Dear Monks
This is not exactly perl question per se, but it will involve perl as that is my language.
I like to design something similar to MSNBC newsalert and like to supply my own data from various sources. The part of the application that I am looking for is flashing system try icon or a small pop-up window which can inform me about various alerts such as 'server down' or 'email received from the boss' or 'new node on perlmonks matching this regex'.

I see lot of usefulness in this application. Looking for design issues in terms of framework and technology, and which modules from CPAN can be useful etc..

Thanks
artist

ps. If this is not the right forum to ask, I would suggest the "Application Design" section on perlmonks.

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