Pay attention, you will get an email every time a new blog post appears on the Raspberry Pi blog.
Combining the RSS from the Raspberry Pi with Yahoo pipes to filter on specific words can render an alert functionality easily to alert you only on the launch.
I am interested in all blogposts from the Raspberry Pi, so have this set up as an email alert.
The recipe is easily to adjust into an SMS alert:
http://ifttt.com/recipes/22546
Kind of scummy, I didn't know it would be $5 until AFTER I put my sms/email in. I don't think they'll use it, but they could potentially gather interest lists this way.
Edit: To be clear, it states that it's $5 on the first page, but I hadn't read the whole text. Seems like there should be a payment then you do the service, not the reverse.
Edit2: Here I thought this was run by the official raspberry pi guys, at least that would be ok. Charging for alerts like this? Seriously.
I know that this is a modern disease, I do it too: not reading properly. In this case I think that if you lose $5 just because you couldn't read to the end of one single sentence, you can only blame yourself.
In a stroke of idiocy, I signed up without reading the full text. Will this be charged through the carrier? Has anyone discovered a way to withdraw their information?
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 44.3 ms ] threadI have several alerts set up to send me email when new blog posts are being submitted, among these I actually have one for RaspberryPi.
Why should I pay $5 to find out if a $25 computer becomes available, if I can do it for free.
Pay attention, you will get an email every time a new blog post appears on the Raspberry Pi blog. Combining the RSS from the Raspberry Pi with Yahoo pipes to filter on specific words can render an alert functionality easily to alert you only on the launch.
I am interested in all blogposts from the Raspberry Pi, so have this set up as an email alert. The recipe is easily to adjust into an SMS alert: http://ifttt.com/recipes/22546
Edit: To be clear, it states that it's $5 on the first page, but I hadn't read the whole text. Seems like there should be a payment then you do the service, not the reverse.
Edit2: Here I thought this was run by the official raspberry pi guys, at least that would be ok. Charging for alerts like this? Seriously.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/696#comment-12562
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