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Titlebar Ticker 0.2 beta 2

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Price: Free
Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
Date added: December 14, 2006
Total Downloads: 1,976
Downloads last week: 6
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CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars
Average user rating: 1.0 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 RSS and ATOM feeds in a completely new way - in the title bar of the window you're currently working in, meaning they're always available yet take up no additional screen real-estate. The program also includes a simple RSS aggregator.

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