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Finally the Google Chrome browser is out for OSX. I’ve been using it on and off in Windows 7 for a few months and now I can finally start using it in my Mac’s also. A big thank’s to the Chrome team for getting it out.
It’s still a beta but works like a charm in OS X 10.5. Go get your’s from http://www.google.com/chrome

As some of you might know I’m not a Windows only user. I do use an iMac at home for all my design and photo work. I also love the simplicity of OS X. It does what you expect it to and it does it well. This is probably why I feel the need to post some of the software’s I as a 1+ year Apple user have found useful.

I’m sure there are plenty more out there and if you whish to ad something to my list please do so in the comments.

I also want to point out that not all of them are free. Some cost, but as most programs for OS X they cost under 100 USD so it’s really not a big deal. The list is in no particular order.

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This post is a little of topic from what I usually write but for me it’s something important so I hope you forgive me. In May 2009 I became a father to a little girl who means the world to me. A post on the Cisco Portal blog got me thinking about security from a different point of view. Security at home. The internet has provided us with so much good. We can get information, access our bank and get news 24/7 . But it has it’s dark sides also. When I was young my parents knew that once I was home I was safe. I had my safe haven inside my parents house where no one could get to me.

The Internet with all it’s glory also opened a gateway to our homes for the predators. Following the news you read almost weekly about police shutting down large pedophile groups, and that’s a good thing. Law enforcement units are able to hunt them down using the networks. But just as the good guys use the networks to find them, the bad guys use the networks to share their sick and twisted materials.

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I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I’ve been using it a lot at work. It does have some annoyances I might never get used to but overall it’s a really great laptop computer.

Anyway we use OpenVPN at work and Tunnelblick is THE client for OpenVPN connections in Mac OSX. I had some resolving problems and found out that some programs don’t even use /etc/resolv.conf like they do in most *NIX operating systems I’ve used. So googling around I found this great article about it and thought I’d post it here in case I need it again. Also it might come handy for someone else.

So checkout the article at http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/10/correct-way-to-set-up-openvpn-client-on-mac-os-x/