Near-Time Current 1.5.3 review

Near-Time Current is a breakthrough information manager providing integrated access to desktop and Web content.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Near-Time, Inc. Buy Now Price: $49.00 Updated: 20 May 2005

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Near-Time Current is a breakthrough information manager providing integrated access to desktop and Web content.

Current blends an intuitive client interface with Internet standards, including XML, HTML, RSS and Weblog APIs. Capabilities include advanced note-taking, information organizing, feeds reading and output, web archiving and content publishing. Current provides users unprecedented information interoperability.

Here are some key features of "Current":
Lite Word Processer
Personal Content Organizer
Web Browser
Blogging Client
RSS/Atom News Reader
Flow Reader (receive pages from Flow users - requires a subscription to near-time.net).

Limitations:
explore the power of Current for 30 days at no charge. After the trial period if over, you will need to purchase a license to continue using Current.

What's New:
Current can now receive podcasts. Current will create a file page for each downloaded enclosure. Users have the option to have downloaded files opened automatically in their default application. A Downloads view has been added, displaying all files downloaded from web pages and RSS feeds.
Improved blogging support including the ability to route selected text, a selected headline, or an entire page to your weblog space for posting via a new BlogThis menu option.
RSS feed management has been improved through the support of per-feed level preferences in the Info Panel. Refresh intervals and enclosure handling are now available on a per-feed basis.
The Changes button now presents a listing of each version of the page in the Browse panel. A Compare option enables you to compare the active version to any other version. Differences are summarized in the Info panel, with each change associated with a button that enables you to revert the change.
Gathering has been enhanced through bookmarklets that route content discovered in external browsers into Current for archiving and weblog posting.
More resources have been added to the Near-Time Resource home page, including a weblog and RSS feed outlining product tips, tricks, and development.
A horizontal scroll bar now appears when images are too large for the viewer window.
Performance and stability has been improved.