I have already spent some time and looked at creating the form and I will be making one for doing just this soon since its not that difficult. I dont mind putting out the bandwith for this since my site after the next few days will not be going anywhere for quite some time.

I love the theory of the hack but question is hwo many authors incorperate your string to check the updates? Guess I can try it to see but unfortunetley if the authors arent usign this it doesn;t do much good.

yeah, but you have to start somewhere xplorer.
i think it's a fantastic idea - but the author, Tim, needs to be speaking with teh coders to get them to incorporate it.
I'll be installing it soon on my board - here to help Tim - keep up the work - it is exaclty what vB needs.
Hell, if firefox has it, i think we need it too!

just wondering how it works? how does it check if an hack has been updated?