I saved over 600MB in a matter of minutes with Squeeze.  Make sure to grab your copy soon before they’re all gone!

This weeks pick of the week is iEyeNet.  iEyeNet is a widget that allows you to see the network interface utilization on any SNMP-capable device.  Why would you want this?  Simply put, it allows you to see what your Internet bandwidth utilization is at a glance.

If you have DD-WRT, this will work with with very little effort.  All you need to do, is go into the “Services” and enable SNMP.  The default settings will work just fine, but you may want to change the community strings to something only you know for a little bit extra security.

Once you have SNMP enabled on your router, install iEyeNet and configure it as seen below.  If your router is also your gateway IP address, it should enter that for you.  If not, set the Router/Gateway address to the IP of your router.  Set the SNMP community string to the string you set (or public by default), and then set the interface to monitor to vlan1, which corresponds to the WAN interface of most DD-WRT installs.  It may be slightly different depending on the model you’re using (I’m using a WRT54g).  If you can’t figure it out from looking at your router configuration, go ahead and try the each of the interfaces until you find the one that appears to match your Internet traffic usage.

Lastly, if your upload and download lines are reversed, you can just check “Flip Up/Down” to correct it.

That’s it for this week’s Mac App of the Week.  Be sure to check back next Saturday for the next pick!

I finally got around to playing with TinyGrab from the MacHeist nanobundle today.  After playing with it for a little bit, I have a bone to pick with them.  See this blatantly false description posted on their website:

What’s wrong with it? Well I’ll tell you! It takes no where near 30 seconds.  More like 5 seconds! IF THAT!  TinyGrab is seriously cool, and it’s cross platform (OS X and Windows).  Of course, the image you see above was generated and hosted by TinyGrab.  And it can do more than just screenshots - you can upload any image you have and have it generate a random URL for you.

Even if you didn’t get it in the MacHeist bundle, it’s only a one-time £10 payment for the premium service, which gives you unlimited screenshot-posting bliss.  And if you don’t want to pay, there’s a limited free account you can get that just limits you a bit, but it should give you an idea of how cool it is.  Check it out at http://tinygrab.com/.

BONUS CONTENT! Since TinyGrab works with the built-in screenshot tool in OS X (it really just grabs the file off the desktop when it’s generated), you can of course use all of the features of OS X.  And since it’s working with the files off of your desktop, you may want it to automatically move the files to the trash (or a folder elsewhere) to keep your desktop clean.

And if you forgot the screenshot hotkeys, here’s what will work with TinyGrab:

• Command+Shift+3 = Capture entire screen and save as a file
• Command+Shift+4 = Capture dragged area and save as a file
• Command+Shift+4 then Space bar = Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file

This week’s Mac Application pick of the week is SnowChecker.  SnowChecker will help you if you’ve recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and haven’t checked all your applications for compatibility, or still delaying your upgrade until you know everything works.

When I ran it, it detected most applications, but it didn’t detect which version of the application I had installed.  However, it was still informative enough to be useful.  If you’re still curious about which applications you use will be supported under SnowLeopard, you can’t pass this application up.

Be sure to check back every Saturday for the Mac App of the Week!

This is a repost from my old blog, but I think it was useful enough to post it again.

Here’s a little list that Doki and I came up with a while back. It’s only a little out of date in that we’ve also found some great new things that I will be sharing later.  Check out the full list after the break…

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