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Aardvark News Desk
While I was on Work Experience, I used the BBC Desktop Ticker and I quite liked it, but found it had disappeared off the interenet when I got home. So I built my own version, which also has sport headlines, On This Day facts, GMail checking and eBay searching built in, as well as the ability to add any feed you like - sort of like a one stop shop. I built it using Game Maker (www.gamemaker.nl), as it is simple enough to use, but with DLLs can be made to be extremely powerful, and it also has good graphics functions, which make displaying the results easier. In the future, I would like to add a directory of feeds which can be remotely updated and the ability to get five day weather forecasts off the BBC by postcode location.
- 15 Sep 2005 04:47 PM
Hello I would like to distribute your newsdesk accross primarily the United States would you be able to give me a copy that uses CNN for its rss if this is succesful a major US news corparation may be interested in purchasing the rights for the product. Please post a reply here,
JIM