IP for Mac5.5

Ummm, helloooo. Applications/Utilities/Network Utility. Does everything and more and its FULLY WORKING AND FREE and you dont need to download anything. Seriously, why not put your coding skills to good use rather than trying to duplicate; innovate!

What I can't believe is all the jerks who post here with nothing more to say than, "Why the heck isn't this freeware?" or "This software is too expensive" or, worst of all, "This developer must be stupid to build an application like this when xx and xx are already available." Come on guys, use the review feature to say something others might actually find useful! For example, if you comment on an application, you should at least have downloaded and tried it out, or maybe visited the developer's site to learn more about it. If any of you had done that with this software, you would have discovered that it's "donationware" and is free for the basic functionality. If you want to be emailed or have something FTP'd, you need to pay $6 eventually. Seriously... give these hardworking Mac OS X developers a break, willya?

Even shareware companies make free apps sometimes.

I can't quite imagine why this app is still shareware after 5 major revisions, 2 minor revisions, and 2 fixes. It seems rather odd, especially that there are so many different apps available on this site that are free and does same exact thing. It makes me wonder what the developer was thinking ... I suppose back when this app was still 1.0, it would have been useful and some people might have paid for it but at 5.2.2? I think the developer should stop challenging the intelligence of Mac users ... it's not funny anymore. In fact, it probably wasn't even funny to begin with.

It's hard to believe people would even download freeware since all you have to do is look in your network preference pane if you want free. I can see how this may be useful for one-click access however, especially for those who change network connections frequently or are on dialup.

I have at least 7 freewares, doing the same for... free. 6$ LOL

$6? You're joking, right? http://code.hillrippers.ch/?soft=widget_NetworkStat A widget - Very Free.

IPMenu 1.1 is for free http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14221

Shareware for this?! Just lol™ ;)

www.whatismyip.com

Try IPer... it's free.

Yes, there are other programs: BwanaDik (free), DropIT (free), IP Address Menu, IP in menubar (free), IP Reporter, and IPMenu (free). All of these programs do show your IP. But, I needed a program that emails me a particular Mac's IP address. A few of the above-mentioned programs claim to do it. But, after trying out all of them, I found that NONE of them supports authentication into an email server. IP performs the following tasks flawlessly: - Emails IP address by logging onto an email server - Shows both internal & external IP's - Can also upload IP to an ftp server Based on my testing of these programs, I highly recommend IP.

Shareware programs to find out your IP address... *deep, disappointed sigh*

Menumeters trumps this by a million times. And its free. If you buy this, i've got some investments in Sun you might be interested in.

5 what???????

Program not work under 10.2.8. ! forget give better programs!

www.whatismyip.com

We don't need IP 4.8 let the motha ***** BURN! But seriously charging for this is like charging at a public water fountain.

Software like this should have their own type: Rubbishware. Or rip-offware.-

double shame! Charging for an App like this is the main reason I invested in a Mac and broke free from a M$crap machine. You give Mac programs a bad name for those who are new to the wonderful experience of enjoying their first Mac. Really, you have to be joking. You must be crazy to think someone would actually pay you to know what their IP address is by using your App.

DockIP...

/sbin/ifconfig works great. ;)

Something this simple is not worth any money. There are several free websites and programs that will do this for you. Nobody should pay for something like this.

looks great, seems very usful. (also, what are all those other icons inside your menu bar!?? i don't have these..) Nice program!

http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/test_your_ip_nocache

Version 4.4??!?? Anyone here know Cocoa? int main() { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; printf("%s\n", [[[NSHost currentHost] address] cString]); [pool release]; return 0; } Now how do you take that into 4.4 versions? LMAO

Oh, and I bet your machine is: 127.0.0.1 - that one's for free....

Send me a dollar and I'll tell you how to get your IP for free...

Uuummmm.....No.

