• 11/2/2007 Leopard Compatibility Note I've been extremely busy at my day job all year, and I have not been able to test any of my software under Leopard yet. The fact that the newest machine I have at home right now is a fairly slow G4 iMac that would not enjoy Leopard means that I do not know when I'll be able to do so at this point.

  I suspect that many of them may work under Leopard, since all of the Mac OS X subsystems that they use are apparently still available, but cannot be sure without testing them. However, they are unlikely to do anything bad even if they don't work, since most of what they do relies on tools built into Mac OS X itself. If those tools are still there and still compatible, they should work. If not, they won't.

  Once I obtain a setup capable of running Leopard comfortably, or hear from users who've tested them, I will post the results here. If you have tested one of my programs under Leopard, please let me know how it went. I still plan to get some updates out, but cannot do so until I am able to upgrade my development setup at home.
• 12/5/2006 New Support Forum. Thanks to Åke Svensson, we have a new support forum to replace the one that got zapped by lightning earlier this year. The content of the old one was lost, but hopefully this one will fill up soon enough.
• 12/31/2005 BrickHouse renamed to Flying Buttress 1.4 . New name, new icon. Fixed startup item issue under 10.3.9 or higher. Details on product page
• 5/24/2005 MacJanitor 1.3 released. Switched to using the 'periodic' command instead of running the maintenance scripts directly. Properly updates the periodic log files (daily.out, etc...). Recommended for 10.3 or higher (including Tiger).
• 3/27/2005 Flying Buttress 1.3 released. Tested on both Panther (10.3) and the latest seed of Tiger available at the time (8A425). Includes several changes to support Tiger. It should also still work on 10.2 and 10.1. Updated (and now working on Panther and higher) online documentation under the Help menu. Please read the Read Me file for more information.
• 3/27/2005 Auntie 1.3.1 released. Fixed 'hide on deactivate' behavior that popped up in 1.3.
• 3/25/2005 Auntie 1.3 released. Fixed to point at new BBC RSS feed addresses.
• 7/8/2003 Auntie 1.1 released. Changes include: Now uses BBC RSS feed for ticker data. New ticker algorithm to lessen CPU load, BBC streams browser, option to have headlines read when new ones are detected using default Speech voice. Mac OS X 10.2 or higher recommended.
• 5/18/2003 Launcher 3.1 released. Changes include: Properly saves and restores window position and size, addition of New Panel and Reveal Launcher Folder menu items, can set name of default 'App's folder, optional 'Click' sound.
• 2/9/2003 MacJanitor 1.2.1 released. Changes include dumb 'wrong password in the keychain not noticed' bug zapped., 'Keep in keychain' option now defaults to Off, French localization now included, thanks to Stéphane Cohou. Built on Mac OS X 10.2.2.
• 8/18/2002 Pseudo 1.2.3 released. Changes include fixes to work properly on OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), better notification of bad passwords stored in keychain, 'Store-in-keychain' option now defaults to off.
• 5/14/2002 MacJanitor 1.2 released. MacJanitor now includes optional keychain integration, the ability to cancel operations in progress, and a 'Run All' option to run all three maintenance scripts.
• 3/6/2002 Pseudo 1.2 released. Pseudo now works with Virtual PC and other CFM applications packaged as OSX bundles. New features include: Keychain integration, 'launch documents' that allow you to create 'single click' launchers that can optionally quit Pseudo after launching the application.
• 3/6/2002 Support Forum launched. After becoming nearly overwhelmed with email, I've set up auser support forum. Give it a visit to read the FAQs or post a question. Much more information will be added as time goes on.
• 12/31/2001 Auntie 1.0b1 released. Freeware BBC News ticker.
• 12/31/2001 MacSniffer 1.0b1 released. Beta test version. MacSniffer is a front end to the built-in 'tcpdump' packet sniffer on MacOS X.
• 12/31/2001 CheckMate 1.0b1 released. Beta test version. CheckMate is a System Preferences pane that generates, stores and validates secure MD5 checksums of critical system files to help detect if any malicious programs have altered or replaced them.
• 12/27/2001 Flying Buttress wins Gold in MacFixit Toolbox Awards for Firewall Protection. xFiles wins Silver in Troubleshooting/File attribute editors.
• 12/1/2001 Flying Buttress wins an Eddy! Flying Buttress won the System Utilities category in the 17th Annual Editor's Choice Awards.
• 10/20/2001 Pseudo 1.1b1 released. Built for MacOS X 10.1. Now works after Apple Security Update of 10/19/2001, and includes a French localization.
• 10/7/2001 Flying Buttress 1.1b6 released. Built for MacOS X 10.1. Many bug fixes and new features. See the included Read Me file for a complete listing.
• 6/4/2001 Flying Buttress 1.1b5 released. New interface. New Features: Ability to configure PPPoE and AirPort or second ethernet cards on multi-homed machines. Flexible rule ordering, easy custom rule editor, many more canned filters including many common attacks and trojan horses. New Setup Assistant. IP Sharing/NAT configuration and control. Ability to create several different internal subnets to allow the use of DMZ's. Redirection of certain incoming traffic to internal local machines running public services..

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