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The light-weight Ticker Tape agent installed on each workstation periodically checks for messages sent out by the Ticker Tape Administrator and unobtrusively displays them at the top of the users screen, sized to ensure that the title bar and window controls of any other application displayed underneath it are still fully accessible.
The user can then choose to allow the message to scroll across the top of the screen, double-click it to view the message in a standard dialog box or easily send it to the system tray where it remains until it either times out or is replaced or cleared by the administrator.
The Agent software is specifically designed to ensure that it doesn’t ‘steal focus’ when it shows a message or affect the users ability to work in any way.
Ticker Tape is a simple way to 'broadcast' unobtrusive messages to workstations spread over one or more disparate sites - it's ideal for Help Desks or Administrators wanting to proactively advise people of issues affecting one or more locations. Ticker Tape is especially useful where other means of communication, such as email, are unavailable due to outages.
It's intuitive administrative interface allows you to choose from a range of predefined messages, construct your own or control the agent software
Ticker Tape Agent with a ‘critical’ message
The completely free unlicensed version of Ticker Tape is identical in all respects to the fully licensed version, other than it can only manage messages for up to three individual sites (however, each site could contain thousands of workstations). No functionality is lost and there are no annoying ‘nag’ screens to contend with!
If you wish to manage more than the three free Sites, there are several cost-efficient license options available, allowing you to manage up to a maximum of 21 sites which could be spread across the globe. Licensing only takes a few minutes and the received license code can be used to immediately enable additional sites in your existing Ticker Tape installation.
Agent dialog
Many aspects of the Ticker Tape Administrator and Agent software can be configured from the Administrator software itself, allowing Sites, pre-defined messages and the look and functionality of the Agent message to be easily defined (including its font, size, colours, speed, screen width & whether the user can exit the Agent software)
The 'Live Preview' function also allows you to mimic a real Agent to see exactly how the message would look at the target workstations as its configuration is altered in real-time.
Please note that in order to use Ticker Tape, you need to be running at least Windows 2000 - it will not install on Windows 9x. Depending on your O/S, you may also need the VB6 run-time libraries installed - please ensure you refer to the Getting Started Guide and F.A.Q. for important information regarding installation and use before downloading. You may also find the Quick Reference Guide to the Ticker Tape Administrator user interface useful.
The recommended environment for Ticker Tape is Windows XP - however it has also been tested and works on Windows 2000, 2003, Vista and 7. We hope it’ll work fine for you but if you do encounter any problems, it’s likely that there’s already a knowledge base article available in the Support section. However, if you do need any additional help, please don’t hesitate to send us an email, submit a support ticket or post a forum message we’ll do our best to help you.
If you have any suggestions on how to improve Ticker Tape, please let me know also - if your suggestion is incorporated into a future release, you’ll be credited in the software!
Configuration dialog
Main interface - click for larger picture
If you wish to manage more than three Sites with Ticker Tape, there are several cost-effective licensing options, allowing you to manage up to 21 Sites in total - an appropriate license code can be securely purchased via our partner, Share-It!, by following one of the links below or via the ‘Help/Enter License Key...’ option in the Ticker Tape Administrator software.
Purchasing a license for Ticker Tape only takes a few minutes, is completely secure, immediately enables the additional Sites in your existing installation and there are a wide range of payment options available including credit card, faxed purchase order & PayPal.
Click one of the following links to securely purchase a licence:
Download the completely free 3 Site version of Ticker Tape with this link:
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