2007 Table of Contents
2007 Table of Contents
MacTech Magazine: Table of Contents
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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
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