Our Verdict
When you work at place , you gain a lot of overnice welfare — you even lose your commute . But as reviled as the supererogatory hour we spend in the car or on public fare can be , without them , you turn a loss time to catch up on Twitter , your latest book , podcast , or NPR . And if it ’s your daily news dose you ’re missing , Hourly News1.1 ( Mac App Store nexus ) is a great elbow room to get it .
Hourly News installs in your menu bar as an retiring playhead ; click it , and the app automatically loads NPR ’s latest five minute hourly tidings update . Also available are the BBC News Summary , CBC Hourly Edition , Fox ’s 5 Minute Newscast , the WSJ Hourly Report , Voice of America Newscast , ESPN SportsCenter , SRN Hourly News , Bloomberg Market Minute , DW Radio News , RTHK News Bulletin , and Evening Edition ’s audio podcast .
quality multiple source , and Hourly News will bring them back to back whenever you press play . To pause the broadcast , just clack the menulet ; to access its options , hover over the image until a drop - down appears .
I do it Hourly News ’s simmpleness and easy access — too many fourth dimension I ’ll collect podcast episode without ever listening to them , but the app provides an easy motivator for listening while on a tea pause or washing dish . It ’s the perfect plus to a news addict ’s computer . The app occasionally resets the stream mid - play , which can be annoying , but it ’s easy enough to scour to the right point in the playlist — or simply play back the programme over .
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