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News Anchor 2.0 – Enjoy News Feeds with your breakfast

Sasmito Adibowo — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:00:31 +0000

Basil Salad Software has announced the availability of News Anchor 2.0 for Mac OS X – a new way to consume blogs and news sites. News Anchor is the hands-free RSS/ATOM feed reader, allowing you to enjoy news feeds along with your breakfast. News Anchor packages news feeds into a television-like news broadcast using text-to-speech technology. With its one-click hands-free operation, you can listen to your news feeds while having meals or doing other tasks.

News Anchor is particularly suitable for:

Market analysts and trend spotters
Internet researchers and online writers
Lawyers and other legal professionals

Features and Benefits of News Anchor:

Sources data from RSS or ATOM news feeds
Generate news channels automatically based on the feeds of your choice
Create custom podcasts based from your feed subscriptions
One-click, hands-free operation. News Anchor relieves you from needing to use the mouse or keyboard to get to the next article in your reading list
Apple Remote support – control playback with your Mac’s infrared remote
Supports password protected feeds (HTTP basic authentication). This enables News Anchor to access subscription-based (paid) news feeds
Multi-core and 64-bit ready. News Anchor makes optimal use of multi-processor machines and runs as a 64-bit application when run under Snow Leopard with a 64-bit capable processor

Advantages of News Anchor over the competition:

Off-line operation – News Anchor caches the news feeds data and can be used while disconnected from the Internet.
Instant-on and always ready – News Anchor can update its data in the background even while it is not running, therefore you can always enjoy the latest news immediately on launching the application.
Take it anywhere – News Anchor can create podcasts of news feeds that you can play in any digital music player (any player that can play MP4/AAC format such as the iPod).
Streamlined playback – enjoy the latest news with only a single click.

System Requirements

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.6 and up)
Internet connection
Speakers or headphones

Availability

News Anchor will be available to download from the Mac App Store when it launches, which is scheduled at 6 January 2011. We are offering all members of the media a free copy of News Anchor for review purposes. Please contact us to get a review pack. Further information can also be found online in the Basil Salad Software Pressroom.

News Anchor 1.0 for Mac OS X Release

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:51:12 +0000

Basil Salad Software release News Anchor 1.0

Basil Salad Software today announced the immediate availability of News Anchor 1.0 – a stunning fusion between traditional media and web 2.0 technologies.

News Anchor Information

News Anchor is an alternative RSS/ATOM feed reader targeted for the auditory group of Mac OS X users. Instead of treating feeds like e-mail and display them visually, News Anchor utilizes text-to-speech technology to present a television-like news broadcast. Unlike television, users may customize the broadcast by selecting which feeds that they subscribe to. News Anchor is the perfect choice for catching up with feeds while having meals due to its one-click hands-free operation. News Anchor is compatible for Mac OS X 10.5 and up for both Intel and PowerPC based Macs.

Features & Benefits of News Anchor

Sources data from RSS or ATOM news feeds
One-click, hands-free operation. News Anchor relieves you from needing to use the mouse or keyboard to get to the next article in your reading list.
Supports password protected feeds (HTTP basic authentication). This enables News Anchor to access subscription-based (paid) news feeds.
Generate news channels automatically based on the feeds of your choice.
Universal binary, works for both PowerPC and Intel based Macintosh systems.
Multi-core and 64-bit ready. News Anchor makes optimal use of multi-processor applications and runs as a 64-bit application when run under Snow Leopard with a 64-bit capable processor.

Availability and Pricing

News Anchor is available to download and buy in English from today. Single user licenses are available for USD $38. 5-user licenses are also available for USD$97.

System Requirements

News Anchor is a Universal Binary, requiring Mac OS X Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 20 MB disk space. A free trial copy of News Anchor may be downloaded from: http://basil-salad.com/

Download Link

http://updates.basil-salad.com/shine/download.php?id=7

Press Contact

Sasmito Adibowo
Principal Developer, Basil Salad Software
press at basil-salad dot com

About Basil Salad Software

Basil Salad Software is a young software organization with the vision of creating delicious software for everyday use. We believe that good software should be simple, fun, and easy to use. We started on the iPhone platform and now venturing into the Mac OS X desktop. Basil Salad Software was founded in February 2009.

Note to Editors

We are offering all members of the media a free copy of News Anchor for review purposes. Please contact Sasmito Adibowo using the above details to get a review pack. Further information can also be found online in the Basil Salad Software Pressroom at http://basil-salad.com/pr

Fund Watch for iPhone now supports Fundsupermart India

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:03:07 +0000

Fund Watch is now able to display historical fund prices from Fundsupermart India. This new capability is available as a free update to all existing Fund Watch customers and may be downloaded at the iTunes App Store. New Fund Watch users will also get this new feature upon downloading. Fund Watch also continues to support existing Fundsupermart branches that is Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, in addition to India.

Fund Watch is an application software that allows you to quickly glance your Fundsupermart mutual funds’ performance via an iPhone or iPod touch. It draws historical price graph of the customer’s funds and caches the data thus minimizing download waiting times and reducing data traffic costs.

Fund Watch is the continuation of Fundsupermart Widget, a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget for monitoring Fundsupermart Singapore fund prices. Fundsupermart Widget is based on Apple’s iStock widget and available as a free download.

Fund Watch is developed by Basil Salad Software, a pico ISV offering a number of iPhone and iPod touch applications. Apart from Fund Watch, Basil Salad Software also provides these applications for the iPhone :

Air Kill — fly a passenger airplane and catch birds and toasts with your engines.
Cubism — re-create beautiful glitches that was present in some first-generation iPhone devices.
Instant Motivator — rapidly create and share motivational pictures.
Speech Timer — keep time of your Toastmasters public speeches.

Disclaimer: Fund Watch and Basil Salad Software are not affiliated with Fundsupermart.com nor iFAST Financial Pte Ltd. The data displayed are sourced from the fundsupermarket’s websites and thus only as accurate as what they provided. Any investment decisions that you make are of your own responsibility and the authors of Fund Watch may not be held liable.