Sitespector v 2.1

Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Publishing Group "Imperium" ltd. 
All Rights Reserved.

http://www.sitespector.com

What's new? 
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- E-mail notification -  
A new type of the channel update notification has been introduced. Now you can 
select a notification type which allows you to send special e-mail 
notifications. You can select format of such notification (HTML or Plain text) 
and a template from the program's set. It is possible to send a simple 
notification with the time and date of the page update, issue with paragraphs 
and issue with highlighted changes. There is an option of attaching the file 
that has one of the above-listed templates with notifications to the message.  

- "Stop checking" option -  
Now you can stop checking one or several channels. You can do it by selecting 
the "Stop checking" option on the context menu of a channel, a channel group or 
a folder.  
 
- Channel stopping on exit -  
Now when you quit the program you will see a dialog box which will warn you that 
there are channels that being checked and will ask you to confirm your decision. 
After the confirmation all the channels that were checked will be stopped and 
the program will be closed.  
 
- Navigation through highlighted paragraphs -  
Now you can browse the highlighted paragraphs in the mode "Page with highlighted 
changes". You can do it by clicking two buttons, which are located in the bottom 
part of the "Channel view area". Current highlighted paragraph will change its 
color. We have also taken into consideration the users' suggestion to move the 
"Channel view" panel to the bottom window area. Now such buttons as "'Enable / 
Disable highlighting", "Change view" and highlighted paragraphs navigation 
buttons are located in that area.  
 
- New appearance of the "Filters" tab -  
The appearance of this tab the "Channel properties" dialog has been changed and 
there is a new filter option. It has changed an option of ignoring the 
paragraphs which have no letters. Such positive and negative filters are located 
in different tabs. They are called "Watch filter" and "Ignore filter". Both of 
them contain 50 lines. The new option for ignoring numbers allows ignoring 
changes of the paragraphs that have no letters and have only changes in numbers 
or non-letter symbols. For example, if you enable this option, the changes of 
numbers in such paragraph as "12 articles of 30 shown" will not be considered as 
changes.  

- Software installation by the administrator -  
You still need the administrator rights to install the program. But now each 
user can use it after the installation. Note that the program settings are 
unique for each user.  
 
- Some useful features -  
You can check the time of last channel update check and the time of the last 
issue creation. Open the "Channel properties" dialog and check the history in 
the bottom part of the "General" tab.  

By left-clicking the blinking program's icon in the system tray, you can stop 
its blinking if you're not going to check the changes right now.  
 
A new option "Place a new window after the current one" of the "Settings" dialog 
allows you to open new windows in the "Channel view area", placing them on the 
right of the current one.  
 
Now the information about the exclusions that were set in the schedule is shown 
in the "Schedule" tab of the "Channel properties" dialog.  
 

About Sitespector
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Sitespector - is a program that allows you to set up automatic monitoring for 
changes on web pages on the Internet. It checks web page content and lets you 
view new information that was added to the web site, visually separating it from 
the old information. The program can watch for updates on any number of pages of 
any number of web sites. Sitespector lets you set exact time when pages are to 
be checked, and it will automatically notify you the way you have chosen. New 
information that was made available on a web page can be marked by either 
highlighting all changes on the page or by displaying the list of changes 
grouped into individual paragraphs.

Sitespector's basic features:

- Convenient viewing of new web page content -
All new information found on web pages is displayed as individual issues, where 
new information is presented either by highlighting all changes right on the web 
page or by displaying the list of changes grouped into individual paragraphs. 
User may switch between these views and view the new information the way the 
user finds most convenient. 

- Scheduling page checks -
The program allows you to set exact periods of time when web pages are to be 
checked. The scheduling allows setting various exclusions to optimize bandwidth 
usage and avoid checking pages at inappropriate time. 

- Running web page scripts -
The program can keep an eye on changes in web pages that contain scripts that 
affect the page's content. User can disable running scripts for pages the user 
does not trust in full.

- Monitoring changes on pages with frames -
Frames are actually individual pages within a current page. The program allows 
to monitor changes within those pages and present those changes in the total 
content of the page's update.

