i-Lighter Makes Selecting, Storing, Sharing Web Content As Easy As Using A Highlighter

Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- A wise person once said that the most practical tool is the one you actually use. By that definition, is there any tool more practical than a highlighter?

i-Lighter, Inc., a new company, has re-invented the highlighter pen for the digital age via its free i-Lighter software. Easily integrated into Internet Explorer and Firefox, the patent-pending i-Lighter lets users mark any online content -- text, tables, images and more -- as effortlessly as stroking it with a highlighter pen. Once the content is marked, the information is automatically stored securely online so it can be accessed later from any location.

Long a favorite of students, journalists, lawyers and businesspeople, the traditional highlighter pen has been seen as the ultimate way to turn reams of information into manageable, essential knowledge. Yet for all its merit, the highlighter is limited to the printed page -- nothing available in today's Internet era allows Web surfers to instantly and easily mark, save, and manage the specific content they wish to keep.

Until now. i-Lighter leverages the power of the PC to save, organize, contextualize and forward content as quickly as it can be read. Users can even add notes to their selections if they wish. "From the outset, our goal was to make i-Lighter as simple to use as a highlighter pen," states Marcy Hoffman, president and founder of i-Lighter, Inc. "i-Lighter is a tool that requires virtually no training to use. It's so intuitive, people often put it to use before they understand all the good things it can do."

Personal Connection
Ms. Hoffman, a businesswoman, developed the idea for i-Lighter one evening at 2AM after a long day of tedious Web research. To help bring the concept to market, she assembled a team of skilled technologists who worked through the various programming and interface issues. Extensive usability tests were conducted with non-technical test subjects -- average Web surfers, not computer geeks. Throughout the entire process, i-Lighter development team focused on simplicity and value.

The result is a product that truly flows from the user's mind and hand. To begin using i-Lighter, users simply download the software at no cost from i-Lighter Web site, www.i-lighter.com . The installer then adds a menu to Internet Explorer or Firefox and an i-Lighter icon in the user's Windows taskbar tray. These two buttons control all i-Lighter functions.

To turn on i-Lighter, users click the menu button and choose "Start i- Lighting". Instantly the mouse pointer becomes a yellow i-Lighter marker. Users can highlight any information of interest from any Web page. As soon as they do, it is instantly transmitted to the person's Web-based i-Lighter account.

Retrieving stored information is just as convenient. Users click on i- Lighter icon in the taskbar tray and the i-Lighter window opens displaying all their saved material, ready for reference or use.

i-Lighter is further enhanced by its i-Notes feature which allows users to insert text into their highlighted content. Notes can be added either during highlighting or after retrieval.

Anytime, Anywhere -- And Anyone
Finally, i-Lighter lets people share their i-Lighter information with others by forwarding it in almost any context. The program supports tagging, folder sharing, emailing and blogging. Anywhere information can go, i-Lighter goes along.

For more information about i-Lighter, go to www.i-Lighter.com .

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