StayInformed is a program which collects news items from various sources.

StayInformed is a program which collects news items from various sources and displays them for you. The basic idea is to have constantly updated news items from a variety of sources, including audio and video sources all displayed at once so you can sit back and watch and listen. When an item of Interest is shown, you can select it to see (or hear) the entire story. Because there is so much being shown at once, Stayinformed works best on large screens. It may not look good on screens smaller than 1280x1024, although it will run. It runs on Windows XP or later. It has not been tested on versions of Windows prior to XP, although it may run on some. As shown in the screenshot above, directly underneath the window Border is a menu bar and underneath that is a small area where a stock market summary is optionally displayed. Underneath that is an area which consists of 2 or 3 areas which cycle through Brief descriptions of stories on selectable topics. Each description is shown for a period of time (approximately 10 seconds), during which a Link is available to bring up a web browser showing the complete story. The Middle area has four sections. The left part shows the data sources. They are color-coded according to whether their content is HTML (web pages), audio, or video. These sources are periodically scanned for new articles. While the scanning is taking place, each source is displayed in yellow, but this can be turned off in the Preferences settings if it is found to be distracting. Clicking on a source brings up a pop-up menu. This menu is explained more in the next section. To the right of the sources, audio news items are displayed. Clicking on one of these will cause it to be played. To the right of that, video news items are displayed. Clicking on one of these will cause it to be played in the video player window at the lower right.