HoverNews is a free skinnable news grabbing application that is based off of the plug-in of the same name for HoverDesk. <BR>News can be taken from websites html pages, RSS/RDF backends or a number of sites providing headlines for reading on ones desktop !
News can be taken from websites html pages, RSS/RDF backends or a number of sites providing headlines for reading on ones desktop !
New in this version 2.0 :
- Users can add their own channels based on websites mainpage (for ex, you can grab news from CNN, ABCNews, OSNews and more ...) !
- Powerful HTML analyzing to clean the un-necessary part of a page (advertisements, submission...)
- Full RSS/RDF backend support !
- Option to save the news as an HTML page
- Option to refresh the news every xxx minutes
- Option to use the font color found in the HTML code (if any)
- Alpha Blending support for Win2K / XP (have a look at the FunTrans skin)
- Option to skin HoverNews ! context menu
Fixes :
- truncated lines when they were too long
- Text transparency pb under XP with ClearType activated
- Wrong Hyperlinks could appear in the scrolling line
HoverNews is exclusively available at deviantART!
HoverNews can be downloaded at : http://software.deviantart.com/details.php?id=282
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