Meerkat is an easy to use SSH tunnel manager built specifically for the Mac. Using an innovative Tunnel Setup Assistant, key components of Mac OS X you've grown to love and expect from applications, and community features like Growl and Sparkle, Meerkat is a must-have for the systems administrator or web developer working on the Mac.
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Unix power, Mac style
Built upon Mac OS X's included industry standard SSH client, Meerkat brings the visual appeal of the Mac to the strength and security of UNIX. Tunnels on the Mac are no longer second class citizens.
Trigger happy
Tunnels can be associated with trigger applications. The result? Tunnels come up when their trigger apps do, so dependent apps have everything they need at the ready. Very happy.
A key player
Meerkat can either store SSH passwords in the system keychain or use the public key authentication built in to SSH to manage your tunneled accounts. Either way, you hold the key, securely.
Hello, Bonjour
Tunnels can advertise their presence on the local LAN with Bonjour. Web browsers, iTunes, VNC clients, FTP clients, and others can take advantage of Bonjour's ease of use and access secure, tunneled services like any other.
Play with the big cats
Meerkat is fully compatible with both Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Mwrrrow!
What's on the menu
Meerkat's status bar and dock menus give you full access to your tunnels. What's more, Meerkat can be run without a dock item for a very low paw, err, footprint.
Growl, but don't bite
Meerkat notifies you of tunnel activations and deactivations via Growl, so whether by trigger application, startup, or manually, you always know what's going on with your services.
Right from the start
You can set tunnels to automatically start when Meerkat does for hassle free port forwarding whenever you need it.
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