If you are a Mac user, and also use the Cisco VPN client to connect to your corporate (or any other) network, have I got a treat for you. The product name is Shimo, and your VPN experience just became truly Mac-like.

The initial reason for the development of Shimo was the lousy software implementation of the Cisco VPNClient for MacOS. Shimo wants to do it the MacOS way: That means to reduce the interface to the important features and integrate it right into the user interface of the OS. Thus the interaction with this piece of software is absolutely intuitive and self explanatory. Try it out and you will see what we are speaking of…

I told Bren about it before I had a chance to install it, and he’s thanked me for it multiple times. I finally installed it tonight, and this what Cisco should have done with their Mac client. I pretty much guarantee that you’ll never go back to the Cisco client again.

[HT MacUpdate]