Marquee Plus Screensaver

network - If your computer is on a home or office network (wired or wireless) you can set Marquee Plus up to talk to any other computers on your network that are also running Marquee Plus. If you do this, then when the screen-saver starts, you will see not only your own Marquee Plus text, but also that of up to twenty other computers on your network!

got lots to say? - Perhaps you think that having the same message scrolling across your screen over and over again might get a little boring? Well, Marquee Plus is for you. Marquee Plus allows you to specify not just one message, but a whole file-full of them! The 'Message File' option lets you select any text file on your computer, and Marquee Plus will then pick a line from it at random to use as your message. Every so often, it will go back and pick a new message - so you need never get bored! You can even specify how often your message should be changed.

sequential messaging - Marquee Plus can now take messages from your message files in sequential order, instead of at random. You can even divide your files up into sections, and Marquee Plus will show each section's messages in order, before randomly selecting another section to display. This is great for displaying poetry or other multi-lined information files.

international language support - well, just English, French and German, but it's a start.

angles - Your can have your chosen Marquee Plus text scrolling across the screen at random angles, instead of always going horizontally across the screen.

channels - When communicating over the network, Marquee Plus can be set to use one of 21 different channels; your computer will then only receive Marquee Plus messages from other computers that are using the same channel as you. This lets you and your colleagues set up 'private' Marquee Plus groups without being swamped by messages from the whole corporate network.

cool stuff - You can have the date and/or the time and/or a countdown string displayed, in addition to your own scrolling message. The countdown defaults to count down to Christmas, but can be reconfigured to count the days to your birthday, retirement or any other point in time!

mellow colours - Instead of having each message string appearing in a fixed colour, you can select 'colour-cycling' and have the colours gently fading from one to another in a constantly changing display.

you have mail - If you use a MAPI-compliant email system (such as MS Exchange/Outlook) Marquee Plus will check your inbox and display a message to let you know if you have any unread mails waiting. So now you can tell at a glance if you've received any new mails while you were away from your computer, without having to unlock the screen saver first! (This feature won't work on Windows NT or 2000 due to the extra security in those operating systems - make sure you "try before you buy").

Preview: Click here for an example screenshot.

Download: Marquee.zip (285k)

To install Marquee Plus, first click the link above and save the Marquee.zip file somewhere on your PC ("My Documents" is fine). Open the zip file in your favourite zip program (try the excellent WinZip if you don't already have a zip extraction utility). Double-click on "install.exe" to run the automatic installation. That's it!

If you prefer not to use the auto-installer, all the necessary files are also included in the zip file, so that you can install them manually.

Registration: Marquee Plus is distributed as shareware. This means that while you are welcome to test and evaluate the downloaded version of Marquee Plus for as long as you want, you should pay for it if you decide you like it. On paying, you become a registered user, and you get a special code that unlocks Marquee Plus, removing all the 'demo only' limitations.

Clicking on the 'RegNow' logo below to register:

This lets you enter your order online and receive your registration code immediately! Registration costs just US$20. Click here to find out approximately how much this will cost in your local currency, courtesy of Yahoo's financial pages.

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