NewsPiper is a RSS / Web news reader and news ticker in one environment. This program scans your favorites news sites (like cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.) or RSS news feeds, retrieve news headlines and shows them in a special always-on-top bar (News Bar) placed at the top of your desktop.

For each shown headline you can open “full story” page in your default web browser simply by clicking on the headline.

Another useful feature of NewsPiper is “speaking”: it can pronounce news headlines and details and so can be used as radio tuner for RSS news feeds.

You can add new site for scanning (channel) just by dragging necessary URL into Newspiper main window or ticker panel (NewsBar).
In addition NewsPiper checks your connection status by the schedule you setup (one time per minute, 5 times per hour, etc.) and changes the color of the icon in the system tray bar accordingly: green means your are online, red - offline.