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Does anyone know of any decent windows "gadgets" or apps that will display live news feeds to the desktop. I tried the inbuilt one but it was all from the NHS. Then I tried the BBC one which kept telling me about the heavy snow in December!

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Sat May 08, 2010 12:41 am
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Does anyone know of any decent windows "gadgets" or apps that will display live news feeds to the desktop. I tried the inbuilt one but it was all from the NHS. Then I tried the BBC one which kept telling me about the heavy snow in December!

*sigh*

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I have the inbuilt one on my desktop showing the latest from the BBC news website.
go to bbc news (not the main bbc home page) and subscribe to the RSS feed. then click on the spanner (options) and choose the appropriate feed.

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I have the inbuilt one on my desktop showing the latest from the BBC news website.
go to bbc news (not the main bbc home page) and subscribe to the RSS feed. then click on the spanner (options) and choose the appropriate feed.

Not appearing on my list - what application to you say to use to read it when you register for it?

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bobbdobbs wrote:
I have the inbuilt one on my desktop showing the latest from the BBC news website.
go to bbc news (not the main bbc home page) and subscribe to the RSS feed. then click on the spanner (options) and choose the appropriate feed.

Not appearing on my list - what application to you say to use to read it when you register for it?


Had to register using IE :roll: works now. :D

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Sat May 08, 2010 8:01 am
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or there is the skynews gadget
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This gadget lets you preview your RSS feeds. You can add any number of feed URLs and the gadget will display their articles in a scrolling ticker window. All articles from all feeds will be shuffled and article's color will indicate its age. If the user clicks a title of an article the gadget will display an article preview and a link to a whole story.

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