- "Trash" filtering -
With a special option that allows ignoring images with external links, the 
program can exclude from the total amount of changes continually refreshing 
banners, counters, and other unnecessary "trash" and as well exclude paragraphs 
that do not contain letters (dates, time, numbers, etc.). You may filter 
information on a page by specific values that may include date and time masks or 
text constants. Such filtering allows you to disregard the "noise" in content 
and not consider a page updated when such changes appear on page.  

- Monitoring personalized information -
The program allows to monitor data that appears on a web page according to 
user's settings - the so-called "personalized data" - using Microsoft Internet 
Explorer browser's cookies and by sending user's authentication data to server 
automatically. 

- Convenient and easy user interface -
The program's interface was designed to be simplest, and any user can quickly 
get used to it. In just a few minutes the user will know of all sections and 
features available through the program's interface. The program's multiple-
window interface allows you to view changes in web pages in individual windows 
and set those windows' relative positions against other windows and arrange them 
into groups. 

- Notifications on changes found on web pages -
The program can run in background, and user may choose which way the program 
will notify the user when new information is found on a web page. A number of 
notification types may be selected: playing sound, blinking program's icon in 
the system tray, displaying a special popup message or sending an e-mail 
notification.

- Reducing data transfer -
To reduce data transfer, the program offers a number of options that disable the 
program to download images off the web pages. Since while checking web pages the 
program automatically downloads images from web sites to user's computer, 
enabling this setting will help you reduce the entire network's traffic. 
However, in such case, all images on the page will be replaced with blank 
images, the so-called "placeholders", which color can be defined by user. 

- Preliminary page check -
To make sure user has not made a mistake typing in a web page address, he may 
validate the web page's address and find out whether the address the user has 
entered leads to the required web page. This feature will help user set the 
correct address if the address he has entered navigating to the web page leads 
to an automatic redirect to a different page. Also, during such preliminary 
check the program will attempt to recognize encoding used on the page being 
checked and set that encoding for the channel it will create.


Installation
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Unpack the sitespector.zip file to a temporary folder and then run 
"installsitespector_2.1_en.exe" and follow the installation wizard's 
instructions. 

If you are using Sitespector 1.0, you will need to install Sitespector 2.1 to 
the same folder where you currently have Sitespector 1.0 - in order to save your 
data and move it to the new version. The installation program will find that 
folder automatically. Next, during the installation process, the program will 
notify you of the previous version's channels it has found and will let you 
convert them to the new version. The previous version's database file will not 
be deleted after you have installed the new version of the program. If you no 
longer need the previous version's database file - delete the file 
"watcher3.mdb" from the "/Data Base" folder in the program's folder. 

If you are using Sitespector 2.0x, you will need to install Sitespector 2.1 to 
the same folder where you currently have Sitespector 1.0 - in order to save your 
data. Note that navigation through highlighted paragraphs is not available for
issues of 2.0x version channels. 

When you are done with the installation, run the program from the new group on 
the Start menu.

Removal
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Run "Uninstall" in the program's group on the Start menu.


System requirements
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- Minimum configuration -
Pentium class CPU - 500 Mhz or more;
64 Mb RAM;
Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP or more;
MS Internet Explorer 6.0 or more;

- Recommended configuration -
Pentium 3/4 or AMD Athlon - 650 Mhz or more
128 Mb RAM
Microsoft Windows XP, 2000;
MS Internet Explorer 6.0 or more;

Internet connection (dedicated or dial-up)


Registration
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You can freely use the evaluation version of Sitespector for 30 days. The 
evaluation version does not contain any functional restrictions. If you want to 
continue using Sitespector with no restriction beyond the 30 days, you must 
purchase the registration key. 

If you continue to use the program beyond the 30-day period without the registration key, 
the program will warn you that you need to purchase the registration key. 
Such warnings will be saved in channel's issues and will replace issue's content.

Your registration code will be sent to you via e-mail within two business days 
since the moment your order has been processed.

To purchase a registration key for Sitespector, please visit the official web 
site at www.sitespector.com


License agreement
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See the License.txt file.


Help
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For help on using the program, select "Help" on Sitespector's main menu. 


Contact information
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General inquiries and technical support:
support@sitespector.com

Sitespector's official web site is available at:
http://www.sitespector.com/

We will be glad to have your questions, bug reports, and suggestions on 
improving the program.

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