MultiTicker Reports the News ============================ If you're like me, you're virtually connected to the Net all the time. Whether on dialup/broadband/whathaveyou, I'm almost always wondering what's happening around the world.
It's one thing to use an RSS/RDF aggregator to gather together in one place all the news that you think you should read. But I've been looking for a ticker tape type applet for my desktop that gives me the headlines at a glance without my having to launch my browser or aggregator. MultiTicker fits the bill for me. There are a variety of other applets (like SlashApp) that integrate with your panel (oops, this is a Gnome particular thingy), that provide Weather stats, Stock Market ticker tape feed, and a lot of other neat toys to tinker with. What won me over to MultiTicker was that I could easily add a variety of RDF sources to feed it. No, I have not explored widely for other applets that work similarly yet, but I will probably write about them when I do run across them. In Debian, you can install this as super-user by issuing: apt-get install multiticker I'm especially keeping an eye on BBC World and CNN World news. ;) Have fun! eric -- ___ _____________________________ eric pareja (xenos AT maharlika.upm.edu.ph) \e/ [ Philippine Linux Users' Group ] Linux User #8159 http://counter.li.org _v_ [ Python Power! ] [ Debian Rocks! ] [ Unwitty Saying Here! ] [] Software & \\\\/ Free the books! http://www.bookcrossing.com/referral/pusakat ] Freedom .\\/ http://www.livejournal.com/users/pusakat | www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos/weblog _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
