utilities/system updates

10/14/2005, 8:15am, EDT

Friday, October 14th

New website monitoring, wireless networking Widgets

WatchMouse Site Monitor is a unique Dashboard widget that monitors any internet site from the desktop. The widget checks any site every 5 minutes and alerts users in case of problems--in cases of errors, it checks the site the from 16 other monitoring stations worldwide and alerts users immediately or after 2 to 5 concecutive errors. The widget pauses when the computer is not connected to the Internet as well as display the hourly availability of your website over the last 72 hours. It is available for free and requires Mac OS X. Meanwhile, AirTrafficControl 1.2 is an advanced wireless networking Widget that can connect to any type of network, sort networks by any feature, integrate with Keychain to retrieve and update WPA or WEP passwords, and view current connection details including network speed. Version 1.2 of the freeware offers a new enhanced interface, Keychain support, and other enhancements.


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10/14, 7:30pm, EDT
Now we just need a widget that can check for site changes.
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