HoverNews ! is a free skinnable news grabbing application that is based off of the plug-in of the same name for HoverDesk. News can be taken from websites html pages, RSS/RDF backends or a number of sites providing headlines for reading on ones desktop !

New in this version 2.0 :

Users can add their own channels based on websites mainpage !
Powerful HTML analyzing to clean the un-necessary part of a page (advertisements, submission...)
Full RSS/RDF backend support !
Option to save the news as an HTML page
Option to refresh the news every xxx minutes
Option to use the font color found in the HTML code (if any)
Alpha Blending support for Win2K / XP (have a look at the FunTrans skin)
Option to skin HoverNews ! context menu

Fixes :

truncated lines when they were too long
Text transparency pb under XP with ClearType activated
Wrong Hyperlinks could appear in the scrolling line

HoverNews ! is exclusively available at deviantART!
HoverNews ! can be downloaded at the link provided