Toolbox for MS Outlook

Web Tools                  

• Monitor up to 4 websites,
• Open multiple websites with a click of a button. Ideal if you regularly look at a set of websites.

Web Site Monitor

Even the best web servers in the world will go down occasionally. This tool lets you monitor up to 4 web sites so that you at least know before your customers/end-users tell you!

Run the program from the Windows Start Menu. You will see the main screen:

You enter the web site address (you can specify a particular page if you wish) and a word or phrase that the web page contains. If the system can't retrieve that page, it can beep and/or send an e-mail to an address you specify. You can specify how often the sites are tested and how long you should wait for the page to respond.

By entering a web address in the Control URL, you can be sure that the problem is not due to your Internet connection being down.

Click the Start Button. Progress of the operation will be shown in the Log. The caption of the Start button will change to "Stop" - you can click this anytime to stop the current operation.

If you don't want Outlook to prompt you with a "A program is trying to access your Address Book" (or similar) warnings, tick the box "Automatically over-ride the Outlook Security warning". A small program called Clickyes (courtesy of Context Magic) will appear in your taskbar.

If you wish to keep the Monitor running, minimize the main window instead of closing it.

Monitor Results

The "Monitor Results" tab will show you details of each monitoring attempt.

Open multiple web sites at the touch of a button.

At least once every day, I tend to look at the same list of web sites. I suspect I am not alone in doing so. While it is relatively easy using Favorites, it is still a chore I wanted to automate.

Using this tool, it is easy to do.Type the list of sites - each one on a new line. Then click the Open button to open all of them in a separate browser window.