Specto – watches configurable events

Specto is a desktop application that watches configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then triggers notifications.

For example, Specto can watch a website for updates (or a syndication feed, or an image, etc), and notify you when there is activity (otherwise, Specto will just silently continue monitoring unobtrusively).

This changes the way you work, because you can be informed of events instead of having to look out for them.

Features include:

• Easy to use graphical interface.
• Monitors a website using XML feeds.
• Monitors a static website.
• Monitors emails/gmail accounts.
• Monitors file changes.
• Behaves like a normal tray icon.
• Configurable.

Website: specto.sourceforge.net
Support: Google Code
Developer: Pascal Potvin. Wout Clymans, Giulio Lotti, Thomas McColgan, Christopher Halse Rogers
License: GNU GPL v2

Specto is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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