We're going to pretend someone didn't just ask that.

fisher318:
Applications abound. There are many ways to skin a cat, and there are other apps that do exactly what the one in question does, you might just have to dig. There are so many good library collections springing up to come to aid of super fast PHP server side response handling and dynamic client side script calls it's been a wellspring of new web based applications. You might find something in this line that's free (or inexpensive to license).