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Free BALLOON.RSS

OVERVIEW:

BALLOON.RSS is a simple RSS aggregator that displays incoming messages as balloon tooltips in the windows task bar. The news entries themselves are linked and read with the browser.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the license, or
(at your option) any later version.

BalloonRSS Website: http://balloonrss.sourceforge.net/
Download BalloonRSS: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=206266

FEATURES:

- Retrieves RSS messages from various sources
- Performs priorisation of news
- Displays the messages in a balloon tooltip pop-up in the task bar
- The messages are linked and are opened within the browser if you click them
- Adaptation of channel priority according the user's click rate
- The message frequency and viewing period is configurable
- Configuration via GUI
- Message history
- Multi-language support: English, German, Portuguese


SUPPORTED SYSTEMS:

BalloonRSS is developed to be used on any Win32 system, where the .NET framework 2.0 is available, which includes:
- Windows 98
- Windows 2000
- Windows ME
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP

It is tested only on WinXP yet.


INSTALLATION:

Using the installer:
- Make sure that you have the .NET framework 2.0 installed (it is included with Vista); otherwise download the Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0
Redistributable Package from Microsoft and install it.
- Start BalloonRSS_xxx_setup.exe and follow the steps on the screen
- Start the application.
- Adapt the channel configuration with the RSS feeds of your choice.

Alternative manual installation:

- Make sure that you have the .NET framework 2.0 installed (it is included with Vista); otherwise download the Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0
Redistributable Package from Microsoft and install it.
- Copy the executable "balloonrss.exe" in any directory of your choice.
- Start the application.
- Adapt the channel configuration with the RSS feeds of your choice.
- You might want to link it in the autostart folder.

The base recurrence is set to 5 minutes per default, so you have to wait a bit
until your first messages will appear.


USAGE:
BalloonRSS
As you start the application you get a notify icon in the windows task bar (at the right botton, near the clock). All commands are accessed by the context menu (right click on the icon). A single left click enters pause mode.

Color codes of the icon:
- blue: application paused
- yellow: messages pending
- orange: no messages pending

Of course, we would like to have our link in your own BalloonRSS...

http://www.productselected.com/Blog/feed/#