Hi all,
I have lost too much time refreshing this website looking for status updates on my games. So I finally decided it was worth the time to develop a taskbar app that would flash when there is a game alert (movements not submitted, new messages, or not finalized turns).
Right now I am testing it, and works well. But I still want to fine tune the login process (cookies' stuff).
It's a very simple app, just an icon in the windows taskbar (by the clock) with the green D. It changes to the !! or the mail icon or the faded ticker that we see here when game status changes. You double click on it and it directs you to the games page.
It is very lightweight (few memory, almost no CPU usage, and at most 5 KB downloaded every minute). It's still in debugging process so I'd appreciate anybody who could download it and betatest it. It is located at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wdnotifier
If you find any bugs please do not write to me here, go to the project page, click in "Support", right under the title "webDiplomacy Notifier" and select bugs, or feature requests, etc to file the problem.
I hope it is as useful for you as it is for me and my worktime :)