Saturday, November 9, 2013

Detect Ipad Mini Available


Apple introduced new product several weeks ago. However so far Ipad Mini is still not available. Recently there is some news that Apple may not have enough Ipad Mini to sell. Therefore it is good to order the Ipad as soon as it is available.

Now if we visit the Ipad Mini homepage at http://www.apple.com/sg/ipad-mini/, there is a notice that "Coming later in November". Therefore I wrote a program to detect the Ipad Mini is on sale by detect that the notice no longer appears in the website. This approach may be not general, but at least it detects the change of the website. In this case, it is likely that the Ipad Mini is available. If it is available, then the program will print a notice on the screen and send an email to your preferred email address.

Then to make the program check frequently, you can create a Task in Windows and set it to run hourly or daily. I prefer hourly.

To use this program, you need to configure "fromaddr" (the email address to send), "toaddrs" (the email address to receive), and username and password are for the email address account to send.

Link to download the program