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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: July 10, 2007
- Total Downloads: 3,351
- Downloads last week: 3
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The Election 2008 Political Ticker looks like the real deal at first blush. The attractive, nonintrusive app scrolls headlines on your screen by default, but you can move it and otherwise customize the interface to suit your work flow.
Customizing the content is where it stumbles. The preloaded feed list pulls from blog posts and even YouTube videos, but it favors one party--a sampling of RSS sources includes FoxNews, Dems Gone Wild, and GOP Podcasts. That wouldn't put off the U.S.' other major political party quite as much if users were able to add their own feeds from any site. The one concession here is being able to configure a keyword search using Google news.
The oversight of programming any RSS feed is a fatal flaw that will keep this otherwise well-designed ticker from half of the interested parties.
Publisher's description
From eMarket Software :Imagine a desktop stock ticker...now imagine that same stock ticker on steroids tracking your favorite political candidate. Not only will it stream your favorite stocks, it will also stream your favorite political Blogs, News, Images, Podcasts, and Videos directly to your desktop while alerting you with new updates. How does this benefit you? It saves you time by aggregating all of your political content in one place. Watch all of your Democratic or GOP related videos without having to open a browser or by installing silly plug-ins. You get instant news summaries in a flash... allowing you to review 100's of news worthy items in less than 5 minutes. Remember, time is money, so get filtered political content delivered to you 24/7.
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- Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 6 votes
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: The Election 2008 Political Ticker 2.2.1
"Info Available Anywhere, & it won't Re-arainge your desktop!"
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The Election 2008 Political Ticker 2.2.1
Pros: It's a political news ticker.
Cons: Nowhere is it noted that this ticker is very GOP/Republican-oriented. The first two menu items are "My GOP Action Center" and "GOP News". The third option, Shop, is all GOP-related. When customizing, there are options for Fox news (known for its conservative bias), GOP Podcasts, and GOP blogs, but only Democratic feeds, which only contains three options, where the others contain many.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The Election 2008 Political Ticker 2.2.1
"you have help me, get ready for the 2008 electon"
Pros: your software, is super
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Version: The Election 2008 Political Ticker 2.2.1
Pros: It worked.
Cons: It worked.
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Version: The Election 2008 Political Ticker 2.2.1
"Just Another RSS News Feed - No Unintstall/Spyware"
Pros: None - expect it annoyed ignorant reviewers that don't know what the Democrat tab is for (read into that what you will).
Cons: Worthless RSS news ticker, which you already have plenty of. No Uninstall is ALWAYS a bad sign. Sends profile information back to server before you can force uninstall. CNET should remove this app.
Summary: The bottom-line is that you can get this information in much more effective ways, tailored to your taste, without installing this overly intrusive spyware or adding mind-numbing diatribe here in the review section. The application is an RSS streami... read more >>
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