NewsStand
by WidgetWorld
NewsStand is your personal multi-feed RSS news reader delivering you customized content right to the desktop. It allows you to scan and view a variety of feed headlines and launch the article in your web browser to review the complete article.
NewsStand supports all the standard feed formats and presents your custom news sources in an attractive and easy to use format. You can customize the color and skin type, use or hide the custom tooltips, resize the Widget and even hide the feed pane (amo… More
NewsStand supports all the standard feed formats and presents your custom news sources in an attractive and easy to use format. You can customize the color and skin type, use or hide the custom tooltips, resize the Widget and even hide the feed pane (amo… More
Current Version: 1.25
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April 01, 2008 · version 1.14Updating & Downloading
WidgetWorldIf you are having problems download and running the latest version (and keep getting the message that says there is a new version), the best thing to do is:
1) Go to the dock, right click, and delete the widget
2) Come back here and download the most recent widget
There is a BUG in the Engine / Gallery site that causes this problem. There is nothing we can do to prevent the bug. Only other option is to disable the notice in the preferences of the widget but then you may not get updated versio… More
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April 01, 2008 · version 1.14Keeps wanting to update from 1.2 to 1.25
Great widget. I have it on a couple of my machines. It keeps on prompting me to update (on both machines). When I do that, it still registers as 1.2 and re-prompts. Other than that, I have no complaints.
How do you get the panel shown above to appear on the Right Hand Side?
Thanks again,
RT
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March 31, 2008 · version 1.14
Thanks for the feedback
WidgetWorldCougron: Thanks for the feedback and the suggestions. As you can appreciate, we cannot be all things to all people. Each widget has it's advantages and disadvantages and what you love someone else hates and what they love, you hate.
We have followed a common well known approach feed management. Feeds in the left column, articles in the right. We have, as you pointed out, three different ways to view the article information before opening it in a web browser.
Regarding your comments: … More
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March 31, 2008 · version 1.14Doesn't yet beat MultiNewsReader... but it's getting there.
RonEven though this looks better, I always preferred MultiNewsReader because I could get it to auto-hide when all the news was read, view all the items at once with a clear delineation of what came from where, and the tool tips would show the entire article without me having to open up the web browser. But that widget is getting a bit long in the tooth--I have to run a hacked version of it to get it to run in the latest engine at all. The latest NewsStand is now getting much closer to what I like… More
