Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Sat, 18 May 2013 12:04:45 GMT Sat, 18 May 2013 12:04:45 GMT Rev9 13 -13 -1 Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' I've never used an aggregator before.  I thought it would be cool to have a little box on your desktop that alerted you to something you subscribed to, but all I find are things that look like email clients.

Is there such an aggregator that does the following?.......

One that pops up a toast message - much like MSN Messenger - when something new has happened.

Scenario:  Your waiting for a reply on a forum, or waiting to hear of any new posts on a forum.  Your working away and 'pop' a toast pop-up appears and lets me know that someone has posted something new.  Or say, scoble has another video posted up on channel 9.

Anyone know of such an agg'?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/125681#125681 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:48:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/125681#125681 dnrfan 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/dnrfan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' RSS Bandit will do just that. You can configure the popups per feed, even.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/e953f1258e7341879ac49deb00fe98ef#e953f1258e7341879ac49deb00fe98ef Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:56:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/e953f1258e7341879ac49deb00fe98ef#e953f1258e7341879ac49deb00fe98ef Sven Groot 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Sven Groot/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' Opera's built in aggregator does this. When there are new posts, you get a toast popup, but it's not as aggressive as MSN Messenger popups.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/31571dc9ad5945719c3f9deb00fe9944#31571dc9ad5945719c3f9deb00fe9944 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:02:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/31571dc9ad5945719c3f9deb00fe9944#31571dc9ad5945719c3f9deb00fe9944 Tommy Carlier 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/TommyCarlier/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' I believe SharpReader does that as well, and its free.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/65ca5f81ae8045bcb5079deb00fe9993#65ca5f81ae8045bcb5079deb00fe9993 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:12:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/65ca5f81ae8045bcb5079deb00fe9993#65ca5f81ae8045bcb5079deb00fe9993 MisterDonut 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/MisterDonut/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' Cheers ALL !! Cool

MUCH appreciated.

BTW: SharpReader website is down.

www.sharpreader.net

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/1c823d5d54d546bb9f129deb00fe9a2c#1c823d5d54d546bb9f129deb00fe9a2c Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:16:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/1c823d5d54d546bb9f129deb00fe9a2c#1c823d5d54d546bb9f129deb00fe9a2c MisterDonut 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/MisterDonut/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups'
dnrfan wrote:
One that pops up a toast message - much like MSN Messenger - when something new has happened.

Scenario:  Your waiting for a reply on a forum, or waiting to hear of any new posts on a forum.  Your working away and 'pop' a toast pop-up appears and lets me know that someone has posted something new.  Or say, scoble has another video posted up on channel 9.
Anyone know of such an agg'?


What you want is Microsoft Alerts. It works with your normal IM client (read Messenger) and will alert you if the provider of the information has hooked up with Microsoft. This works great for Microsoft Forums.

As for other usages (like notifying you on new messages from feeds you subscribed to) I don't find that at all usable due to high volume of updates, but for the scenario you described above this system is perfect.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/6d228e6ba08541759da09deb00fe9aa2#6d228e6ba08541759da09deb00fe9aa2 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:24:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/6d228e6ba08541759da09deb00fe9aa2#6d228e6ba08541759da09deb00fe9aa2 draza 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/draza/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' OK, I tried RSS Bandit and Sharp Reader.

Both threw up Fatal Exceptions.

Placing in the too hard basket........DUNK

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/ae981220baad4b0894ee9deb00fe9af0#ae981220baad4b0894ee9deb00fe9af0 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:20:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/ae981220baad4b0894ee9deb00fe9af0#ae981220baad4b0894ee9deb00fe9af0 dnrfan 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/dnrfan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' I've come across 'Awasu' which does what I want it to.

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/620bb145c71d4c5198729deb00fe9b3e#620bb145c71d4c5198729deb00fe9b3e Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:16:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/620bb145c71d4c5198729deb00fe9b3e#620bb145c71d4c5198729deb00fe9b3e dnrfan 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/dnrfan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' If it is craigslist that you want toast popups for I wrote craigstoast to do jsut that

 

You can find the tool at:

 

http://craigstoast.com

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/c7dcdb004e6a4c5c95a39deb00fe9bb4#c7dcdb004e6a4c5c95a39deb00fe9bb4 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:15:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/c7dcdb004e6a4c5c95a39deb00fe9bb4#c7dcdb004e6a4c5c95a39deb00fe9bb4 tthomas101 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/tthomas101/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups'
dnrfan wrote:

I've come across 'Awasu' which does what I want it to.

 



I'm confused...

Awasu Website wrote:

And best of all? It's free!


and on the right hand side...




EDIT: NVM there are three different versions of it...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/a64bcc9ebc3b4203812b9deb00fe9c06#a64bcc9ebc3b4203812b9deb00fe9c06 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:44:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/125681-News-Aggregators-that-have-Toast-Pop-Ups/a64bcc9ebc3b4203812b9deb00fe9c06#a64bcc9ebc3b4203812b9deb00fe9c06 Cybermagellan 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cybermagellan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - News Aggregators that have 'Toast Pop-Ups' grrr RSS, now thats one thing i have never really got into at all.

For some reason i just cant find a program that takes the RSS feed and displays it the i want it. Although Awasu looks suitable, so i may just give it a go. But if its not then its time for me to code my own Smiley

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