12 Free Tools That Alert You Useful Information

Getting latest necessary information is always good to fulfill your jobs effectively. For example, you can use an email notifier that alerts you when you have new messages in your mailboxes instead of wasting time to log into different email accounts; or you get the notification whenever someone sells a thing you need on eBay instead of waiting and searching for it. Here are 12 free tools that alert you useful information to ease your works.

Email

Gmail Growl is a useful utility that was designed in order to bring you instant mail notifications from your Gmail account. With Prowl support, Gmail Growl forwards alerts as push notifications to your iPhone. Gmail Growl uses IMAP IDLE for Gmail, which provides near-instantaneous alerts of new messages - meaning Prowl's push notifications via Gmail Growl should be about as close to true push as you can get with Gmail on the iPhone.

Spiffy is an easy-to-use Gmail notifier that will support up to 2 accounts and will display tray alerts whenever you receive a new email message.

Gmail Notifier alerts you when you have new email messages in your mailbox. Also, you can read email headers, delete emails or mark them as read. You can use Gmail Notifier to check up to 5 Gmail accounts.

Scott's Gmail Alert is a handy application that alerts you whenever you receive a new email in your Gmail accounts. You can also send quick emails without logging in to Gmail directly, including replying to received messages and website email links.

POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, or RediffMail accounts. You can also use POP Peeper to read and delete your email.

Finance

Auction Alert is a tool that can automate your searches so you can spend your time doing something else. Enter your favorite search criteria and it can search for regular auctions, Buy-It-Now auctions or eBay stores for listing that meet your criteria. Best of all, you can automate your searches! Tell Auction Alert how often you want it to scour eBay for new listings, and then leave it going in the background.

Wootalyzer is a woot/woot-off tracker for the Woot! shopping phenomenon. Furthermore, this software will automatically regulate its refresh rate depending on the situation to save bandwidth, yet keep extreme speed.

Hot Stock Alerts to your desktop by syndicated stock traders (it runs in the system tray). With this utility, you can receive reports throughout the day. When they post a new alert, a small window appears to notify you the message which is an recording.

Others

Earth Alerts is a Windows-based application that provides Alert notifications and information on all natural events currently happening anywhere in the United States (including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). To use Earth Alerts, you simply select the specific Locations you are interested in. The application will then automatically retrieve the latest weather, earthquake, and/or volcano information from various live data feeds on the Internet, and then present it to you.

Battery4Life is a useful tool designed for laptops to let the user know when their battery is running low by display a big red image on your screen the sound you can choose. You can also select your own music to play as an alert.

tinySpell is a useful utility that lets you to easily and quickly verify the spelling of words in any Windows application. tinySpell monitors your typing on the fly and alerts you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It also checks the spelling of every word you copy to the clipboard.

File Alert Monitor is a handy and easy to use application that will Alert you through a sound or a popup message whenever a new filed is created or copied into the specified folders.