If you add RSS feeds via the RSS button in the status bar, you never know the content of these RSS feeds until you add them as new bookmarks, run a check and open them.
WebSite-Watcher 2010 adds a Preview button
Clicking the “Add RSS feed” button as shown above still opens the “Add to Bookmarks” dialog, but this dialog has now a “Preview” button that lets you preview the content of an RSS feed before you finally add it as new bookmark.
Really. After 10 years, WebSite-Watcher finally got a Delete button in the main toolbar!
There is also a new way to customize your toolbars. Simply right click a toolbar in the main window and select “Customize”, you will then also be able to re-arrange toolbar buttons. Unfortunately it was not possible to import the old toolbar configuration, after installing the update you’ll see the default toolbar buttons.
Version 2010 (10.0 Beta-5) is now online. If you already use version 10.0 Beta-4, please try to install the new version via “Help + Check for new version” (this is a new feature that was introduced in Beta-4).
WebSite-Watcher 2010 has several improvements to check for and install new program versions.
Beside the optional automatic update check you can now also look for new Final or Beta versions in the Help menu (“Check for new version…”).
When a new version has been detected, you are asked if you want to install the new version automatically or if you only want to open the download page to download and install the setup manually.
If you select “Install Now”, then WebSite-Watcher will automatically download and install the new version with just a minimum of mouse clicks. Concretely, WebSite-Watcher downloads the setup package and calls the setup afterwards, no need to select the setup folder and other configurations during the setup, this is done automatically.
This new update functionality has been introduced in WebSite-Watcher 2010 (10.0 Beta-4). Beta-5 will be released in a couple of days, then you’ll be able to test this new feature.
WebSite-Watcher 2010 has a new statistic feature that shows lots of advanced information about your bookmarks. You can call it in the main menu with “View + Statistic“.
The initial view shows a very simple report that gives an overview of the attention you’re spending on each of your bookmarks.
You can either show statistics of the current month or over the whole collection period. WebSite-Watcher already collects these statistics since version 5.1.0.
Clicking the “Show details” button in the toolbar displays many advanced information, for example:
- Avg. time how long a page was opened
- How many links were clicked in a page
- How often a page was opened
- How many data was transferred
The status line shows either the summery or the average of fields. Clicking onto one of these cells swaps between summary and average.
