Due to restrictions Apple places on how applications run and which privileges they can request from the user, if you would like to view real-time traffic and bandwidth statistics, you will need to download an additional plugin available on our Rubbernet Extras page. Installation is quick and easy, simply follow the on-screen instructions presented when enabling live bandwidth data capture.

More info: Visit Rubbernet on the Mac App Store

Ever wondered which apps were actively using your network, or where those apps connected to? Want to find out which computer or user on your local network is using all your network resources? Rubbernet tells you in real-time. It keeps an eye on the network-enabled apps running on your Mac.

• Real-time network dashboard: Rubbernet provides real-time monitoring so you can keep an eye on the exact state of your live network connections. With the Activity sidebar, you’ll be able to see which applications are currently communicating over your network. When connections are idle, they will dim to let you know that traffic has stopped.

• App bandwidth usage: Rubbernet provides a breakdown of per-app network usage, so you can quickly detect apps that phone home, connect to certain servers without your knowledge, or blame the app that’s slowing down your network.

• Live graphs: real-time charting displays download and upload transfer rates for all active apps on all monitored Macs. Visualize your network usage and get a bead on network hogs before they get out of control.

• Remote monitoring: monitor all computers on your network from one Rubbernet instance on your Mac. No need to get up and open Rubbernet on a remote Mac to see its network statistics. Unlike other network monitoring tools, there is no complicated setup. It takes just a second to install or uninstall the necessary tools for Rubbernet to work. After that, they sit quietly in the background and provide the app with live data with minimal resource consumption.

• Multi-user support: have multiple user accounts on your Macs? Rubbernet automatically assigns every incoming and outgoing connections to the users they belong to.

• One-click install/uninstall: unlike other network monitoring tools, there is no complicated setup. It takes just a second to install or uninstall the necessary tools for Rubbernet to work. After that, they sit quietly in the background and provide the app with live data with minimal resource consumption.

A free 15-day trial is available on the dedicated website. Regular licenses can be purchased on our online store along with student and family pack discounts.

Clips 2.0 comes equipped with all of the most popular features of Clips 1.5 but has a new look and an upgraded performance. This redesigned version has been created to provide you with the best in clipboard management.

Clips 2.0 is a Mac App Store exclusive and is free for a limited time to allow all 1.5 users the opportunity to upgrade and new users to try it out. If you are a current Clips user we encourage you to download 2.0 while this offer is still available. Please note that some of the features from 1.5 (e.g. clipboard sharing) are not included in 2.0. If you enjoy these advanced features, you can continue using your current version of Clips without issue.

For the best clipboard management experience check out Clips 2.0, and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for updates and #FREESTUFF giveaways.

UPDATE: the update was approved and is now available on the Mac App Store.

We’re happy to announce that Chill Pill 1.2 has been submitted to Apple for approval. It is a free update and is recommended for all users. Follow us on Twitter for the chance to get a free copy of Chill Pill during our #FREESTUFF giveaways.

Changelog

• Customized font size preferences are now persistent across application launches
• Resolved issue which could prevent article viewer font sizes from being enlarged or reduced
• Resolved issue which could cause the “Mark current group as read” menu item to be incorrectly disabled
• Resolved issue which could cause feed refreshing to appear to be hung
• Added the ability to hold the option key while clicking links to temporarily reverse your browser preference
• Improved usability of arrow keys in the article viewer
• Added Command-O shortcut in article viewer to open link in default browser
• Improved reliability and design of offline mode
• Numerous other bug fixes

Download it before the price goes back to normal!

We’ve been getting a few questions about how things will work for existing customers, we’ll outline the details below.

Q: If I bought Linkinus from your site can I get updates through the Mac App Store?

A: Unfortunately Apple does not allow us to migrate existing customers to the Mac App Store. If you purchased Linkinus from our website you can continue to receive updates from our website or the “Check for Updates…” menu inside of the application, just as you always have done.

Q: I want to buy Linkinus from the Mac App Store but it says it is “Installed”

A: If the App Store replaces the buy button with an “Installed” button, you have an existing version of the application on your system. To be able to purchase Linkinus from the Mac App Store you have to move the copy you purchased to the Trash.

Q: Are you stopping updates for Linkinus if I didn’t buy from the Mac App Store?

A: Absolutely not. We will continue to support and issue free updates to all customers who purchased Linkinus 2.x outside of the App Store until version 3.0.

