texanpenguin
Registered Penguin
It's a rather obscure thing I'm after, but it would be very useful. My PowerBook is always on, and overnight, it is on password encrypted screensaver or sleep.
I have an abnormal fixation with reading my e-mail as quickly as possible, so periodically, I find myself exiting the screensaver, typing the password, then checking the Mail icon. More often than not, I don't have mail there that I haven't read, but it does happen sometimes. This means there's often a good deal of time wasted by authenticating and the like.
What I'd like is some sort of notification above my Flurry (or ANY screensaver) that reports my Mail messages if I receive any new ones. Ideally, it'd be purely productivity-based, showing me upcoming iCal events, telling me who's online in each of my IM clients (or at least iChat AV), and even how many updates there are to RSS feeds in my NetNewsWire.
Even if I could just have some way to have the Mail and NNW icons super-imposed like on the Alt+Tab menu when I'm on my screensaver.
Now I know it's a big ask, but does anyone have any clue of how I'd accomplish this?
I have an abnormal fixation with reading my e-mail as quickly as possible, so periodically, I find myself exiting the screensaver, typing the password, then checking the Mail icon. More often than not, I don't have mail there that I haven't read, but it does happen sometimes. This means there's often a good deal of time wasted by authenticating and the like.
What I'd like is some sort of notification above my Flurry (or ANY screensaver) that reports my Mail messages if I receive any new ones. Ideally, it'd be purely productivity-based, showing me upcoming iCal events, telling me who's online in each of my IM clients (or at least iChat AV), and even how many updates there are to RSS feeds in my NetNewsWire.
Even if I could just have some way to have the Mail and NNW icons super-imposed like on the Alt+Tab menu when I'm on my screensaver.
Now I know it's a big ask, but does anyone have any clue of how I'd accomplish this?