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WakeOnLan provides a simple interface to wake up other computers. I made this little App because I often find myself in the situation where I want to access data on other computers, only to find that they are sleepin. Using WakeOnLan, I can wake them up with my mouse, instead of with my feet...
What's New
Version 1.0: Fixed debug log.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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WakeOnLan provides a simple interface to wake up other computers. I made this little App because I often find myself in the situation where I want to access data on other computers, only to find that they are sleepin. Using WakeOnLan, I can wake them up with my mouse, instead of with my feet...
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It would be great if you could add support for the Bonjour Sleep Proxy Service. It's the technology that Snow Leopard's “Wake on Wireless” uses. It's an open protocol and shouldn't be too hard to implement:
Service description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Proxy_Service
Source code:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder-212.1/mDNSMacOSX/
Exact protocol (really simple stuff):
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-edns0-owner-option-00
In practice, supporting this would also allow for waking over VPN and waking over Internet (if the router forwards broadcast packets from WAN to LAN).
Evoleak reviewed on 05 Oct 2009
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missingpersons reviewed on 12 Jun 2009
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devnevyn reviewed on 01 Mar 2009
ArtVandelay reviewed on 28 Jan 2009
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Thanks for the reply.
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One day they were waking, the next they weren't.
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neutralzone reviewed on 13 Jun 2006
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crucial reviewed on 19 Mar 2006
This thing does what it says it does. It wakes a remote computer connected to a LAN so you can print to it, share files or anything else you want. It requires no software to be installed on the computer to be woken up, or other arduous setup, and waking the remote computer really is as simple as selecting it on a small dashboard widget.
The simplicity of WakeOnLan is refreshing, it might have lots of bells and whistles, but if you don't need them, you don't see them or have to deal with them. A truly polished piece of software, and, unbelievably it is free.
My only gripe is that the widget either needs to be larger, or resizable so that you can see more information, something that can easily be hacked by modifying the widget image file in PhotoShop.
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Ooga Booga rated on 24 Nov 2011