IP5.5

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?

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?

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.

/sbin/ifconfig works great. ;)

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

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.

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.

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/

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

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.