Last week's mac techmail was First look at the Mac App Store which took a look at the new Mac App Store. It's pretty much a technical primer on what it does, how updates work, how it works (or doesn't) with already installed apps, etc.

Last week's mac techmail was Tips for safer web browsing when using Adobe Flash on your Mac which talks about using ClickToFlash on the mac to prevent flash from automatically loading. Since flash is pretty awful and there have been a lot of security holes in it, I prefer the …

Last week's mac techmail was Life with the MacBook Air: The netbook I've been waiting for and it's my review on the new 11" MacBook Air. I love this machine!

Well, it's early on Christmas Eve day here, but I realize that for some of my friends and co-workers, it's Christmas Day already (well, really early Christmas Day anyways) so figured that if they are at all like me and checking on things instead of relaxing, I would wish them …

Last week's techmail was Create a local Fedora mirror system and get blazing-fast updates which shows you how to use the Fedora mirror manager and associated tools to setup a local private (or public, if you wanted) mirror of Fedora. It's really quite slick and since I was keeping a …

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 …