NewsStand
by WidgetWorld
NewsStand is your personal multi-feed RSS news reader delivering you customized content right to the desktop. It allows you to scan and view a variety of feed headlines and launch the article in your web browser to review the complete article.
NewsStand supports all the standard feed formats and presents your custom news sources in an attractive and easy to use format. You can customize the color and skin type, use or hide the custom tooltips, resize the Widget and even hide the feed pane (amo… More
NewsStand supports all the standard feed formats and presents your custom news sources in an attractive and easy to use format. You can customize the color and skin type, use or hide the custom tooltips, resize the Widget and even hide the feed pane (amo… More
Current Version: 1.25
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March 31, 2008 · version 1.14Best widget ever.
Sid NNo exaggeration here, this is easily the best yahoo widget I have used and maybe the best RSS reader on any platform. The design of this tool is superb, and it marries simple/easy to use with robust/feature-packed very well.
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March 31, 2008 · version 1.14Thanks for feedback
WidgetWorldnir-melamoud: Make sure you are running version 1.25. Then open the widget preferences, go to appearance, and select the pull-out try option for your descriptions.
Mike: Thanks for the great feedback and the suggestions. We will certainly consider them all. As for the descriptions, you should try the pull-out tray as it shows a lot more information and is resizable. We cannot reduce the size of the widget any smaller than we have unless we make other compromises and honestly, very few peopl… More
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March 30, 2008 · version 1.14Awesome widget
MikeThis is an amazing widget. One of the best I've ever seen.
Some feedback on ways I think you could make it even better:
*I love the custom tooltips, but they just don't show enough information. It would be great if we could customize our own max size for the tooltip, or failing that, you just made it a lot bigger. As it is now, the title takes up 1/5 of the usable space (and it still doesn't show the complete title if it's too long), a blank space takes up another 1/5, and up… More
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March 30, 2008 · version 1.14
How do I open the new tray?
nir-melamoudcant find a help file, a right click menu, or a configuration that does this.
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March 24, 2008 · version 1.14
Fix coming soon!
WidgetWorldWe are testing right now about a work-around to the engine bug which causes this the widget to crash when it gets bad feeds. This is not a problem with our widget but a general problem with the engine.
