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WatchMouse Releases Site Performance Monitoring Widget for the Mac
WebKnowHow WatchMouse released version 2.0 of its widget for Apple dashboard, aimed at Internet site performance monitoring. With the widget Apple users can get direct insight into the performance of their own Internet site. The widget can be downloaded for free from the Apple website.
In 2002, WatchMouse (www.watchmouse.com)
introduced a new concept for Internet site monitoring. By means of
ongoing simulation of Internet visitors the performance of sites and
servers is verified. If a site is not responding, an alert message is
sent immediately through SMS, pager, Instant Messenger or e-mail. The
sites are checked from over twenty monitoring stations worldwide. This
is done 24 hours per day, seven days per week. The service is
completely web based: customers don't have to install software,
everything is 100% self-service, which keeps the costs low. The three founders of WatchMouse, Niels Eijsbroek, Stan van de Burgt and Mark Pors are enormous Mac-fans with a total of twenty Macs in their possession. The monitoring widget is quite unique: it is a combination of a desktop and a hosted application. When the widgets detects a problem with the site it is checking, it alerts the user with a 'beep', followed by the launch of a web browser, which is directed to a web application on watchmouse.com. There the site is checked from over 20 different locations worldwide. The new version (2.0.4) brings continuous performance monitoring, even when the Mac is not connected to the Internet, by connecting the widget to a WatchMouse account (free or paid). In October 2005, WatchMouse released the first version of this widget, which was downloaded over 10.000 times. WatchMouse has made the widget available free of charge "because we have become addicted to it, ever since we started using the first beta version of the widget", says creative director Niels Eijsbroek. "We give the widget away for free mainly for the fun part. And of course it's also important to bring site performance monitoring to the attention of our fellow Apple-users." The free WatchMouse site monitoring widget can be downloaded from the Apple website: www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/ networking_security/watchmousesitemonitor.html |
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