Lighthouse is on MacZot! today! You’ve still got about 18 hours left to get Lighthouse for a special discount price of $8.99 instead of the usual $12.99.
It’s one of the rare occasions where you just buy the Light and get the House for free!
Lighthouse’s MacZOT! page is here.
Lighthouse 1.2 has landed and brings a nice slew of new features!
For example, you can now temporarily disable Lighthouse if you do not need it at the moment. The icon will turn grey, and Lighthouse won’t access your network in any way until you choose to enable it again. This is a great feature if you happen to frequently connect to networks where you do not (or cannot) use Lighthouse, such as public wireless internet hotspots.
Other nice changes are additional preferences to switch into a newly developed “compatibility” mode in which Lighthouse will fall back to a very simple way of communicating with your UPnP-enabled router. When running in this mode, Lighthouse may exhibit better performance with your router. It’s even possible that the new compatibility mode works with routers that were completely unsupported previously as well!
Also, you can now change the frequency at which Lighthouse will refresh its port mappings, allowing you to find the sweet spot between mapping reliability and minimizing the load on your network and your router.
Of course, we’ve also thrown in some substantial internal improvements and a slew of minor bug-fixes for a bit of extra-flavor!
Last, but not least, we’ve reset the trial period again, giving all unregistered users a new, full 14-day evaluation period. No strings attached!
Lighthouse 1.2 can be downloaded here.
One more thing: We’ll promise we’ll stop with the funky version number word-play headlines for the next release…
