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Little Snitch updated to 2.0, Leopard compatible
Macworld brings news that everyone's favorite tattletale, Little Snitch, has been updated to version 2.0. The new version brings a whole host of updates, including a new Network Monitor, which will let you know about all outgoing and incoming network traffic. There's also support for IPV6, and a better help and traffic filtering system. Oh, and perhaps most importantly, the whole thing's been overhauled and is now compatible with a little thing called Leopard. I haven't upgraded yet, but considering those other "next-gen" operating systems, I'm not sure if I should.Little Snitch 1 users may be able to upgrade for free (if your version number starts with "32"), if not you pay a discounted rate. If you haven't started using Little Snitch yet, you can try the eval version, or pay $24.95 for the full app. If you have a lot of network traffic coming in and out of your Mac, you might want to consider it-- how else will you know what's coming through there?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hervé Sainct said 7:30AM on 11-09-2007
LS had been in beta for v2 for a couple of months, and this beta already was compatible with Leopard; the switch turned out absolutely painless for me.
Hervé
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Lerxst said 7:37AM on 11-09-2007
It worked since day 1 on Leopard, but I find the Network Manager in particular and the program as a whole a bit more annoying/cluttered than it used to be on version 1.x.
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artifex said 7:43AM on 11-09-2007
Awesome, the serial I got in my MacUpdate bundle qualifies :)
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deprisa said 8:13AM on 11-09-2007
This app is one of my favorites but the upgrade is not free, just for few people who bought the app short time ago. I had to pay another licence and my program is not really old.
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Jim said 8:18AM on 11-09-2007
What a great icon. Seriously. It's perfect.
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krye said 8:28AM on 11-09-2007
Good. I noticed when I moved from Tiger to Leopard that LS stopped working. It's lets every app do whatever it wants w/o any prompts. It's like it's not even installed. Hopefully this update fixes that.
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chris said 8:55AM on 11-09-2007
Little Snitch is one of the many programs I consider to be 100% necessary for any Mac user - it's powerful, extremely well designed, and most importantly, it works great. I've been using the 2.0 betas for a month or so and I'm glad to see it has reached a full release. The interface improvements may seem like fluff, but they have increased ease of use twofold. Get this program!
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Techslacker said 10:09PM on 11-09-2007
Installed 2.0 last night and absolutely love it. I've not dug through the config options yet but I really like how informative it is when it detects something going out.
I won't say that everyone should have it as many just don't care or will just automatically click it to allow whatever to go through not to mention the non-techie who clicks the wrong selection and then wonders why their app doesn't work. If you're interested in what's going on on your system though, it's a keeper.
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vx said 10:45AM on 11-09-2007
@ 6 -- you are incorrect. 1.x did not stop working in leopard...the difference is that in leopard, all outgoing traffic is being routed through kernel_task. so if you "allowed forever" on kernel_task, you *explicitly chose* to make it "let every app do whatever it wants". i have been using 1.x without any issues on leopard.
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Dextro said 11:16AM on 11-09-2007
They really do need a new icon. The app looks very nice now. The interface changes are very nice.
I love the network monitor!
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Yazdgerd said 12:05PM on 11-09-2007
Network transfer icon is fixed finally. However, turning off that icon, saves so much resources on my system and fan cools down!
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geochick said 12:20PM on 11-09-2007
I like the name of this program and the icon very much...
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phlavor said 2:44PM on 11-09-2007
Must have for me. When you first install it, it annoys to no end but after you get all of the parameters set, you forget it's even installed.
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