A nice little application to stay on top of the news. It runs as a tray icon and informs you only of the new you specify. You can select from predet topics or use your own keywords. Desktop News is a Windows application delivering custom content updates, text, audio and video directly to the desktop in a compact, low-bandwidth news and stock ticker. Simply clicking on a headline links to associated content.
Users can personalize the ticker by choosing from hundreds of channels and Web resources.
This program allows you to get weather info and weather forecast almost in any spot of the world. Personal horoscope and biorhythms is also available in it. Very friendly interface and data refreshing via Internet. The Cheggometer will tell you the temperature, wind chill, barometric pressure, and lots of other things about any zip code in the country, at the current time. Froggy, is a funny frog in a glass for your desktop.