Apps: PacketStream, pearPortVPN

PacketStream 2.3 ($25) point-and-click activation of the Mac's built-in network monitoring program, which is usually available only from the command line. By clicking a few buttons, you can monitor data as it streams over your network--especially useful for checking web traffic, network bottlenecks, or even suspicious network activity. All network data is displayed in the application itself, and you can save the data to a file for further analysis later. Version 2.3 of PacketStream has the following features numerous improvements and bug fixes for compatability with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). [Download - 5.1MB]

pearPortVPN (donationware) allows you to automatically establish a specific VPN connection whenever a wireless network of choice becomes available. Furthermore, it can also automatically disconnect open connections before your Mac falls asleep and thus safe you from annoying error messages about timed out connections when your Mac wakes up again. [Download - 72KB]

Lightsoft Weather Center Preview 2 ($35) weather station software for Mac OS X 10.4 and later and currently works with Davis and La Crosse WS2300 series weather station hardware. The application displays real-time weather data, maintains a weather database for data analysis and can create and upload web pages to the user's web server and other internet based weather services. A client is also supplied that can display weather data in real-time on any computer on the user's local network. [Download - 7.6MB]

ToDo X 2.2 ($15) dedicated to-do list application for Mac OS X. This release improves Leopard compatibility and adds several minor user-interface refinements. Each item can have unlimited attached notes with clickable URLs, and items can be copied, linked or moved among lists via drag-and-drop. ToDo X can import to-do items from ordinary text files, as well as from iCal and other Mac or Windows applications that generate industry-standard ".ics" data files. [Download - 578KB]

Syncro SVN Client version 3.0 ($60) Subversion (SVN) client. Version 3.0 of Syncro SVN Client introduces visual editing of SVN conflicts, a view with all the changes between two revisions of a SVN folder, setting a reference revision number to the SVN repository browser. A revision number can be set to the SVN repository browser as the reference revision for all operations like browsing, checkout, compare, etc. [Download - 12.6MB]

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Other story tags: servers, Mac OS X, Leopard