What is NewsTicker?

NewsTicker is a utility for displaying the headlines from different web sites. It puts up a floating window where the headlines scroll by. Double-clicking a headline will open your browser to show the full story. It can also track web pages, showing when they have changed.  NewsTicker uses a built-in parsing engine, which describes the format of web pages, and "teaches" NewsTicker which parts of the incoming HTML page are the headlines.

Since the format of web pages may change, NewsTicker sometimes displays more information than you might want (or even less than what you expect), but it's still much better than having to launch your browser every time you want the news headlines...

Currently, the limit is 32 Tracked Web Sites, and a total of no more than 100 headlines.

Note: This version of NewsTicker does not support HTML/HTTP redirection and inclusion commands, meaning web pages that are comprised by including or referring to other web pages are not parsed for headlines.

 

Download NewsTicker for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K + PPC (both versions are included in the download)

At least 1.2MB of free RAM

Mac OS 7.x - Mac OS 9.2.2

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver