• Update on iWatch and the new Google changes

    By Thomas W Duff 2 decades ago

    I did a little investigation this weekend, and there's a short-term fix to get your iWatch back up and running quickly. They have taken the service out of beta mode and into production status. As a result, they now send your emails out in HTML format. That's why iWatch is now broke, as it doesn't interpret the HTML correctly.



    But as part of production mode, you can now create an account on Google to manage your alerts. Go here: https://www.google.com/alerts/signin?hl=en You'll probably need to click the Sign Up Now link to set up your account. Once you do that and respond to the verification email, then you'll see a list of all your alerts, along with the option to set the email format back to text. Once you set the format back to text, iWatch will start working like it did before.



    It looks like I'll have to fix the feature that sets the alerts, as there is now an option to monitor web sites in addition to news. But at least you can get things working correctly in the meantime.