BrowserLock is a combination of both a "personal" Internet portal and a Web access filter. A portal is an Internet gateway - the first site, or the "launch pad", which users make their initial point of access to the Internet. A portal is usually a simple page, held on a remote Web server, that has links to other areas on the Internet. 48% of web advertising revenue is generated by sellers promoting their products and services on portals - a reflection of their function as "Internet road maps".

BrowserLock is a user-defined, client-side portal, which resides on the user's own machine, and which also has the ability to restrict Web access to only those sites which are listed. That is, the user has complete control over which Web sites the portal offers links to. Users can update these sites by adding or deleting web-site addresses on the BrowserLock access list, and their "Personal Portal Page" is updated automatically. To get users started, BrowserLock comes ready supplied with the addresses of 3,000 sites which have already been catalogued by subject area. This list is by no means definitive - it is a guide for users.

And so that users can choose the way they want their portal to look in terms of colours, fonts and graphics, BrowserLock's graphic interface is fully customisable for a "pluggable look and feel".

When customers download BrowserLock from the www.browserlock.com website for the first time, each of the twelve high level categories¡¯ portal graphics depict famous gates from across the globe to emphasise that BrowserLock is a user¡¯s gateway to the World Wide Web. Education sector and business customers are offered the flexibility to brand the product as they so wish; adding an indexing system of their own specific sites of interest at start-up, so as to best tailor BrowserLock to their own requirements.

BrowserLock offers:

Structured, easy access to information
using indexed and catalogued site lists to organise information
Pluggable look and feel
with the ability to use graphics, fonts and colours specific to users¡¯ personal requirements and/or taste
Control
a password holder chooses what web sites they want on their portal, presenting them in a way that best suits their own needs
Protection
for children, students, parents and businesses against ¡®unacceptable content¡¯ websites
Web Onn Features:

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BrowserLock is a "Personal Portal"

Users can develop their own map to navigate the web, including their own choice of web-site addresses categorised and indexed in a way that best suits them

Users can tailor BrowserLock's 'look and feel' to suit them

BrowserLock offers a ¡®pluggable look and feel¡¯ whereby users can simply change BrowserLock¡¯s graphics, colours and fonts to suit their own taste or, in the case of business users, BrowserLock can be tailor made to reflect a company's own branding and image

BrowserLock comes ready supplied with 3,000 web-site addresses (URLs)

To help combat information overload and get users started, 3,000 addresses are categorised into 500 subject areas ranging from Diet and Nutrition, to Archaeology, to Football

BrowserLock provides users with free updates to the list of URLs

BrowserLock.com has a team surfing the web to capture the latest, greatest, and most up-to-date web-site addresses to guide users when they create their personal portal

A password holder can add or delete web-site addresses as they wish

To tailor BrowserLock to personal requirements, the initial 3,000 URLs can be added to or deleted from at any time

Categories and sub-categories can be enabled and disabled

Depending on user preferences, the password holder can enable categories they are interested in, for example Travel, Business and Finance and Sport, and disable those categories they are not

BrowserLock is a Web access filter

BrowserLock gives users the ability to structure access to the Internet, offering control and protection against content deemed objectionable by a password holder

BrowserLock uses a white list approach to structure access

BrowserLock provides users with structured access to the Web, reducing the frustration associated with hours spent looking for information, increasing productivity, helping to save time and money

The password holder can control access to the Internet

BrowserLock can be enabled (switched on) or disabled (switched off) at any time by the password holder to allow 'free surfing'

The password holder can pre-set the time limit of how long the Internet can be accessed

For budgeting and cost control purposes, the password holder can set BrowserLock to ¡®time out¡¯ so that the Internet can be accessed for a set length of time ¨C for example, children may only be allowed to log on to the Internet for an hour at a time. This time-limited function can also be set by time slot for users such as tele-workers

BrowserLock can keep track of web-sites visited

The password holder can set BrowserLock to log user movements on the Web

BrowserLock does not interfere with the operating system of a PC

BrowserLock can happily co-exist with any other software product put on a PC, whether Internet related or not

BrowserLock features ¡®extensive tamper proofing¡¯

BrowserLock will log and resist any attempts to interfere with its operation