Website Monitor

Martin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:59:08 +0000

Many websites these days provide RSS news feeds that keep interested users up to date with the latest information posted on that website. Some websites on the other hand provide no means to keep up to date. This is the situation where a website monitor like Web Monitor comes in handy. The interesting aspect about the computer software program is that it can not only monitor websites but also news feeds, Yahoo, MSN or Google News, Google Usenet and Blogger.

Each entry consists of a url that will be monitored, a descriptive title and the choice of monitoring a website for any changes or for specific keyword appearances. Some sources that can be monitored can only be monitored by keywords. If keywords are selected it is possible to set the free website monitor to monitor the website for single keyword appearances or only if all keywords are found. The frequency can be set to seconds, minutes, hours or days with the default being 15 minutes.

The monitoring software will display alerts if changes are detected on any of the selected websites. Alerts can either be sounds, popups or both simultaneously. It will also add all alerts to the list of alerts which comes in handy if changes have been found during absence.

Websites are opened directly in a popup window with the keywords or changed parts highlighted for easier discovery.

The website monitor will run on most Microsoft operating systems. It ran fine on a Windows XP Service Pack 3 test system.

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Website Monitor

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