Monitoring Web Sites Automatically
If you are like me, you go to several web sites each day and look for new content. For instance I monitor the Office of the Comptroller of Currency and the FDIC for bulletins that may have an impact on appraisal related issues. Many sites are now using RSS - an acronym for Really Simple Syndication, a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs - that make it much easier to track changes. In fact, there is an RSS link for this blog - if you have a feed reader/news aggregator you can see automatically when new posts are added or the page changes. But what do you do for sites that don’t have RSS? I found a utility called URLy Warning (Early Warning with a play on URL) that accomplishes this task very well. It can help remove some of the friction in your life and web surfing. The software download is free and will monitor one site free of charge. To monitor more than one website, there is a one-time charge of $29.95.