Looking for News Alert App

[Tearabite]

I use the CNN app on my iPad and iPhone and i'm looking for something that can pop-up news alerts on my Mac the same way .. Either via Growl or it's own interface.
Is there anything like that out there for the Mac (Lion) ?

 

[NogbadTheBad]

Reeder for Mac OS X & select an rss feed perhaps ?

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/reeder/id439845554?mt=12

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss

You won't quite get the news alert as soon as it happens but you could set reeder to query you google reader account once every 5 mins.

 

[NogbadTheBad]

Or thinking about it you could use geektool and run a cron job :-

curl --silent http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss | grep description | sed -e 's/<description>/ /' | sed -e 's/<\/description>/ /'

There has to be some better geektool scripts out there, than the command I posted 🙂

Here's one that looks neater :-

http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/internet/gizmodo-rss-reader-1/