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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.
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.
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.patrikG wrote:I think that can easily be done with RSS.
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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.feyd wrote:the problem I see is trying to avoid having to be logged in or have a special output to retrieve the information...
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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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.feyd wrote:That'd be a dumb monitor, I'd rather a smart monitor
Nice thing about writing your own programs they can grow to whatever you need.