MappedUp Screensaver Visualizes RSS News On A World Map

Eye-candy RSS reader/screensaver MappedUp plots the location of RSS items on a world map with a nice visual effect—so you can use the screensaver for more than just pictures. Once you’ve installed and enabled the screensaver—and stepped away long enough for the screensaver to show up—you’ll see RSS items show up on the world map in little balloons indicating the origin of the news story. You can customise the items that show up by creating a free account and choosing feeds or tags to display—or add any of your own feeds.< MappedUp is a free download for Windows or Mac OS X only. If you want to learn something instead of reading the news, you can always use Wikipedia as your screensaver instead.