Hi
This tip was sent in by Tad.
Tad is using Kirby Alarm Pro to display a random stock quote each day from a list of stock codes.
With his permission I am publishing his idea here in case it may benefit someone else.
Step 1. Copy the specially prepared list into the kirby alarm pro folderHere is an extract of the list (The full list of over 5000 stock codes can be downloaded from
http://www.kirbyfooty.com/randomquotes.zip)
<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
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It will be read and overwritten.
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<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
<DL><p>
<DT><H3 FOLDED ADD_DATE="1148228432">GREEN INVESTING</H3>
<DL><p>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=A&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">A</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AA&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AA</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAA&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAA</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAC&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAC</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAI&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAI</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAME&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAME</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAP&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAP</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAPL</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAR&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAR</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AATK&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AATK</A>
<DT><A HREF="
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAU&t=1y" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">" ADD_DATE="1165384790" LAST_VISIT="1165384790" LAST_MODIFIED="1165384790">AAU</A>
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<script language="JavaScript">
numlinks = document.links.length
link = document.links.item( numlinks * Math.random() + 1 )
window.location.replace( link )
</script>
Here is a screen dump of the alarm settings to display a random stock quote at 10am each weekday.
Naturally Tad's idea can easily be extended to display other random web site etc from a list.
Thanks for the great tip Tad!!
Ian