PS: If you’ve bought Linkinus on the App Store, we would absolutely love it if you could rate and/or leave a review. This really helps others find our great software!

Please note that this upgrade does require Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). If you haven’t upgraded to 10.6 yet (tip: you should!) you can always get a copy of Linkinus 2.1.2 here.

I am not talking about the Christmas pickle. Even though it does fit the description pretty well. No, I am writing about an update!
It may or may not be overdue. It is in any case and regardless of whether you choose it to be late or not, great news.
Our little elves in Santa’s workshop have been put to labor over the past few months and let me tell you they sweat more than salty water in the process. So, what have they slaved over this long? Well, long bloody (there I said it) story short: an update for Linkinus.

I guess what you really want to know about (fact aside that there is an update) is what this update will bring to you on its sleigh:

• Greatly improved overall performance and CPU usage:
  Greatly is an understatement at its best. Speed and responsiveness have increased by several orders of magnitude!
• Multi-line input field:
  Requested long ago, finally implemented. Note this only works if you have enough vertical space beneath the application window.
• Channel listing up to 20 times more responsive
• Better support for /who and /names
• Revamped IRC identities – set them up the Preferences:
  One place to set them all, one place to find them, one place to bring them all and in the preferences bind them
• Updated Styles:
  This includes new embed features for e.g. Whisper (instragr.am and cloudapp). Also the evergreen Simplified is going through rejuvenation!
• Improved support for systemwide SOCKS proxy
• Added UPnP support for file transfers
• Fixed issues with PCRE regular expression supports in Highlights:
  You can now fully enjoy being highlighted all across IRC because your malformed regular expression finally works as expected!
• Fixed an issue where Filters wouldn’t stick across sessions, not to mention that we decided to take pity on the poor souls who wanted to add new filters and henceforth provide an appropriate button for precisely this
• Fixed IRC Quit messages
• Fixed an issue where the main window would be blank on first launch
• Added shortcut to clear all queries
• Improved contextual menus relevance
• Added an option to hide the ‘Groups’ button in the title bar
• Improved SSL support
• Faster processing of bouncers backscroll
• Fixed a bug preventing users from removing certain channels or queries (‘phantom channels’)
• Improved ‘/msg nick’ with no content
• Allowed the main window to resize to a smaller size
• Greatly improved DCC support
• Now up to 1000 (that’s a thousand for those that can’t read Arabic numbers) lines of backlog per channel
• Updated SysInfo plugin
• MOAR, specifically, more options for queries and channels, including Growl/sound muting
  Please note that “rejoin on kick” and “automatically join on connect” have been moved from their global settings to the respective channel inspectors
• /mark … mark my words (slow clap) here comes a command you can use to add a marker to the current channel
• /delay (a new plugin) that enables you to delay execution of commands e.g. when chaining them in the alias section

Changed on the 27th of December and later

• ‘Join on kick’ is now disabled on new channels by default
• Fixed minor log viewer issues
• Fixed a bug where the ‘Linkinus 2 Logs’ folder would be created even when logging was off

The beta is public (learn how to participate here) and we’ll make our way to release status based on the feedback and any bugs we may yet find.

Due to the demand for Mac discounts during our Black Friday iOS sale, we’re offering a 50% off discount on all our Mac software today only! With prices this low, and one of the biggest Linkinus updates coming (which will be a free update to all 2.x customers), there has never been a better time to buy.

Get Linkinus or Clips for only 9.99 Euros (around $13 USD).

This deal is a Cyber Monday deal and will end tomorrow, so head over to our store and save now!

As a Black Friday treat, we’re offering discounted prices on iOS versions of the Linkinus IRC client. For a few days only:
- Linkinus for iPhone is $0.99 instead of $2.99.
- Linkinus for iPad is $1.99 instead of $4.99.

On a related note, updates of these apps are being reviewed by Apple, and add full multitasking support as well as iOS 4.2 compatibility, as well as a few bug fixes. The updates should be up soon.

Get them while they’re hot on the App Store!

What’s inside?

• Learn Mode: Study quotes one by one. Shake or double-tap to display random quote.
• Everything: Direct quote access by sorted and searchable list
• Play: Random, timed quizzes to test your quote knowledge
• History: Progress-based live-updating graphs
• Game Center: Leaderboards and Achievements, match your wits against players from all around the world and unlock achievements to gain that extra boost you need to put you in the top spot!

