What Can WatzNew Do? What can WatzNew do? WatzNew uses a simple yet powerful search patterns to retrieve specific protions of information from web pages. That's why WatzNew can be successfully used for:  | | | | · | Tracking new software releases: You can setup channels that will monitor the updates of your favourite software. Imagine that you will get the message, i.e. 'New version of Winamp (2.23) released' immediately after their site have been updated! | | · | Tracking your web site statistics: There are text-based tracking services such as eXTReMe Tracking that WatzNew can support. You will have the ability to track your visitors, referrers and any other parameters these services can provide, in realtime! | | · | Tracking stock quotes: Choose any service on the net that provide you the stock data, and you will be able to track stock quotes without a single click! Note that WatzNew can retrieve data from password-protected sites and work with password-protected proxy servers and firewalls. An exellent tool for those who want to save their time and money. | | · | Monitoring weather: Exactly as in the case of stock quotes or stats, WatzNew can monitor your local weather conditions. You can define your own format of reports. The information will allways be at your fingertips. | | · | Monitoring mailboxes: WatzNew can check any amount of POP mail accounts. You won't need any other notification tool from now. | | · | Doing anything Perl can be used for: WatzNew has the ability to execute Perl scripts and present the output messages in a friendly way. As you know, Perl is an exteremely efficient language for working with text sources. If you are familiar with Perl, you can create WatzNew channels that will work with ftp and news servers, web-based e-mail accounts, generate extensive statistics and do almost anything you could ever imagine! WatzNew is an excellent tool for advanced users. |
WatzNew is a very customizable utility. You can change it's appearance, fonts sizes, colors in any way you like. You can create several different schemes and switch between them with a few clicks. The message templates are individual for each channel and are customizable too. You can make the portions of the message bold, italic, underlined, you can create lists and insert line breaks. You can setup custom actions for each channel. Actions can depend on parameters retrieved by the search patterns. With the aid of these actions you will be able to: | | | | · | Automatically send messages via e-mail: Yes, you can make WatzNew automatically send the messages to you by e-mail (with the help of third-party programs). Some companies offer the ability to redirect e-mail messages to cellular phones or pagers. Get your stock quotes or weather forecast right on your pager! | | · | Launch any external programs: Basically, WatzNew can launch any external program with the variable parameters retrieved from the web page upon an event. Feel the power of WatzNew! |
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