My favorite GUI application for Bitcoin/Litecoin mining on Mac OS X, Asteroid, has been updated to 0.9.6. This release includes a lot of bug fixes and new hardware support. I highly recommend the update.
Asteroid 0.9.6 Change Log
- Adds support for new ASICs (including bitfury, nanofury, and Antminers)
- Updated to latest cgminer engine (still supporting GPU mining though!)
- Rewrote MobileMiner support with better error reporting, keychain support, bugfixes and more
- New device detection and display code
- USB driver conflicts are resolved when detected and relevant
- Fixed scrypt settings recommendations
- Detects previous crashes and offers to send diagnostic logs
- New default intensity values for quicker first-time mining
- Added menu option to semi-permanently disable conflicting drivers
- Fixed bug preventing adding more than one custom pool
- Fixed apparent spike in scrypt hashrates due to a logging bug
- Countless bugs fixed
- Numerous UI tweaks to improve user experience
- Removed BTC value monitoring in preparation for a new, better, feature to debut in 0.9.7
- CPU usage of Asteroid reduced by 60%
See my initial post regarding Asteroid: Mining Bitcoin and Litecoin on Mac OS X with Asteroid.