Personal Uses

Have Mister Tipster help out around the house!
Music. Gaming. IM. News. Email. Stocks. Weather. eBay. And a Whole Bunch More! Mister Tipster keeps you informed at home. Configure Mister Tipster to keep tabs on the latest, such as:
  • Current news (e.g. cnn.com, abcnews.com, yahoonews.com)
  • International events (e.g. bbc.uk, telemundo.com)
  • Sports (e.g. si.com, nfl.com, nba.com)
  • Your favorite Blogs
  • Weather (e.g. weather.com)
  • Financial (e.g. money.com)
  • Business (e.g. wsj.com, forbes.com)
  • Stock information (e.g. dow.com)
  • Entertainment news (e.g. eonline.com)
  • Technical news (e.g. pcmag.com, tomshardware.com)
  • Reviews (e.g. books, consumer electronics, music, movies, restaurants, etc.)
  • Family news (use TipWriter to write your own feeds)
  • Real Estate
  • Job searches (e.g. Monster.com, Dice.com)
  • Classified ads
  • eBay searches (e.g. ebay.com - create your search, then click on the RSS icon)
  • School closings (check your school's website)
Mister Tipster works with music and IM when using third-party utilities, such as LCDSmartie or Winamp.
The Mister Tipster display has also been tested with the following applications:
  • TeamSpeak v2 (A dedicated Mister Tipster utility to monitor Players who join and leave a channel and who's speaking)
  • LCDSmartie v5.3 (lots of plug-ins including Apple iTunes, TeamSpeak, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Media Player)
  • LCDC v1.06.33 (plug-ins include Winamp, stock ticker, SETI, weather and Zoom Player)
  • Winamp v5.24 and v5.35 (Plays music; many plug-ins)
These apps have been around for a while and have quite a number of plug-ins available.

Is there something special you'd like to see? Create it yourself with the free SDK (see Downloads) or send us a note (Contact us).
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Tipster had a great time at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Thanks for the support!