ZapTXT Version 2. What's New
So What's New.... A lot. We now move to regular releases but here's the first batch that comes from a completely new application that was re-written from the ground up.
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1. We can find you. Really.
Set notifications to IM and tell ZapTXT to forward notifications to Email or your Mobile Device when you are not available. Our presence detection features can tell when your Instant Messenger status is "Idle" or "Offline". So if it’s really important, use SMS (normal carrier charges apply). If it can wait, choose email so you can get to it when it’s convenient.
We support all major IM clients: Skype, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GTalk as well as LiveJournal’s LJTalk.
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2. Daily Digest
You told us that some notifications can wait. So we now enable you to select Daily Digest as a delivery option for a task. We'll collate all your notifications for that task and send you one email every morning at 4am Pacific Standard Time (US).
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3. Quiet times for SMS
Don't want your phone beeping at night or during a meeting? Use Quiet times to tell us when SMS notifications should stop. Anything you miss will be forwarded to your email.
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4. No alerts, just a river.
Dig our filtering capabilities but don't want a notification pushed via IM, Email or Mobile? No worries. Alerts are now optional. You can use the "Latest Tab" to view a river of news for all matches. Or grab the custom RSS feed for each task and add it to your fancied RSS reader. We blend your feeds for each task into one feed, along with your selected filters and make it portable for you to take where ever you want.
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5. Multiple Emails
Say you want to send critical news about a customer, competitor or LinkedIn contacts to your work email and eBay®, Craigslist® or FriendFeed® notifications to your personal email. Within your settings, add an additional email address. We'll present your secondary email as an option when you create and edit tasks.
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6. Sharing tasks
You could always share a ZapTask. Now you can share a ZapTask as a reading list. Here's how it works: You create a task, share it as a reading list with friends or colleagues. They subscribe to your ZapTask. Now, every time you make changes to your ZapTask (add or remove feeds), your subscribers ZapTasks update automatically. Ever try and keep a customer or team member abreast of latest sources that they should monitor? This helps you do it very effectively.
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7. Advanced Search
Too much noise? Use our advanced filtering to receive topics mentioned just in the title, exact phrases, written by authors you fancy and more.
We've got a lot in the pipe. Including an API that allows you to add a notification platform to your web application. Enter your email below if you want to be notified when we launch our API
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