Screen Ticker 2.0.10

Screen Ticker is a special type of feed reader that can display your favorite RSS news feeds on a smooth, flicker-free ticker bar right on your Windows Desktop.

This kind of news ticker bar is well known from many TV stations and is now also available for your computer, of course fully customizable! And if a permanently scrolling news ticker bar is too much turbulence on your screen you can also choose to fade-in the headlines smoothly.

Screen Ticker is a major part of flexible communication solutions like Desktop newstickers, alerting and messaging systems or public displays and digital signage applications.

No other solution can be fully and easily customized to match to your individual project or use case.

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" a common XML standard that allows receiving free news sources such as headlines, breaking news, finance data, weather information or blogs on demand over the Internet.

Screen Ticker displays your favorite RSS news feeds as a flicker-free ticker bar on your Windows Desktop. Screen Ticker keeps you always informed in the same way as those ticker bars known from various TV stations. Never miss any breaking news! You can choose from a huge number of RSS feeds that are available for free, including top news sources such as New York Times, Yahoo and many others.

Screen Ticker supports all RSS formats (including RSS 1.x, RSS 2.x, RDF, Atom and even Poscasts). You can add any RSS feed you want. Screen Ticker already comes with a small choice of selected RSS feeds for you.

Screen Ticker can display multiple news feeds on different ticker bars at different size and speed. Also the look and feel of the ticker bars (font, size, color) is fully customizable. The ticker bars can either be placed at the top or at the bottom of your Windows desktop. The ticker bars can either be displayed on demand (e.g. if a news items are available in a subscribed feed) or can be permanently visible. Because a certain area of the desktop is reserved by the ticker bar, it cannot be hidden or overlapped by other windows. This allows you to keep an eye on the news ticker when working with other applications.

Furthermore, RSScrawler can also be used on public displays like TFT or plasma screen in show cases, public places, fair booths or hotel lobbies, to display any information you want. But also as a corporate new sticker RSScrawler is perfectly suited. Keep your employees in call center, helpdesks or at their work place always best information about your company. Screen Ticker offers a huge set of customizing options to make it fit perfectly to your individual demands.

Major Features:

1. Display RSS feeds on up to two ticker bars
2. Supports RSS 1.x, RSS 2.x (incl. Podcasts), RDF and Atom
3. RSScrawler cannot be hidden by other application windows
4. Automatic hiding of ticker bar possible
5. Customization of colors, fonts and speed of the ticker bars available
6. Customizable height and size of ticker bars
7. Fast forward of news items on ticker bars
8. Additional buttons on the ticker bars can be hidden
9. Notification option on feed updates (sound and popup of ticker bar)
10. Customizable update interval for checking for feed updates
11. Feed caching for temporary offline use of the application
12. Support for proxy servers
13. Ticker bars can be placed on top and on bottom of the Windows Desktop
14. Integrated feed management
15. OPML import and export function

Requirements: min. Pentium 500, min. 128 MB RAM

WareSeeker Editor