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cFos Notifier periodically checks new sources and notifies you as soon as something new arrives. It then displays a notification in the Windows taskbar.
Currently cFos Notifier supports the following sources:

Mail
Twitter
RSS feeds

cFos Notifier supports POP3 and IMAP. Enter your mail server, user name and password for the account setup. cFos Notifier tries to detect your mail server account settings automatically.

Use server:port if you use a non-standard port. cFos Notifier prefers encrypted connections over unencrypted connections and IMAP over POP3 because of IMAP's faster mail check.

You can enforce encrypted connections and also allow self-signed certificates. However keep in mind, that a self-signed certificate can easily be forged by an attacker who then can listen in to your traffic.

cFos Notifier uses OAuth. At first startup you need to authorize cFos Notifier to access your Twitter account. You don't have to give cFos Notifier your user name or password. When first started, Twitter asks you, if you allow cFos Notifier to access your account and gives you a PIN. You must enter this PIN into cFos Notifier's input box. cFos Notifier then gets an access token, which you can revoke at any time.

Twitter features:

Support for Twitter API 1.1 and HTTPS
Handles multiple Twitter accounts
Tweets now include profile pictures
Preview of embedded images
Monitors your lists in addition to your home timeline

Twitter Lists:

cFos Twitter Notifier supports Lists. On Twitter you can set up lists of people you want to follow. If you have configured such lists, cFos Twitter Notifier can display them in its context menu. You can select which lists cFos Twitter Notifier should check. This allows you to use the cFos Twitter Notifier only for a subset of your incoming Tweets.

Why another Twitter notification program?

cFos Twitter Notifier is intended for users with low to medium Twitter traffic. Power-users may want to use a more extensive Twitter software. cFos Twitter Notifier is intentionally kept very simple. Instead of periodically stop your normal work and open the Twitter web page to check for new messages, you may install cFos Twitter Notifier. Then Twitter messages will not disturb you, unless you have time for them. Then, if something is new, you can click on the cFos Twitter Notifier taskbar icon to start Twitter