Web Ninja Log Window

Web Ninjaworks by watching where you go on the Web. The Web Ninja extension will wait for you to launch one of the supported Web browsers, then monitor where you go, how many times you go there, and how much time you spend there. The extension works in the backgroud using very little of your system resources. Once installed, all of your Web activity is monitored automatically.

The Web Ninja application is used to monitor the data collected by the Web Ninja extension. When you open the Web Ninja application, the main Web Ninja log window will open. The Web Ninja log window will contain a list of all the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that you have visited since installing Web Ninja including the URL, number of visits, date and time of last visit, and total hours, minutes, and seconds of time spent at that location. You can click on any of these titles to sort the data in the list according to that column of data, e.g., click on the title "Total" to sort the data according to total time spend at that site. Below the list is shown the number of items currently in the list and the total number of URLs that are available (total number of sites tracked so far). Above the list is the date and time that the list was last updated.

When you are online, i.e., you have a browser running, the word "Online" appears in bold in the lower portion of the window below the list. "Offline" is displayed in italics if your browser is not running. As you use your browser, the Web Ninja list will be updated shortly after you leave a location. Web Ninja will track as many browser windows as you have open, but it can only track one of the supported browsers at a time.

The Web Ninja window contains a popup menu in the upper left corner that allows you to choose the type of URL to display in the list. Choose the "Web Pages" item to display only web pages (items that begin with "http://"); choose "ftp directories" to display only ftp sites (items that begin with "ftp://"), choose "Web pages and ftp directories" to display both of these types, and choose "All Items" to display all items in the list. Note that this includes locally loaded pages (items that begin with "file://").

The filter box is used to further limit what is displayed in the list and to allow you to quickly find an item in the list. By typing letters in the filter box, only those items that match the text pattern typed will be displayed. For example, to display all Web pages that are associated with "macuser", type "macuser" into the filter box. The filter box is not case sensitive. The URL list is rebuilt each time you type a key.

You can quickly "jump" your browser to any place in the list by clicking on the item, then clicking the "Open URL" button in the upper right corner of the window. This will cause your browser to go to that URL. Note that the Open URL button will be disabled unless you are currently online.