NewsPiper is an RSS/Web news reader and news ticker in one. This program can show news from
different sources: Web-pages (cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.) or RSS news feeds.

Retrieved news is shown in the usual three-panes newsreader interface (channels, news titles,
news details) and in a special news ticker bar placed at the top of your desktop. For each
headline, you can open the "full story" page in your default web browser simply by clicking on the
headline.

Another useful feature of NewsPiper is "speech": it can speak your news headlines and details and
can be used as "radio" tuner for RSS news feeds or Web sites.

Adding a new channel is very easy: you can manually enter the URL of a web-site or RSS feed, or
drag-and-drop it from web-browser or another program, or simply paste it from clipboard.

You can also add channels from an "Online channel catalog" containing many popular web-sites and
RSS feeds.

In addition, NewsPiper checks your connection status according to a schedule you setup and
changes the color of the icon in the system tray bar accordingly: green means you are are online,
red - offline.