Two days ago I began writing a small application that monitors the forums here at Sony. It's called Vegas Nights, and it beats pressing F5. If you've ever wanted to monitor the forums without checking emails, refreshing repeatedly, or keeping the forums an active window then this is the tool for you.
Download
Click here for a screenshot made September 17th
Instructions: Simple, unzip the file to a folder, run the executable
Vegas Nights is fully customizable to monitor any Sony forum here of your choosing. It silently checks the board every X amount of seconds that you tell it to. Not only can you decide how often it checks, but how long an alert would last and how intrusive you would like the alert to be. Every alert contains some useful information about the post, like the date it was originally posted, who the original author was, and who the latest reply is by and when that was posted. You can also assign Vegas Nights to monitor only a specific thread, or a specific poster, as some have requested. Vegas Nights is also fully skinnable, if you're up for creating your own look.
Let me know if this is useful for you, and I'll keep working on it.
Download
Click here for a screenshot made September 17th
Instructions: Simple, unzip the file to a folder, run the executable
Vegas Nights is fully customizable to monitor any Sony forum here of your choosing. It silently checks the board every X amount of seconds that you tell it to. Not only can you decide how often it checks, but how long an alert would last and how intrusive you would like the alert to be. Every alert contains some useful information about the post, like the date it was originally posted, who the original author was, and who the latest reply is by and when that was posted. You can also assign Vegas Nights to monitor only a specific thread, or a specific poster, as some have requested. Vegas Nights is also fully skinnable, if you're up for creating your own look.
Let me know if this is useful for you, and I'll keep working on it.