![]() ![]() Contact your IT or systems support people to find-out, and recommend Tunnelblick to them if you're using an OpenVPN.Ħ) TrueCrypt: Everyone should have some sort of personal information security strategy - although most people don't, or are relying on paid-for utility apps and 3rd party browser plugins. Most modern day firewalls support OpenVPN and so you may be using an OpenVPN without knowing it. The only catch of course is that your office or corporate VPN must be an OpenVPN SSL based VPN (as opposed to say an IPSec VPN). It's super stable, easy to set-up and works great. Another utility app that's well worth the price of admission.ĥ) Tunnelblick: For road-warriors that need access to their small office, or corporate virtual private networks (VPNs) Tunnelblick will do nicely. As a bonus - I really like their menu bar clock, and additional world clocks that can be added to the drop-down. Activity monitor does a good job - but iStats Menu had so many nice features and extras packed into the app that I forked-out for it. ![]() I wanted to know when my disk was idle, or reading, or writing (and potentially thrashing). I discovered iStats menu after looking for a simple hard disk activity light. If you've ever wondered what was causing all of your network activity, when you weren't actually using your computer, Little Snitch will tell you.Ĥ) iStats Menu from bjango: Want to keep an eye on memory usage, disk activity, cpu activity and system or cpu temperature? iStats Menu will do that nicely thanks. The network monitor that comes with Little Snitch is brilliant. Instead of preventing stuff from 'coming in' to your computer - Little Snitch will tell you whenever an app is trying to 'get out' - and allow you to decide if you want to allow it to or not. UPDATE: Another up-and-coming finder replacement that shows great promise is Commander One from Eltima.ģ) Little Snitch: This is a great utility that tells you when any software installed on your Mac is trying to 'call home'. ![]() I can barely use a Mac without it and it's well worth the price of admission. Most importantly for hi-res displays - all the standard View Options are available, allowing you to change font and icon size to suit. There's also an excellent split window view, preview view, and options to override all of the default key-binding behaviors - including 'Enter to Launch' as opposed to renaming a file or folder. Having folders sort before files should be part of Mac OS X out-of-the-box - but for some strange reason it isn't. For me - it takes all the pain out of Finder, and creates a file and folder management shell that reminds me of Total Commander for Windows. An alternative to Quicksilver is Alfred - which also looks nice - although I've yet to take it for a spin.Ģ) Pathfinder from Cocoatech: Cocoatech calls this "The Finder, reinvented" - and it's nothing less than that. A very fast, and very convenient way to launch apps, scripts, open documents and a lot more. It looks a lot like 'Gnome Do', and I love it. It's been around for ages, and does what it says on the tin. Original Post: Thanks to This application launcher is the business. Spotlight works fine, and Yosemite will finish this off nicely. Thanks to this very cool app - Apptivate which does nothing 'but' set system-wide accelerators (including my prefered keybinding to launch Pathfinder), I'm less reliant on an app launcher now. Having recently joined the 'cult of Apple' - here's what I consider to be the minimum required set of Mac OS X utilities and helper applications for any Mac OS X installation:ġ) Quicksilver: Update: - One of the features I've relied on in Quicksilver, was the ability to easily set system-wide keyboard shortcust. ![]()
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