Last week's mac techmail was Digital pack rats will love organizing with EagleFiler which talks about EagleFiler, one of my favourite file organization apps on the mac. It has a welcome Finder-like interface, but makes managing files so much easier than simply trying to duplicate the organizational structure in the …

Last week's Mac TechMail was Get flawless system backups with SuperDuper for the Mac which looks at ShirtPocket's SuperDuper! tool. This is the one backup tool on the Mac that I have 100% confidence, and the tip explains why and what you can do with it. SuperDuper!, as silly as …

Last week's TechMail was Review of the new Komodo IDE 6: Great new features, one gripe which is a review of the latest version of ActiveState's Komodo IDE. I've been using Komodo on and off for years, but have really been using it the last few years now that I'm …

Last week's mac techmail was Enterprise Subversion gets a boost with Cornerstone 2 which looks at my favourite GUI subversion client on the Mac: Cornerstone. The new version has gotten a seriously sweet overhaul with a lot of really nice new features and tweaks. Cornerstone is, in my opinion, top …

This week's techmail is The most important updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Disclaimer: I didn't give it that title. =) It mostly looks at the security features of RHEL6 and what makes it compelling (to me, who is more concerned about security than pretty much anything else) as a …

Last week's mac TechMail was Web page editing and design with Flux for the Mac which looks at the Flux WYSIWYG HTML and CSS editor. I'm really an old-school web designer (using tools like textmate or vim, and hand-coding everything) and you can tell... my web skills are nowhere where …

Last week's TechMail was Enhance screen with Byobu's cool functionality which looks at using Byobu to spruce up GNU screen. Byobu adds some nice color and character to screen, and is definitely worth looking into if you use screen a lot.

This week's techmail was Kerberos authentication with NFSv4 which looks at how to get more security out of NFS. By using Kerberos. I'm not sure if this is the definition of insane for a home network or not, but since I've got Kerberos running here already, I keep trying to …

Last week's mac techmail was Window switching with Witch will boost your productivity which looks at using the program Witch as an alternative to Apple's baked-in app switcher. Instead of switching windows by applications, Witch brings up a list of all windows, grouped by application, making it much easier to …

This week's mac techmail is Stream audio and video from your Mac with Playback which looks at Yazsoft's Playback software. Out of all the streaming server options for the mac that I've found, Playback is the easiest to get up and running and the one that works most reliably from …