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Personal Assistant for Your Monitor

The Pertelian is your monitor's best friend. All day WOW sessions don't leave much time to display essentials like e-mail messages, or stock quotes. This handy backlit LCD display plugs into an extra USB port and gives you all kinds of useful data nuggets while your main display is busy with boring essentials like 3D graphics. Now the revised V4 model offers some incredible new features like monitoring of eBay auctions, streaming IRC chat and updates on the latest posts in your favorite forums. Plus if you've got some programming talents you can even code your own custom apps for Pertelian... and hey it looks great nestled between your quad flat-screen gaming setup.



The Pertelian Display has a budding homebrew community. Visit Pertelian.com for more information on writing custom Pertelian applications for Windows and Linux.

With a single keystroke, PertelianTM Monitor for eBay gives users continual access to eBay item listings. Pertelian displays current bid amounts, remaining time, and highest bidder without the user’s effort. This brings a new edge by providing a centralized item listings manager, complete with options to instantly display outbid and time remaining alerts.

Forum Watcher brings all of your forum threads into one application and gives users the ability to receive alerts when there is a new post or change. This feature assures the only time users check a thread is when there is new content. It also allows users to bring up selected threads instantly via hotkey.

Pertelian’s IRC Support feature will allow users to connect to one of the most widely used methods of chat, Internet Relay Chat. Favorite IRC channels are now accessible without the use of multiple windows and interruption of other applications.

Standard Features

• POP email checking and reading email headers
• Unique IM interface to reply to messages while inside a game or other application
• Full control of supported media applications plus:
• Sophisicated song search by title, artist, or track number for supported media applications
• UltraSeek feature which automatically previews tracks in the middle of the song
• Audio volume adjustment for system and supported media applications
• Sports Scores– giving you real time sports scores
• RSS feed aggregate
• TeamSpeak Support - Finally see who's talking
• Real-Time Stock Ticker with detailed stock information
• Real-Time Network bandwidth usage
• Expansive system information (CPU usage/Memory usage/IP information/Disk drive usage/Processes and thread usage/Uptime, and TONS more)
• World-wide weather information and 10-day forcast
• Quick Memo
• Customizable hotkeys for quick and easy control

Supported Media and Communication Software

• Winamp 2
• WInamp 5
• Apple Itunes
• Windows Media Player 9
• AOL Instant Messenger
• ICQ
• Yahoo Messenger
• GAIM

General Requirements

• Windows 2000 or Windows XP
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
• Microsoft .NET Runtime 1.1.4153 or later
• 800x600 or greater screen resolution

Hardware

• Hitachi HD44780 based LCD character display
• LCD inside a compact 4.5" x 2.5" x 0.85" enclosure
• New larger LCD display sporting 20 columns by 4 lines text display with font size 5x7 dots
• Built in characters plus 8 user defined characters
• Electroluminescent light green backlight
• Also includes Velcro attachment
• Includes custom stand
• USB 1.0+ interface
• Communicate over USB interface with attached 6' cable

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