It is designed to show scrolling headlines from your favorite news sites and blogs, directly on your desktop.
FeedRoller comes pre-configured with several news feeds.
When you run it for the first time, it will download these RSS feeds and start showing them on your desktop.
Features
- Supports RSS, and Atom feed format.
- Shows news title, summary, age and source.
- Customizable interface.
- May be "pinned" to the desktop (always visible) or automatically hide when the computer is in use.
- May be set to automatically hide when in full screen applications (games, movies etc.)
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts to pause the scrolling, pin the ticker, visit the news item and more.
- Can import and export feeds from other feed readers (using OPML).
- Supports subscribing to feeds directly from Firefox.
- Portable.
Getting Started
FeedRoller comes pre-configured with several news feeds.When you run it for the first time, it will download these RSS feeds and start showing them on your desktop.
- Right click on FeedRoller's system tray icon to access common actions.
- To Pause the ticker, press the Pause key on your keyboard.
- To Pin/Unpin the ticker, press the Scroll Lock key on your keyboard.
- To Visit the displayed item's page, press the Print Screen key on your keyboard.
- To manage your feeds, press F12. Checked feeds are active.
