Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which notifies; specifically, an appliance in connection with a coal-miner's safety-lamp which serves to give warning of the presence of a dangerous amount of fire-damp in the atmosphere of the mine-workings.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person or thing which notifies or provides notification.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to notify + -er

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Examples

  • No, the great thing about gmail notifier is that I can set it to make Gmail the default email program for “mailto” links on web pages.

    Discourse.net: How To Fix the Gmail Notifier Unavailable Bug 2009

  • This new notifier is interesting, but there's no installation.

    Gmail Notifier Is A Light, Convenient Email Checker For Ubuntu | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • This notifier is based on the open-source Java RSS Notifier project.

    (Windows) Flickr Notifier - the first RSS notifier that displays images Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • Once you install Growl for Windows, you’ll need to take a spin by their Applications page to find the new plugins, install them and configure in the Growl settings panel — though the Gmail notifier is a separate running executable that hooks into Growl automatically.

    Growl For Windows Updates, Adds Gmail Notifications | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Applications ranging from an incoming call notifier on your television, to an SMS editor on your laptop, to a photo gallery application on a wireless picture frame in the living room, will access your content.

    IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis 2009

  • It seems that HSUKFF's institutional investor base, low-key private interventions in companies, a number of changes to the fund name over the years, and often hard-to-spot disclosable holdings (the wider Hermes Group or even the BT Pension Scheme Trustees are sometimes recorded as the 'notifier') have all probably contributed to the fund being largely invisible to private investors.

    Fool.co.uk - Headlines 2010

  • By the way, Thwirl also lets you include other services, including Friend Feed - I think I might find that level of integration just too confusing, though, because the only people who are allowed to appear on my FF notifier are the crime-fiction room members - so if I see a FF pop-up I know it is crime-fiction related (or OT!).

    Twittering the Apollo 11 Moon mission, 40 years on Maxine 2009

  • By the way, Thwirl also lets you include other services, including Friend Feed - I think I might find that level of integration just too confusing, though, because the only people who are allowed to appear on my FF notifier are the crime-fiction room members - so if I see a FF pop-up I know it is crime-fiction related (or OT!).

    Science Maxine 2009

  • It seems to do for Twitter what the Friend Feed notifier does for Friend Feed and other similar pop-up notifiers do for their services (eg the dreaded email notifier which I have turned off).

    Twittering the Apollo 11 Moon mission, 40 years on Maxine 2009

  • By the way, Thwirl also lets you include other services, including Friend Feed - I think I might find that level of integration just too confusing, though, because the only people who are allowed to appear on my FF notifier are the crime-fiction room members - so if I see a FF pop-up I know it is crime-fiction related (or OT!).

    June 2009 Maxine 2009

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