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We are very happy to announce that Rubbernet is now available for purchase through the Mac App Store in addition to our website. We’re strong believers in choice, and we think the Mac App Store makes the entire software acquisition process the easy and convenient.

Due to restrictions Apple places on how applications run and which privileges they can request from the user, if you would like to view real-time traffic and bandwidth statistics, you will need to download an additional plugin available on our Rubbernet Extras page. Installation is quick and easy, simply follow the on-screen instructions presented when enabling live bandwidth data capture.

More info: Visit Rubbernet on the Mac App Store

We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Rubbernet 1.0 for Mac OS X. We’ve been hard at work and hope you’ll enjoy this unique app.

Ever wondered which apps were actively using your network, or where those apps connected to? Want to find out which computer or user on your local network is using all your network resources? Rubbernet tells you in real-time. It keeps an eye on the network-enabled apps running on your Mac.

• Real-time network dashboard: Rubbernet provides real-time monitoring so you can keep an eye on the exact state of your live network connections. With the Activity sidebar, you’ll be able to see which applications are currently communicating over your network. When connections are idle, they will dim to let you know that traffic has stopped.

• App bandwidth usage: Rubbernet provides a breakdown of per-app network usage, so you can quickly detect apps that phone home, connect to certain servers without your knowledge, or blame the app that’s slowing down your network.

• Live graphs: real-time charting displays download and upload transfer rates for all active apps on all monitored Macs. Visualize your network usage and get a bead on network hogs before they get out of control.

• Remote monitoring: monitor all computers on your network from one Rubbernet instance on your Mac. No need to get up and open Rubbernet on a remote Mac to see its network statistics. Unlike other network monitoring tools, there is no complicated setup. It takes just a second to install or uninstall the necessary tools for Rubbernet to work. After that, they sit quietly in the background and provide the app with live data with minimal resource consumption.

• Multi-user support: have multiple user accounts on your Macs? Rubbernet automatically assigns every incoming and outgoing connections to the users they belong to.

• One-click install/uninstall: unlike other network monitoring tools, there is no complicated setup. It takes just a second to install or uninstall the necessary tools for Rubbernet to work. After that, they sit quietly in the background and provide the app with live data with minimal resource consumption.

A free 15-day trial is available on the dedicated website. Regular licenses can be purchased on our online store along with student and family pack discounts.

We are proud to announce the release of the latest version of Clips.

Clips 2.0 comes equipped with all of the most popular features of Clips 1.5 but has a new look and an upgraded performance. This redesigned version has been created to provide you with the best in clipboard management.

Clips 2.0 is a Mac App Store exclusive and is free for a limited time to allow all 1.5 users the opportunity to upgrade and new users to try it out. If you are a current Clips user we encourage you to download 2.0 while this offer is still available. Please note that some of the features from 1.5 (e.g. clipboard sharing) are not included in 2.0. If you enjoy these advanced features, you can continue using your current version of Clips without issue.

For the best clipboard management experience check out Clips 2.0, and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for updates and #FREESTUFF giveaways.

UPDATE: the update was approved and is now available on the Mac App Store.

We’re happy to announce that Chill Pill 1.2 has been submitted to Apple for approval. It is a free update and is recommended for all users. Follow us on Twitter for the chance to get a free copy of Chill Pill during our #FREESTUFF giveaways.

Changelog

• Customized font size preferences are now persistent across application launches
• Resolved issue which could prevent article viewer font sizes from being enlarged or reduced
• Resolved issue which could cause the “Mark current group as read” menu item to be incorrectly disabled
• Resolved issue which could cause feed refreshing to appear to be hung
• Added the ability to hold the option key while clicking links to temporarily reverse your browser preference
• Improved usability of arrow keys in the article viewer
• Added Command-O shortcut in article viewer to open link in default browser
• Improved reliability and design of offline mode
• Numerous other bug fixes

Psst, Tracks is free today if you get it on the Mac App Store!

Download it before the price goes back to normal!

We are very happy to announce that Linkinus is now available on the Mac App Store! In celebration, we’re offering a limited time discounted price of only $5! If you have been waiting for a reason to buy, now is the time! You can get it right now on the Mac App Store!

We’ve been getting a few questions about how things will work for existing customers, we’ll outline the details below.

Q: If I bought Linkinus from your site can I get updates through the Mac App Store?

A: Unfortunately Apple does not allow us to migrate existing customers to the Mac App Store. If you purchased Linkinus from our website you can continue to receive updates from our website or the “Check for Updates…” menu inside of the application, just as you always have done.

Q: I want to buy Linkinus from the Mac App Store but it says it is “Installed”

A: If the App Store replaces the buy button with an “Installed” button, you have an existing version of the application on your system. To be able to purchase Linkinus from the Mac App Store you have to move the copy you purchased to the Trash.

