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Tag: notifications

Ntfy is a pretty good open source notification service which you can host yourself

2025-05-262025-05-26 Danie
A smartphone screen displays the time, weather, and notifications for service downtime, with a colorful abstract background.

This is a pretty flexible service that will send notifications to your mobile phone. You can either use their cloud service, or host it yourself. Apart from being able to send notifications directly from any […]

Blognotifications, opensource, selfhosting, technology

8 ways Android handles notifications better than iOS

2024-05-122024-05-12 Danie
Smartphone being held by a hand. Screen shows open notificatiosn screen saying Notification test now. This is another notification. Below it is a button marked Manage another button Clear all. Above it are a buttons for Internet, Bluetooth, Flashlight, and Wallet.

Android may have the wrong colour bubbles for messaging, but its users can at least pat themselves on the back for having better managed notifications (those things that can really irritate a person if not […]

Blogandroid, notifications, technology

Do you ignore your phone notifications because they just keep going off during the day? Explore settings to better manage them

2022-08-052022-08-05 Danie
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Yes I’ve been getting to the point that I just ignore notifications for a large part of the day because it’s the doorbell warning me someone is walking past, community group on Telegram selling pies, […]

Blognotifications, productivity, technology

Send desktop notifications and reminders from Linux terminal using the notify-send command

2022-01-062022-01-06 Danie
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Sometimes it’s useful to get visual feedback from a script. For example, when a script or cron job completes, a long-running build fails, or there is an urgent problem during script execution. Desktop applications can […]

Bloglinux, notifications, opensource, technology
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