Screenshots

TapQuotes is compatible with iPhones, iPod touchs, and iPads running iPhone OS 3.0 or later, and supports Game Center on OS 4.1. Grab your FREE copy on the App Store today!

It’s a great way to be reminded of that great restaurant you had lunch at a month ago, or where you parked your car an hour ago.

Places 1.0 is compatible with iPhones, iPod touchs, and iPads running iPhone OS 3.0 or later. Grab your FREE copy on the App Store!

Just wanted to let you all know that Linkinus for iPhone 1.1 and Linkinus for iPad 1.2.1 are now available in the App Store. This pair of updates fix several user-reported issues and are highly recommended for all users.

What’s New?

• Support for /ignore and /unignore
• Font size and other style preferences now take effect immediately
• Fixed a bug where certain visual settings weren’t applied properly
• Fixed a bug where input bar may be hidden below keyboard under certain circumstances
• New Style: I Are Sea!
• Updated Styles: Better link detection, removed flash embeds, resolved several minor UI glitches in Control, Circus, Midnight, and Whisper.

Linkinus is the most powerful and flexible internet relay chat (IRC) software for iOS there is, yet it’s easy to use and newcomers will instantly know how to use it thanks to its elegant design and over 330 built-in networks. You can purchase both Linkinus for iPhone and Linkinus for iPad on the App Store.

• (new!) Multitasking: stay connected in the background for up to 10 minutes at a time. You’ll receive a notification when your about to be disconnected so you can jump back in if you’d like to remain online
• (new!) New Styles! Control, Circus, Midnight, and Whisper!
• (new!) Media Embedding: Just like the desktop! Get inline images, audio, and some HTML5 video. (More embedding options coming soon!)
• (new!) Configurable style options including font size, emoticons, timestamps, nick coloring, and more!
• (new!) Adjustable scrollback buffer
• (new!) Sort user list alphabetically or by privileges
• (new!) Redirect CTCP requests or notices to console, current window, or separate window
• (new!) Auto-correction (toggle on or off to your liking)

Aside from these great new iOS features, it shares many great features found in the Mac and iPad versions, including:

• Network selector helps you pick servers from the most popular chat networks
• Connect to an unlimited number of networks and channels
• Highlights: IRC can be overwhelming, but with Linkinus you’ll never miss an important message. When someone mentions your nickname, that line will be highlighted so you don’t miss it.
• Identities: it’s you, on IRC. Save your preferred and alternate nicknames in a reusable fashion. And if you provide password credentials, Linkinus will automatically authenticate to NickServ, NickOP, Q, X, G, SrvAuth and AuthServ.
• Displays IRC colors
• Autoconnect/autojoin features
• All standard IRC commands supported from the input field, such as: /me, /all, /away, /ban, /bankick, /clear, /nick, /join, /query, /notice, /quit, /part, /topic, /server, …)
• Blowfish support in channels & queries (/setkey sets the key, /delkey removes it, /key shows it). Automatic key exchange is also support via /keyx
• Channel op commands (/op, /deop, /voice, /devoice, /halfop, /dehalfop, …)
• OPER commands (/oper, /kill, /gline, …)
• Exploding emoticons (tap to cause them to explode)

Linkinus for iPhone costs $2.99 and is available now in the App Store.

PS: A note to our iPad users: These great new features will be available in Linkinus for iPad 1.2, submitted to Apple and waiting for approval.

Can you please send me an email? aaron at conceitedsoftware dot com, and make the subject line “Clips Maniac”

In this email, please describe the following… how many clips do you have the application set to save? What kinds of things do you use Clips for?

We have a beta we’d like to get some help testing. That said, it’s going to be a SMALL group – we’re thinking maybe 10 people total.

You have to be willing to run beta software and file detailed bug reports if you run into problems. Things may break. You need to be prepared for that.

Any takers?

Cheers,

Aaron Kulbe

• The back case of the phone is made out of aluminosilicate glass, which is the same type of glass used in the windshields of helicopters and high-speed trains and is comparable in hardness to a Sapphire crystal. Based on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, sapphire is rated at a nine (9); bested only by the diamond at ten (10). This should be very resistant to scratches while providing both signal accessibility and an extreme sense of build quality. One of my major gripes of the 3G(s) iPhones were that they do not pass the creak test, they flex and scratch extremely easily.
• FaceTime: no-setup video chatting while on WiFi. The concept is very simple, if two people have the iPhone 4, they can simply call each other’s cellphone number and press the FaceTime button to convert the call to a video chat. There is no setup required other than the fact that you have iPhone 4 on both ends. Until now, voice chat has yet to really catch on. Requiring a WiFi connection is an unfortunate side effect of slow network providers, however I am looking forward to testing it’s viability over 3G with the My3G application (available in Cydia, removes the WiFi restriction for applications).
• Three-axis gyroscope. This is great news for iPhone gamers. Sony’s PS3 console has similar technology in their Sixaxis controllers, providing six-axis motion sensing . I’ve used it in a few games and it is pretty cool; very Wii-like. As Apple states on their website:
  

