SU Alerter is a Cool Utility for Stumbleupon
Adamant Solutions in Australia (and our friend Moojj) has just released the Beta of their new utility called StumbleUpon Alerter. Let me reproduce Adamant’s description of the software here.
StumbleUpon Alerter is a small tool that sits in the system tray. It keeps an eye on all of your discoveries on StumbleUpon and plays a noise whenever someone reviews or gives your sites a thumbs up. Open the main window to view information about each discovery - including a list of people who have reviewed, thumbed up or thumbed down your sites.
Plays a sound whenever a person reviews your discoveries
Plays a sound when one of your discoveries is liked
Displays a list of your discoveries on StumbleUpon
Shows a list of people who have rated your sites
Lists all of the reviews for your discoveries
Ranks your friends in order of most reviews
Made with the same interface as StumbleUpon
SU Alerter is available for download here. The utility is small (1725 KB) and the download is fast. The installation is standard and similarly painless. It took just the blink of an eye on my desktop workstation. Put itself into my system try and set itself to run on boot, which is the best way to make the tool useful. It also created a link to Adamant Solutions website on my desktop, which was probably not intentional. I think it was supposed to have been a link to the program. This is a Beta, after all.
That’s it. And it works exactly as advertised. Click on the SU icon on your system tray and you will see a list of sites that you have discovered. You can get three views of these, each in a different tab. The first, called “Home,” identifies the domain name of the page you discovered, the people that have thumbed it (up or down) and the number of reviews written. The “People” tab is ordered by the people rather than by the page, and the last tab (“Websites”) is ordered by the domains in which pages were discovered.
Update - 03-06-08: As with any beta, there have been a couple of minor problems with this one. We are in contact with Moojj about this. If you have comments or requests, you can leave them here and we will forward them to the author, or use the link to his site above to leave a message there. Thanks!
Moojj at Adamant Software has just released a patch that fixes the known problems. You can download the patch here. You can also use this link to download the program for the first time. Kudos to Moojj for being so responsive! Great job!
If you like to watch the progress of the pages that you have discovered, and see whether other people like them, too, then this StumbleUpon utility is for you. We highly recommend it!
March 7th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Great Application!
March 14th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I can’t wait until it comes to a useful OS like osx or linux!! Sounds like a great app!
March 15th, 2008 at 11:45 am
sikanrong -
I hear you! I’m still piling up money for a MacBook Pro, as my first step to ridding myself of windows. I’m already running replacement software for almost all of my Windows apps. Linux (to me, at least) is not quite there yet, so the Apple thing is just to have one stable, supported platform while I convert everything else (five other systems) to Linux. It’s been great fun. ;o) If you’re interested in one man’s struggle leaving Windows, it’s on one of my other blogs here.
Kermit (the StumbleBlogger)
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
My macbook pro is in the repair shop, but yeah I wish there was a mac version. I am currently using my imac, but it doesn’t have parallels installed so I am left without the alerter. Great application though, I can’t wait until they add more stuff. I can see it as being my stumbleupon side kick.