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gNews

view news headlines of Google directly in your menu bar

Version:  0.1

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This is not bad software.

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Contributed by: Nevyn Saturday, September 04 2004 @ 06:45 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

This is not bad software. It is hosted on a misconfigured server, true, but that's no reason to give it a one-star rating. Just option-click to download. Now, for the app. In the menu, the app resides as the G google icon. Once in the menu, it looks and feels a little like MacBiff, only it looks better. Each news/menu item contains the topic, time and a short summary. It looks good. It works good. It feels good. However... Entering the preferences doesn't work if the app is moved after having been launched. Exiting the preferences seem to crash gNews. That's bad. Anyways. Feature request: You know how the internet connect menu item and airport menu item scrolls text when it has information to show you? It'd be neat if gNewsMenu did the same when it recieved a new headline. Fix the bug, add that feature, and it's probably a 5 star app.   
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This is not bad software. - Nevyn

Correction: Changing the language in the prefs, then closing the prefs, that crashes the app, not the closing of the prefs themselves.

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Saturday, September 04 2004 @ 06:48 AM PDT