With this entire overhaul process, we’ve decided to also change our pricing policy. We developed Web Replay out of passion and our main focus is to deliver a strong and reliable app that would confirm our last few years of hard work. With Web Replay 3.0 released, we have the feeling that we’ve gotten there and we’re ready to move further. There is one thing we need to admit though: we wouldn’t have gotten here without our customers’ outstanding feedback and ideas. For that, we appreciate them once more.
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Here’s a little tip about how you could sleep for 10 more minutes or about how you could just relax and watch your morning show, getting ready for a perfect day with “some “of your tasks being done for you. Yeah, it sounds utopical, but at a small scale, don’t we all have this hidden desire of having someone or something, in our command, do the ugly jobs for us, for free?

The coffee maker gets our coffee ready, the toaster pops up our toast whilst we’re brushing our teeth.

Web Replay can do the cyber work for you! It can open all the web pages you visit each and every morning, including logging you into our accounts, while you’re having your coffee and toast.

Let me explain!

Every morning, before I go to work, I check my email, online bank account, my company messages and, if time allows, my social sites.

Here’s how it used to be: I would open each page, type my username and password, take the required actions and move on to the following account. A dull, time-consuming, brain-killer routine! If I were to put in into words, it would look like this:

Web Replay 3.0 takes online productivity to the next level. You can create Web Macros for each of your accounts you check every day, create a group containing these macros and then have them run automatically, in different tabs.

The miracle is here! Web Replay logs you to all these websites securely and automatically without you even touching the keyboard.

We’re getting ready to deliver our first newsletter. We admit it was our mistake that it has taken us so long. The reason we decided we needed a newsletter to keep contact with our customers is their enthusiastic reaction to the Web Replay project. Most of our users who have started using Web Replay from its very beginning have been very supportive and provided an outstanding feedback along the way. We want to keep in touch and share with them what we’re working on, cool stuff we’ve discovered, latest news in online security and identity protection. To wrap up, we’re planning our newsletter to “look” and “sound” as a note from friends more than a marketing material.

We’d love to have you as a co-author in our newsletter. If you feel like sharing your experience with Web Replay, tell others how you use Web Replay, what are its main benefits to you or how you envision the future of Web Replay, we strongly encourage you to send us an email with your thoughts and we’ll include it in our newsletter so that everyone can hear you out. It’s all about building a community of friends who share ideas and build a product together.

The more you talk to us, the more efficient shall we work for you.

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(Part II: Web Macros for everyone)

We’ve already settled up our base camp for explaining the web macros in a previous post. Not it’s time to get to work!

We’ll talk about real-life scenarios in order for you to get a better picture of how you could benefit web automation and web macros. Each scenario represents a task that we all perform on a daily basis. Since this post is about web macros for everyone, our today’s focus is on real-life web tasks.

Mail Checking:

Scenario: Think about all the steps you take when you check your email:

1. Type in your email URL
2. Wait for the page to load
3. Type in your username and password
4. Click the LOGIN button
5. Wait for the page to load
6. Click the INBOX tab

Recording a web macro for your email:

The process: Do what you normally do to check your email, but use the Web Replay Macro Recorder to record the entire sequence of tasks.

1. Hit the Record Button in your Web Replay toolbar
2. Type in your email URL
3. Wait for the page to load
4. Type in your username and password
5. Click the LOGIN button (Web Replay Password Manager will prompt you to save your login information within its highly encrypted database)
6. Wait for the page to load
7. Click the INBOX tab
8. Stop the recording
9. You are prompted with a window in which you set your preferences for how you want your web macro to be stored (tag it or add shortcuts to launch it from a different location).

Web Replay has recorded the entire sequence of web tasks you’ve performed and turned them into a web macro. Your login information have been stored by the Web Replay integrated Password Manager, in its highly encrypted database.

The aftermath! What’s in it for me?

You can now go directly to your inbox with a single click! Safer and faster! No more typing! No more clicking! Over and over again!

(Part I: How it all started…)

Ever since we designed Web Replay, we tried to figure out what’s the best way to explain this feature to our users so that they can use it to its utmost, in terms of helping them surf the web faster and more secure. The challenge in explaining this powerful feature of Web Replay (a killer feature, actually) relies more on introducing a new concept than on emphasizing the obvious benefits once you get the hang of it.

