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Track websites for changes
I have been using Web Alert (Google Play) for quite some time and find it the most useful one.
It's completely free but it is only available on android phones. Web Alert is simple, it has a ton of ...
6
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Track websites for changes
A good option is to register at:
Change Detection
This will track changes for you. Give the service the URL of the web site(s) of interest and it will email you when it sees a change.
6
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Android app to alert me when offline for a long time
Tasker might be an app to go with here. It doesn't come for free (there's a 7 day trial at their homepage, but then it's ~USD 5 if you really want to use it after that), and it requires some effort to ...

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Linux (Ubuntu) Alert on desktop on full local disk
Ubuntu already includes a disk space warning alert as part of dconf.
You can configure the settings by installing the dconf-tools:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Start the dconf Editor:
dconf-...
4
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Track websites for changes
Trackly is worth a look, it will email you an image of the webpage with changes highlighted. Hourly and daily checks available.
It works well even with very dynamic web pages using tons of javascript ...
4
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Getting a notification when a website becomes online
How about this:
A simple POSIX compliant shell script. I tested it with both GNU and
busybox versions of wget and in bash and ash. It opens a
connection every 10 seconds and exits when a connection ...
4
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Which error tracking system to choose for a PHP application?
I would strongly recommend Sentry on Premise
Self-hosted application ✓
Error grouping (most wanted) ✓
Detail and custom error information
(stacktrace, my custom php process identifier that i use for ...
3
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CLI tool to use fanotify
There are some examples around "hello world" level on Github:
fsnoop prints a lot of events about everything. You can filter them;
fanotify_watch prints events for writing files;
fanotify-cmd - ...
3
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App to send message when battery is low?
I recently developed My Battery Is Dead for Android to solve this exact problem. Please let me know if you are missing any features or find any bugs.
Completely free
No ads
Material design
Contact ...
3
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App to send message when battery is low?
You can use Battery Low Email Notification:
gratis
background service that sends an email from your Gmail account to the same account whenever the battery level is low (15%).
3
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simple lightweight reliable method to send notifications to ubuntu over internet
My suggestion would be to use a chat app such as Empathy or even Discord. Both will send GNOME pop-up notifications and are trivial to install.
Otherwise you could always make an email for just this ...
2
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Chrome extension to notify on StackExchange activity (and others)
Specifically for the Stack-Exchange-verse, there is StackEye.
I discovered it, much like you when I stumbled upon stackapps
2
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Delay notifications for a productive day
As requested by Angelo Fuchs, I post this as an answer though it doesn't contain an app recommendation:
Having done a pretty thorough search (while updating my list of apps for notification ...

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FTP Client Tool
From what I know, there's no tool that can notify you via email as a built-in feature. But there are some additional tools that can help you achieve this!
Although, I just found this. Wing FTP Server ...
2
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Notifications for OpenStreetMap edits in my neighbourhood
Using python, (already installed on most Linux systems), + Requests & BeautifulSoup you can simply poll the OpenStreetMap page - something like:
import requests ...
2
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Notification manager for Windows 10 to prevent missed notifications and view history
Try Notification Logger for Windows 10. I'm the author of this app )
2
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Email notifier supporting Gmail as of 2023
I use Pop Peeper which does support Gmail via OATH2 and app password configuration in Gmail. The latter is considered a "security risk" accompanied by a recommendation for a strong password.
...
1
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Notification manager for Windows 10 to prevent missed notifications and view history
We use Growl It has an icon that stays in the tray and has a badge to show notifications. As its always visible, you can always see if there is a missed notification. We have integrated this into our ...
1
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Track changes on a webpage that uses POST
The free web service http://changemon.com/ has this ability. You can do POST requests to the specified URL by adding a GET-like string to the changemon’s URL field beginning with ?postdata=:
http://...
1
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Track changes on a webpage that uses POST
Check whether GET works. Many websites handle GET and POST requests to the same address equally. You can try this easily by changing the method of the form method from POST to GET and see if that ...
1
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Getting a notification when a website becomes online
This website (still in alpha, and not sure if it works all good) should give you a pop-up when a site comes back online:
http://alpha.itsback.at
It is also on GitHub here https://github.com/aardvarks/...
1
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Getting a notification when a website becomes online
Uptimerobot - Their Pro Plan appears to be able to do this. I use their free service for monitoring prospective clients web hosting accounts as a sales tool later
1
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Looking for a better cross platform notification system
I cobbled together something around a matrix-synapse homeserver and the navi notification bot for it
Navi's used to send notifications to my homeserver. That's in a private room my regular user can ...
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Software Recommondations to keep track of forum posts
Well, if there is an RSS feed for your profile, that you can use an application like feedreader.com to track it,
FeadReader.com
Feedreader Online is one of the best Google Reader alternatives ...
1
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Embeddable database with hooks for custom code on insert/delete/update
I think you might be able to get MonetDB to do that. Or rather, I'm sure you can do it in a not-fun way by writing a custom MAL module which wraps your C++ code - which you would add to a clone of the ...
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Embeddable database with hooks for custom code on insert/delete/update
As Steve said, you don’t really need a database that was coded in C++, unless you plan to extend its functionality. All you care about is a database that interfaces well with C++.
For that, you need ...
1
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Android app to record notifications
I don't know an app specifically for your requirements, but I think you'll find Notification History useful to see the list of dismissed notifications.
On some phones, there's also a pre-installed ...
1
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Voice notifications for Google Calendar on Windows
Checker Plus for Google Chrome is able to provide voice notifications for Google Calendar. The voice notifications option can be enabled in the "options" menu for this extension.
1
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App to send message when battery is low?
Simply use Tasker
Install it on your kids phone and make a simple profile to do what you need.
Or a better way would be to use
Tasker+Tasker app factory (which is sister app for Tasker, to make ...
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App to send message when battery is low?
You can use Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) + Tasker (3 USD), and follow these instructions:
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