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Today Beatrix ("Beatrix, by the Grace of God Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, etc. etc. etc."), Queen of the Netherlands, announced she will be "stepping down". Her first-born son, Willem-Alexander ("His Royal Highness Willem-Alexander , Prince of Orange, Prince of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg"), will be our King, Koning Willem de 4e (King William IV) Koning Willem-Alexander. This will be the first king of the Netherlands since a long time, I think since 1890. Thank you Queen Beatrix for leading our country through good and bad times. Your people love you and the Royal House of Orange. Thank you also to our new King William IV Willem-Alexander, hope you do a great job too. Our Democracy... The non-Dutch readers might not understand, but yes: The Netherlands (Holland) is a democracy. Our royal house has only ceremonial duties. There are a few relics in our constitution that give them a bit more power than some think is healthy, but we tend to trust the royal family more than our elected politicians ;-)

WatchFTP version 3.4 released

We just released version 3.4 of WatchFTP, our Automatic Download program.

New in this release

• The "filter directories" window now supports wildcards (* and ?)
• The "filter directories" window now also has an option to tell which directories to download. Previous versions only allowed you to tell which directories should NOT be downloaded.
• You can now Copy a task (Right-click the task, select Copy).
• The File menu has a new option to Create Backup of the selected task(s).
• The File menu has a new option to Restore task(s) from a backup.

Free Upgrade

This is a free upgrade for all WatchFTP customers. If you currently run version 1 or 2 you will need a new (free) license key. You can lookup your license info here.

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WatchFTP v3.4 beta

We have a beta available for version 3.4 of our automatic download tool WatchFTP.

New in this beta

• The "filter directories" window now supports wildcards (* and ?)
• The "filter directories" window now also has an option to tell which directories to download. Previous versions only allowed you to tell which directories should NOT be downloaded.
• You can now Copy a task (Right-click the task, select Copy).
• The File menu has a new option to Create Backup of the selected task(s).
• The File menu has a new option to Restore task(s) from a backup.

Download links

For the English, German, Spanish and French download links, visit our forum.