For those who consider notifications rather vulgar. There is a certain sort of person who begins the morning not by reaching for a telephone, but by surveying the day’s information with quiet efficiency: the Financial Times folded neatly on the breakfast table, the BBC murmuring somewhere in the background, the practiced eye of someone who has never needed to be told what matters. Hermes News Ticker was designed for precisely that individual. A slender ribbon of scrolling headlines resting unobtrusively at the top of the screen, Hermes delivers information the way competent staff deliver a message: quietly, efficiently, and without the faintest suggestion that you ought to interrupt what you are doing. It is present when needed and invisible when it is not. Hermes asks nothing of you. It runs silently in the background—no Dock icon, no badges, no theatrical flourishes—allowing selected headlines to glide across the top of your workspace at a pace of your choosing. One glances up. One reads. One can click a headline and view. One returns to work. The entire interaction requires no more effort than that.

What Hermes Does

Hermes aggregates RSS feeds—the quiet, dependable infrastructure of the internet that has been distributing clean information since long before most social-media executives completed their undergraduate degrees. By default, Hermes monitors **Legal Technology** and **BBC News**—publications that understand their audience. Additional feeds may be added at will: wire services, industry journals, the occasional alumni bulletin. If it publishes an RSS feed, Hermes will carry it. Headlines scroll continuously, looping back upon themselves with the unhurried rhythm of a ticker in a private club. Clicking any headline opens the full article in your browser. Hovering over the strip pauses the feed—a small courtesy, thoughtfully observed. Settings are accessed with a simple right-click. A clean panel appears. Adjustments are made. The panel closes. Hermes continues its work. Hermes requires macOS 13 or later. It is discreet by design and leaves no trace in the Dock. A PC version will be ported very soon. Available now.