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By default, you have to create a separate bookmark for each page you want to monitor. If a whole site instead of single pages should be monitored, you can use the Follow-Links functionality that will automatically insert all links of a page as new bookmarks.

This feature is already available for many years now, but WebSite-Watcher never kept an eye on no longer linked pages and saved them “forever”.

WebSite-Watcher 2010 introduces the new bookmark option “Delete no longer linked pages every NN days” that allows you to automatically detect and delete these no longer linked pages from your list.

Since the execution of this operation can take some time, it is not performed in real time with every check and you have to configure how often it should be executed. Default value is to perform it once a week.

If you right click a master bookmark in your bookmark list, you can also run this procedure manually via the context menu.

Finally, we’d like to wish each and every one of you a peaceful Christmas and a happy, healthy and successful 2010!

The next major update of WebSite-Watcher (version 2010) will come with a new filter assistant. This new assistant helps you to select the filter type and classify the selected text (in previous versions you had to select all these characteristics from menus and sub menus).

Looks like just another way to do the same as before. However really new is that you can now create filters directly within the internal browser, you no longer have to open the bookmark properties and start the Filter-Assistant there.

There are two ways how a filter can be created in the internal browser:

1. Using the “Page” menu

Select the text you want to filter, then click “Page” and “Create new filter”

2. The quick way

Select the text you want to filter and hold the ALT key pressed when releasing the left mouse button.

This will open the Filter Assistant and you can select the filter type and classify the selected text. Simply follow the steps in the assistant.

A first beta version of WebSite-Watcher 2010 (10.0) is now online and can be downloaded from the beta section.

Starting with the next major update of WebSite-Watcher we’ll change the version number philosophy what will also influence the update policy a bit. Starting with the next major update, the year will be used as major version number, concretely WebSite-Watcher 2010 (10.0). It’s planned to release one major update per year, but also minor versions will introduce new features and improvements.

Here’s the new/changed update policy for WebSite-Watcher 2010 (10.0) and higher:

1. One year of free major updates

The initial purchase of WebSite-Watcher includes one year of free major updates. Major updates are indicated by a change in the first version number, for example an update from version 2010 (10.0) to 2011 (11.0). The life cycle (and reference date) of a major version always starts with the date of the first beta version, for example 2010 (10.0 Beta-1). That means that you usually get one major update for free.

2. Free minor updates and bug fixes

If you buy a copy of WebSite-Watcher, you will get all minor updates and bug fix releases (within the same major version that was released within your update subscription) for free. Minor updates are updates where the first version number is not changed. For example an update from version 2010 (10.0) to 2010 (10.1).

3. Update price

Once your update subscription has expired, you can buy a new major version inclusive 1 year of free major updates. The price is only 50% of the full version.

4. Bought versions will never expire

If you decide not to renew your update subscription, then only the ability to update to new major versions expires. Your license doesn’t expire and you can work as long as you want with a version that was released before or within your update subscription.

5. Buy an update whenever you want

You can renew your subscription at any time, also months or many major versions later to get access to recent versions. You are not forced to prolong your update subscription on the same day it expires.

How is this new update policy different to the old one that was announced in 2008?

1. Longer period to get free updates, customers usually get one major update for free
2. Customers who already bought an update subscription in 2009 will of course get version 2010 for free