RSSNewsTicker

RSSNewsTicker is a new ticker applications for displaying RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, you can click on any feed item and go straight to the link! Download it here
RSS is an XML format used for syndicating news and similar content from online news sources.
Note: Free for non-commercial use
Here are some key features of "RSSNewsTicker":

Feeds: (in the Options dialog, Feeds tab)

ï¿­ Add/Remove feeds
ï¿­ Enable and disable feeds
ï¿­ Customizable feed fetch interval
ï¿­ Display status of feeds
ï¿­ Support for RSS versions 0.90,0.91,1.0 and 2.0
ï¿­ Import and Export feed lists in opml (allows interoperation with other RSS applications and can import ompl feed lists from www.newsisfree.com)
ï¿­ Support for basic authentication (URLs with the format http://username:[email protected]/rss.xml will use the username and password provided in the URL if the server requests basic authentication

GUI: (in the Options dialog, Options tab)

ï¿­ Change ticker background and text color
ï¿­ Change ticker font
ï¿­ Change ticker position; top and bottom only at the moment
ï¿­ Change ticker speed and opacity
ï¿­ Change feed description length

Interaction:

ï¿­ Click on a feed to load the item in the default browser

Proxy Authentication support

Whats New in This Release:
ï¿­ Enhanced "Status" column in the Feeds list. Better feedback is now given to the user regarding the status of a feed
ï¿­ HTML tags are now removed from the descriptions
ï¿­ Added checkbox to all the user to automatically retry failed downloads (in the "Feeds" tabs of the "Options" dialog)
ï¿­ The ticker text now starts in the first quarter of the screen (so you can read the first item)
ï¿­ Bug Fix when importing opml files
ï¿­ Various UI fixes, including reading of Opacity from the users preferences file
Requirements:
ï¿­ .Net Framework