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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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