NewsTicker: RSS Feed Ticker

NewsTicker is a great little program that displays you RSS feeds in a ticker at the top of the screen (see the screenshot to the right - click for larger version). It is a pretty simple program, which I like. Some of the great features it has are:

• Change the ticker font.
• Choose the colour for the font and background.
• Change the speed of the ticker's scroll speed.
• Can change the level of display (above/below other windows or as a normal window).

There are a few features that I would like to see in future versions:

• Ability to remove RSS feeds once they are clicked (read) or using a modifier key to mark as read without opening the page.
• Display the contents of the article (from the RSS feed) when you mouse over an entry. This could be displayed in a popup window so that it does not get in the way.
• Ability to customise the colour of the link once read rather than just using a darker colour.
• Drag RSS feed URLs to the ticker to add new feeds.
• Have the ticker disappear when there is no news to display.

So now you must think that I hate this program, not correct. I believe that this is quite a good program and I am surprised that we have not seen other ticker style RSS feeds with the minor additions identified above I believe that this will be a great program to monitor news and other feed-based information.

Links
NewsTicker Home Page
VersionTracker NewsTicker Page