I often make the decision to buy a certain product, a PC game for instance, when it drops below a certain price that I’m willing to pay for it. While I could check for price changes manually on a regular basis, I prefer to use a program for the tracking and monitoring. This has several [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Webmasters need to make sure that their websites are up and accessible to site visitors and search engine bots. Downtime can have different impacts from negative perceptions of website visitors to being kicked out of search engines for not being accessible. There are three options on how to stay informed about downtimes. The first two [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Yesterday’s giveaway – which actually is still running so hurry up if you have not already participated – consisted of Pingdom Basic accounts for one year that webmasters could win by leaving a comment on the Pingdom review page. Pingdom is a website and server monitoring service that offers free accounts that are good for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Many websites these days provide RSS news feeds that keep interested users up to date with the latest information posted on that website. Some websites on the other hand provide no means to keep up to date. This is the situation where a website monitor like Web Monitor comes in handy. The interesting aspect about [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Wysigot is a browser that acts both as a website monitor and downloader. One of its main functions is the download of entire websites or selected pages. The process has been streamlined to make it as easy as possible. To start the download of a website or page one would simply enter the url of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Software

The biggest fear of webmasters – besides being hacked – is the fear that the website becomes unavailable and that all visitors will see the dreaded “Cannot connect” message in the browser. This is extremely harmful especially when you are a full time webmaster whose life (literally) depends on those websites. No one can manually [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

We have all made the experience in the past that many websites are not available all the time. A website that got on Digg’s homepage or slashdotted might have went down pretty fast which is unfortunately if you want to read what the buzz that it created was all about. I normally bookmark those websites and visit them again later to see if the website is available again. If it is not I try it a few more times and if it is not up at that point I either forget about it or delete the bookmark.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox