New Software for Bryan Christianson

CPUSetter adjusts the number of active cores in your cpu(s). It can also enable/disable hyperthreading on supported cpus. To do this requires administrator access to the machine and a small privileged helper program is installed when you first...

WhatRoute is a network diagnostic utility designed for Apple Macintosh computers. Primarily it provides a Traceroute function, but can also perform Ping, Domain Name Service queries, Whois queries and monitor the traffic to and from your...

Phantasmic is system menubar application that monitors the temperature sensors of your Macintosh computer and optionally allows you to control the system fan(s). There is no icon in the Dock, but instead a menu is added to the system menubar...

MacOS X includes ntpd, probably the most widely used software for keeping a computer clock synchronised with other computers/clocks on the internet. However, unless the Mac is online for extended periods of time, ntpd can be very slow to...

Squawker is a small application I wrote for use in the Network Operations Centre of an ISP where I once worked. The program listens on a UDP port for messages from various servers on the network. On receiving a message, Squawker then uses the built-in...