The concept of Web Macro or Internet Macro

The Concept: Web macros use the programming-by-example concept to automate user actions within a web browser

The Reality: In this hectic web world, the more we’re trying to do, the more boring and mindless does our work seem to get. Think about the web sites you visited in the last few days and didn’t require you to login or sign up for a new account (Google, maybe?: D).

Is it a win-win situation? Yes!

Two of the reasons are your online security and their marketing strategy – they give you a free (or paid) account and protect your data, you use their service and strengthen their online credibility.

Again, is it a win-win situation? No!

They have computers to remember you; you have only one mind to remember all of them.

We agree there’s nothing wrong or fishy about being a member of online services. But, the more you like or depend on their services the more “stuffed” does your mind get. Your will soon be “kneeled down” by the information that has been piling up. You’ll be typing tons of passwords, usernames, filling web forms with your information, just like in a never-ending story. Each and every day! Several times a day! Hundreds times a week!

The cost? Hmm, well it’s quite pricy: you lose precious time and memory “space” that you could use elsewhere.

“Ifs” that have answers

If you already have Web Replay installed, you know what we are talking about and you may very well just stop reading, here.

If you are curious what we are talking about, you can get Web Replay free or Web Replay trial, to check it out.

If you just want to see Web Replay in action, check out this short video.

If you want to read more about Web Replay Macro Recorder, subscribe to this blog,

We’ll be posting a series about web automation & web macros and we’ll be trying to explain them in detail. Please, bear with us though! We’re going through a huge site makeover and we’re kinda’ trapped with some designing issues. But we’ll get back to this soon, I promise! J

We worked hard during the past few months to get this release live. Web Replay 3.0 has a completely new look, several core features that we’ve added and a lot of bug fixes.

All in all, we believe that Web Replay 3.0 is a notable reason for our existing users to update their copies and, for all the others, who are new to Web Replay, to grab a copy and allow us to prove why we believe Web Replay is must-have software for the savvy web users.

You can grab your copy of Web Replay 3.0 from here.

The main features we’ve added:

Web Replay for Firefox – A lot of our users have asked for this feature and, now, that it’s out, we feel the difference. Web Replay is more appealing to more users since the reality shows that most Internet users use both browsers for surfing.

Sync between computers –Another reality is that most of us use different computers to surf the web: at home, at work or our notebooks for all the other locations. Consequently, we have different databases on each of them. Starting with Web Replay 3.0, you can sync these databases to keep all the information up-to-date and organized. Using online services like DROPBOX, Live Mesh or FolderShare, you can sync your databases to have access to the latest items you’ve added (bookmarks, logins, safe notes, web macros) from the computer you’re using right now.

Merge databases – Two databases: one for work, one for private use. That’s how some of our users use Web Replay. And that’s ok if you want to go completely separate with your professional and your personal interests. But, if you ever want to have a single database that contains all the items from both these previously created databases, you can choose to merge them and have all the information synced and adjusted so that your newly created database contains all your saved items (logins, web macros, bookmarks, safe notes).

The new UI

We have a new look. Completely new look!

Inside Web Replay Management Studio, we changed the icons and fixed some usability issues based on our users’ tremendously helpful feedback.

We’ve been working on our new website for a while and we’re still re-thinking and redesigning stuff. However, we’ve decided to go live with this new version and continue to adjust it till it satisfies 98% of our customers who have taken the time to provide unavailable feedback up to this moment.

What I’m trying to say is that any ideas, suggestions, criticisms are more than welcome in our creative process and that we honestly appreciate all the smart ideas you have been willing to share with us up to now.

After all, this new website is meant to help you discover Web Replay and its purpose is not just to look “sexier” but also to be a “factotum click”, through an improved usability and a fresh and brainy content.

• A brand new program icon.

• We redesigned Web Replay Toolbar

We’ve changed the toolbar icons to give it a cooler and sleeker look. In the Firefox version we’ve added a search bar for quicker access to your information.

• We’ve redesigned Web Replay Management Studio

Icons changed. Usability issues fixed. A completely fresh overhaul that will enhance our users’ experience by making it easier for them to find and manage all their information.

We’ll continue to share with you our design work and any usability ideas we want to put into practice. Again, please don’t hesitate to tell us what you like or dislike. We’re open to constructive criticism and the more honest you are in your feedback, the better and the more effective can we deliver Web Replay to you.