Utilities Updates: Little Snitch 2.0 beta 7; App_Pauser 1.0; MacDust 2.22; SleeplessHD 0.1; more

Little Snitch 2.0 beta 7: shows alert on outgoing network connections. It's now possible to prevent applications from showing up in Network Monitor. Create a new rule for the corresponding application and select "Don't show in Network Monitor" as the rule's action. If the application already shows up in Network Monitor, you can also select "Don't Show in Network Monitor" from the application's contextual menu.

App_Pauser 1.0 simple interface for using the kill command line.

MacDust 2.22: recover disk space and maintain your system (deletes cache files, personal information and more).

SleeplessHD 0.1: recurrently triggers a selected harddisk to keep it spinning "Problems occur when you use iTunes to listen to music which is streaming from such a harddisk. After a few seconds of listening to a song you get a break because the harddisk has to wake up to deliver the next bits and bytes to iTunes. And this goes on and on every time iTunes requests new data because its buffer is empty."

IP Address Menu 4.3: display IP in menu bar; notify of change by email. In this release, an unhandled exception occuring after several minutes when the internet connection is down has been corrected.

Retrospect 6 Driver Update 6.1.12.101: backup driver. This release adds support for several new drives, including the ATTO FastStream VT 5300 VTL.

CrashPlan 2007-09-26: automatic offsite backup software. USB Drives that were being backed up from (not to) would be treated as "deleted" if they were not present for nightly scan. Now they are assumed MIA and not treated as deleted.

A Better Finder Rename 7.9.3: file, photo, MP3 batch renamer. This latest release provides an iTunes-like preview window layout, tweaks the multi-step rename user interface and makes a few other minor refinements.

iPhoto Library Manager 3.3.1: manage multiple iPhoto libraries. The new release fixes an issue where photo dates would not be copied correctly during a merge in some cases.

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