NewsPiper 3.8.1 is a RSS Reader product from software.korzh.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, NewsPiper is a freeware software that combines RSS/ATOM feed reader and aggregator, news ticker and Web grabber in one environment.
It allows to monitor your favorites news sites (like cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.), RSS feeds or blogs, retrieve necessary news and display it in the usual three panes newsreader interface (channels | news titles | news details) or scroll them in a special bar (NewsBar) placed at the top of your Windows XP or Vista desktop. Screenshots
For each shown headline you can open "full story" page in your default web browser simply by clicking on the headline.
NewsPiper is open for customization. You can turn off main newsreader window and leave only NewsBar on your desktop or vice versa. You can also hide them both and allow NewsPiper to live in your tray and just pronounce news. Any panel in NewsBar can moved and resized. Color, font, ticker speed, etc. - all described parameters can be changed easily.
There are several ways to add a new channel for monitoring: you can manually enter URL of web-site or RSS feed, drag-n-drop it from web-browser or another software or simply paste it from clipboard. You can also add channels from "Online channel catalog" which contains many popular web-sites and RSS feeds.
NewsPiper Pro edition
Pro edition of NewsPiper includes all features of Standard edition and have many additional options which are useful for people who work with news and need more control on content organization.
Main benefits of Pro edition are:
* An capability to filter news shown in main window by keywords or other parameters
* An capability to setup several rows of NewsBar with unlimited number of panels in each row;
* News pronouncing (using Microsoft Speech API);
* News filtration in NewsBar panels (so only necessary headlines will be scrolled in news ticker);
* An capability to mark any headline as read, to show only unread news, hide NewsBar if there is no any unread news in it; The license of this internet software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Internet software.