KisMAC is an open-source and free stumbler/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler / iStumbler / NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning.
KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards: Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB devices with Intersil Prism2, Ralink rt2570 and rt73, and Realtek rtl8187 chipsets are in progress towards full support as well. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported for scanning.
KisMac r319 Free Stumbler/Scanner Application for Mac OS X … read more »
Diagnostic tools, IS/IT, OS X
TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.
What is a text editor?
At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a wide variety of tasks from cleaning up data, to editing configuration files on your Mac or server, to writing HTML or coding.
Who needs TextWrangler?
You do! Because it lets you deal with situations like these.
TextWrangler 2.3 Powerful General Purpose Text Editor … read more »
Development and Web authoring, OS X, Text editors
With 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras, iStat menus will let you know exactly what’s going on inside your Mac.
CPU and Memory
Both CPU and Memory sections feature realtime graphs and a list of the top 5 resource hogs. CPU usage can be tracked by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save menubar space.
Drives
See the amount of used or free space for one drive in your menubar, with more detail for any number of drives only one click away. You can even filter what’s shown, to hide drives you don’t want to see.
Network
Monitor every aspect of your Macs many network connections. iStat menu’s realtime graph will keep your finger on the pulse of what data’s being sent and received.
Temps, Fans and Power
Want to know how fast you exhaust fan is running or what temperature your CPU is? Not a problem!
iStat Menus 1.3 The Most Advenced System Monitoring Application … read more »
Desktop enhancements, Desktop tools, Desktop utilities, OS X
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