reminders

simultaneous Outlook reminders on multiple devices

Disclaimer: This is not actually a programming question, but I feel the audience on stackoverflow is more likely to have an answer than most question/answer sites out there. Please forgive me, Joel, for stealing your question. Joel asked this question on a podcast a while back but I don't think it ever got resolved. I'm in the same si...

What is the concept of an Online Reminder Service in ASP.NET, SQL ?

I want to develop an Online Reminder service in ASP.NET 2.0 (C#) and SQL2005. But I am not getting the concept of reminder service. What I know is using an online reminder service I can schedule a reminder for future dates, which is sent to me (who schedule reminder) via email or SMS on that date. But in asp.net how to do this, caz anyo...

How to work with TimeZone in ASP.NET?

I am working on an "online reminder system" project (ASP.NET 2.0 (C#) / SQL2005) As this is a reminder service which will send the mail to users on a particular dates. But the problem is users are not from a specific countries, they are from all over the world and from different time zones. Now When I am registering I am asking for user...

Sending Automated SMS Messages

First, we use .net & sql server. I have a client that is interested in a system that will send SMS messages at scheduled times. I have never done anything like this except for sending an sms through an email gateway, like [email protected]. But, I don't think that is an option for this as, our database will store the phone number an...

How to: Create reminders that should trigger an event to be handled in a Windows application?

Hello all. I need to develop a windows application with .NET 3.5 that needs to have a calendar and user can schedule appointments. I want (not with a windows-service) that while the application is on, all the reminders that are set up for this user + reminders that admins set them up, should trigger an event in the application so I can...

iPhone App - Generate Alert Popups when App is Closed

In creating an iPhone app, is it possible to generate a popup alert on the iphone (similar to a Push notification) when the app has been closed. A simple example would be to have an app that can set a reminder at 5:00PM January 5th, 2010. The app can be closed and the reminder will popup at that time. I don't think this is possible bu...

Show reminder as floating popup/alert

I need to show a reminder as floating popup/alert in my asp.net mvc (C#) application. When the user has any information from the admin that should be notified at particular time, i need to show it as floating popup/alert in the user's screen. For ex.: When the admin sets an alert "Payment due last date is 15-Oct-2009" to notify the use...

UI design: periodical reminders and time zones

Hi StackOverflow, I am writing a simple reminder module for an application. This module will support one-shot reminders as well as periodical ones, for example, monthly reminders. The module must also behave correctly when the user travels across time zones: the reminder's alert goes off at the precise moment in absolute time that it wa...

Is it possible to add a reminder to iPhone's calendar from another iPhone native app ?

Hello all, I have seen somewhere that you can't add a reminder to iPhone calender from another native application programatically . Is it true or false ? If false then how can we achieve that . If true then is there any other way of adding reminder to iPhone calendar or you can't do it all. ...

Extending WSS3 task lists to support recurring reminders

WSS 3.0 will let me send an email to a group when a new task is added to a task list. What I would like to do is to run a weekly task that sends out reminders of tasks due within certain periods, i.e. 2 days, 7 days, 14 days etc. I thought the simplest way would be to build a little C# app thatr sits on the WS2K3 box and qeuries the WSS ...

What is the best way to create a reminder service in .Net?

I am looking to build a web application that will allow users to manage simple tasks or todos. As part of this, I'd like to send users email reminders daily of their tasks. I'd like each user in the system to specify what time of day they get their reminder, though. For example, one user can specify to get their emails at 8AM while anoth...

How to place reminders,todolist, or code-line bookmarks in your code [Dreamweaver]

Hello i am coding in dreamweaver for a change. I was wondering if there is a way to place reminders in your code, for example in the form of a todolist or another way. I know eclipse has this option. You can place //TODO before the line of code. And this is placed in a list. You can view this list every time and conveniently go back to ...

How to implement a reminder application ,just a clarification ?

Hello all, I know that the reminder application should display a badge or sound or kind of alert to the user . The only doubt I want to clear from you guys is , should I display the badge in some manual coding fashion (like [[uiapplication sharedApplication] setBadgeNumber:2])or I have to use Apple push notification service and push th...

Timed email reminder in python

I have written up a python script that allows a user to input a message, his email and the time and they would like the email sent. This is all stored in a mysql database. However, how do I get the script to execute on the said time and date? will it require a cron job? I mean say at 2:15 on april 20th, the script will search the datab...

Timer based reminder in iPhone app

My app asks the user to fill in and save a form locally. I want him to be reminded 48 hrs after the app has been closed that he has a pending form. Is push notification the only way out? Does it cost money to use a provisioning service? ...

How do I simply set up an alert/reminder for dates set in MS Access?

I have a database in MS Access and within it I am holding dates for expirations for SSL's. I want to set a reminder for any SSL that is soon to expire. Anyone know the easiest way to go about this? ...

php mass email and reminders

Hi, I am working on a site where I have the admin manager and i am trying to see how can I allow the admin to send mass emails to notify the event he is organizing, once he invites for the first time then towards during the event date, cron job should automatically send reminder to the author the email id's he used first time. something...

Create reminders in iphone programmatically...?

can we Create reminders in iphone programmatically...?? i read it is not possible in ios 3.0. can it be possible in ios 4.0 ..??? if no, any other alternative to acheive the same .. ...