I’ve always been a little annoyed when I want to track a web page or website and there’s no RSS feed to be found. You can’t just pop the feed in your feed reader and let it receive updates quietly. I mean its 2010, there should be RSS for every single website, right? No. Apparently this convenience is still lacking in most places on the internet.

But there are a few ways around it. 4 of them in particular. They work really well for most people and they can help you to track changes in any webpages that don’t have a ready made RSS feed.

1. Change Detection

A free service that’s been running since 1999, ChangeDetection.com provides page change monitoring and notification services to internet users worldwide. Anyone can use our service to monitor any website page for changes.

2. Page2RSS

This tool allows you to create an RSS feed for any webpage. You can then place it in your feed reader to track it. It can even post updates directly to your Twitter account.

3. Update Scanner

Fantastic firefox addon with a good deal of options. It checks for updates and pops up a message right in your browser. Very convenient. Best of all you can set how often to check and what specific text to check. Minor changes can also be ignored. The AlertBox firefox addon does something similar if you would like to try another extension.

4. WatchThatPage

Another web-based page checker that delivers updates to your email. You can choose to get updates on certain days of the week and updates in one digest email or several emails.

This looks like something from a Mad Max movie. An analog + digital steampunk watch with a really sweet design. It’s kinda got an 8-bit vibe to it for some odd reason. Very geeky but manly at the same time. Must be the brown leather.

The Arduino Watch provides augmented sensing of temperature and range, 16-bit color drawing program, Breakout game, and also tells the time in your choice of digital, binary, or analog. Additional sensors, devices, and programs are easy to add as any standard Arduino.

Via instructables

Here’s an interesting device, particularly because it offers you the ability to reflectively record and examine your life. Right now it seems to be only limited to movement tracking but I like the idea of using self-surveillance to gain knowledge about oneself. Lifestreaming on the web has already taken a step in that direction.

The simple pedometer has been given a makeover. Fitbit, a startup based in San Francisco, has built a small, unobtrusive sensor that tracks a person’s movement 24 hours a day to produce a record of her steps taken, her calories burned, and even the quality of her sleep. Data is wirelessly uploaded to the Web so that users can monitor their activity and compare it with that of their friends.