Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then trigger 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 stay out of the way). This changes the way you work, because you can be informed of events instead of having to look out for them. Better than clicking the refresh button on Caturdays, huh?
Specto is free and open source software distributed under the GNU GPL license.
1. Add a watch
2. Forget it
3. Be notified
The latest version is 0.3.1 . Specto is still in development, and any help is much welcome. If you have any skills in Python programming, you are more than welcome to join in. If you are not a programmer, your feedback, testing and translations are just as important for the project.
For users upgrading from Specto 0.2.x to 0.3.x: use File > Import watches to import your old watches from ~/.specto/ (the directory and format has changed).