RSS Ticker Tape
by Paul Brill
Features a compact and customizable ticker tape style news reader. This optimal news reader boasts a tiny screen footprint as it continuously scrolls the most recent content from your personal combination of RSS feeds. You may import your content directly from My Yahoo!, or use the standard OPML exchange format. You may also add your content manually. Right-click the Widget for additional features.
- Unread article count.
- Direct Navigation to specific feed channels.
- Popup preview of fee… More
- Unread article count.
- Direct Navigation to specific feed channels.
- Popup preview of fee… More
Current Version: 2.0.0
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October 04, 2008 · version 1.7.2RSS Ticker Tape is great.
I can now use RSS to search for and watch eBay items. Mousing over shows current bid and auction end time - brilliant!
It would be useful if the options could be changed so that:
* Un-read items shown in bold
* Read items not bold
* Read items I'm no longer interested in can be right clicked and hidden
Keep on with your great work.
Regards
Matthew
http://www.forexfreedownload.com
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October 09, 2008 · version 1.7.2
Great, but with 2 annoying flaws
This is a dead simple ticker tape widget that takes various RSS feeds and displays them across the top of your screen. It's simple and it works really well, except for 2 annoying flaws.
Firstly, as mentioned before, on dual monitor setups, when you hover your mouse pointer over a story, the tooltip window that pops up with more details in, appears on the primary monitor. Very annoying if you have the ticker on the second monitor.
Secondly, when you double click a story in the ticker to get… More
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October 30, 2008 · version 1.7.2FYI: A feature update is available
Paul BrillI have attempted to address some of the great ideas and feedback as posted by the widget community (below). If you are interested in trying out a stable preview, you may email me at rss.ticker.tape.widget@gmail.com. I will make a concerted effort to reply to you shortly thereafter with an attachment of the latest release candidate.
Regards, Paul Brill - Author
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November 14, 2008 · version 1.7.2
Awesome Widget, and two feature requests
I really love this widget - I've been looking for an RSS reader with all the features I want for months, and while this isn't what I had in mind at all, it accomplishes everything I'd hoped for.
I would have two requests, though, if they'd be possible. I love how flexible the different buttons on the RSS feed preview are (Mark All Read and Mark All Unread are fantastic inclusions), but the one thing I've love to see in addition is an 'Open All' button that would open… More
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November 14, 2008 · version 1.7.2
Awesome Widget, and two feature requests
(Apologies if this double-posts, browser crashed the first time and not sure if it submitted and is waiting in queue)
I really love this widget - I've been looking for an RSS reader with all the features I want for months, and while this isn't what I had in mind at all, it accomplishes everything I'd hoped for.
I would have two requests, though, if they'd be possible. I love how flexible the different buttons on the RSS feed preview are (Mark All Read and Mark All Unread are fa… More
