Screen shows cpu activitiy, Little Snitch reported I was still downloading something or other, and having internet communications of blip-blip-blip variety. But otherwise, nothing works. I went and made some coffee and read the paper, came back 20 minutes later-still nothing. I operate in closed-clamshell mode. So I popped all the connectors.
Objective Development has released Little Snitch 4.5, bringing new features and improvements to the network traffic management utility after months of focusing on compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina. The update now bundles the integrated Research Assistant’s online database with the Little Snitch app, preventing code identity checks from needing an online connection to Objective Development’s Internet Access Policy. Little Snitch 4.5 also now shows accesses to the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) in the Network Monitor, improves rule creation from within the Network Monitor, improves editing multiple rules at once, fixes detection of the remote endpoint name for Viscosity VPN, resolves a crash that occurred when other programs wrote garbage to the System Configuration, and fixes a bug that misplaced geographic labels on the map. ($45 new, free update, 40.5 MB, release notes, macOS 10.11+)
Fixed a crash of Little Snitch when other programs write garbage to the System Configuration. This crash occurred with a Microsoft Active Directory client for macOS. Numerous other bug fixes and improvements. OS X 10.11 or later, 64-bit processor. Screenshots Download Now. Since I updated to 11.3, Chrome has started randomly crashing several times a day. Each time, I need to reboot to restore the browser's open tabs, and without a reboot it will just crash upon opening 5-10 times in a row until I give up and need to take a break or else I'll throw my computer out the window. Little Snitch 2.2.3 - ($29.95) Informs you when an app tries to establish an outgoing Internet connection. BatChmod 1.6.2 - (Free!) Changes file ownership/permissions & empties the Trash. I was running the IOS simulator when little snitch started asking me about connections. I allowed them all and the app crashed. I reopened the app then.
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Replacing Quicksilver
I have used Quicksilver primarily an application launcher for a long time. It’s great, but I have found it has gotten too slow for practical use lately; I have disabled it.
Spotlight, the Mac’s built-in computer search tool, was optimized for finding applications almost immediately in OS X 10.5, so it’s a viable alternative.
The only downside is that Quicksilver had a timesaving feature in that it could learn abbreviations. For example, whenever I typed “shop” after the first few times, it knew I meant Photoshop; and whenever I typed “nnw”, Quicksilver knew to launch my favorite Mac feed reader, NetNewsWire. Spotlight would find NetNewsWire if I typed “netn”, but it would never learn to recognize “nnw”; similarly – and even worse – typing “Photo” finds things like Photo Booth and iPhoto along with Photoshop, and “shop” does nothing particularly useful.
My solution was simple. I used the useful application TextExpander, which allows things like automatically shortening a URL in your clipboard, to add just a few short rules. For applications which I wanted to launch with a custom abbreviation, such as “nnw” for NetNewsWire, I just added the abbreviation as a TextExpander rule. Examples: “nnw” expands to NetNewsWire; “twr” exands to Twitterrific; “pshop” exands to Photoshop. (Note that having “shop” expand to Photoshop would have a lot of side effects.) So now I just hit Cmd-Space and type “twr” to launch Twitterrific!
OS X 10.6 Update: If you have OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, you now have a TextExpander-like utility built in. (It’s in System Preferences’ “Language & Text” pane, under the “Text” tab.) Unfortunately, it does not appear to work in Spotlight or, indeed, most apps. — Alan, September 8, 2009.
The Snitch and TextExpander Problem
Warning: Your computer will not accept any input – be it keyboard or mouse – if the Mac firewall program Little Snitch catches a request from TextExpander! You have to perform a hard reset. This can happen if you attempt to use a URL-shortening feature of Little Snitch.
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One workaround is to add a rule to Little Snitch allowing any program to make calls to the domains is.gd, bit.ly or any other URLs that TextExpander might ever access. This works.
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Another solution may or may not be to add a rule allowing the system process “curl” to access anything it wants.