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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <META name="KEYWORDS" content="Carmen,News,Headline Viewer,Syndication,ATOM,RSS,OCS,personal aggregator,aggregator,news reader,Scripting,SlashDot,Headline,Viewer,Seventh Wave Software"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta http-equiv="pics-label" content='(pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" comment "ICRAonline EN v2.0" l gen true for "http://www.headlineviewer.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://www.headlineviewer.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))'> <TITLE> Headline Viewer home </TITLE> <LINK rel="stylesheet" href="/Style/main.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.headlineviewer.com/news/index.rdf"> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV class="header"> <DIV class="logo"> Headline Viewer </DIV> <DIV class="banner"> <span class="updatetitle">Latest version:</span> 0.9.9 <span class="updatetitle">- updated:</span> 02 March 2005 </DIV> </DIV> <TABLE class="mainpage" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!-- First row - title, banner ad, and version --> <TR> <TD class="lefttable"> <DIV class="links"> <DIV class="title"> Navigate </DIV><BR> <A href="/index.shtml">What Is It?</A><BR> <A href="/news/index.shtml">Latest news</A><BR> <A href="/download.shtml">Download</A><BR> <A href="/providers.shtml">Provider list</A><BR> <A href="/requirements.shtml">Requirements</A><BR> <A href="/screens.shtml">Screen shots</A><BR> <A href="/skins.shtml">Skins</A><BR> <A href="/faq.shtml">FAQ</A><BR> <A href="/awards.shtml">Awards</A><BR> <A href="/reviews.shtml">Reviews</A><BR> <A href="/testimonials.shtml">Testimonials</A><BR> <A href="/links.shtml">Links</A><BR> <A href="/technology.shtml">Technology</A><BR> <A href="/contact.shtml">Contact</A><BR> <BR> </DIV> <DIV class="download"> <DIV class="title"> Download </DIV> <BR>Try Headline Viewer for Free!<BR> <A href="/download.shtml"> <IMG src="/images/glasses.jpg" border="0" alt="Download Headline Viewer"> <BR>Download Now</A><BR> <BR> </DIV> <DIV class="download"> <DIV class="title"> Powered by </DIV> <BR> <A href="http://www.syndic8.com/"><IMG src="/syndic8_rss_button_white.gif" border="0" height="31" width="81" alt="Powered by syndic8"></A><BR> <BR> <DIV class="validators"> <A class="cssbtn btnw3c var2" href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><STRONG> W3C </STRONG> HTML 4</A><BR/> <A class="cssbtn btnw3c var2" href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><STRONG> W3C </STRONG> CSS 2 </A><BR/> <A class="cssbtn btnxml var2" href="http://www.headlineviewer.com/news/index.rdf"><STRONG> RSS </STRONG> 1.0 </A><BR/> </DIV> <BR/> </DIV> <TD class="contenttable"> <DIV class="content"> <DIV class="title"> What is Headline Viewer? </DIV> <P align="left">Headline Viewer is a Windows application that lets you see news headlines from a configurable list of Headline Providers (news sources and weblogs). Instead of continuously jumping from site to site to check on headlines (and using a big fat browser window), you can let Headline Viewer do it for you:</P> <DIV align="center"> <TABLE bgcolor="#FFFFCC" class="Wrapped"> <TR> <TD width="30%"> <DIV class="coltitle"> Features... </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%"> <DIV class="coltitle"> Flexibility... </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%"> <DIV class="coltitle"> Uses... </DIV> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> 812 predefined Headline Providers </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Configure it the way you want </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Watch news sources! </DIV> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Hierarchical Category List </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Any number of headline providers </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Watch mailing lists! </DIV> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Multiple views & fonts </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Skins </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Watch weblogs! </DIV> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Double-click to open story in browser </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Standards-based </DIV> </TD> <TD width="30%" align="center" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Stay informed! </DIV> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Automatic flipping between stories </DIV> </TD> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Drag & drop subscription to RSS feeds </DIV> </TD> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Read more, browse less! </DIV> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Context Menus, Drag & Drop </DIV> </TD> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Support for 6 XML formats<BR> and generic text format </DIV> </TD> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="textcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Be cool! </DIV> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="bottomtextcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Search Within Headlines </DIV> </TD> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="bottomtextcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Self-Updating Provider List </DIV> </TD> <TD align="center" width="30%" class="bottomtextcell"> <DIV class="coltext"> Lose Weight! </DIV> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </DIV> <P align="center" class="#Wrapped"><A href="download.shtml">Try it now!</A></P> <P align="left">The current version is preconfigured to download headlines from <A href="providers.shtml">812 sites</A>; you can easily add even more. <P align="left">The net result: Access to tons and tons of interesting content (over 3500 unique providers at last count). 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