Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware
Newzie RSS reader will monitor pages without RSS feeds
by Brad Linder Nov 25th 2008 at 3:30PM
First up, Newzie has all the same basic features we loved, including color coded indicators that let you know at a glance how new an item is. But it also has one awesome new feature: the ability to monitor pages without RSS feeds. Just click the add button, select webpage, and then decide what kind of changes you want to monitor. You can get alerts when a certain keyword pops up on a page, when new images are uploaded, or when anything at all changes.
You can also create several different types of custom channels. For example, if you subscribe to several similar RSS feeds that don't publish posts very often, you can combine them into a single "bulk" feed. Or you can create a "word watchdog" feed that monitors all of your feeds for certain keywords and creates a single feed displaying articles from any other feeds that mention that keyword.
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samuel said 12:11PM on 11-26-2008
Wow, what a beautiful a clean looking interface, so much of that top part is devoted to holes where search engine bars reside and icons, just clean metal - very nice. I could imagine an OS GUI which absorbs those holes that puncture our browsers today when not needed to leave a clean outer skin.
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