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NewsTicker

NewsTicker - 1.2

RSS news ticker with a nice Cocoa interface

All Time: (4.3)
Version 1.2: (5.0)
Selected Version: 1.2
Release Date: 2004-10-13
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 1.2): 302
Downloads (all versions): 18,391
Price: $5.00

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Product Description:

An easy to use yet extremely useful RSS news ticker with a nice Cocoa interface and iPod syncing.

What's new in this version:

  • links can be set to highlight instead of underline when moused over
  • dock bouncing can now be turned off
  • smooth fading between transitions
  • scrolling now stops smoothly
  • fixed bugs that caused slow updates in prefs window
  • more control over ticker speed and lower cpu usage at either extremes of speed
  • registration window bug fix and added "Already registered..." button
  • forward/rewind -- returned and now animates
  • dragging and dropping cursor now properly displayed
  • NSTimer cocoa bug workaround, yields more consistent / better performance for now
  • Scrolling bug fix (jumpiness when few items)
  • Big speed improvements in mark all as read/unread

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

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Version 1.2:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (4.5) Support: (5.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (4.5) Price: (5.0)
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NewsTicker CommentaryMore Bugs - Version: 2.36, 4/9/2009 03:12AM PST

h.toelle
As was said in an earlier comment this package does work." well sorta " . I have discovered some actions which will cause it to crash mentioned in a prior comment. But now I have discontinued using this completely now because . One will be just going on and out of left field will come a message " un-expectantly quit ". However a more serious flaw is that two or three times a day my connection to the Net goes completely dead. Once reset all is back to normal and remains that way until "NewsTicker " is brought into action. Conclusion --- not worth the Hassle this time I lost my shareware fee. Perhaps others can put up with this sort of thing, but I shall wait for a more stable package.
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NewsTicker CommentaryStill has bugs - Version: 2.36, 4/4/2009 08:04AM PST

h.toelle
This package does work. However the moment one begins to make changes to the behavior of the App it crashes sometimes the changes hold sometimes they do not. In my case I would get a consistent cash when I tried to speed of the ticker. The developer was informed about this in Nov 08 and as I write we are in Apr 09. Hopefully the developer will address this soon. Because now I am wishing I had not paid the fee to register this. My own fault this version was out May 08 here we are 11 months later. He has my money and I get the feeling that I made a unwise buy here.
Hopefully I am wrong.
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NewsTicker Commentaryvers. 2.37 crashes - Version: 2.36, 11/28/2008 07:48PM PST

siamless
The idea behind this app is great and working quite well under 10.5.5.
I would give this app a 5 star rating if there weren't the crashes when trying to change some settings as ticker animation speed and speech prefs.
As vers. 2.37 is not listed in the Product Version tab I guess the crashes are due to the novelty of this program... nevertheless, worth recommending it.
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