Tickershock 1.3 review

Inspired by the tickers of 24-hour cable news, Tickershock is an RSS and Atom news reader that displays news feeds anywhere on your screen in a animated crawl or billboard display.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1064K Developer: Mesa Dynamics, LLC Buy Now Price: $19.00 Updated: 22 Jun 2006

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Inspired by the tickers of 24-hour cable news, Tickershock is an RSS and Atom news reader that displays news feeds anywhere on your screen in a animated crawl or billboard display.

Tickershock is a departure from typical RSS applications that emulate traditional web browser or email reader environments. Focusing on the "push" nature of the technology, Tickershock aims to be a passive experience - but only until you decide a headline is worth exploring: a double-click on a news headline brings up a "News Inspector" (or your default browser) from which you can explore a story in greater depth.

And since it's optimized for performance, Tickershock requires a fraction of the CPU time used by more conventional stock and news tickers, freeing you to work but keep an eye on the news all the time.

Limitations:
Nag screens.

What's New:
Channel/Schedule Management. Simplified process for creating new "empty" Channels and Schedules.
Bug fixes. URLs and links can again be dragged to Tickershock icon, "feed://" specifier now recognized in Channel Guide, major memory leak patched.