>I would like to monitor a few webpages for changes without having to visit them repeatedly. I swear that one of the browers had this feature or that I have seen a webservice that allows a page to be monitored.

Hi,

Try http://mindit.netmind.com/mindit.shtml

Or just create a VFP app that uses WinINet to retrieve the page contents, generate a checksum, then compare against a previously stored checksum.