Last week's techmail was Increase download speed with Aria2 utility which looks at an incredibly useful and cool file download client. Aria2 is unique because it can grab the same file from multiple sources: http, ftp, bittorrent. It can do it at the same time and then munge the resulting …

This is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever seen: http://www.woehr.de/en/projekte/budapest_m730/index.htm. I wish I could embed it but I can't (sadly, you need flash to watch it). It's the parking system in Budapest.

I can see this solving all kinds …

Last week's mac techmail was Send instant messages between Macs on a LAN which discusses using Growl and growlnotify, along with a little help from Automator, to send instant messages between macs on a LAN, without requiring any instant messaging clients. Useful for sending quick little notifications from one mac …

This week's mac techmail is Simplify Terminal usage on Mac OS X with Visor. Visor is a really neat plugin for the OS X Terminal that allows you to hide and re-open the Terminal with a keystroke. For someone like me who has multiple tabs open, uses mutt and irssi …

Last week's techmail was DNS querying with dig which is a little bit of a primer on an indispensable tool called dig. dig is a DNS querying tool that can look up all kinds of handy DNS-related information, and is useful for helping to diagnose networking issues.

This week's techmail is Learn more about how you can use SQLite which is a bit of a primer on how you can use SQLite to create your own little SQL databases, or how you can use it to manipulate the data stored in SQLite databases found in other programs …

This past week's mac techmail was Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X gets updated to version 4 which looks at the new version of Panic's Transmit FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/S3 client. Transmit is pretty good; I've been using it for years and the new version is a nice upgrade …

This week's TechMail is How to pre-upgrade Fedora 13 which shows how to use PreUpgrade (great tool). I used it to upgrade an F12 box and it worked flawlessly, despite the small /boot size. More information on how to use it is also on the Fedora wiki.

This week's mac techmail is Fun tricks with Growl and GeekTool which looks at a (probably rather unique) scenario of running an IRC client in a virtual machine (running Linux) and having alerts show up on the OS X desktop. The tip, while relatively specific to one function, should provide …

This week's techmail is Monitoring MySQL with mytop which looks at the mytop perl tool that can help monitor and diagnose problems with MySQL (mytop is essentially a top for MySQL).