Filed under: Widget Watch
Widget Watch: Apple Store status widget
In February we covered Pingdom's release of a website badge and monitoring service that tracked the status of the Apple Store. A lot of our readers were resourceful enough to make their own widgets from the banner, but Pingdom has polished up and released a widget for everyone who looks forward to the excited anticipation of downtime hysteria.
The widget, and Pingdom's service in general, have the potential to be a blessing to Apple's servers. By pinging once and distributing the results to the masses, it could prevent thousands of simultaneous connections from refresh-happy Apple fans. Not that the servers haven't always handled the traffic with a fair amount of aplomb; it's just that much more breathing room.
Software releases (Safari 3.1 and a Security Update) marked this Tuesday, but without the bated-breath downtime we'd begun to expect. A little element of scheduling surprise, such as the 802.11n Airport Express release on Monday, makes this widget significantly more useful. So, grab the widget from Pingdom and enjoy future frenzies!
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PoolShark said 11:46AM on 3-19-2008
Another cool Apple Store widget shows the daily updates/additions from the refurbished section of the Apple Store. Big time saver: http://www.macintoshos.com/widget.html
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Brent C said 11:49AM on 3-19-2008
Great work, Pingdom. This will be very useful come Tuesday mornings! Thx!
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Tom said 12:47PM on 3-19-2008
I love Update tuesdays as much as the next person, but seriously, this is getting a little obsessive.
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jmac said 2:10PM on 3-19-2008
quiet the fanboys will get you if they read this!
David said 1:19PM on 3-19-2008
Dummest piece of software I've heard of yet!
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Gil said 6:04PM on 3-19-2008
First off, that was a useless comment to post. It wasted your time posting it, and anyone else's who read it. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Second, breaking that rule, it's spelled 'dumbest', dumbass.
Fred said 1:21PM on 3-19-2008
There are also a this awsome refurb store's widget. http://www.refurb-store.net/#widget
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C Bulger said 1:55PM on 3-19-2008
Who would actually install this?!?
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Dimebag said 3:59PM on 3-19-2008
I WOULD!!!! click click click…