Desktop BBC News is an application that sits on your desktop - or at the front - that shows you the latest BBC headlines. You can choose which news category you would like to monitor and click on any item for a summary; click Read More if you would like to view the full story. Stories can be read using the system's default browser or a specially-created feed reader.
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- Added: Hide Window Header to the main context menu and Settings window
- Added; Mark All As Read to the main context menu
- Added: Colours section to the Settings window
- Added: Read Article Cache purging to the Settings - Feeds window
- Fixed: Somewhat rare crash when viewing articles
- Other: Feed refresh rate can now be dropped down to 1 minute
Reviewing 0.95 (Jun 16, 2008)
I've finally got this running on my 32-bit WinXP (and no, I have no intention of going to Vista - I'll wait for Windows 7 or 8 or whatever...)
Range of settings and functionality are excellent. I would however like a smaller window and a chance to check for feed updates faster than the minimum of 15 minutes.
It's now looking like a great .NET app! Dunno why the initial install over the weekend failed... was the home site down perhaps?
Reviewing 0.95 (Jun 16, 2008)
love the program must say have had none of the problems that zeltus run vista 64bit
Reviewing 0.94 (Jun 15, 2008)
Out of curiosity I thought I would try this save me going to there web site all the time.
I have to say I love it chose a subject and you get a summery click on read more read and it opens a small browser window with the whole story.
Reviewing 0.94 (Jun 15, 2008)
Crashes witha Program Error immediately upon startign the program.
Attempting to use the error reporting pop-up simply failed with a 404 Page Not Found error!
Program looks like a good idea a la the earlier and not-maintained BBC ticker proggy - but at this stage, it looks like not-even-alpha code
I'll come back when it works a bit better
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