About This Blog



Far Away Mac is a weblog by Macminicolo.net about using your Mac as a server. We offer tips, application reviews and tutorials on setup. Let us know if we can be of any help.

Used Mac minis



Our current inventory of used Mac minis.

Applications To Try




• Categories

  • Ajax
  • Apache
  • Automation
  • Backup
  • Blogging
  • Business
  • Chat Server
  • DNS
  • e-commerce
  • Ebook Series
  • Email
  • File Server
  • Firewall
  • FTP
  • iFolder
  • iPhone
  • Mac Developer
  • Mac OS X
  • Mac Server
  • Macminicolo News
  • Mail Server
  • Media
  • Monitoring
  • Music
  • MySQL
  • Network
  • Open Source
  • Organization
  • Permission
  • PHP
  • Port Forwarding
  • Reference
  • Remote Administration
  • Ruby On Rails
  • Security
  • Site Development
  • SNMP
  • Software Reviews
  • SSH
  • Subversion
  • Terminal Server
  • Tracking
  • Video
  • VNC
  • VPN
  • Wiki

• Recently Written

  • Macminicolo Black Friday Sale
  • Net Monitor Sidekick: Monitor Traffic For IP/Port
  • Mac mini Information
  • Using a Mac mini For Data Retention
  • iVPN: Easy VPN Setup on a Mac
  • Seven iPhone Apps For IT
  • Using Your Server To Track Stolen Macs
  • PureFTPd Manager: Advanced FTP For The Mac
  • Load Balancing with Mac minis and DNS
  • Changes: Keeping Everything Up-To-Date

• Archives

  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • October 2007

• Search

I have yet to find a really good application to monitor all traffic coming to/leaving from a Mac, but this one is close.

With Net Monitor Sidekick you just start the application, choose your network interface, and watch the traffic flow. The program offers a few preferences, but pretty much does as expected out of the box.

Right now, the program is in beta and can be downloaded free. Though there is a warning that the beta will expire on Mar 31, 2009.

You can down the application here.

We try to help the common man set up a Mac server. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

As with all things Google does, Google Analytics is an incredible useful tool that is easy to use and is free.

Google Analytics has been re-designed to help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site. It’s done by simply adding a little bit of code to your web pages.

You can learn more (and get started) on the official Google Analytics site.