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POCKETSIZESUN Same functionality (in fact more) - Rendezvous/mDNS/Bonjour browsing - is available as Rendezvous Browser from TildeSoft for free: http://www.tildesoft.com/Programs.html Howl even comes with a sample command line app that does exactly the same. And to say that it goes "beyond plain" scanning when it doesn't even allow plain scanning to find something else than Macs? It doesn't even show Windows PCs that are running iTunes (thus Rendezvous as well). The only thing that gives this piece of software the smallest value would be showing the user logged into another machine, but that only if the other user is running their publisher. They couldn't even make it into one application. But then, with iChat, which is already on your machine, you get the same value plus the ability to actually chat with that other user. Let's face it - this is just what any developer who would develop something for Rendezvous would have written as a basic internal test app. Just Copy'n'paste from some mDNS API documentation with a small and inefficent GUI wrapped around it. (Version 1.3.1) |