It’s been a while since I’ve posted about different tools I use. One new tool I started using is QuickSilver. It’s free.

Spotlight is a great search tool. I used to use it to launch applications too, but got annoyed that the process wasn’t something like: Command+Space, “terminal”, Enter. Most times, I’d have to down arrow once or twice and if Spotlight was still searching, the order would change and my cursor wouldn’t be on whatever I wanted to launch.

Enter QuickSilver…
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Tunnelblick is a very nice GUI for OpenVPN. A tunnel icon is added to the menu bar. You can click on the icon to connect/disconnect to your VPN.

The “stable” version (2.0.1) allows for connnecting to a single VPN. You create a ~/Library/openvpn directory and save your configuration file as openvpn.conf.

The 3.0 Release Candidate (I just now noticed that RC2 is out) allows for the ability to connect to multiple VPNs depending on the name of your configuration file. Save your configuration file as Server1.conf, Server2.conf (where “Server1″ is an arbitrary string).

I can’t see using OpenVPN on a Mac without it.

Firefox 1.5.0.2 was just released! This is especially great news for Intel Mac users. This is the first official release that’s a Universal Binary (meaning that it will run on Intel and PowerMac machines natively).

Besides some bugfixes, there doesn’t seem to be much else new besides being a universal binary.

Enjoy.

If you haven’t looked at OpenVPN yet, what the heck are you waiting for?

OpenVPN employs SSL to encrypt communcations. There are two aspects of OpenVPN that you should open your eyes to: it’s very cross-platform and it uses commonly used (and unblocked) Internet protocols (tcp or udp). (more…)

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that works on OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

It is safer (at least for now) than IE.

Use it!