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Written by the news editors of The Independent this blog brings you the stories behind the headlines, the raw footage of events as they happen and an insider guide to the most interesting news from across the internet. Use the blog to contact the paper directly with your stories and comment on the major issues of the day.
You should play with our new widget.
We’ve launched our new Newzdog widget today, so you can have the news you’re interested in delivered to your desktop.
Effectively, it’s a simple and easy to use desktop alert notification system enabling you to receive news and information that is relevant to you – you log on your favourite topics so that when news on that topic is published by The Independent, you are instantly notified.
To use the widget, you instal the widget and searches for topics of interest, and saves those topics if you are interested in receiving further updates. Once installed, you can minimise it so it sits in the system tray as a yellow star. When a story is published of relevance to the search, a small pop-up window will alert you, and the star turns red. To read the story, you simply click on the star and the story emerges in a Newzdog page – with all links and video fully functional.
You can add as many alerts as you like, effectively designing your own news service, so if you want to know about diverse subjects such as Harry Potter, Manchester United and Barack Obama, you can set up news alerts for all three and be alerted the instant articles are published
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