nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data and min/max network usage.
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igal2
igal2 is a quick and easy program for placing your images online with just one command-line. It generates a pretty good-looking set of W3-compliant static HTML slides even with its default settings.
A quick and simple way to create a gallery of images. The default output isn’t, in fact, ‘pretty good-looking’, but the templates are easy to tweak.
Tunnelblick
Tunnelblick is a free, open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on Mac OS X. It provides easy control of OpenVPN client and/or server connections. It comes as a ready-to-use application with all necessary binaries and drivers (including OpenVPN and tun/tap drivers). No additional installation is necessary — just add your configuration and encryption information.
Messages Beta
Messages Beta brings iMessage to Mac and lets you send unlimited messages to iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac right from your Mac.
A Mountain Lion app, available today.
PyCmd
PyCmd is a ‘smart’ command prompt extension for Windows’ cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features of UNIX shells.
Including smart completion, searchable history and emacs-style keybindings.
some_sorta_bar
A simple bar to display the root window name for lightweight window managers.
Perhaps the simplest of the many status bar applications available.
Cathode lets you enjoy the wonky CRT aesthetic of yesteryear on your modern1 Mac. Not terribly useful, perhaps, but good fun.
Mac App Store (or download a free version with fewer features).
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Amusingly, Cathode doesn’t support the graphics card on my Macbook Pro, which is only five years old. ↩
Middleman
Middleman is a small tool for developing stand-alone, static websites. It’s great for separating frontend development from the backend, developing blazingly fast static websites or quickly creating prototypes
pytograph
Reflect local filesystem changes on a remote system in real time, automatically. In a nutshell, you instruct pytograph that there are directory structures on your machine that match directory structures on a remote machine. It monitors the directories on your local machine for changes, then makes identical changes on the remote machine in real time via SFTP.
SkipTunes
A wonderfully simple music controller for OS X, with support for iTunes, Rdio and Spotify. It lives in the menu bar and provides two buttons: play/pause and skip.
Kirby
A CMS written in PHP that eschews a database in favour of files and folders, with an emphasis on flexibility—you could use it to whip up a simple blog or a full-blown site, without needing to be a PHP expert.
See also:
- Stacey, a similar CMS that’s open source rather than commercial. Thanks for the reminder, anatomatic!
power_mon
power_mon is a self contained application that checks the battery status and if charged or low will pop up a small X window.
Handy if you use a window manager without a status bar or conky.
