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Cricket Score Mailer

 
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Yesterday I went to client�s place where our support team is residing. They complain me that since they don�t have internet access, they can�t see the score of the cricket match.

So I send an email to a colleague in office to send score on email after each 30 minutes. He did so. But he applied some intelligent method, he open the score-board-page of famous site, did print screen and send the image via email. Since he sent image of a score-board-page, we got all information, like who is playing, who is out, who made how much, and who is bowling ect ect�

While going to home I felt why don�t just write a program in Java that could read a URL and make an image of the URL and sent it via e-mail on a periodic basis.

I have already started thinking about the concept.

Please give me your view. What features this tool should have? Where else I can use this tool?

I want to make this tool open source.
 
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You know you wouldn't have to make it an image. If the emails display HTML, which all do, unless the user turns it off. Then just get the page and send it as an email. There is a Mail API, and getting a URL is in Java too. So it wouldn't be too difficult.

Mark
 
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