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+Shaarli 0.0.40 beta
+The personal, minimalist, super-fast, no-database delicious clone.
+
+You want to share the links you discover ? Shaarli is a minimalist delicious clone you can install on your own website.
+It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy. 
+
+
+Features:
+
+ * Minimalist design (simple is beautiful)
+ * FAST
+ * Dead-simple installation: Drop the files, open the page. No database required.
+ * Easy to use: Single button in your browser to bookmark a page
+ * Save url, title, description (unlimited size). Classify links with tags (with autocomplete)
+ * Tag renaming, merging and deletion.
+ * Automatic thumbnails for various services (imgur, imageshack.us, flickr, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion…)
+ * Automatic conversion of URLs to clickable links in descriptions. Support for http/ftp/file/apt protocols.
+ * Save links as public or private
+ * 1-clic access to your private links/notes
+ * Browse links by page, filter by tag or use the full text search engine
+ * Permalinks (with QR-Code) for easy reference
+ * Tag cloud
+ * Picture wall (which can be filtered by tag or text search)
+ * “Links of the day” Newspaper-like digest, browsable by day.
+ * “Daily” RSS feed: Get each day a digest of all new links.
+ * RSS and ATOM feeds (which can be filtered by tag or text search)
+ * PubSubHubbub protocol support
+ * Easy backup (Data stored in a single file)
+ * Compact storage (1315 links stored in 150 kb)
+ * Mobile browsers support
+ * Can import/export Netscape bookmarks (for import/export from/to Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Delicious…)
+ * Automatic ban of IP address upon too many failed logins
+ * Protected against XSRF, session cookie hijacking.
+ * Automatic removal of annoying FeedBurner/Google FeedProxy parameters in URL (?utm_source…)
+ * Shaarli is a bookmarking application, but you can use it for micro-blogging (like Twitter), a pastebin, an online notepad, a snippet repository, etc.
+ * You will be automatically notified by a discreet popup if a new version is available
+ * Pages are easy to customize (using simple RainTPL templates)
+
+
+Requires php 5.1 (php 5.2 required for autocomplete.)
+
+More information on the project page:
+http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli
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+Shaarli is distributed under the zlib/libpng License:
+
+Copyright (c) 2011 Sébastien SAUVAGE (sebsauvage.net)
+
+This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty.
+In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from
+the use of this software.
+
+Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
+including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it 
+freely, subject to the following restrictions:
+
+  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not 
+     claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
+     in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would
+     be appreciated but is not required.
+
+  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must
+     not be misrepresented as being the original software.
+
+  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
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