Search RSS feeds with Letmeknow

Want to monitor an RSS feed, or a server from your iPhone, and be notified via push alerts? It’s possible now with Letmeknow, but this application does a lot more than just that. RSS feeds are great but I don’t have the time to read through them, and usually I’m just looking for something in my feeds like a particular topic or keyword. So after doing some research for software that can do this I landed on Letmeknow for the iPhone (I still couldn’t find any software for the mac that can do this, if you know of any please comment below).

Here’s how it works:

So let’s say I’m looking for good deals on Blu-Ray movies. I know of a few good deal sites like slickdeals.net, and techbargains.com. They both provide RSS feeds. All I do is put the RSS feed URL into the Letmeknow app, and place keywords I’m looking for like “blu-ray” (you can have multiple keywords). That’s it simple as that, now every 5 minutes the RSS feed is checked for anything matching “blu-ray”. Once something is found a push alert is sent to my iPhone with the details, making my life so much easier. This is sent to a webservice that monitors the RSS fees, since running apps in the background is forbidden (so you don’t also have to worry about the battery draining out quickly).

Now this app doesn’t just do this for RSS feeds, it will monitor servers, twitter, facebook, youtube, web page changes, and more. This app is free to download, and you can use it for 30 days as a trial to see how you like it, but after that you will have to pay a $4.99 one-time fee to monitor 5 items, with 5 min intervals. They have different packages if you wanted to monitor more items, or at a lower interval. I love this app, it’s already saved me so much money lately. Now whenever I’m looking for something I just update my Letmeknow app, and wait patiently. No more impluse buying. Also I use this for monitoring my webservers, and it works great, because I don’t have to pay monthly fees to monitor my servers.