Yes, there are other ways to do this. There are always other ways to do things. Some apps are free and others are not; some authors state a price and others do the donation-ware thing, and some ask for nothing. Big Deal!!! If you don't find the price/feature ratio to your liking, then don't buy it. But don't rant and rave about it and waster our time and MU's hd space. It finds your internal AND your external IP addresses and sends them to your office, for instance, so that you can access your home machine from work. That is useful! whatismyip.com won't do that. Some apps will also do this, but only one or so is not at least donation-ware (which is the same as charging $5 in my book). Some of those apps are buggy and none are as unobtrusive as IP. Most Terminal methods will not find your (external) router's IP. These take some work. I have one using curl and my router's internal web address, together with perl to get my external ip, and then I have a shell script upload it to another address. The point is, IP has value....more value than your useless complaints.

You can get similar functionality from QuickSilver simply by installing the Extra Scripts Module. When you launch, just type "get" and look for the Get IP script. It will copy it into a new QS window which you can then email, copy, paste, etc.

I'm curious why I would want to pay for this when there are free apps out there that do the same thing. Or if I made the effort I could check my network preferences! This is also true for AlphaOmega's IP address app.

Well, you can add this line in your CRON table and have let you mac send mail to you periodically: ifconfig -a | grep netmask | mail {email_address} ...and it's free.

In most cases the "why pay for this when XXX is free?" comments aggravate me. However in this case, I'm inclined to chime in like that. Menumeters has a lot more functionality, and it's free. Not only does it put the IP in your menu bar, but it can show traffic (packets, etc.). It can also show CPU usage, disk usage, and one other thing (that I currently have disabled ;-) and it works very very well. If you want network info in the menu bar, it's the way to go. If you don't, just drop to a terminal and do 'ifconfig /all' to see your IPs.

[[NSHost currentHost] address] It's returned as a string. Also, I believe NU reports on this. I agree with most of the others: although $5 is a nice price, one would prefer paying for something one does not already have and is not trivial. As for those who see benefit in this, there is nothing to really say. They don't seen born to 'get it' anyway.

You like to criticize others work, don't you? But you probably didn't even read the description untill the end: the author says that you can use the basic features of IP for free... Moreover, it's not because you don't need an application or because you just don't like it that you have the right to be mean. You won't use this app. Fine! I will, and it's very usefull to me.

All these informations are available on the system. To pay 5$ for an information i allready have - that's to much!

Menumeters does this with its network monitor, and is free. geeze why $5 for this!? http://www.whatismyip.com/

$5 for this? What are you smoking?

This app would be retardely easy to program.. Why even bother.. And how the hell can you have 4 revisions of a app like this? This is the kind of app everyone jokes about making when they program.. Its a joke.. and its a quite useless tool for veterans.. But for newbs i guess it could be useful..

To Anonymous: "ipinmenubar", which you mention, only shows me my LAN IP; so it's quite useless. "IP" shows me both.

Nice, clean, simple, and does what it says. No complaints.

ipmenu bar works alot easier and nothing to type. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/IPinmenubar.html

I like it, it is simple and small and sure i could launch the Terminal and type... but this is easier, and I believe it is the smallest of its kind.

To copy the IP adresse, just select it in the menu. and "Evilperson", "IP" is FREE so you don't need to pay...

Why does this even exist? There are already too many odd Terminal commands out there, so why do we need this to duplicate the functionality of 'ifconfig -a'?

What, like typing "ipconfig getifaddr en0" is too difficult? Why pay when you can just type that and see your IP address.

If you need to know your intra- and inter-net IP addresses, this app is brilliantly simple and effective. But SO many versions in as many days - and NO RELEASE NOTES, no "What's New"! As far as I can see, just an icon change warranted a version change from 3.5 to 3.6... I would happily pay $5 or $10 for a properly documented piece of software that isn't tinkered with on such a regular basis.

Seems to be very useful, but no Copy-Paste and the menu seems to be very bugy on my OS. (10.2.4 / PB G4 867 / 640)

Simple and very useful.