Dear Pals,

Infodoro.com is pleased to announce the launch of its new web application, Shopping List.

The Shopping List application lets you create and manage your shopping lists online. You can create multiple shopping lists, add items to them and assign stores and categories to them. You can also mark which of the items are needed and if you have coupons for any of them. You can then filter the items by showing only the needed items, items from a particular store, items in a particular category or a combination of these criteria. You can also print and send your list by e-mail to any one.

This application is not the first shopping list application on the web but we do believe it is one of the best. This application is an example of how Internet software should be, easy to use, unobtrusive, and continuously operating without long waits to break your thought process.

We will love to get your feedback on our first version and have it reviewed by you. For your convenience, we have created a demo account for you and populated it with some data to get you started. Of course, you are welcome to create your own account at www.infodoro.com and select Shopping from the applications listed. Please refer to the online help if necessary.

The details of your account are:

URL: http://www.infodoro.com
Username: infodoro_shopping
Password: shoppingisfun


Below is a more detailed write-up on the shopping application including the vision for development, usability and features. Please feel free to use it for any “Immediate press releases” or to excerpt any parts of it for your review as you see fit.

Planning for shopping can be fun!

A shopping experience, more often than not, is a frustrating one. You are overwhelmed at the store and either buy too much or too little, either forget an item or two to pick up from the store, or forget to use a coupon when it could have saved you a few dollars.

Shopping List at the Infodoro.com website is a web application that aims to make the chore of shopping more manageable and even a little bit of fun!

1- Build and organize your shopping information

The application lets you plan for shopping while letting you organize and filter items on your list in different ways. You can create a list of items in a list and organize them by stores and categories. You can also add details like quantity needed, if you have a coupon for any item and a note for each item. Then to plan a shopping trip, the application lets you filter your shopping lists by needed items, categories, and stores. You can create multiple lists _base_d on, for example, types of items (Groceries), an event you might be planning (a baby shower) or a gift list (Christmas).

The people at Infodoro are on “their way to build a set of applications to help people realize their digital life_style_”. While there are thousands of web applications that make work-related or so-called productivity tasks more planned, organized and efficient, there is a scarcity of applications that help the home user manage their data with sophisticated levels of usability and efficiency. Enabling better time management and efficiency on the personal front is what drives the team at Infodoro to build their applications. The shopping application is but the first and rather good step in that direction.

2- The Desktop Experience

Using sophisticated Web 2.0 technologies, Infodoro has built the application to feel like a desktop application. There are no “Save” buttons that one is used to clicking on many web applications and then having to wait for the response from the web server. You just enter your data and it automatically gets saved on their servers. You will feel like the application is running locally on your computer rather than it being a web application in the browser.

Of course, being a web-_base_d application, you get all the benefits of universal availability from any computer. There is no need to install in on your computer, you automatically get the latest version, your data is secure and safe against disk crashes, and it is free to use.

You have better access to all your shopping information from anywhere just by logging in to infodoro.com with your userid and password.

Please send a message to the smita@infodoro, if you would like to receive more information about this application and the other application, we have (FiveWords)