IP Widget
- Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard
- display your current internal or external IP
- choose between Airport, Ethernet, Firewire and your "real" Internet/WAN IP
- copy IP to clipboard by click
- run multiple copies to show different IPs at once
- refresh automatically everytime you open Dashboard
- small and simple, no-frills
- PowerPC and Intel (universal)
- Free Software (GPL)
FAQ
What are the System requirements?
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or higher is required.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or higher is required.
How do I install IP Widget?
If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.
If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.
How can I show different IPs at once?
You have to launch multiple copies of IP. Just click the + sign in the lower left corner of Dashboard and click IP's icon in the Widget Bar as often as you want to open it.
You have to launch multiple copies of IP. Just click the + sign in the lower left corner of Dashboard and click IP's icon in the Widget Bar as often as you want to open it.
Why reports IP "WAN: No Connection", although I’m connected to the Internet?
Probably you use a Firewall like LittleSnitch which prevents curl, a little Terminal program, from connecting to the internet to get the IP. So please check your Firewall rules.
Probably you use a Firewall like LittleSnitch which prevents curl, a little Terminal program, from connecting to the internet to get the IP. So please check your Firewall rules.
Version History
v2.9 - June, 18th 2009
- changed from www.whatismyip.org to checkip.dyndns.org
- a few Bugfixes
- Bugfix
- refreshes automatically at most every 5 minutes to reduce load of whatismyip.org
- manuall update is still possible, as often as you want
- slightly modified interface
- Bugfixes and minor improvements
- Open Source/GPL now
- support for proxy server
- support for Macs with more than one Ethernet port (e.g. new Powermac G5)
- better reliability
- Now IP connects to a 2nd server to get the external IP, if whatismyip.org is down
- Bugfix: IP address is no longer copied with line breaks
- minor improvements
- little icons indicate which IP is currently shown
- minor improvements
- support for internal Airport, Ethernet and Firewire interfaces
- run multiple copies at once
- copy "http://", "ftp://", "afp://" or "ssh://" with your IP
- minor improvements
- copy IP to clipboard by click
- animated refresh button
- initial release
