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Historically I have wasted countless Friday evenings looking for a software solution that fit’s me exactly.

There are some products or services that require you to invest countless hours installing, configuring, studying and testing – only to finally learn, weeks later that the solution has significant limitations.

I’ve had these experiences with; Accounting programs, time management solutions, photo-editors, PPC-tools, website builders and many more.

This week I’ve been hunting for a program that would track my website ranking for various keywords and discovered Advanced Web Rankings (AWR) by Caphyon.

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Popularity: 100% [?]

Although I’m pleased with my web hosting at WiredTree, I’m also a little paranoid about how often my websites are online.

Sure WiredTree has 24/7 monitoring services but just recently the entire WiredTree server went offline (this was for scheduled maintenance). At this time I didn’t receive any email alerts telling my sites were down so I’ve been looking for an additional monitoring service too.

There are a lot of services out there but most of the free services only check your sites every 30 minutes (or longer) or are restricted to just one or two sites.

Uptime Dog is completely free to register for and checks all your websites every 2 minutes from two separate locations.

If any of your sites fail you’ll be sent an email immediately.

The only thing Uptime Dog ask for in return is that you link to their website.

Popularity: 8% [?]

[Software: Windows / Mac / Unix, FREE]

I was discussing the idea of remote working with a programmer friend of mine and he lamented about how one of his days was disrupted because a particular password was embedded in a Windows Messenger chat log on his home computer and he couldn’t access it from where he was working.

The solution to this seems to be a free program called Dexrex which has versions for Windows, Unix and OS X.

Dexrex works in the background and logs all your messenger chats to your online account that you can access at any time.

I’ve been using it for the last few weeks and it’s working great.

Popularity: 5% [?]