Detailed Feature list

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Monitoring and maintenance

 

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Monitor an unlimited number of web pages and blogs for changes.

 

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Monitor secure web pages (SSL).

 

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Many standards supported: HTML, XML, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0, RDF and plain text files.

 

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Organize web pages in groups and sub-groups.

 

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Search for monitored web pages based on URLs. Wildcard searches are supported.

 

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Receive update notifications through desktop notifications and a blinking tray icon (configurable).

 

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Optionally receive notifications when errors are encountered while downloading a web page, e.g. server not responding, page not found etc.

 

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Quickly add new sites using the Drop Window, tray icon or clipboard.

 

Browsing

 

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View web pages and blogs with changes highlighted using the embedded web browser.

 

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Pop-up blocker integrated with the embedded web browser.

 

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Configurable blog layout. The XML is converted to HTML and uses a configurable CSS stylesheet.

 

Scheduling

 

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Shared schedules allow you to check a group of sites at the same time, e.g. every 4 hours or any other time interval you define.

 

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Custom schedules allow you to define exactly when one specific site should be checked for updates.

 

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Schedules can specify that sites must be checked:

every X minutes
hourly at X minutes past the hour
daily at a specific time of day
weekly at a specific day and time of day
monthly at a specific day and time of day.

 

Content matching

 

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Only notify of changes when specific words or patterns are found in the changed text.

 

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Do not notify of changes when specific words or patterns are found in the changed text, e.g. changed page counters, dates or timestamps.

 

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Advanced matching using regular expressions.

 

Miscellaneous

 

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Starts automatically when Windows starts, with an option to delay site checking X minutes to speed up system startup time.

 

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Optionally displays a Drop Window, which is a small icon-sized window that is displayed above any other window on your screen. Add URLs to UpdatePatrol by dropping them on this window.

 

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Optionally only run scheduled checks when UpdatePatrol is running invisibly in the background

 

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Check multiple sites at the same time to speed up site monitoring