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Want to know what’s covered in MacTech? Take a look at our table of contents for 2007:
December 2007 Issue
Mac in the Shell: Pashua: Helping the GUI Crowd Give your shell scripts a GUI
The Road To Certification Increase your knowledge and build credibility along the way
DIY: OpenVPN Server How to turn OS X client into an OpenVPN server
Leopard’s New Toolbox What’s new for the system administrator in OS X 10.5
The Road to Code: Primary Objective Introduction to Objective-C
Data Overflow: What’s Your Back-up Plan? Why you must protect an ever-increasing volume of valuable data
Product Guide Our annual guide to advertisers and their products
MacTech Spotlight Dr. Michael Watson, Freeverse, Inc.
November 2007 Issue
5 Leopard Features To Make Your Sys Admin Happier Here are a few features that will make your life as a systems administrator easier
Mac in the Shell: Leopard Terminal.app: Create Your Workspace Have all the comforts of ~
The Road to Code: Leopard Detour What’s new for developers in Leopard
Changing Spots New ways of manipulating Directory Services in Leopard
Using the RADIUS Service in OSX 10.5 Aimed at Airports, but flexible under the hood
Affordable NAS Integrating FreeNAS appliance software into a Mac environment
Exploring Leopard with DTrace How to use DTrace for debugging and exploration
Easily Capture video from any VGA or DVI device Discover how to grab raw video frames and stream them to your preferred utility
MacTech Spotlight: Kent Sutherland Independent Developer/Student
October 2007 Issue
Demystifying Windows network browsing A behind the scenes look at how it really works
Strangers in a foreign land Integrating OS X with Active Directory
The Road to Code: Getting Oriented Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Mac in the Shell: ssh Basics and More Is there anything ssh can’t do?!
Archiving with Tar Learn how to use the tar tool
MacTech Spotlight: David Sinclair Owner, Dejal Systems LLC
September 2007 Issue
More ftp I’ve got a fever, and the only cure is more ftp!
The Mac Consultant’s Guide to Managing Windows Product Keys Do your customers (and yourself) a favor with our best practices
The Road to Code: Bits and Bytes and Everything Nice More Memory Topics
FTP Clients for Mac OS X Roundup of some popular FTP client apps
Quoting in the shell Dealing with interesting characters in shell programming
My Sojourn Through Cocoa Boot Camp Or What It’s Like Getting Back Into The Trenches…
MacTech Spotlight: Brian Webster Fat Cat Software
August 2007 Issue
USENIX != WWDC An impressionistic report on two very different technical conferences
Mac in the Shell: Plumbing the Depths Finding hidden gems in application bundles
Backups on a Budget Build your own backup utility with AppleScript Studio
Developing for the iPhone OR: how I learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0
The Road to Code: Pointing the Way Game on!
Understanding SMB in OS X There are many more pieces than you may realize
Real World Review: REALbasic 2007r2
KoolTools: MacCase Premium Leather Collection
MacTech Spotlight Dave Schroeder, U. of Wisconsin-Madison
July 2007 Issue
AppleScript and Apple Remote Desktop Automating an automation tool
More from the Unknown More shell tools that typically go unnoticed
DIY: BIND DNS Server How to turn OS X client into a full-featured DNS server
The Courage to Start Take the first step toward programming for Mac OS X
Environment Variables What they are and how to use them
Advanced Tables with AppleScript Studio Learn how to support editable tables and drag-and-drops
Using NetBooting on the Mac OS X Server for delivery of mass client deployment
MacTech Spotlight Steve Modica, CEO, Small Tree Communications
June 2007 Issue
Automation Potpourri Shell and GUI scripting come together
MSX: Client Wrangling 101 How to gain and keep control of your clients
The MacTech 25, 2007
Troubleshooting Directory Services The basics
Open Source Options for Mac OS X How to leverage open source applications in Mac OS X 10.4
Copy That Why you need a clipboard manager
MacTech Spotlight Eric Schwiebert, Microsoft Corporation
May 2007 Issue
Introduction to AppleScripting Microsoft Entourage
Learn F-Script in 20 Minutes And have fun playing with Core Image
The man Show Learning shell utilities with and without man
Perl 6 on XCode Bringing the power of Perl 6 to the OS X environment
Apple’s Transition from Open Firmware to Extensible Firmware Interface
Uninstalling with AppleScript Building an uninstaller with AppleScript Studio
Real World Reviews: AMCC 3Ware Sidecar Kit When it’s time to step up to more and better
MacTech Spotlight Paul Kafasis, CEO, Rogue Amoeba Software
April 2007 Issue
Remotely Control Your Mac Without a Computer Use the world, and your location, to control and manipulate your home
Lego NXT on the Mac Lego’s next generation Mindstorm kits play nice with the Mac.
Using “Parallels Desktop” with Bootcamp to run Windows XP
KoolTools: Maxtor Shared Storage Drives
MacTech Spotlight Jonathan “Wolf” Rentszch, Founder, Red Shed Software Company
SPECIAL SECTION: Moving from Microsoft Office VBA to AppleScript MacTech’s Guide to Making the Transition
March 2007 Issue
Introduction to Scripting Microsoft PowerPoint
OS X Failover – Part 1 A beginner’s guide
Apple’s Transition: Apple Partition Map to the GUID Partition Table
The Source Hound: MacFUSE: The Man Behind the Mask Open Source Strikes Again
Which Log? Following up on which log shows you what
Virtual Reality Which solution is right for me?
Local File Transfer on the Easy Your clients, and their mail server, will love it
Real World Review: MyVu Personal Media Viewer
MacTech Spotlight Tim Standing, VP Engineering, SoftRAID, LLC
February 2007 Issue
Introduction to Scripting Microsoft Excel
Virtual Choices on the Mac VMWare brings their wares to Intel Macs
Pwn your Tab Key Mice are for wimps
Automate Your Place, Part 2 Have your Mac brew your coffee and take care of the lights on your way out
More on Logs Watching log files without really watching them
Matching satellite Altec Lansing FX 6021 speakers with Apple Display
Camping in OS X A file sharing primer
Real World Reviews: BravoPro Disc Publishing System DiskWarrior 4
KoolTools: RadTech Sleevz and Krussell Music Series Cases iSkin Claro and eVo3 Cases Newer Technology’s TRAFFICJamz and NuPower ViDEO+
MacTech at Macworld 2007 …a gathering not quite like any other
MacTech Spotlight Michael Clark, VP Engineering, Marketcircle
January 2007 Issue
Introduction to Scripting Microsoft Word
Can RAID be used for Backup?
Creating and installing Xcode menu scripts using Xcode
The R statistics package
Automate Your Place, part 1 Real-world Integration
On Logs Everything you need to know about your system
Jumbo Frame Networks Tap into extra Ethernet Speed
Laptop Hard Drive Speed 4200, 5400, 7200 RPMs… does it really matter?
Focus Review: Juniper/Netscreen Protection
Sound Studio 3
Height and Angle FootRester
MacTech Spotlight Featuring: Christoph Nadig and Pascal Freiburghaus