You can use something like Pluck RSS Reader (
http://www.pluck.com/rssreader.aspx?GCID=C12286x010) or the RSS plugin for Trillian Pro to get similar functionality to this. Simply point your reader to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...l.php?type=rss
To get a task bar scroller, you only need to decipher the array provided by:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...al.php?type=js