Feek's macOS useful tools, utilities and applications thread

ChrisD. · 26 Apr 2023 at 15:41

Feek said:
I have WireGuard on MBA and iPhone and I have it configured so that it connects when I'm on cellular or when I'm connected to any WiFi other than my own. Is there a similar option on the macOS version as well?

Yup.

Cromulent · 28 Apr 2023 at 17:41

Alfred 5.1 has been released.

ic1male · 1 May 2023 at 20:09

Seems like Steam is finally getting hardware acceleration on macOS and Linux which should make it a bit snappier than it currently is. Guessing it's still an Intel app though.

Steam News - Steam News Hub

Updates, events, and news from the developers of Steam News.

store.steampowered.com

visibleman · 11 May 2023 at 13:57

OmniDiskSweeper
Simple column-view disk space usage tool.

Price - FREE.

https://www.omnigroup.com/more

uvarvu · 11 May 2023 at 21:18

NCDU is also available on homebrew if you want the command line equivalent.

Feek · 21 May 2023 at 10:37

ChrisD. said:
Super Agent for Safari now wants payment, any decent alternates? It works alright, but not well enough for me to pay what they want for it.

Got this on my phone last night.

Damn. I agree with you, it's not something worth paying for really.

ChrisD. · 21 May 2023 at 10:42

I'll ask in a work Slack channel tomorrow what's decent.

Feek · 21 May 2023 at 10:47

ChrisD. said:
I'll ask in a work Slack channel tomorrow what's decent.

I've found two mentioned elsewhere as alternatives, Consent-o-matic and Hush. I'm giving the former a try now.

Feek · 21 May 2023 at 11:18

The settings page for Consent-o-matic didn't open on the iPhone but it appears to be working on my Studio. I've installed Hush on the iPhone now.

ChrisD. · 21 May 2023 at 12:11

Trying Hush on my Mac, seems fine so far.

uvarvu · 21 May 2023 at 13:53

I ponied up for a lifetime donation in the end as it's saved a lot of time. Those popups really are annoying.

Cromulent · 21 May 2023 at 20:56

I've decided to learn emacs. I do quite a bit of work with Linux VPS instances and figured it would be a useful skill to learn. Wish me luck!

Throrik · 22 May 2023 at 22:00

Cromulent said:
I've decided to learn emacs. I do quite a bit of work with Linux VPS instances and figured it would be a useful skill to learn. Wish me luck!

You chose the wrong tool

love a vim user.

Feek · 23 May 2023 at 13:35

ChrisD. said:
Trying Hush on my Mac, seems fine so far.

Yup, seems to be good for me on both iPhone and Mac. if anything, it's better than SuperAgent because I think it just hides cookie messages, I'm not seeing anything at all.

ChrisD. · 23 May 2023 at 20:53

Feek said:
Yup, seems to be good for me on both iPhone and Mac. if anything, it's better than SuperAgent because I think it just hides cookie messages, I'm not seeing anything at all.

Yeah, it's very good. And free!

visibleman · 25 May 2023 at 11:57

Can anyone here recommend a decent VPN utility app that supports (L2TP/IPSEC) VPN reconnection?
I've tried a few off the app store but i've yet to find one that actually works well, if at all, and Draytek's own app doesn't support L2TP/IPSEC under MacOS (we would have to rollout SSL VPN).
I'm after something that's a bit more user-friendly that rolling with a script to end-users/staff.

ChrisD. · 25 May 2023 at 12:00

visibleman said:
Can anyone here recommend a decent VPN utility app that supports (L2TP/IPSEC) VPN reconnection?
I've tried a few off the app store but i've yet to find one that actually works well, if at all, and Draytek's own app doesn't support L2TP/IPSEC under MacOS (we would have to rollout SSL VPN).
I'm after something that's a bit more user-friendly that rolling with a script to end-users/staff.

I used Tunnelblick before I moved my VPN over to Wireguard.

Feek · 25 May 2023 at 12:03

ChrisD. said:
I used Tunnelblick before I moved my VPN over to Wireguard.

Exactly what I did.

visibleman · 25 May 2023 at 12:06

ChrisD. said:
I used Tunnelblick before I moved my VPN over to Wireguard.

OpenVPN client? Or does it support other connections?

Literally just after something that will reconnect a VPN profile when it disconnects as some remote users here have flaky internet connections and moan their VPN 'goes down' and Apple have yet to/or won't implement reconnect (most other OS's have supported that feature for yonks).

ChrisD. · 25 May 2023 at 12:09

visibleman said:
OpenVPN client? Or does it support other connections?

Literally just after something that will reconnect a VPN profile when it disconnects as some remote users here have flaky internet connections and moan their VPN 'goes down' and Apple have yet to/or won't implement reconnect (most other OS's have supported that feature for yonks).

Check the documentation:

Tunnelblick | Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software for macOS

tunnelblick.net

Wireguard is very good, have a look into switching over.