Internet site of the week

This week we bring you a site that helps alleviate this kind of wait, Quickbrowse at http://www.fest.net/quickbrowse enables you to enter a list of URLs that you intend to visit, and then it goes off and assembles them for you in one long screen that can be conveniently scrolled down.

Designed by a journalist, the site comes primed with some pre-programmed news sites which allow you to easily test the capability and features of this useful site.

You can tick checkboxes for newspapers such as the Washington Post or Miami Herald or opt for the business sections of 20 major newspapers in the United States.

Then you can focus your attention on another window on your Web browser while the site does the legwork for you. This handy service is also free, in true Internet style.

Other features are the ability to save text in links to a file that can be downloaded, as well as turning off the use of graphics. Some useful shortcuts are provided at this very useful site to provide automatic date insertion (used on many news sites as part of a URL) and also to provide login names and passwords on protected sites. - Tony Waltham