As Qhead Carolyn would say -- "Nada, Zip, Zilch!"

There is no cost to subscribers to add any public Quikonnex channel provided by our publishers to their channel viewer. Our in-browser channel viewer, QuikView is free. Our customized desktop channel viewer, DeskView, is also a free download.

This is absolutely safe. You just grab a bookmark for QuikView, our in-browser channel viewer, or download our customized desktop channel viewer, DeskView 2G. It is a small, clean download and is easy to install and use.

Either QuikView or DeskView 2G will bring our Quikonnex channels right to your desktop - unaltered, media-rich, and spam-free. Your computer will stay healthy.

No!  QuikView, our in-browser channel viewer, does not require a download to use. DeskView, our desktop channel viewer, is the only software program you may download, if you choose. Both have been customized for Quikonnex to give you immediate access to Support and provide a direct link to Qsearch, our media-rich search engine.

DeskView is free of all adware, spyware, junkware or behind the scenes programs of any kind ... and it will stay that way! That is our promise to you. We are just as fed up with that unscrupulous stuff as you are. It's one of the big reasons behind developing this service. Your privacy and your time are important to us.

First you will need a channel viewer. We recommend QuikView for subscribers new to channeling, as it is easy to use and has embedded links to Q Support should you need assistance. It is available from your publisher's special subscribe page.

All of our publishers are provided with a special customized subscriber page for each of their Q channels, from which subscribers can add that publisher's channel to their viewer of choice. Each channel page also has interactive subscription icons for several channel viewers. You can subscribe to your publisher's channels using any of those methods.

To add more channels you just click on the interactive subscription icons on any other subscriber page or Q Channel page which interests you. This will launch a wizard which will automatically step you through the process. It's that easy!

It is like a cable box for the Internet

Think of a TV. You choose which show you want to watch by tuning to the "broadcast" channel. If you don't like what is being offered on that channel, you change the channel or turn it off. Internet channels work exactly the same way. It's really that simple and you are in total control of the information you receive.

Once you are subscribed to a channel, news items and other information from the author will come right through to your desktop, as soon as it is published. No waiting, no more lost information due to ISPs filtering the mail you want to receive, no stripping of graphics or attached files, no interference from anyone.

Our viewers, QuikView and DeskView 2G, are like a cable boxes with a built-in VCR. Each has all your channels listed, you just click on the one you want to "watch." If you are not at your computer when new information is added to a channel, no worries. The updated channel will be there waiting for you the next time you launch your viewer. Instead of dreading the chore of plowing through a jammed e-mail in-box, you will look forward to getting all the latest news, quickly and cleanly from your favorite publishers.

There are so many benefits, where to start!

 You are in control of your subscriptions
 You have immediate access to all the news from your publishers
 Q channels are media-rich, you can see and hear all your publisher has to offer
 Q channels support comments, so you can respond to your publisher, in the channel
 QuikView Channel Summary presents all your channels at a glance
 DeskView 2G will notify you when news arrives, so you don't have to waste time browsing
 Use QMTP Quik Messenger to leave your publishers messages instead of emailing
 No more lost email
 No more silly rules in your mail program, stripping out graphics or attachments
 No more hassles with your ISP filtering out mail you've been waiting to receive
 You won't have to set up special filters to protect yourself from spam
 No more double opt-in for your subscriptions
 And so many more benefits you will just have to experience "channeling" to understand

Most importantly, it will give you back lost time

All right, it won't come to your house and do the laundry, but it will save you a lot of time. In geekish, it aggregates RSS and XML feeds. Do you speak geek? Most of our members don't, which is why we don't serve alphabet soup here. Just plain talk with real information for real people. The "Qs" take care of the technology, so you don't have to worry about it. They just make it work.

QuikView, our in-browser channel viewer and DeskView, our desktop channel viewer, both present your channels in a format much like a typical e-mail program. You will see a vertical pane on the left listing all your channels. When you click on a channel name, a list of the items in that channel appear in a pane at the right. You then just click the titles of the articles you want to read.

If you leave DeskView running, and minimize it, it will monitor all your channels for you. Individual channel setting can be customized to notify you when new information arrives exactly as you choose. You may want to have a alert message appear on your desktop and/or play a sound to alert you when that channel has new information. For critical channels you may choose to have both visual and audible alerts, to help make sure you don't miss that vital update you are expecting.

So, you don't have to browse your channels for news, you just go about your business, and let DeskView tell you when new information has arrived. Or, the QuikView Channel Summary will show you at a glance which channels have been updated since the last time you viewed them. Make your computer do the work and take back control of how you use your time!

A Q channel is a direct electronic conduit of information between you and your publisher.

Q channels are media-rich, two-way communication venues. They can contain text, HTML, graphics, sound files, even videos, as well as multiple communication options.

Publisher to Subscriber

Once you have subscribed to a channel, anytime the publisher adds something new to that channel, if you have Awasu running, you will be notified immediately. Or, the next time you open QuikView or DeskView 2G or update that channel, the new articles will be there. Channels are secure, only you can add a channel to your viewer so you cannot be spammed. But that is just one of the many reasons to switch to channels. Not only can your publisher quickly and easily send information to all of their subscribers, but Quikonnex channels make it just as quick and easy for you, the subscriber, to communicate with your publisher, without using email.

Subscriber to Publisher

COMMENTS - If your publisher has enabled comments to be posted to an item, just click a link, add your comment and your response is immediately added to that item, online, right there.

QMTP-Quik Messages To Publishers - Want to leave your publisher a private message? Thought you could only do that with email? Nope - just click the QMTP logo or Contact Publisher link on all Quikonnex channels and enter your message. Our system does not use email ... that would be rather "oxymoronish," wouldn't it?

Regular channels are pull technology, which means you "pull" or subscribe to just the information you want, and it comes to you. Now add Quikonnex channel's two-way communication features to the mix and you see why publishers and subscribers alike are saying, "This isn't the next wave on the Internet, it's the next tsunami." For anyone needing "quik," dependable, direct communication with customers, staff, downline or colleagues (and in any business, who doesn't?), channels simply blow e-mail communication out of the water.

We've added our own search engine to Quikonnex called Qsearch to make finding channels as easy as possible. To search the Quikonnex database, you can click this Qsearch link, or the large gold Qsearch link at the top of this page. Our search feature, much like Google, goes beyond searching for a channel by name, author or description, and allows a complete deep-search into individual items opened to the public by our members. Qsearch is also available directly in both QuikView and Awasu.

What this means is that you can enter any keyword or phrase, using the same parameters as you might use in Google and you will be presented with a media-rich listing of every individual item in our system matching your search criteria.

Since with Qsearch,  the entire item is available to scroll and read without clicking another link, you just look it over and, if you would like more information, you can choose to either click the item link, the Publisher's Channel page or click interactive subscription icon and immediately subscribe to that channel.

Our near-future plans include extending the functionality of Qsearch to a level of usability that will just flat blow your socks off, so definitely stay tuned to the Qsupport channel for that release.

Both QuikView and DeskView are full-featured channel viewers.

You can add any standard channel, also known as an xml/rss news feed, to either the QuikView or DeskView channel viewers.

When you add a non-Quikonnex RSS feed to either QuikView or DeskView, you'll find them under the tab "Other RSS/XML Feeds". Make sure you check the box in the Add Link form to tell our system that it's an RSS Feed otherwise you'll probably see some real geeky code in your browser when you view that link and it will not display under the Other Feeds tab.