Deskbot-Personal buddy On The Desktop

The web is full of applications. Some of them are funny, some are useful, some are completely useless. DeskBot cannot be classified in any of the category. Its a cute little application that adds a talking animated cartoon on your desktop which can act as your personal desktop friend or buddy. This application might not add any functionality to your system but it certainly helps in breaking the monotonicity associated with long hours on the system.

The installation of the software is pretty simple you just need to follow the directions of the windows installer and the within minutes desktop would be up and running on your system.

You will be seeing a little blue genie in the bottom right corner of the screen. It is the default buddy that you have. Its sort of cute, but then if you don’t like it, you can tweak it up or even get a new character.Here we are presenting the settings window. It shows all the options that are there to customize the DeskBot buddy.Here you can set the various things that the Genie needs to read for you . It also has the option of reading out the time for you at an interval set by you.

Now if you click on the “Greetings” Tab then from here you can set up to 5 greetings which it will read out to you when the computer starts up.

Another advantage of this software is that it can be used as a tool for helping those who are learning how to speak English , or the elderly or other people who find it difficult to read from the scree. For them the “Read” Tab is an excellent help

Another thing that adds a new dimension to this application is that you can download additional characters and voice types from the download page. The link for the same is provided in the “Download” Tab

All in all this is a fun application to have on your system. It might not add some additional functionality to your machine, but it certainly brings a smile on your face.

Click Here to download the application. Its available for free.