S60Ticker by Stoeger IT
I’ve been sitting on this app for a while with the hopes that it would soon reach a state stable enough to be discussed on SiMo. Thankfully, I believe it finally has! You may have read about S60Ticker (Google translated) on some other blogs and original versions were a bit confusing to say the least. Since it initially surfaced however, a good deal of work has gone into the app though and it even received Symbian Signed status making it accessible to the masses. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m a big fan of apps that feed content to the Active Standby screen because it really is an underutilized resource.
S60Ticker is a useful (and ultimately flexible) tool that automatically publishes real time content to your Active Standby screen (and / or other screens). By default, it covers SMS but the ticker is configurable in terms of the content it can display (not easy quite yet) along with colors, active duration, position and more. A public SDK is also available if coding is your thing and you want to play with content sources.
I won’t go too deep into it because it’s the kind of thing that you really have to play with to get a full understanding of, but here’s a good example of a setup: S60Ticker is configured to be hidden when inactive. Upon receiving a new SMS, S60Ticker activates and scrolls the sender’s mobile number along with the content of the message for 60 seconds, then the app goes back into sleep mode.
In terms of content, here are some of the options that have been made available:
- SMS
- News feed
- Exchange ticker
- Mobile Banking information
- Weather forecasts
- Current music titles (playlist)
Adjusting the content fed to the ticker is still a bit tricky so we’ll save that for a later time once content adjustments can be made quickly and easily. For the time being, adventurous users with a good technical knowledge can check out the S60Ticker SDK and have a play. For the time being, just having SMS content displayed by this great freeware app will likely suffice. Make note that this is a two-part installation and you’ll need to install the server file first, followed by the GUI file. For some more good info on using the app, read through the author’s site and also check out these posts on the Symbian Web Blog.
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