  When paired with the accelerometer, it makes iPhone 4 capable of advanced motion sensing such as user acceleration, angular velocity, and rotation rate. Translation: More motion gestures and greater precision for an even better gaming experience.

• The addition of a second microphone on the top of the phone for noise cancelation is a welcome one. The Nexus One from Google features the same configuration and it does help out a ton.
• HD Video Recording and iMovie for iPhone. I can’t say I expected this one. Being able to shoot, edit, and publish 720p HD video directly from your phone is a really compelling feature for a device that you carry with you virtually everywhere.

Overall, I’m very impressed with the offering Apple unleash on June 24th (you can pre-order on June 15th, and I suggest that you do if you are interested in picking one up). I think that the new additions in hardware and the new features in iOS 4 further push Apple ahead of the competition.

Note: This is a repost from my personal blog.

For our ticketing system, we use activeCollab. We found out that there is a bug with activeCollab. When you submit a bug to us and we make a comment on it, and email you with the comment content… emails are not getting sent. We were responding, but you weren’t getting our responses. We’re working out a fix for the activeCollab issue that should make communication and issue tracking even easier.

Another issue mentioned was forum registration. We were using Google Apps for email and hit the daily limit on emails, and we ended up having to set up our own email server. There were some issues caused during that server migration, that should be fixed now. I myself had this issue with forum registration, so I understand how frustrating it is.

Since I have started working for Conceited Software, I am taking time to go through the emails, and tickets opened, and get back to each of you. I’ve been working on keeping up with your emails (as they come in) since the day that I started, and working backwards through the backlog. This means that there may be some delay for the older emails, but rest assured, there is *no* radio silence going on here at Conceited.

Our priorities are giving you both first-class software and support!

This has the much-wanted SSL fixes. There is more detail below:

- SSL support improved

- Added dialog to trust self-signed SSL certificates

- Fixed a crash in the input field

- Improved channel topic display

- Performance improvements when scrolling

There are other fixes and enhancements planned for future releases, and I will update you as I have more information.

Cheers,
Aaron Kulbe
a.k.a. SuperLag

UPDATE: It appears that some users are reporting crashing when clicking on links in 1.1. We found and fixed the issue and submitted 1.1.1 to Apple for approval. Sorry for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: 1.1.1 was approved and released on 6/21 – please update now!

A lot of programs start out by doing just that. A developer has a personal need, and then writes an application to meet that need.

It’s how I approach purchasing software, as well. I needed an IRC client for work. We use it to share information about support calls, in real time. Being a Mac user, I wanted something with some *beauty* to it. Something in GUI form. That’s what good Mac apps are made of.

I’d used irssi previously, but as someone said today on IRC, that’s using the terminal in a way it wasn’t intended to be used. Why resort to a hack, when you can use something that builds on the strengths of the Mac?

Linkinus scratches my itches. I like an app with a well-designed interface. As I’ve said before, I think Linkinus is the best-looking IRC client on the market.

I needed an IRC client that had the options that Linkinus provides, and it’s only going to get better from here!

What do *you* use IRC for? How does Linkinus meet your needs?

Come on in to #linkinus on the Conceited network. Share your stories with us!

Aaron Kulbe a.k.a. SuperLag

I had this same question before I came to work here. Honestly, I thought there weren’t going to be any more updates, and that only new products would come out. The reality is, there’s a lot being worked on…

Both Clips and Linkinus are being worked on. In that order.

Clips – the update is significant, with abbreviations, better RAM usage, and a new editing GUI, and documentation updates.

Linkinus – is going to see some major things happening…

NEW – an iPhone version. This is still being worked on, and isn’t ready for primetime yet.

UPDATE – iPad version with some SSL fixes (which has already been submitted to the App Store, and is pending approval!)U

UPDATE – Linkinus Mac… with several fixes, including memory usage, and filter persistence.

Are you ready? I’m ready!