in the case of popups or the news ticker; they can further choose where and how they want the windows to appear on their display.



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The application is the "receiver" portion of the system. It is a small and efficient program that is approximately 200 Kbytes total in size and runs as a background process on your computer.

Utilizing patent-pending technology, the application supports filtering of alerts through categories of interest and/or specific keywords (triggers), such that only news and information alerts that fall within your Interests categories or that explicitly match your Triggers list are delivered to you. News and weather information alerts can contain simple text, still images, stereo audio, dynamically captured web cam "snapshots", or even instant-start video and typically contain hyper-linked text back to the source to display the full article in its entirety regarding the alert topic.

(Enlarged view of the Alert notification. This icon will reside in your system tray, and turn red when there's an alert)

 

(Actual size of current weather conditions. You control the location of the icon. This icon will turn red when there's an alert)

 

(Actual size of Breaking News ticker. You control the location/display of the ticker)

(Sample News Alert)
In addition to broad filtering capabilities, how and when alerts are delivered to your computer is entirely configurable by you. When an alert is delivered to your computer, it is your choice to display it in either an Alert Popup window, Mini-slider window, or an Alert Ticker window. In either case, whether you're logged in or not, the alert will be delivered directly to your Alert Messages List. In general, popup alerts will not be generated under the following conditions:

You have suppressed the display of popup alerts from within the Settings tab, or

You have disabled popup alerts; controlled via the menu entry, Disable Popups, or

You are logged out or inactive.

Minimum recommended configuration requirements for the application include any modern computer running WindowsNT® (or later); Internet Explorer® version v5.5 (or later), Netscape® v6.1 (or later), or Opera™ v7 web browsers. The application supports dial-up or better connections to the Internet.

*Important Note: Many anti-virus programs and even some browsers contain built-in suppression of popups. Ads, and/or images. The default settings of such software may interfere with the normal operation of this program. Please refer to the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for more information regarding configuration of your anti-virus software to allow normal operation of this program.

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