Mentations - This software is an internet desktop dashboard that will monitor information.

Need a way to manage all of the information necessary to keep your life in order? Account balances, weather, world news, bills, investments, career resources, interests, important dates, the list goes on and on. Each day, more and more information that is relevant to our lives is made available through the internet as website content and web services. But who has time to continually troll all the various sites to collect it all? What we need is a "personal intelligence agent" that will do it all for us!The solution to this information overload is the Mentations Software Service. This software is an internet-enabled desktop Dashboard that will unobtrusively monitor, analyze, distill, Categorize, and react to all of your important information and provide it to you through an aesthetically pleasing "skinnable" interface. Easily customize Mentations to categories appropriate to your life. For example, suppose you are an investment Banker, married with two kids, and an avid hiker. You choose the "Outdoors" theme, command Mentations to feed you information on your investment portfolio, sports scores, world news, family commitments, home maintenance needs, etc. At any time of the day, a dynamic picture will, at a glance, depict the real-time statuses of each of these categories! Features Current (Preview Version): -Choose from one of five available themes: Home Central,Country Cottage,Futurescape,Outdoors,Football -Customize predefined categories; -View alerts; -Monitor near real-time data feeds; -Receive automatic software update notifications; - User-defined RSS and Atom feeds (right-click on the News category); -User-defined stock quotes (right-click on the Finances category); -Receive information on interests; -Create a network of friends/family/significant others; -Voice Activation & Speech; -OPML import and export (right-click on the News category); -GPS integration for determining nearby points of interest and for sharing