That project aims at providing a clean service API, and the corresponding C++ implementation, for freely available geographical-based services on the Internet (e.g., GeoIP service by the GPL-based software77 database, Yahoo! GeoPlanet, etc.).
Pulls eNews, eBuzz... for you to read, or stores for later reading. Portable, small (98KB, 5sec download), easy to learn & use. No Spam. Connects to sourceforge.net at startup.