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If you're tired of crawl bars or other intrusive RSS feed scrolls, you may find this neat little app to your liking.

Streaming Stats is freeware geared toward sports feeds, but it also offers News and Odd News headlines. Its interface is a small box only about one-tenth the size of your monitor screen surrounded with static tabs that specify the feed types: News, Sport, Odd News, Champions League, Premier League, and Cricket. Options for feeds include Australian, U.S., and European sources, which explains the inclusion of the last three tabs. We were pleased with the small interface, which we could drag anywhere on our desktop, but we were disappointed that there was no way to minimize the app to the system tray.

Streaming Stats performed well in our tests. The feed headlines scrolled upward in the vertical pane at the center of the tabs, and clicking a head quickly opened a browser window at the source site. The app opened sites with Internet Explorer instead of our default browser, so that's one other slight mark against it, but not a major one. And although the publisher doesn't list Vista as a compatible OS, Streaming Stats worked just fine on our Vista machine. Overall, we were pleased with this free app and its unobtrusive manner.

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