Some web pages, such as those at major news sites, are updated frequently, but most are not.

LinkWatch allows you to monitor web pages of interest to detect when they were most recently updated*.

Perhaps you are interested, for example, in following developments at several small high-tech companies. The News and "What's New" pages at their websites only change infrequently, such as when a press release is posted.

You probably don't want to take the time and effort to download the news pages daily from each of these companies.

Instead, use LinkWatch to check a whole list of web pages at one shot and tell you which ones have changed. You then browse just the updated pages.

In LinkWatch you create a list of the web pages of interest with the titles and URL, e.g.

http://www.aHighTech.com/News.html

for each page.

You then run LinkWatch to check when each of these pages was last updated*. If a page has been modified since the last time you ran LinkWatch, the entry in the list will be flagged. Double clicking on that entry will bring up your favorite browser with that page so that you can find out what is new.

Additional features of LinkWatch link list handling include:

• Multiple link lists can be loaded, e.g. one list for biotech companies, another for aerospace.
• Merge lists together into a single list.
  
• Extract links from a hypertext page, either one located locally or on the web, and create a link list.
  
• Save a link list to a hypertext file with the link titles in a hypertext list format.

* Note: availability of the modification date for a web page depends on the web server where the page is located. Some servers don't provide this information.