I do realize that giveaways are not so often in this blog anymore. The truth is there are actually a few software companies that has approached me in sponsoring free licenses for giveaways but some of you may know me better, I do not simply host any giveaway for just any type of software. It had to be good, useful and I am even willing to do it for free if you are going to pay me. However if the software is not that good, I won’t even consider posting it here if they are going to pay for me it. Today’s giveaway is about a software which I have been using for many years already and it has helped me saved more than a hundred hours in total. Remember, time is money.
I believe all of us here browse the web and very often check on our list of favorite websites and forums for updates and the whole process unknowingly takes a lot of time. You had to open every page in tabs, wait for it to load and then try to remember if you have seen this article yesterday on this website. Probably it won’t be very time consuming if it was only a few websites but if you had like 50 websites to check daily, you are losing a lot of time if you add all of them up for the whole year.
I have tested nearly all webpage monitoring software that is available but no software can beat Website-Watcher. I would say that it is the best of what it does that I have come across.
Basically what Website-Watcher does is it can monitor web pages, forums, RSS/Atom feeds, newsgroup, documents and binary files for updates. Then you can control what and when it gets checked with many other advanced features. Most blog sites including the one that you are currently reading now has RSS feeds and you can easily add it to Website-Watcher’s bookmark list. Checking the RSS feeds is faster because it doesn’t download all those unnecessary images and advertisements, saving both bandwidth and time.
Forums are the hardest to monitor for updates because it has a lot of real time data being generated such as the number of reads, views which could generate false alert. But with Website-Watcher, it supports popular forum such as Burning Board, IP.Board, SMF, phpBB and vBulletin through plugins where everything is configured automatically. For password protected websites, you can enter the username and password or if it is a custom web form, then you can use Macro to record the login process.
Website-Watcher 2010 has way too many features for me to mention everything on this article. For more detailed information, you can visit the official website or even better, download and install a 30 day trial and then you will know why I say that it is the best webpage update monitoring software. Below is the proof that Website-Watcher has saved me over 99 hours of time after using it for more than a year.
There are 3 editions of Website-Watcher. Basic, Personal and Business. The basic edition is the cheapest version that cost €29,95 for a single user license and it is most useful for people that just want to use it to auto check for website updates. As for the Personal edition, it cost €49,95 and it has more advanced feature such as AutoWatch, Newsgroup support, Scripting Language and Follow Links. As for Business, the features are very similar to Personal except it can password protect bookmarks and allows you to use in business environments.
Aignesberger Software GmbH has been very kind to sponsor 5 personal license to be given away at this blog. It is a 1 year license which allows you to install any updates within the licensed period but you can continue using it when the 1 year period is up. Same rule applies, first you need to be a subscriber and secondly, leave a comment on this page. The winner will be randomly picked and announced tomorrow.
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