DemoGirl

NPR Desktop Alerts keeps you updated on all your favorite NPR content as well as your own favorite RSS feeds.  You have to download it and then you can customize how you want to be alerted.  You have the option of receiving alerts through a pop-up, a ticker that runs across your computer screen, or both.  You can add your own RSS feeds by entering in the feed URL or by simply dragging a feed icon from any webpage onto the alerts application.  NPR Desktop Alerts includes a feed reader loaded with 19 popular NPR feeds and you can listen to an hourly summary newscast right from the ticker.  Here’s my screencast tour of NPR Desktop Alerts:

Flash Demo3m28s

oSkope allows you to search for items on eBay, Amazon, flickr, and YouTube and gives you a pretty sweet visual result.  The results can be viewed on a graph, as a list, in a pile in the center of your screen, or lined up in rows.  You can drag and drop the images anywhere on the screen – actually, it kind of reminds me of Microsoft Surface except for the fact that my monitor’s not a gigantic touch screen computer .  Here’s my screencast tour of oSkope:

Flash Demo3m13s

(source:  Digital Inspiration)