World News Screensaver

By 3D Wonders Free to try Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Feb 27, 2009
This nifty, informative program combines a screensaver and an RSS feed to bring you news from around the globe. When you launch World News Screensaver, you'll see a large, relatively well-designed model of the Earth spinning in space, along with a prominent headline and teaser text about the news item. Whenever the program switches stories, it rotates the globe to the appropriate location and pinpoints the geographic area on the map. Though the feature set is mostly pleasing, the one customization option we missed is the ability to change the size and location of the headlines and blurbs; as it is, they partially obscure the globe. However, we did like the ability to add our own music as a soundtrack, and the tool for saving a link to the full news story in a browser window is an especially nice touch. World News Screensaver also gives you a high degree of control over the appearance of the globe and lets you include or exclude sites from its list of RSS feeds. News junkies of all experience levels are urged to give this application a try.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 2.0

General

Release November 7, 2008
Date Added May 18, 2006
Version 2.0

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows, Windows XP, Windows NT
Additional Requirements Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

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Total Downloads 21,687
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Developer's Description

World News Screensaver fetches the top news stories from the Internet and displays them on a beautiful 3D Earth globe, showing you where the news is taking place. You will quickly become more informed and educated about World events. You can navigate among news articles, and press a key to launch your browser to the full story. Fully customizable. A 3D Wonders product. Version 2 may include multiple-user compatibility. Added ocean shine. Improved performance. Removed Win32 service dependence. Various other improvements.
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