This week's TechMail is Don't need groupware? Organize your life with Osmo which looks at using Osmo as a pretty basic, yet useful, personal information manager. Osmo is quite basic, but if that's all you need (i.e. don't need Outlook or Zimbra or collaboration or internet connectivity), it's a …

This week's mac TechMail is Easy application syncing with Mac's Daylite CRM which talks more about using Daylite on the mac as a contact-relationship management software. I love Daylite and use it daily, and it's ability to sync with other applications makes it so extremely useful. This tip talks about …

This week's TechMail is Learn to use Git version control for added flexibility which talks about some of the basics of using Git. This was good for me since I'm a subversion monkey, but since a lot of projects are using Git now, I really needed to get the basics …

Two new mac tips on TechRepublic... last week's is Configure OS X for Kerberos single sign-on authentication which talks about how to configure Kerberos with OS X. This week the tip is Get to know Daylite CRM for Macs which talks about the Daylite contact management software for OS X …

This week's TechMail is Fedora 12 boasts enhanced performance, improved reporting, better graphics which is a great big gushy welcome to Constantine! The tip highlights some of my favourite new features in Fedora 12. I've been running the beta on my new HP machine for about a month now and …

Well, I bought a new computer about a month ago or so, and got my Win7 upgrade disc today. I've got Vista on one drive, and Fedora 12 on the other (Vista is around for gaming and that's about it). So I decided to go through the steps of the …

This week's techmail is Snoop on your own network with ntop, which discusses the many uses for the ntop application and why you want to use it, particularly if you need to keep an eye on your network traffic and throughput. ntop is a great analysis tool that deserves a …

This week's mac techmail is Get creative with Automator workflows in Mac which discusses some of the new Automator-related features of OS X 10.6, particularly in regards to the new Services menu and easy-to-get-started Automator templates. Combining Automator and the Services menu can make for some really interesting productivity …

Missed two mac-related techmails from the previous weeks. The first is Learn to use the improved Snow Leopard Services menu which talks about the OS X 10.6 much overhauled services menu and some of the cool things you can do with it such as making your own Automator actions …

Last week's techmail was Using BitlBee to consolidate instant messaging into one client which talks about the really neat BitlBee program which brings your instant messaging to IRC. It's got a few rough edges, but it's really quite neat and worth checking out if you're tired of using multiple apps …