List of useful Mac apps
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Mac command line (CLI)
Convert HTML page to PDF
- http://plessl.github.com/wkpdf/ - Tested and works, just has some issues with shadows and doesn't work on Mac OS X Lion
Quick commands used
wkpdf --source http://www.apple.com --stylesheet-media screen --print-background yes --paginate no --output apple.pdf
- http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/Usage - An altnative (not tested)
Monitor network traffic
- Install it
sudo port iftop
sudo iftop -p -i en1 -P
iftop: found arguments following options
*** some options have changed names since v0.9 ***
iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface by host
Synopsis: iftop -h | [-npblNBP] [-i interface] [-f filter code]
[-F net/mask] [-G net6/mask6]
-h display this message
-n don't do hostname lookups
-N don't convert port numbers to services
-p run in promiscuous mode (show traffic between other
hosts on the same network segment)
-b don't display a bar graph of traffic
-B Display bandwidth in bytes
-i interface listen on named interface
-f filter code use filter code to select packets to count
(default: none, but only IP packets are counted)
-F net/mask show traffic flows in/out of IPv4 network
-G net6/mask6 show traffic flows in/out of IPv6 network
-l display and count link-local IPv6 traffic (default: off)
-P show ports as well as hosts
-m limit sets the upper limit for the bandwidth scale
-c config file specifies an alternative configuration file
iftop, version 1.0pre2
copyright (c) 2002 Paul Warren <[email protected]> and contributors
Web server
- Start lighttpd web server from local config file
sudo lighttpd -D -f lighttpd.conf
- Portable Windows web server http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/ (can run with non admin rights)