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dethron
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Post by dethron »

Hi All;

Lets dream about a system tray program ( considering to windows) to watch the forum, i think it will be usefull.

The program connects to a special forum(which is user specifed), and get the information about the forum.

When a new post comes, program automatically refresh my browser or give me an remainder-message about it.

Like Gmail Agent.

What do you think?
Happy coding.
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Post by patrikG »

I think that can easily be done with RSS.
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Post by Weirdan »

patrikG wrote:I think that can easily be done with RSS.
Yeah... and sindicated using any widely available news reader. Actually I already have it set using regular expressions and desktopsidebar. It's a little bit buggy, but works for me.
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Post by John Cartwright »

This sounds awesome
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Post by dethron »

Hmm RSS, i did not know this technology.
I have made a small search on it, and I can say it is very good,
I'm go'in to observe it detaily ;)
Thnx patrikG.
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Post by nigma »

Or instead of refreshing browser maybe displaying a popup notification type window, or changing the look of the systray icon?

I too have been thinking about this lately and think it would be very useful.
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the problem I see is trying to avoid having to be logged in or have a special output to retrieve the information...
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feyd wrote:the problem I see is trying to avoid having to be logged in or have a special output to retrieve the information...
Like Weirdan I already have something similar. It keeps a morgue file of links to determine the new ones. The morgue file is update after each run to keep it small. No need to be logged in it doesn't use "new post". I doesn't monitor the site (could), use it more for catching up and archival, it's executed manually.
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That'd be a dumb monitor, I'd rather a smart monitor ;)
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Something like these two hacks maybe?

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/searchresults ... rch_type=1

Mark
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Post by patrikG »

For Firefox users it's very easy to install a RSS-client: just use the Sage extension ( http://sage.mozdev.org/ )
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Great find Bech

Long Live FIrefox and the Gecko :)
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Post by Buddha443556 »

feyd wrote:That'd be a dumb monitor, I'd rather a smart monitor ;)
It started out a smart monitor for just one site but over the years it's grown. Use to popup when every there was news containing keywords I was interested in. Now it takes about 30 - 45 minutes to run 100+ urls and it does that using multiple threads. About quarter of that time is spent analyzing, ranking and highlighting the data for the final report.

Nice thing about writing your own programs they can grow to whatever you need.
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