Guest ellas Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 SmartBarXP is a bar that runs down the side of your screen, and can be configured to display interactive panes, display shortcuts to common locations, or even replace your existing taskbar. A huge selection of panes are available to be added to the bar, which range from media Players and a running slideshow pane, to live news, weather and stock feeds, and much more. To add to the incredible flexibility of functionality, SmartBarXP can be fully customized in almost every aspect you could think of. Every pane has extensive options where needed, and can be customized to function and look just the way you want it to. The bar itself can also be customized, with several options for positioning, auto hiding, pane scrolling, fading and translucency effects, changing the language and regional setting, and more. You can also select the theme the bar takes on; it can match your current Windows XP theme, the Classic Windows theme, or even use a third party SmartBarXP theme. With a wide range panes to choose from, and seemingly endless ways to customize it, SmartBarXP can be configured to the needs of almost any computer user – be it for home or business use. http://www.smartbarxp.com/smartbar.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LB Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 to add to ellas excellent post, this feature has been heavily borrowed from the forthcoming Windows Longhorn...is you are going to upgrade, this software will give you an excellent idea of just one thing that will be implimented in future editions of windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 spyware ....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 anything to back that up Tankus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 notice the question mark.....?I ve had a look (its pretty) ....but the programme wanted net access...I was just wondering why ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LB Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 notice the question mark.....?I ve had a look (its pretty) ....but the programme wanted net access...I was just wondering why ?to update weather forecasts, stock prices, news tickers, time checks etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 duh.........well spotted...just testing...arf arfeditI like the longhorn skin.......think Ill keep it for a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nellie2 Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Now that I could really get into....... but I can't find anything to say what o/s you can run it with which makes me assume....... because of the name really....... that it is just an XP thing. :( Sometimes I really feel like the poor relation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Never mind Nellie B) At least you don't live at the bottom of the garden with the rest of the Fairies. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LB Posted August 30, 2003 Report Share Posted August 30, 2003 Never mind Nellie B) At least you don't live at the bottom of the garden with the rest of the Fairies. :lol:true, but her head's away with the rest of the fairies!! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted August 30, 2003 Report Share Posted August 30, 2003 L.B. :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 The more I play around with the customisation features on this bar, the more I like it ........I especially like the news ticker tape feature , to places like the registry and such..Its a bit like avant go , on my PDA ... well goodI now use this as a replacement for my usual start bar in the bottom of the screen , even though it takes up more screen real estate ....(Hm 19" to 21" upgrade soon ....? wallet allowing ! ) I wonder how much bandwidth it uses with everything switched on.....resouce hogger as well........?Turn it off while not online perhaps......One minor gripe...... the embedded winamp control only seems to work with winamp2 and not 3 ...not a big thing as there are more freebie DSP's in 2 available , but I have to switch to down load to my MP3 muvo.....Cheers for the link ...ellas ....One to keep.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 theres a decent forum there you could ask about winamp3 there http://www.smartbarxp.com/cgi-bin/ib/forum...ums.cgi?forum=3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 Just installed this and Im well impressed :D no need to get longhorn now :P Nice find Ellas ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 CheersIve posted there about winamp 3 ....Ill see what happens........Good software..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 ................... Welcome Pit people............Why not register to see the other postsWe dont bitePit members click here to go back to the pit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 I quite like this too :D good find, ellas ;) Have you tried it yet ? :ph34r: or are you waiting for the guinea pigs, sorry, WF software testers to report Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 your my testers :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 One glitch so far, if you keep your taskbar for the start button, click on it, up comes a black panel where run etc should be, :blink: add the buttons etc to Smartbar and those buttons then function correctly :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 Just installed this and Im well impressed :D no need to get longhorn now :P Nice find Ellas ;)lol yeah right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 One minor gripe...... the embedded winamp control only seems to work with winamp2 and not 3 ...not a big thing as there are more freebie DSP's in 2 available , but I have to switch to down load to my MP3 muvo.....I'm just not that technical - what would this mean to me - simplified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nellie2 Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 do you have winamp artist?? If not I wouldn't worry about it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 No.I'm tempted with that bar - I'll sleep on it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nellie2 Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 well mind you don't fall off!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 31, 2003 Report Share Posted August 31, 2003 Try it out artist....you can always dump it if you don't like it...As for winamp , one of the control panels is set up to work it from the task bar , but it only works on an earlier version.....There is another one for win media player 9 , so use that one then ...It just means that you can stop, start or change songs without opening a new window....I usually listen to music or the TV while on line so its a fairly useful feature for me . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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