RSS Ticker for Google Reader App Reviews

Won`t work for me. it`s not loading any rss feeds besides the sources of my google reader. please help - I don`t want to give you one star without asking for support. But I have to rate for giving a comment.

There should be the option of being able to lock it into a position (Bottom of screen). Pop up windows would be better than the drop. That way you can place it at the bottom of ur screen. Also, if you hover over it or try to click and drag, it shouldnt move or stutter. Fix that and ill rate it 5 STARS!!! Other than that, GREAT APP!!!

does not stream the feeds…does not work...

While I like this app, everything can be improved. A few suggestions: 1. On relaunching the app, it doesnt remember which display it was last positioned on (laptop display vs external Cinema display). 2. On relaunching the app, it doesnt remember the size (length) Id expanded the ticker to be. 3. Either the opacity setting should affect the background only, or there should be a separate opacitiy setting for text. 4. In Preferences, the "Keep items: For 1 day" in the General tab, and "Show items: For 1 day" in the Ticker tab should be on the same tab (IMHO) and there is space enough to explain what they do exactly. With respect to point 4, Ive set "Keep items" to 1 day and "Show items:" also to 1 day. I then clicked "Refresh all Now" in the General tab and am still seeing items that are 7 days old (they are labeled "7d ago". So, either Ive misunderstood what these Preferencees do, or the feature is broken. These problems notwithstanding, I still think this is a pretty decent ticker app. Ive tried them all and they all have warts. Hopefully, a talented developer with an eye for usability and esthetics will take the best from each of them and make a GREAT ticker app.

I dont get why there is not a wide selection of RSS tickers for the Mac like one can easily find for Windows. What is available ranges from horrible to alright. RSS Ticker for Google Reader sits in the latter position. Its strengths are Google Reader intigration, quick display of feeds, direct tie-in with Google Reader for viewing all your feeds, and the ability to place the ticker on a wide screen. It fails to give you control of your feeds subjecting you with old read messages for at least 24 hours cluttering up your news feed with archiac news. This drowns out the new posts and if youre like me, youll miss the refreshed entries due to the numerous other feeds clogging up the ticker with stale items. Why is it not a standard to hide read posts? This seems idiotic to me. Additionally, the ticker likes to "blink out" every once in a while and present itself empty until the feed repopulates. Nice, more useless time wasting as I await something new to appear. Other disappointments lie in the tiny favicons, lack of site name for each post, and non-intuitive controls. I stumbled over the procedure for closing the drop-down draw by accident after closing the entire application and reopening it for the first few minutes of use. Dude, Im an IT guy and if it took me that long to figure it out, youve got a serious UI flaw. Which leads me to one of my grandest complaints. There is zero support for this application. If you click the support link in the App Store, you are greeted with an icon in the middle of the page. Oooh, if I click it, it opens the website? Nice indicator on that graphic. Once there, nothing else is clickable like the contents bar one would figure would lead you to different sections. But wait, it gets better. While you "navigate" this site, you find yourself scratching your head. There is NO mention of RSS Ticker for Google Reader. Its just games - kiddie games - thats it. Forget about finding a support link or email address. Remember, nothig is clickable. I feel this could be the ticker for Mac user if the mysterious author could accept input and correct a few minor issues. Give me new posts only and an easy way to close that drawer and Im happy. Very happy.

App not worth the money, not worth the time downloading if it was free. Will sometimes pick up what feeds I am subscribed to on google, but never shows any of the content. Website for support is useless, just has links to purchase games. Tried to uninstall and reinstall and sign in and out a few times, gave it a day but still nothing comes up. Dont waste your money.

It worked great and it was just what I needed to scan headline in a ticker style, now app is just dead, DOES NOT pull from my google reader list, and when I past rss links into the add field, app still FAILS to load… and looks like no updates are coming to fix it.

Frankly, doesnt work as advertised. In fact, it doesnt work at all. dont waste your money. Apps like this are another argument for all apps having a demo mode, or an "audition period." Instead, you have to pay a few bucks here and there to find something that actually does the job.

dont buy the app it doesnt work at all

I downloaded this reader to access Google RSS News feeds. I paste the RSS feed link tino the appropriate window (under Preferences>Feed List), and click the plus sign to add it. Nothing happens. No indication on where to import an OPML file, and nothing else happens with this app. I’m hoping to get a refund. 27” iMac w/Yosemite & 8Gb RAM.