My OS X Tool Kit | Caine Hörr

My OS X Tool Kit

I thought I’d share with the community at large some of the FREE (or Lite) OS X (Macintosh)-based IT software and hardware tools that I enjoy using. Without further ado, here are some of my favorites, complete with download links (where applicable)!

Links denoted with * refer to applications available for download directly from this web site because either the product is discontinued, too difficult to find elsewhere, or both.

SOFTWARE TOOLS

TOOL	DESCRIPTION
ArpSpyX	Arp packet monitor
Bitcricket Subnet Calculator *	IPv4 and IPv6 subnet calculator
Chicken of the VNC	VNC client
Cisco Network Assistant	Utility for routers, switches, and access points
FileZilla	FTP, FTPS and SFTP client
Fugu	SFTP, SCP and SSH frontend
HexEdit	Hex editor
iExplorer	iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch File Browser
iStumbler	Wireless discovery tool
Mactracker	Apple device reference guide
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection	Microsoft Windows RDC client
Nmap	Network exploration and security auditing utility
Pastor	Encrypted password manager/vault
TextWrangler	Text editor (supports regular expressions)
Vine Server (OSXvnc)	VNC server and client
Oracle VirtualBox	x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization environment
WakeOnLan	Wake On LAN utility
Wireshark	Network protocol analyzer
ZTerm	Terminal emulation program

SOFTWARE SUITES
While I specifically chose to represent certain tools and utilities, many of these vendors provide additional tools that you may find useful and/or interesting. Here are links to these vendor’s “parent” sites:

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