How-To: Monitor your network on your Mac with Wireshark – Snow Leopard Tutorial
Wireshark is an amazing utility that lets you view and analyze captured packet data from your network. It has become a must-have for many institutions and their admins.
It features support for inspection and decryption of literally hundreds of protocols, with more being added constantly. It supports live capture, and also allows you to save, export, and compress data for further analysis later offline. It’s display filters are top notch, as well as it’s UI.
Everplay – A New Compact iTunes Alternative
Apple’s iTunes, as we all know, is full-featured. This feature rich application, however, sometimes comes at the cost of being heavy on the system resources. Some would prefer a simpler application with less baggage to get the job done, and for them, there’s a new app in town. If you’ve got a hankering for a lightweight iTunes alternative, Everplay 1.0 could be your answer. However, there’s still a few things missing from this app. Read on!
Notify 2 Review: A New Email Notifier for your Mac
There are a lot of simple email notifiers available for Mac OS X. Most of them just sit in your menubar, and display the number of new messages you have. But now with Notify 2 Pro, from Vibealicious, you have the ability to read and even compose emails. All in your menubar.
One of Notify’s big features is the ability to have multiple accounts. You can set up Gmail, MobileMe and Rackspace accounts, or just use your own IMAP settings for any other mail account. Notify just sits in your menubar, and has a small envelope icon that lights up blue when you have new messages. When you click this, the main window for Notify pops up displaying a list of your new emails. There are also tabs on the top, so you can switch accounts.
GPush Review: Bringing Gmail Notification to the iPhone
E-mail addiction is a hard habit to shake. I get more than a hundred emails every day. We’re not talking spam here — we’re talking legitimate e-mails that demand my attention. My inbox is so full, it has it’s own inbox. Given the circumstances, it’s fairly easy to see how I’ve become a compulsive email checker. Watching TV. Writing. Sitting at a red light. No matter what the activity, I couldn’t go more than five minutes without checking my inbox. …and then there was GPush.
Flickery Review: Flickr on Your Desktop
I assume most of you know about Flickr, the awesome, and free (unless you go pro) photo-sharing service. But it isn’t only for sharing your photos with your friends and family, it is also a great image search engine. Many photos on it are under Creative Commons, and the quality of image you get is much higher than on a place like Google. There have been many iPhone apps that let you access Flickr, but not so many Mac apps (surprisingly). One of the only Mac apps is Flickery.
TwitPic Review: Far From Picture Perfect
Twitter users around the world have learned to love the world of 140-character microblogging, but that doesn’t mean a picture’s not worth a thousand words. Over the past year a number of photo-hosting services aimed at Tweeters have begun to pop up. Services like yfrog, Posterous, and img.ly have been gaining traction at an alarming rate, but none have proven as popular as TwitPic. It was only a matter of time until one of these services developed an app for the iPhone, but is it really necessary?
Preview: Shovel 3.0 Brings Facebook Integration, Other New Features
In our recent interview with developer Scott Fitzhugh, Scott tipped us off to the upcoming release of Shovel 3.0. The third iteration of the Digg app available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Shovel 3.0 will bring some sweeping changes to the app that many of us have come to know and love. Facebook, search capabilities, user info — the list goes on and on. Here’s what Scott says we can expect;
Interview: iPhone Developer talks Digg API
Technology news site Venture Beat recently broke the news that Digg, the social networking site for linksharing and newsgathering, was working on a new application programming interface (API) that would allow third-party developers to integrate full Digg functionality into their apps.
We reached out to Sprikit Software’s Scott Fitzhugh, developer of the iPhone app Shovel, for comment.
1Password Review: A One-Stop Shop for Online Security
New social networking sites, online banking utilities, even new ways to communicate, are appearing nearly every day. Most of these require accounts made, and of course with new accounts come new passwords. Usually the sites have different requirements for how many characters, what kind of letters, and so on, so one ends up with many different passwords. How is one to keep track of all of these? Enter 1Password.
Twitter Apps for your Tweetbelt
The Twitter Phenomenon – some call it the death of journalism, some call it the rebirth of useful communication. No matter your feelings on Twitter, it’s likely that you have an account, or will get one soon enough.
Now when tweeting (verb: the act of updating your twitter) you have many options. The robust Twitter API allows you to post from just about anywhere with any internet or mobile device. There are hundreds of Twitter clients for you to choose from! Today we’ll go through the many different clients you can holster in your Twitter Toolbelt!
