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ANNOUNCE: Version 0.9.5 of Headline Viewer is now available



Version 0.9.5 of Headline Viewer is now available for download at

    http://www.headlineviewer.com

The full feature list can be found at

    http://www.headlineviewer.com/hist_095.html

Newest features:

* 2 new categories (Celebrities and Science).

* 256 new providers. The built-in list now contains 768 entries;
  loading in all of the external lists now results in a collection of
  over 3100 providers.

* Dynamic updating of the provider list from a master list stored at
  the Headline Viewer web site. Each time the product starts up, it
  loads the master list, adds any new providers, deletes any obsolete
  providers,and makes changed needed to keep existing providers up to
  date. The new list will be updated several times per week.

* Automatic invocation of a language translator to translate content
  written in Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Portuguese in to
  English. 

* Special drag-drop handling for RSS content from Echo Factor. This
  site providers thousands of syndicated news feeds in 16 categories.

* Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Background Information:

  Headline Viewer displays syndicated news headlines from over 3100
  sources in a clean and organized fashion. Use Headline Viewer as a
  browser accessory, and scan headlines at lightning speed. Double-click
  on any interesting headline to open the full story in your browser. 
  The program is fully skinnable and includes many user-settable 
  preferences.

Jeff;

Jeff Barr - Vertex Development - (mailto:jeff@vertexdev.com)
  Address:  4610 191st Place NE. Redmond, WA 98074; 
  Phone:    Office: 425-868-4919 - Home: 425-836-5624
  Homepage: http://www.vertexdev.com/~jeff
  Weblog:   http://jeffbarr.editthispage.com/
  Resume:   http://www.vertexdev.com/~jeff/real_jb_resume.html