Subscriber 1.1b1 review
DownloadAnd you can choose from a variety of methods that Subscriber can use to notify you of changes, and many other customisation options.
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And you can choose from a variety of methods that Subscriber can use to notify you of changes, and many other customisation options.
Subscriber is a utility to keep track of your favorite web pages and inform you of changes.
Do you use the ‘Subscribe’ feature built into some browsers? This is unsatisfactory in various ways, of which perhaps the most important is this: web pages often contain features that change all the time – dates, advertisements, and so on. Plus genuine content that you’re not interested in monitoring: if the ‘competitions’ page is not only about horses but also announces results of the dog competition, the cat competition, the lizard competition … what you’d really like to do is check the page regularly for certain types of change only.
Subscriber can do that for you. With Subscriber, you subscribe to a web page (for example by dragging its URL from a browser’s address field); then you choose a criterion for what sort of changes Subscriber should report. That’s it! You never have to worry about checking that web site again.
Limitations:
This is a fully-functional demonstration version that will run for 30 days.
What's New:
Feature request fulfilled: Subscriber can now act as a client for XML feeds such as RSS (RSS 0.9, RSS 1, RSS 2 and Atom 0.3 are supported).
Feature request fulfilled: Subscriber now supports secure HTTP communication (web pages whose URLs begin with 'https://' or which get redirected to such pages).
Feature request fulfilled: Subscriber can now extract all the URLs from any plain text file and subscribe to them.
New command 'Restore Title'. If you have edited a title, or if the title of the page has changed since you downloaded it, this restores the title to the one that a browser would display.
Allowed tolerant free-form entry into the 'minutes' field (formerly the 'mins' field). For instance, you can now type things like "3 weeks, 2d, 5hr & 49mins", or "3h54'", and Subscriber will convert them to minutes.
A single click on a suggestion in the Suggestions dialog now immediately tries the suggestion and highlights the matches.
Expanded the documentation in the Help system.
Improved the algorithm that suggests Regular-Expression criteria.
In fields where you type Regular Expressions, special characters, such as *, now appear in red.
Reduced processor usage when running in the background.
Bug fixed: You can now drag and drop URLs to Subscriber's icon in the dock.
Hyperlinks in non-Roman scripts didn't work. Fixed.
Subscriber would reject URLs that contain an asterisk. Fixed.
Fixed another bug which sometimes caused Subscriber to report that the 'from' and 'to' strings had not been found on a web page.
Fixed a bug where the titles of some web pages in non-Roman scripts were not downloaded.
Fixed a bug where some web pages not in proper HTTP format were seen as blank.
Fixed a bug where Subscriber, when quitting, would sometimes ask more than once whether you want to save your subscriptions.
Fixed bug where some help tags would appear in some windows even though they had been switched off in the Preferences-->Other pane.
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