It’s slow this weekend so let’s offer a bit of service “journalism” by pointing you all to Snackr, an Adobe AIR-based RSS reader that pulls stories from your feed list or pre-made OPML file and displays them in a running ticker along your desktop. It works in OS X and Windows.
I’m a NewsFire man myself, but I’ve been looking for a good, unobtrusive RSS ticker for a while now so I’m glad to find Snackr. Sadly, the icon - an RSS feed icon with a bite taken out of it - makes me think the application is broken whenever I look at my task bar, wasting valuable brain cycles until I realize the author, Narciso Jaramillo, is just being funny and ironic.
It’s too bad Snackr won’t search feeds or give sorting options. It’s using 26% of the cpu on my MBP, too. That’s a pretty good amount of overhead for such a simple app.
I just installed this software, but it is eating lot of my CPU processing… I’ll check with my other system, not my old notebook.