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- Price: Free
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- Date added: December 18, 2007
- Total Downloads: 634
- Downloads last week: 7
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
There are a lot of widgets out there demanding your attention and screen space. This batch, from the BBC, is nicely designed, but slow to respond.
BBC News Feeder offers a bunch of obvious utilities--clock, calendar, weather, news headline feed--but they have an appealing look and are easy to configure. Some testers using Vista got a warning message that the gadget wasn't valid, but the files still installed and operated as a vertical sidebar on the right side of the screen. Our main complaint is that these widgets responded so slowly to our demands. Clicking a headline in the vertically scrolling feed opened a fresh browser window--after a short delay. At first it seemed like the utility was hung up and needed to restart, but eventually it would respond.
This free collection of gadgets looks nice, but the response time isn't acceptable in a faster-is-better working environment.
Publisher's description
From Kiwiman10000 :After adding this gadget to your Vista Sidebar you will be able to see the latest news headlines from BBC. BBC news feeder is a gadget that will show on your desktop or Vista Sidebar the latest BBC news headlines. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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