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- Price: $49.95
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: May 31, 2004
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- CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
It's easy enough to add Web pages for Copernic Tracker to monitor for changes, but narrowing down the results may be more of a challenge. The program integrates with Internet Explorer, adding a context menu option to quickly add the current page to your list of tracked URLs. You can also go directly to the program to add URLs, and the simply designed interface doesn't take long to figure out.
By default, you'll get daily alerts when more than five words change for each page you enter. You can change the frequency and word-change limit with ease, but you could be notified each time an ad changes. Even the help file admits that the word-change option could be "hard to manage and sometimes even useless." (You have to admire the brutal honesty.) The developers recommend setting parameters that seek only user-specified words or entering a Boolean query, and PC newbies might struggle in coming up with effective keywords to get the best results.
Copernic Tracker effectively traced changes in our test pages, and the yellow highlighting makes the new text or image easy to find. Even so, with so many sites offering RSS feeds, and the easy availability of free RSS readers, this program seems a bit outdated in its do-it-yourself technology.
Publisher's description
(From Copernic ):Copernic Tracker is a software that monitors Web pages and notifies you when they change. It keeps you up to date with what's new on sites you're interested in and saves you countless browsing hours. Copernic Tracker automatically looks for new content on Web pages as often as you like. When a change is detected it can notify you by sending an e-mail including a copy of the Web page with the changes highlighted or by displaying a desktop alert.
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Version: Copernic Tracker 1.1
Pros: Copernic software is awesome and helped me in my work as a journalist greatly until I switched to Vista. I love that it would email me a changed web page with the changes highlighted! If you aren't using Vista, I recommend this software highly.
Cons: Web page tracking in Vista doesn't work anymore because the programmers can't handle Vista's scheduling routine for some reason. They told me I'm out of luck. :(
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Version: Copernic Tracker 1.1
Summary: JUst want i was looking for. you can track pages set a time to check them and notify you by a popup that a keyword that you have entered has appeared on that web page and by opening the program you click the link and on the same page below you see ... read more >>
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