World News Screensaver for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffNovember 7, 2008

This nifty, informative program combines a screensaver and an RSS feed to bring you news from around the globe. When you launch World News Screensaver, you'll see a large, relatively well-designed model of the Earth spinning in space, along with a prominent headline and teaser text about the news item. Whenever the program switches stories, it rotates the globe to the appropriate location and pinpoints the geographic area on the map. Though the feature set is mostly pleasing, the one customization option we missed is the ability to change the size and location of the headlines and blurbs; as it is, they partially obscure the globe. However, we did like the ability to add our own music as a soundtrack, and the tool for saving a link to the full news story in a browser window is an especially nice touch. World News Screensaver also gives you a high degree of control over the appearance of the globe and lets you include or exclude sites from its list of RSS feeds. News junkies of all experience levels are urged to give this application a try.

World News Screensaver for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: May 18, 2006

Latest update: November 7, 2008

Version: 2.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows XP
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows 95

Additional Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

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Total Downloads: 21,712

Downloads Last Week: 13

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User Reviews

3/5

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randysnFebruary 17, 2014
Pros
Easy to setup
Cons
Would be useful if the screensaver made the news headlines displayed were formatted and included images from the website (or article).
Summary
Would be a much better screensaver if the news headlines/articles displayed were visually appealing. Headlines, wrapped, not cut off, images, excerpts, etc.
Very nice
ArautJanuary 4, 2006
Pros
Very usefull, if you're looking for short news. You can read the full story in case you find some news for you taste, and you can edit the list of rss sources, so you'll receive only news of your best interest. It's simple to use, and if you don't like the license message, you may purchase the product. Well, i like it, and if you like to read news from internet sources, i think this software does deserve a try. <p>Thanks.
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Developer’s Description

Read the top news stories from the Internet and display them on a 3D globe.

World News Screensaver fetches the top news stories from the Internet and displays them on a beautiful 3D Earth globe, showing you where the news is taking place. You will quickly become more informed and educated about World events. You can navigate among news articles, and press a key to launch your browser to the full story. Fully customizable. A 3D Wonders product. Version 2 may include multiple-user compatibility. Added ocean shine. Improved performance. Removed Win32 service dependence. Various other improvements.