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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 - ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 )
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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.
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Windows: searching for TrayTip (balloons messages) featured and scriptable tool
Notifu does not provide any visual customization (fonts and colors), because it was designed to blend in whatever version of Windows you are using. It does that by calling the same Windows API every ...
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What is the best app for alert notifications in a IT environment
You can use a lot of software for this purpose. But check these below:
Microsoft teams - work with free accounts, offer API for external
communication, have desktop, mobile, web version
Slack - team ...
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Any Android app that can set "Always on Display" mode for JUST notifications?
This is kind of what your looking for: Notify Buddy. It won't show the entire notification, but it will alert you that there is one.
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Email web-app (aka webmail) that will send an SMS text message (or make a phone call) when email received
My obligatory Python based answer.
Given the requirement not to use a data collection company (there are a lot of them out there) and that most if not all of the free SMS sending services are run by ...
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Software to notify me when someone rings my doorbell?
Since you & your brother are able to code, I will offer a software and hardware solution, which could be fun hobby project.
I plan to do this some time soon, with a difference to you (but you ...
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Push notifications with subscription for categories
Firebase, it allows you to send push notifications which can include payloads (any data or other information along with the push notification), maybe it includes a message letting the user know they ...
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What Java library to use for iOS APN notifications?
I'm using Pushy in many projects (including one with Spring Boot); don't let the 0.x version number fool you. It's maintained on a regular basis and (very handy) supports token-based connection with ...
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Windows tool minimizing apps to notification area by closing them?
This AutoHotKey script makes the act of clicking the close button becomes minimizing the window to the taskbar. Together with TrayIt!, the whole process will minimizing it to the notification area.
#...
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Android app that imports a series of locations (lat, long) and notifies you when near it
BwareArea might be what you are looking for. From the app's description:
You'll import a POI list and it'll start an always-on-top widget displaying the closest POI and alerting you if you don't ...
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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 ...
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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://...
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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 ...
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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/...
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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
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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