Pingdom, one of the best services to monitor website uptime and get instant alerts when it is down, has has released a desktop notifier to complement their web monitoring service and monitor your website uptime from the comfort of your desktop.

You might recall that Pingdom offers email, SMS, iPhone and Twitter notifications with SMS being limited to a specific amount that can be raised by buying additional SMS packages. Not every web service, server or website will therefor be configured to notify the user by SMS if the service fails. The Pingdom desktop notifier is therefor mostly an additional option to monitor their websites while working on the computer.

The notifier will display a popup on the computer desktop if one of the website checks fails. All options in the notifier lead directly to the Pingdom control panel on the Internet.

The Pingdom Desktop Notifier complements the other notification options. It might be useful in this regard but has the severe disadvantage that the webmaster needs to be in front of the computer to notice the notifications. The software program is available for download at the Pingdom website. It is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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