Adding stocks is quite easy, and the Lookup option assists in looking up stock information on select Web sites. You can add or delete stocks quite easily, attending only to those stocks of personal interest. Alerts can be set to trigger if the stock changes by a user-specified amount. If you want more information about a stock, just double-click on the symbol as it scrolls by and a box with more details pops up. From here, you can even launch a Web browser and go directly to a Web page filled with almost everything you could want to know about that stock, including recent wire service postings.
Installation is a breeze.
MacTicker can be purchased and downloaded directly from Aladdin Systems' Web site, in a purely electronic transaction. Tucked down on the bottom edge of a 17-inch monitor, it was out of sight and out of mind. These results would differ, of course, on a slower machine with less memory and, in particular, a smaller monitor. There are many different options for determining how MacTicker displays on the screen. As it ships, MacTicker comes with a thoughtfully-selected series of defaults, but if you really do want it to stream across the top of your screen at breakneck screen, directly on top of anything else you are doing, displayed in garnish neon colors, yes, you can do that.