The first thing on this site is a section to download my first attempt at a Mac OS X Dashboard widget. It's a widget to control the /etc/hosts file. If you don't know what that is, you probably don't need the widget.

Existing entries won't be touched by the widget, only ones with #hw commented on the end of the line will be editable.

Version: 1.1 Release Date: 16th March 2008 Requirements: Tiger (10.4) or better

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If you find this useful you're more than welcome to send me some money for a pint or two!

Updates:

• Added compatibility for 10.5
• Now uses graceful flushing of DNS cache on 10.4

Room for improvement:

• Removes grace period period after sudo operations.
• Missing function to "delete" hosts
• No sanity checking of hostname