News Release: 2003-Feb-28

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PowerSurge Publishing
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Contact: Herb Bowie
Telephone: 1-480-451-6895
Email:
http://www.powersurgepub.com

Version 2.5 of TDF Czar Reads Bookmarks with Headings

Scottsdale, AZ -- February 28, 2003 -- PowerSurge Publishing has just released version 2.5 of its flagship product, TDF Czar. The new release includes the ability to parse HTML bookmark files that employ heading levels to represent categories. The resulting data appears in rows and columns, can be saved in tab-delimited format (for use in spreadsheets or databases), or can be used to generate bookmarks in a new HTML format.

This release also includes several minor but useful enhancements. When reading HTML data defined using table tags, cells with rowspan or colspan values greater than one are now ignored, increasing the chances that the program will successfully find the intended data to be extracted. Scripting abilities have been expanded in a couple of useful ways, making them more robust and portable. Spaces can now be easily changed to underscore characters in variables, an especially useful feature when generating file or folder names. And when listing a sequence of variables, slash characters used as separators will no longer be forced to have spaces after them.

TDF Czar is a software package that empowers its users to perform many useful functions with tab-delimited data files. This is a common format for tabular data that can be read and written by many different programs, including database, spreadsheet and address book applications. TDF Czar can input, sort, filter, merge and output such data. Scripts can be easily recorded to automate repetitive operations.

One of TDF Czar's most popular and powerful features is the ability to merge tab-delimited data into specially formatted HTML templates, generating custom Web pages fully populated with the user's data. This scheme allows the dynamic, changing portion of a Web page to be easily separated from its static format, so that each portion can be more easily maintained in a source program suited to the data type. When the dynamic data changes, TDF Czar can quickly regenerate the Web page with the latest data.

TDF Czar is written in Java and is available for all major computing platforms, including Mac OS X, Windows, and virtually all versions of Unix. A demo version of the program can be downloaded from the PowerSurge Publishing Web site, at www.powersurgepub.com. The demo version has all functions fully enabled for an unlimited period of time, but will only process a maximum of 20 data records. A single-user license is available for US $20. See the company Web site for further information.

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