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List of ActiveRefresh features

Web Monitoring
  • ActiveRefresh combines the portions of information from different sources (regular web pages, RSS feeds, blogs) and presents them in uniform, comfortable and adjustable way.
  • Powerful and simple filters to make your check more effective.
  • Scheduling automatic checking at set intervals.
  • Individual schedule for every task.
  • Optional pop-up alerts and sounds when updates are found.
  • Selecting which part of the web page to check.
  • Ability to specify which part of information will be extracted from web page.
  • Customizable output templates
  • Ability to use different search templates for one page
  • Saves updated pages to your hard disk.
  • Mark the new information.
  • Edit and post extracted contents to weblogs (Blogger, Movable Type, LiveJournal Support)
News Reading
  • ActiveRefresh combines the portions of information from different sources (regular web pages, RSS feeds, mailboxes, blogs) and presents them in uniform, comfortable and adjustable way.
  • Customizable RSS Channels support
  • Creating of RSS-like web based columns with fully customizable search and output templates
  • Extract the specified parts on web content.
  • Automated search and output template creation ( select which part of web page you wish to extract, and ActiveRefresh will do the rest)
  • Powerful and simple filters for RSS-based and Web-base columns.
  • When changes in a news source are detected, ActiveRefresh notifies your and mark the new records.
  • You will be able to set up a customized schedule for each source
  • You may organize news channels in a customizable tree view
  • Using filters in RSS Import dialog
  • ActiveRefresh supports the standard OPML format for storing and loading the subscription list.
  • You can import your subscriptions from FeedsReader
  • You can now subscribe to RSS feeds by clicking on the Radio Coffee Mug icon you can find on some weblogs.
User Interface
  • Hierarchical tree-like organization of data.
  • Automatically run on Windows start up (optional).
  • Two-panel interface with ability to use only main news panel
  • Different types of view - columns view and newspaper-like news view
  • Multi-user support
  • News Popup window keeps user informed about just received breaking news
  • Fast and simple installation/deinstallation
Advanced
  • Traffic-saving approach - faster checks using Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since HTTP headers
  • RSS Autodiscovery
  • Compose your messages and post them to your weblog on any Blogger, MovableType or LiveJournal API - supporting website.
  • Support of basic character encodings
  • Supports HTTP proxy
  • Processes incoming HTML code in order to delete parts of the code that could be potentially dangerous, such as objects and scripts
  • Save information on exit in html for future processing