Scrolling news ticker for your desktop. View news via your choice of category or keyword. Incorporates millions of continuously updated news articles from thousands of sources. Easily customize the speed and color of the ticker or have multiple tickers displayed, each with different content, speeds, and colors. Import any RSS or Atom feed: simply enter the URL to view. Version 3.05 features Blog with ENewsBlog: easily add any headline to your blog; Article Summaries: view summaries and related information; Games: play free games on EnewsBar; more categories, new sources: expanding news coverage.
Editor's review of ENewsBar In the modern blog-heavy, instant-news world, a good RSS reader is welcome on almost every desktop. ENewsBar is aimed at computer users who want the latest news without having to take the trouble to configure a full-blown reader. Once installed, the software creates a ticker at the top of the computer screen on which news headlines scroll past, a little like a CNN TV news screen. When a user hovers the mouse over the ticker, the headlines freeze, and actually clicking a headline pops up a Web browser window with the full article text. The application comes with more than a hundred preset news channels, but users can add just a single new custom feed, making it impractical for people who are heavy blog readers. It also uses a fairly large chunk of system memory to operate. In all, ENewsBar makes a good choice for computer users simply looking to have the latest news at their fingertips, but those who are looking to customize their info-gathering experience more deeply should probably look elsewhere.