Description: Surfpack is an RSS reader that shows all content as a normal Web page inside Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. The program comes equipped with 2000 RSS feeds grouped in World News, Sports, Home, Computers, High Tech and other categories. You can also use Surfpack web plug-ins to access your Hot Favorites groups, more than 100 popular and specialized search engines, your latest downloaded files, Check Later Links and auto-generated lists of the Most Popular and Regularly Visited Sites right from your home page. Surfpack automatically restores long URLs broken by e-mail clients and keeps your startpage URL from being hijacked by Trojans and spyware.
You can use ready-made home pages or edit/create your own pages by adding feeds in any format, including RSS, Atom, Javascript, HTML, XML and custom plug-in options. If you have a bit of Web design experience, you can create your own page templates using the bundled development kit.
Feeds display options include a user-friendly newspaper-like format, news headlines with a short description displayed in the cursor hint and also full news texts. Since Surfpack resides locally on your computer (unlike many other web pages) it loads instantly, even if you don't have an Internet connection established and frees you from logins, corporate-sponsored content, and ads.
Requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.0, or Opera 7.5
Affiliate Pro v.1.6.1
Increase your sales using poweful affiliate software with lots of features. Brief list of features includes: 5 different ways of commission configuration: per-click, flat per sale, % per sale, flat per first sale, % from first sale. Combinations of this options can make up to 31 different affiliate program, support of flat and recurring sales; Automated or Manual approval of each sale and each affiliater registered on the site. Feature for administrator to handle and proccess chargebacks/refunds, poweful payout mechanism, very easy interface for webmasters to get linking code; ability to group several products with the same commission. Very easy and flexiable integration with any shopping cart and billing system and our special: Free installation/integration of the script with your software by professional software developer. All standard features inclued, please check our demo.
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.
AP - Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.
AP - Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.
Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision
(AP)
AP - A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies.
AP - China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.
AFP - Australia Sunday defended its plan to block some Internet content, such as that featuring child sex abuse or advocating terrorism, after a media rights watchdog warned it may hurt free speech.
HDTV: Even Critters Prefer It
(PC World)
PC World - Apparently we aren't the only species to prefer the crisp, smooth picture of an HDTV compared to that from one of those old CRT sets of yesteryear.
China's new generation picky about factory jobs
(AP)
AP - Factory worker Chen Qinghai frowned as he looked at a tall bulletin board full of help-wanted notices from companies making everything from photocopiers and DVD drives to mobile phones and car parts.
Summary Box: Court OKs cable TV access rules
(AP)
AP - THE DISPUTE: Cable TV providers challenged a five-year extension of federal regulations requiring them to make channels they own available to rivals such as satellite TV.
Surfpack (2.0.135)
