There are a lot of widget/gadget systems out there now, Yahoo, Mac and most recently Vista. It would be really nice to have a little indicator on the desktop that told you when you had a chess move to make.
...now having made this great suggestion I can't say I have the time to work on it. But sometimes the idea is the hard part ;-)
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Originally posted by brvanvooThe idea is old - there are several game notifiers available for RHP.
There are a lot of widget/gadget systems out there now, Yahoo, Mac and most recently Vista. It would be really nice to have a little indicator on the desktop that told you when you had a chess move to make.
...now having made this great suggestion I can't say I have the time to work on it. But sometimes the idea is the hard part ;-)
RHPTray
Firefox extensions(2)
and others.
Originally posted by brvanvooTime, the old enemy.
There are a lot of widget/gadget systems out there now, Yahoo, Mac and most recently Vista. It would be really nice to have a little indicator on the desktop that told you when you had a chess move to make.
...now having made this great suggestion I can't say I have the time to work on it. But sometimes the idea is the hard part ;-)
I have toyed with doing it myself (despite loathing Vista on my home PC) I’ll squeeze it in at some point, I am sure.
-Russ
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Originally posted by Eric CartmanIn the meantime:
where could i get such a thing?
http://home.comcast.net/~johnbart/
dunno if it's been updated for Vista.
If you use Firefox you have another couple you could use. See here for the FF extension .[at the top of that page].
http://members.shaw.ca/ouroboros/RHP/
or
http://swprojects.dedos.net/firefox_extensions/rhpcheck/