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mouser:
well, it would be hard to do with 100% certainty, but probably wouldn't be very hard to do with high accuracy.

as i see it there are 3 parts to the issue:
1) identifying which software you have on your machine that you want to check for updates

2) assigning a web page for each such program where the author announces new version
(this is mostly a matter of maintaining some kind of master list matching programs to websites; not hard, but time consuming and could benefit from a community effort).

3) figuring out a way to detect new version announcements on this web page.
(this really shouldn't be too hard to do with fairly good accuracy).

Carol Haynes:
A simple approach is to use on the download page for your chosen software with ChangeDetection. You get an email every time the page is updated so (in theory) you should be informed when updates are announced.

Might be a bit hit and miss if the site has loads of things listed on the same page ...

See http://www.changedetection.com/monitor.html for details.

mouser:
a lot of us use a web page change monitoring tool for exactly this purpose - to keep an eye on new updates, etc.
see the donationcoder.com review of such tools:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/WebWatchers/index.html

wdwpower:
Like Belarc Advisor?
-Veign (September 20, 2005, 12:20 PM)
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Thanks for your answer(s)
It is a tool to get some info about programs installed AND registered. With a few manipulations I can import it in a spreadsheet.
But what about programs installed via a zip-file ?

Regards
Willy

Carol Haynes:
Hmmm .. the software looks nice. Shame the special offer has ended but at full price it is too much to contemplate really.

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