I cannot remember how I found Watchmac on the Internet, but when I read the details and looked at the screenshots, I thought… God ! That is a clean neat cute little app (software) that is useful – discreet and that the User Interface (UI) fully embrace Mac OS X 10.5 style.

One would say that I have said everything in the above few lines. But NO ! I am personally using this app on my high end iMac, and it works great !

So what does Watchmac do ? Well, it basically monitors physical intrusion, such as kids, colleagues that are a bit too nosy, etc… It records the intrusion and automatically let’s you know in order for you to review it before it keeps it in the history section.

So for example : I go away from my lovely iMac and of course I leave it in screensaver mode that is password protected. One of my kids decides, without my permission, to use it and he does not find the right password after typing it multiple times. Later on, I come back, type the screensaver password, return to my desktop and, alarmed, I see my screen flashing a lite red-orange color around the screen and the Watchmac icon in the menu bar, flashing a warning. I go and check it out and shows me the following “Someone tried to authenticate using your user account, but failed to enter the correct password for your username” (it also shows you the date and time the intrusion occurred). One of the neat features is that Watchmac used my iMac built-in iSight camera and took photos of the dear child.

Watchmac from Bloo7 is a useful application for home use and for a working environment.

As I already said, this app is very user friendly and blends extremely well with the Operating System (OS) and other applications. It is a stable (and until now, reliable) app that is under active development (I already applied a second major update) by a little German company called Bloo7. What took my by chock after trying the trial version, it is the very affordable and low price tag. Once registered, you will enjoy for ever the full featured Watchmac !

So please, go and check out Watchmac web site, check out some screenshots and give it a try.