Q: Are you stopping updates for Linkinus if I didn’t buy from the Mac App Store?

A: Absolutely not. We will continue to support and issue free updates to all customers who purchased Linkinus 2.x outside of the App Store until version 3.0.

PS: If you’ve bought Linkinus on the App Store, we would absolutely love it if you could rate and/or leave a review. This really helps others find our great software!

It is with great pleasure that we introduce you all to Linkinus 2.2 for Mac OS X 10.6. It has many new features which you can see in the release notes or Nikolas’ previous blog post. We think you’re really going to enjoy this release. The update should be available via Linkinus > Check for Updates… or you can download it directly from our website.

Please note that this upgrade does require Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). If you haven’t upgraded to 10.6 yet (tip: you should!) you can always get a copy of Linkinus 2.1.2 here.

you can potentially hide it in a Christmas tree and everybody who knows the truth believes it to be a fake.

I am not talking about the Christmas pickle. Even though it does fit the description pretty well. No, I am writing about an update!
It may or may not be overdue. It is in any case and regardless of whether you choose it to be late or not, great news.
Our little elves in Santa’s workshop have been put to labor over the past few months and let me tell you they sweat more than salty water in the process. So, what have they slaved over this long? Well, long bloody (there I said it) story short: an update for Linkinus.

I guess what you really want to know about (fact aside that there is an update) is what this update will bring to you on its sleigh:

• Greatly improved overall performance and CPU usage:
  Greatly is an understatement at its best. Speed and responsiveness have increased by several orders of magnitude!
• Multi-line input field:
  Requested long ago, finally implemented. Note this only works if you have enough vertical space beneath the application window.
• Channel listing up to 20 times more responsive
• Better support for /who and /names
• Revamped IRC identities – set them up the Preferences:
  One place to set them all, one place to find them, one place to bring them all and in the preferences bind them
• Updated Styles:
  This includes new embed features for e.g. Whisper (instragr.am and cloudapp). Also the evergreen Simplified is going through rejuvenation!
• Improved support for systemwide SOCKS proxy
• Added UPnP support for file transfers
• Fixed issues with PCRE regular expression supports in Highlights:
  You can now fully enjoy being highlighted all across IRC because your malformed regular expression finally works as expected!
• Fixed an issue where Filters wouldn’t stick across sessions, not to mention that we decided to take pity on the poor souls who wanted to add new filters and henceforth provide an appropriate button for precisely this
• Fixed IRC Quit messages
• Fixed an issue where the main window would be blank on first launch
• Added shortcut to clear all queries
• Improved contextual menus relevance
• Added an option to hide the ‘Groups’ button in the title bar
• Improved SSL support
• Faster processing of bouncers backscroll
• Fixed a bug preventing users from removing certain channels or queries (‘phantom channels’)
• Improved ‘/msg nick’ with no content
• Allowed the main window to resize to a smaller size
• Greatly improved DCC support
• Now up to 1000 (that’s a thousand for those that can’t read Arabic numbers) lines of backlog per channel
• Updated SysInfo plugin
• MOAR, specifically, more options for queries and channels, including Growl/sound muting
  Please note that “rejoin on kick” and “automatically join on connect” have been moved from their global settings to the respective channel inspectors
• /mark … mark my words (slow clap) here comes a command you can use to add a marker to the current channel
• /delay (a new plugin) that enables you to delay execution of commands e.g. when chaining them in the alias section

Changed on the 27th of December and later

• ‘Join on kick’ is now disabled on new channels by default
• Fixed minor log viewer issues
• Fixed a bug where the ‘Linkinus 2 Logs’ folder would be created even when logging was off

The beta is public (learn how to participate here) and we’ll make our way to release status based on the feedback and any bugs we may yet find.

Hey everyone!

Due to the demand for Mac discounts during our Black Friday iOS sale, we’re offering a 50% off discount on all our Mac software today only! With prices this low, and one of the biggest Linkinus updates coming (which will be a free update to all 2.x customers), there has never been a better time to buy.

Get Linkinus or Clips for only 9.99 Euros (around $13 USD).

This deal is a Cyber Monday deal and will end tomorrow, so head over to our store and save now!

Hi everyone!

As a Black Friday treat, we’re offering discounted prices on iOS versions of the Linkinus IRC client. For a few days only:
- Linkinus for iPhone is $0.99 instead of $2.99.
- Linkinus for iPad is $1.99 instead of $4.99.

On a related note, updates of these apps are being reviewed by Apple, and add full multitasking support as well as iOS 4.2 compatibility, as well as a few bug fixes. The updates should be up soon.

Get them while they’re hot on the App Store!