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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
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:ReadPixel
Downloads:35,473
  - Version d/l:2,411
Utilities:Network
License:Free
Date:05 May 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Nov 9 2009

MODEST GINGER  Fantastic little app. “Do one thing and do it well.” It does absolutely everything a complete WakeOnLAN app should do — and not one thing more. Perfect.

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).  
(Version 1.0)

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Oct 5 2009
*****

EVOLEAK  works stable since month. thanx for that little helper!  
(Version 1.0)

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Jun 12 2009
*****

MISSINGPERSONS  Great app!   
(Version 1.0)

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Mar 1 2009
*****

DEVNEVYN  Love it. Very simple ui, auto-detects computers on the network, is smart about what "delete" from the list means, free! This is exactly what I was looking for.  
(Version 0.99)

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Jan 28 2009
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ARTVANDELAY  Very intuitive. It does what is says. Pure Sweetness. Thanks.  
(Version 0.99)

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Jul 28 2008

JEFF H.  Is there anything out there that will wake computers that are on a wireless network?

Thanks  
(Version 0.90)

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Aug 11 2008

MONOCLAST  When you sleep a computer, the wireless hardware powers down. There's no way to contact it to wake it up.  
(Version 0.90)

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Aug 11 2008

JEFF H.  What I thought, but figured I'd ask anyway.

Thanks for the reply.  
(Version 0.90)

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Jul 5 2008

JEFF H.  nothing seems to be waking my computers anymore.

One day they were waking, the next they weren't.  
(Version 0.90)

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Jul 3 2006

ASMEURER  This version doesn't seem to include the Dashboard widget.   
(Version 0.80)

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Jun 13 2006
*****

NEUTRALZONE  Great new version! Doesn't crash like the old version. My only request is for it to be able to remember machines by MAC address, since on a DHCP network it will assign the wrong name to a machine since it remembers by IP address, and IP addresses get switched around in DHCP all the time.  
(Version 0.80)

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Mar 19 2006
*****

CRUCIAL  What more / or less could I ask for.

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.  
(Version 0.70)

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