Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
XTicker: a newsroom ticker for the Mac
A free Mac app that keeps a customizable ticker on screen for stocks, news, sports, calendar events, weather, and other live sources.
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- Mac users who want glanceable desktop updates
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- The guide lists BBC, NPR, and Guardian headlines, user-added HTTPS RSS or Atom feeds, and delayed labels for stocks when appropriate.
Field notes
The source guide gives readers a useful audit trail: headlines are attributed to BBC, NPR, and The Guardian, sports scores to ESPN's public scoreboard, and sun and moon data to the U.S. Naval Observatory. The page says calendar events come from Apple Calendar, including Google calendars already synced there. It also notes that the stock display can mark quotes as delayed and offers a market-hours setting that respects holidays and early closes.
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