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I hate Cisco VPN Client. This is such a nice app. Too bad I still have to have the Cisco client on my computer, I thought it was a replacement. Still nice, just use my global hotkeys to connect and disconnect.

Incredible app, makes easy the way that I work!!!! Every day

Splendid! I don't know how I put with Cisco's client for so long. Oh, that's why, because I didn't know I had any options.

Does anyone know how to disable the nagging donate screen which pops up when quitting the application?

Why don't you guys quit spamming the comments sections of the other VPN client pages on iusethis? That's really annoying - and unprofessional.

See the comments under Tunnelblick VPN Tracker, SSH Tunnel Manager, Digitunnel, and IPSecuritas, all of which contain variations on the following text:

"The VPN client Shimo will support SSH connections in its next release. Thus we need some beta testers for the SSH functionalities. Please visit http://www.nexumoja.org/projects/Shimo/ to be part of the beta test..."

We just wanted to inform those users that there is a beta test they can participate in. We don't force anyone to do anything, so please stop beeing annoyed by it. Ignore it if you are not interested in this beta test.

It's hard to ignore it when you spam all the other VPN packages out there. Seriously unprofessional. I know I won't be using any of your software as a result.

Shimo trades a few keystrokes (the "hide" command after logging in on Cisco) for valuable real estate on the menu bar and one more app to worry about, since it still requires the VPN client in the background..
Your mileage may vary, but I did not find this to be enough to keep it.

You forgot about features like automatic reconnecting, keyboard shortcuts, notifications, wireless-lan recognition ...
But of course it is your decision to live without those!

I have been using the Cisco VPN client and a dashboard widget to turn it on and off....this is a much cleaner, less obtrusive & altogether nicer experience -- I realize that I dreaded using the VPN b/c of all the click throughs and the Cisco client maximizing etc. Now I just leave Shimo running all the time (so there's no nag screen @ exit) for a virtually instant connection / disconnection.

btw: the nag screen is only displayed after the first run of Shimo. If you click ignore in the dialog window, it will not be shown again!

Shimo is great and i'm going to using it in the future as well as until now. But:
What's going on with the latest beta? The preferences panel doesn't work. The nag window show only for the first time, the program is started. Btw. How do I obtain the licenced version? I'd be very thankful for any answer.
mfg.

Please download the final version of Shimo 2.0 ... the problem with the preference panel should be fixed!

As has been said on a bunch of other websites:

Version 2 is simply far too expensive for what it does. Thank goodness I was able to find download links for the final release pre version 2. I appreciate the hard work you've doubtlessly put into it, but there are apps that i find MUCH more helpful that don't charge a cent.

Please consider that Shimo 2 is not only a user interface replacement for Cisco's client anymore. It's rather a complete replacement for Cisco's client, because it comes with vpnc, which can do almost all the stuff Cisco's client can do. Moreover Shimo 2 supports several other popular VPN protocols like OpenVPN, IPSec and SSH.
Therefore Shimo 2 is completely different than version 1 was and has to be judged accordingly!

could anybody please post a link to a download page for Shimo 1.x as I have no use for the functionality version 2 provides and assume it's in the developers intention to go on providing the basic Shimo 1 as freeware through other channels (make it available as a free download from his page, please!)

kind regards!

Vpnc, an integral part of Shimo, is released under the GPL. Would you mind to publish the source code for Shimo too to comply with the GPL?
Many thanks.

I have not modified the sourcecode of vpnc and therefore I just offer an interface to control a GPL-licensed product like vpnc. Please read the GPL and don't comment before you know exactly what you are talking about. Does Apple open their whole sourcecode as they use GPL-licensed components???

Asking €12,95 for Shimo while being an extension to an open source project doesn't look very respectful. Furthermore Apple hosts a website with portions of their (open source) projects, being: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/

Shimo is otherwise an application with a strong design!

Let's continue this discussion in our forum at nexUmoja.org. I really like to talk with Shimo's users about the price model and why I had to change it...