Little Snitch might be a bit more popular than SpeedFan. We know about 6 links to it since March 2021 and only 5 links to SpeedFan. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I use an app to check system temps: OpenHardwareMonitor. Some people like SpeedFan, does most of the same stuff. Source: over 1 year ago
That's not super common (but it does happen ofc). It might be worth running a tool to scan the drive and take a peek at the SMART data. I typically use Speedfan https://almico.com/speedfan.php. Source: almost 2 years ago
You'll get better gpu support from Afterburner, but if you have a weird chipset or an incompatible fan controller, good old SpeedFan still has a few tricks. Source: almost 2 years ago
Check disk health with speedfan from http://almico.com/speedfan.php. Source: almost 3 years ago
Speedfan Freeware gives you some info about your temps, but its mostly used to set up your custom fan control, such as increasing rpm of your front intake fans when temp of GPU and/or CPU reaches a certain point and much more, how much you can do with it depends on the fan controller chip that is used on your mainboard, so you mileage may vary. Source: almost 3 years ago
* Homebrew - Package manager (kinda like apt/rpm on Linux). * Secretive - Stores SSH keys in the secure enclave [https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive] * Hazel - File automations [https://www.noodlesoft.com/] * Arq - Excellent backup software for local and/or remote backups [https://arqbackup.com/] * ChronoSync - File synchronization on steoroids [https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html] *... - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago
The first two can be handled by firewall. Little Snitch for example: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html. Source: over 1 year ago
If you want more control over outgoing traffic, there’s commercial stuff like Little Snitch or the similar free tool LuLu from Objective-See. Source: almost 2 years ago
Objective Development's Little Snitch. It's been the first piece of software I've installed on every Mac I've owned in the last 20 years. Source: over 2 years ago
Little Snitch? https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html. Source: almost 3 years ago
Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.
TinyWall - Lightweight and non-intrusive firewall
iStat Menus - "An advanced Mac system monitor for your menubar."
GlassWire - Visualize network activity in detail, get notified when new apps access the network, look out for...
CPU-Z - CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system : Processor name and number, codename, process, package, cache levels.
Windows 10 Firewall Control - Windows 10 Firewall Control: simple and exhaustive solution for applications network activity controlling and monitoring.