NewzAlert Composer makes RSS feeds simple and quick.

Castle Software announces the release of its innovative RSS publishing software, NewzAlert Composer. NewzAlert Composer is an application for the Microsoft Windows operating system that empowers the user to create, maintain and publish RSS news feeds. Businesses and non-profit organizations alike are adopting RSS as a reliable and effective means of bringing the latest news and information to their customers and potential customers.

Auckland, New Zealand (PRWEB) July 8, 2004 -- Castle Software announces the release of its innovative RSS publishing software, NewzAlert Composer. NewzAlert Composer is an application for the Microsoft Windows operating system that empowers the user to create, maintain and publish RSS news feeds. Businesses and non-profit organizations alike are adopting RSS as a reliable and effective means of bringing the latest news and information to their customers and potential customers.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and is a maturing XML standard for publishing and distributing information via the Internet. The RSS 2.0 standard defines a lightweight, portable XML format designed for sharing headlines and other web content. For web site owners, RSS is a great way to present structured information such as news, promotions and product updates. For end users RSS is a simple and convenient, yet very powerful tool for getting content where, when and how they want it. As Bill Gates stated recently in his keynote speech at the Microsoft CEO Summit 2004, about RSS, ...the ultimate idea is that you should get the information you want when you want it..."

NewzAlert Composer helps you to create, maintain and publish RSS 2.0 compliant news feeds. It is a completely self-contained software product, allowing you to publish your RSS feeds directly to your web server using built in FTP functionality.

Whether you have one web site or forty, one RSS feed or one hundred, NewzAlert Composer lets you create and manage all of your RSS feeds in one place. Organize your feeds into logical categories and publish your feeds with the click of a button. Rapid data entry functionality, along with a built in wizard for new users, makes it simple to create your first RSS feed and equally easy to maintain existing feeds over time. The ability to duplicate existing topics within a feed, or copy topics between different feeds gives you powerful editing and publishing functionality.

Computer users with any level of computer experience will appreciate NewzAlert Composers simple intuitive interface and its ease of use. While NewzAlert Composer is targeted at web site owners, anyone can use it to publish their own RSS feeds; it is not necessary to own or have control of your own web site. Castle Software recognizes that not everyone has their own web site, so NewzAlert Composer integrates seamlessly with RSS feeds hosted on the NewzAlert.com RSS portal.

For those wanting more dynamism from their RSS feed, NewzAlert Composer offers an optional Server component which allows for more control over the feed. Use of the server component allows you to update individual topics rather than publishing the whole feed each time. It also lets multiple users update the same feed, as well as providing a feed synchronization facility. Feeds hosted on NewzAlert.com also give the user the full use of the NewzAlert Composer server component.

In only its second full week of release, NewzAlert Composer has already attracted interest from all around the globe and has been awarded top ratings from over a dozen popular shareware sites.

NewzAlert Composer is designed for Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and later. A minimal install of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later is also required. The optional server component is written in PHP, which is a portable web scripting language available on most major operating systems and hardware. The server component also uses a MySQL database to store feed and topic information, and can be installed on any web server running PHP and MySQL.

NewzAlert Composer is available as a free 15-day trial, downloadable from either the Castle Software web site, or the NewzAlert.com RSS portal. A single license for NewzAlert Composer can currently be purchased for US $29.95. Volume pricing is available from Castle Software Ltd upon request. Discounts on single licenses of NewzAlert Composer are available to NewzAlert.com members.

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Castle Software Ltd, based in Auckland, New Zealand, develops productivity applications for the Windows platform, that are designed to save you time, energy and money every day. Developing and marketing our own applications since 1997, Castle Software has a strong web presence with multiple large web sites including www.CastleSoftware.biz, www.aFreeGo.com, www.NewzAlert.com, www.MyListMate.com, www.CastleLotto.com and more.

A fully functional evaluation copy of NewzAlert Composer is available upon request.

For promotional purposes, we can give away a limited number of licenses for NewzAlert Composer to readers of your publication. Please contact Campbell Mander (cmander@CastleSoftware.biz) for more details.

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