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Easy Web Page Watcher continuously watches web pages that you specify for text, updates, or availability. If the text appears or an update occurs, Easy Web Page Watcher will alert you with an audible sound and email. It displays the information just found, as well as the web page containing the information just found in it's browser window. It will run in the background while you are away or at your computer doing other work. Thus you can use Easy Web Page Watcher to monitor a business news wire web site for a press release on your stock. Or you can use it to watch your web page's HTML log file for visitors. Watch ebay for buy it now bargains and Craigslist for items you have been wanting to buy. You will know first when a web page displays information you need. No longer do you have to be at your computer constantly checking your favorite web sites for the latest news. With Easy Web Page Watcher your computer will continuously watch web pages for text, or updates, then alert you by email. Run Easy Web Page Watcher on your home computer and set it up to send you email alerts at work!
Easy Web Page Watcher: http://www.patdirienzo.com/ezwpinst.exe
VerCheck: http://mindprod.com/zips/vercheck40.zip
WHAT IT IS FOR
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I used to check over a dozen websites each day to see if new versions of the software I use had been released. This was time consuming and error prone. VerCheck automates this
process by checking the websites of the programs you use to see if the version numbers have changed. It comes preconfigured from the factory with 64 applications.
HOW IT WORKS
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For each application, you give the URL of a page to check.
You also specify some string that is on the page, usually
containing the version number. If this string is not
present, presumably something has changed. You have to then
manually figure out what, and install the new software, then
adjust VerCheck to look for the new version number.
USE
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To add a new application hit (+), then enter an application
name, an URL and the marker -- an expected response string
that will be embedded in the web page returned if the
version has not changed.
Click"Check-for-New-Versions to check the entire list of
applications to see if any have changed.
Click Restore-Defaults to restore the factory setting
URLs, and markers. You would do this most commonly after
using a new updated version of VerCheck. Your own app
settings won't be affected, but any of the factory apps will
be updated.
You can adjust the widths of the columns by dragging the
separator lines between the column headers.
This utility is an implementation of the Version Checker
student project described at
http://mindprod.com/project/versionchecker.html
The results of daily running this utility with the factory
settings are posted at:
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/utilities.html
ADVANCED USE
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you can use Java regular expressions in the marker field for
matching. Just prefix them with the string regex:
e.g. regex:version[- ]+9\.9
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html for more
information on regex pattern finding. |