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WatchMouse releases 2.0.4 Widget For Dashboard, Aimed At Internet Site Performance Monitoring
Goggle Browser Widget 1.0
qt'dashfull 1.0 QuickTime Full Screen Widget
Harmonic 1.6 Lyrics Done Right. Anywhere
WatchMouse releases 2.0.4 Widget For Dashboard, Aimed At Internet Site Performance Monitoring
By means of 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 ( http://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.
Worldwide monitoring
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.
Click here. http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/watchmousesitemonitor.html
Companies can easily monitor their own Internet sites using WatchMouse's monitoring service. WatchMouse has been monitoring Internet sites and e-commerce applications for companies throughout the world since 2002. WatchMouse has thousands of customers in more than 70 countries. The services supplied by WatchMouse are available in nine languages, and analysis are performed from various locations and over numerous networks, using a world-wide monitoring network.
In 2005, WatchMouse was voted a Deloitte Rising Star in the Netherlands, as part of the Fast 50 awards; the list of the 50 fastest growing technology companies.
Further information can be found at:
http://www.watchmouse.com
Goggle Browser Widget 1.0
Goggle Browser Widget is small in file size, but has all the features of a real browser and much more:
• websurfing
• email alerts
• site statistics
• blogging
• bookmarks
• book content searching
• calendar/agenda management
• catalogs
• online payment
• web directory
• finance
• shopping
• features: Java, JavaScript (1.4+), browser plug-ins, Flash, Shockwave, QuickTime
• many more features
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/9066/
qt'dashfull 1.0 QuickTime Full Screen Widget
Play QuickTime movies full screen at the click of a widget
Simply click this widget and any open Quicktime movie you are currently playing will instantly be full screen without purchasing Quicktime Pro or messing around with 3rd party player applications.
qt'dashfull also includes the option (in the widgets preferences) to hide itself when you do not have the Quicktime player application open, helping you avoid a cluttered Dashboard. It will automatically reappear next time you open the Dashboard and Quicktime player is active.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
For more information, visit:
http://www.j-go.net/qtdashfull.html
Harmonic 1.6 Lyrics Done Right. Anywhere
Harmonic is lyrics done right. Anywhere.
Harmonic always finds the lyrics you want, quickly and easily. You don't have to do a thing. Fire up the widget and play a song from iTunes. Leave it open in Dashboard and each song that plays will have lyrics added to it in the background while you work or play. It's that easy.
iPod Integration
If you have an iPod with video or an iPod nano, your lyrics go directly onto the iPod via iTunes. Tap the center button while playing a song to sing along.
Good Looks
Harmonic comes in four candy colors, much like candy does. Flip to the backside, choose your favorite color, voila. You can even change the size of the font and left/right/center alignment. It's like magic kind of.
Simplicity
Harmonic is the not only the best looking lyrics widget, it is also the simplest to use. Don't worry about it, it does exactly what you want it to.
New in version 1.6:
Much better response to errors, fixed bug where Harmonic would freeze when it couldn't find lyrics.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later,
iTunes 7.0 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.mindquirk.com/widgets/harmonic/index.htm
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