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Howard is a replacement for the Windows Live Messenger email notification. A tooltip and a sound will notify you about a new email. The tooltip shows you the sender and email subject. Just click the tooltip or icon to open your inbox in your browser or Windows Mail. You can select the tray icon from several different styles. Howard runs silently in the system tray and doesn't bother you unless a new message is received in either one of the mailboxes. In this case, it displays a small popup window containing the name of the sender and the message subject, accompanied by a specific sound. Clicking on the tooltip automatically sends you to your inbox (in the default web browser or Windows Mail). Howard can be used for receiving notifications about new messages on all or just some of the supported services. For some mailboxes you can set the directories to check.