NewsTicker is an easy to use yet extremely useful RSS/RDF/ATOM news ticker with a nice Cocoa interface, voice control and iPod syncing.
What's New
Version 2.36:
- Bug fixes
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later, Second generation or later iPod (for iPod Sync)
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later, Second generation or later iPod (for iPod Sync)
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| Downloads:11,502 |
| Version Downloads:3,202 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:14 May 2008 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $10.00 |
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NewsTicker is an easy to use yet extremely useful RSS/RDF/ATOM news ticker with a nice Cocoa interface, voice control and iPod syncing.
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 03 Jun 2011
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Constantly crashes under Snow Leopard.
Don't bother writing the developer. They don't answer emails. Sent several asking if they will update for Snow Leopard.
So, while they are still thinking about it, there is a FAR BETTER news ticker that just came out called ZipLine.
Search for reviews here. Far nicer than Newsticker and it is 100% stable under Snow Leopard.
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Anonymous reviewed on 01 May 2005
One thing I would love to see for a future version would be the ability to hide the dock icon. (perhaps put the menu options in an overlay window that appears when the cursor hovers over the feed?) That, in my mind, would make the program pretty much perfect.
Anonymous reviewed on 22 Oct 2004
However, the interface needs some work before it's really usable. The ability to mark articles as read without having to click each one is missing, forcing you to mark every article from every feed as read in order to get old stuff out of the mix.
There's also a slight issue with the demo version in regard to the position on the screen. If it is set to 'desktop' you will not be able to bring the app forward to click the 'register later' nagware button that pops up every time the feed is refreshed.
You can mark items as read by Command+Clicking them or using the "Mark All As Read" menu option. We are working to add "Mark Feed As Read".
We are looking into the bug with the registration dialog, thanks!
Anonymous reviewed on 17 Oct 2004
if you're going to accuse us of copying ideas, please find an idea that was actually original and copied... First, we've been meaning to have an aqua look for the bar ever since the first betas, but have just been too busy fixing bugs and adding features. Second, the look is a copy from Mac OS X Tiger, and *not* TickerShock (that's where TickerShock gets it from too...).
We're not interested in copying anything, only creating what we think is the best product.
Thanks.
Maksim Rogov
Nullriver Software
The CPU usage problem is not our fault, but Apple's NSTimer's, it has a bug and TickerShock I believe suffers from the same bug... its intermittent, changing settings will cause the CPU to go sometimes ~ 18-25% sometimes ~ 0-2%.
We've tried many things to work around it, but *anything* other than an NSTimer adds overhead.
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Ihave asked the developer whether there is an update underway.? The answer was they will think of it. And so far no update released
Cannot recommend for those who use Snow Leopard and it seems that the developer don't want to do anything with is software anymore