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