Does anyone know of such a beast? Last night I had to drive to my mother's place as she insisted there was a problem with her email and needed me to come check it out. Sadly, it was due to the Buzz stuff and if she actually read the page …

This week's Linux techmail is Learn and use regular expressions with Kodos which is a slick little app written in python that lets you learn regular expressions and build them in a nice GUI interface. This is a great tool for testing regular expressions outside of your code. I'm no …

This week's mac techmail is Enhance Safari with Glims plug-in which discusses the free Glims plugin for Safari. This plugin adds a bunch of features that should have been in Safari to begin with as far as I'm concerned: automatic re-opening of tabs when you start Safari, auto-closing the download …

This week's mac techmail is completely non-technical and is a bit of an opinion/rant piece: iPass on the Apple iPad: It's no netbook killer and it pretty much sums up my feeling about the much-touted iPad. I get what Apple has in mind with this thing, thinking it's a …

This week's techmail is FreeBSD 8.0 installation walk-through where I take a look at a quick install of FreeBSD 8.0. I've toyed with FreeBSD for many years and it's never really appealed to me beyond a curiosity because Linux is so capable. I've also gotten used to (or …

This week's mac techmail is Managing SSL Certificate Authorities on OS X which takes you through adding a CA to the OS X keychain to verify SSL certificates. This is mostly useful for internal networks that use their own CA and it (obviously) doesn't come bundled with any OS. This …

This week's techmail is Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL which takes a look at what makes PostgreSQL a compelling database, when compared to MySQL. Particularly in light of the whole Oracle/MySQL thing, I think it's good to remind people that choice still exists, and that …

This week's techmail is Manipulate monitor displays easily with the xrandr extension which talks about how to automatically resize, re-orientate, and reconfigure your monitors using xrandr. xrandr is really cool and shines especially bright when used with laptops and dual-head displays. It certainly makes docking my laptop much simpler, and …

This week's mac techmail is Using Cornerstone to handle Subversion on the Mac. Subversion is my favourite VCS; I moved to it from CVS years ago. Git is still pretty new to me and one day I may invest more time into using it more fully, but subversion still has …

Last week's mac TechMail was Save time and avoid errors with Typinator for the Mac which looks at one of my favourite productivity tools: Typinator (a text expansion utility). Typinator is one of those things that now that I've been using it for a few years, I couldn't possibly live …