Here, have some free phone notification sounds
So my S4 was a bit limited on the notification sounds. I wanted something louder. Something distinct. Something that made it clear if a notification was from one app or another, or a text came from one person or another.
Being that I make mobile games, I have some sound effect rejects that I’ve packaged into a batch of sounds you can copy to your phone and use.
Hope you find them useful!
Download: Inzi.Com – Phone Notification Sounds 1
Manage jobs by exception with Pushmon.com
Meet PushMon.
http://www.PushMon.com alerts you if something doesn’t happen. Specifically, it alerts you if your custom URL isn’t hit on user defined conditions.
For example, you can create a custom URL and tell PushMon to alert you if it has not been access by 5:00AM CST daily. In your server jobs, you simply send a request to the URL (using cURL or wGet) if no errors occured in your jobs.
I’ve been using the service for about 6 months and it works like a charm.
As you can see in the following picture, I have specified a "deadline" for my custom URL.
Listen to Wikipedia. No really, it’s actually very cool.
So over at http://blog.hatnote.com/post/56856315107/listen-to-wikipedia they are publishing a data representation tool that derives graphics and sound from real time activity on Wikipedia. It draws colored circles of various sizes and colors while also playing a sound that represents certain activity.
Bells are subtractions while strings are additions.
Purple circles are bots while white circles are edits by registered users.
The blog post details what it all means. I really enjoy the randomness of it, it reminds me of rain.
I hope you enjoy it!
From the blog post:
Listen to Wikipedia was written by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, and is open-source. Like RCMap, L2W gets its real-time Wikipedia data as broadcast by Wikimon. L2W was inspired by and partially based on Listen to Bitcoin, but was mostly rebuilt to useD3.js (also like RCMap). We also use howler.js for cross-browser audio support, and additional sound processing was facilitated by SoX.