Application Name: Professional IM Client
by sb99

"Professional IM Client has the following special features apart from sending and receiving instant messages and managing buddies and groups

1. Listen to Instant messages.
You can Listen to the received or sent instant messages. If you were away for sometime and you have a lot of IMs in your window, just select all the received IMs text and click on Listen IM button. The software will read out all the text for you !

2. RSS Feeds
The client software has RSS Feed reader that let you receive the RSS feeds.

3. Share your desktop's snap with your buddy
You can now show your buddy how your desktop looks ! You can use this feature for fun or for some serious activity. When you are struck up at some point and you wish to communicate to your buddy where you are struck up, just click on a button and your buddy will be able to see your desktop's snap.

4. Inbuilt word suggest
Word suggest feature lets you minimize the number of keystrokes you hit while sending an instant message. Now, you can type a few characters and the word suggest provides you with the best possible words. Just press Ctrl key to let the word suggest type the complete word for you."

UPDATE 5/5: Address Book
Now add manage your friends' information using the address book functionality. You can store and retrieve the address, contact details along with any personal comments about a friend. The search feature lets you quickly retrieve your friends' details.


If you have any comments please feel free to drop a mail to sb99TC@gmail.com

http://sb99tc.googlepages.com/ProfessionalIM.html

velorien has just released version 1.3 of his FeedReader app.

"It is now possible to configure a list of persons to notify every time a new item is found for a feed. This could be useful is one is managing a project and is assigning certain tasks to his team via a web interface with a syndication feed."

FeedReader 1.3 can be downloaded here.

For full information & instructions, check out the FeedReader submission page.

Plugin Title: FeedReader
by velorien

"The purpose of this AIM plug-in is to provide an easy way to manage your favorite feeds and always be up to date with them. Be the first to know when a friend updates his/her blog and stay informed by always having the latest news feeds fetched from your favorite news site! You may also share your feeds with your friends by simply linking the feed in an IM window, and if they have the plug-in installed it will automatically prompt them to add it to their list of feeds."

You can download the plug-in here.

Update 4/10:

I just wanted to let you know that version 1.2 is now out - available via the same link (http://velorien.googlepages.com/FeedReader.zip).

The changes made in this version are:

• added filtering by date/content
• added option to update status text every time a new item is found
• added export/import feed list function
• added option to turn off alerts
• added option to share all of the feeds in the list with a contact who also has the plug-in
• fixed a couple of bugs and html parsing issues

Please see the .doc file for an in-depth presentation of the new features.

UPDATE 4/14:

FeedReader version 1.3 is now available.

"It is now possible to configure a list of persons to notify every time a new item is found for a feed. This could be useful is one is managing a project and is assigning certain tasks to his team via a web interface with a syndication feed."

FeedReader 1.3 can be downloaded here.

For full documentation & instructions: