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20 <head>Jalview Desktop RSS News Reader
24 <strong>The Jalview Desktop RSS News Reader</strong><br /> The
25 Jalview Desktop includes a built in news reader for the <a
26 href="http://www.jalview.org/feeds/desktop/rss">Jalview Desktop
30 <p>We will use the desktop news channel to keep you informed of
31 important updates relevant to users of the Jalview desktop, such as
32 web service outages and user community events.</p>
33 <p>The news reader will be launched automatically when you start
34 the Desktop if new items are available. Should you want to browse
35 older items, however, you can open it manually from the 'Jalview news
36 reader' option in the Desktop's 'Tools' menu.</p>
37 <img src="jalviewrssreader.gif" align="center" width="513" height="337"
38 alt="Snapshot of the Jalview Desktop's RSS reader" />
40 The <em>Jalview news reader</em> was introduced in <a
41 href="http://www.jalview.org/releaseHistory.html#Jalview2.7">Jalview
42 version 2.7</a>. Its implementation is based on <a
43 href="http://jswingreader.sourceforge.net/">JSwingReader</a>.