- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: January 25, 2007
- Total Downloads: 2,076
- Downloads last week: 1
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you don't want to spend a lot of time checking your RSS news reader for updated feeds, you can do it on the fly with this app, which places a headline ticker at the top of the currently active window in addition to offering the standard reader.
Titlebar Ticker places a relatively unobtrusive bar at the top of your active windows frame that clearly indicates when fresh content arrives. We liked how moving the mouse over the ticker bar opened a second tier with the news source name, navigation arrows to move to another news feed, and an icon for opening a drop-down list of all the headlines from the current feed. Titlebar Ticker also adds an RSS icon in the system tray. Right-clicking the RSS icon allowed us to customize a number of options, including having the app play a tone when a feed updates. Left-clicking the RSS icon opened a three-paned window, similar to the familiar e-mail-client interface for listing the feed sources, headlines, and Web links.
We found it curious that launching a link from the ticker bar opened the story in our default browser (Firefox), but launching one from the larger three-paned interface opened the story in Internet Explorer. That mystery aside, we recommend this app for its handy dual approach to reading feeds.
Publisher's description
From Team TBT :Access your favorite RSS and ATOM feeds in a great new way in the titlebar of the window you're currently working in. This way, they're constantly available, yet take up no additional screen space. Now you can get on with your work whilst keeping your feeds constantly at your fingertips. The Advanced Mode Ticker allows you to browse through your feeds and access media such as podcasts right from the titlebar, whilst the aggregator makes managing and viewing your feeds a breeze.
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Version: Titlebar Ticker 1
Pros: Seldom worked!
Cons: Crashes on startup, and is even harder to uninstall completely!
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Version: Titlebar Ticker 1
Pros: nothing so far :(
Cons: Tried to get to the website, and to the support page. Both are 404.
Summary: Not working at all, can't get to the vendor, can't add feeds. Sheesh!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Titlebar Ticker 1
"Worked for one day, then wouldn't initialize on boot-up"
Pros: When it works, it works.
Cons: Doesn't work anymore. When it worked, wouldn't always track the active window. Limits the space on the title bar where the window could be grabbed for dragging. Display is not customizable.
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