Last week's mac techmail was Working with Safari Extensions: A few to try which is a bit of a primer on how to work with Safari's Extensions, and also gives some of my favourites to try. There aren't a lot of Extensions as of yet, but there are a few …

The mac techmail two weeks ago was Synchronize OmniFocus tasks via Spootnik on the Web which looks at the Spootnik web service. You can do more than just sync OmniFocus using Spootnik (i.e. use it as a remote WebDAV service to sync OmniFocus on two macs); if you use …

The techmail of two weeks ago was The easiest way to set up Samba for file-sharing which discusses a really quick way of getting Samba setup for filesharing. It doesn't go into all the details of setting up multiple users or different authentication types, but if you want to share …

I realized today, after having a conversation with someone at work about gpg keys and rpm support, that I haven't updated my GPG key in about 6 years.

Then I realized I harped on CERT not too long ago about not doing things right. =) Granted, my key hasn't been compromised …

Last week's mac techmail was Turn your Mac into a security surveillance centre which discusses the SecuritySpy software and using it to watch the feeds of remote video cameras. Very cool stuff, and shockingly inexpensive (the cameras I got now monitor the exterior of the house, and they were about …

This week's Linux techmail is How to set up WebDAV hosting on Apache which looks at how to setup your Apache server for use as a WebDAV server. This was a tricky one for me as I'd tried it before and couldn't get one of my applications that allowed syncing …

This seems to be an ongoing saga so now I'm going to vent about it. It is ridiculous that an organization supposedly as secure as CERT can have such poor distribution mechanisms for alerting users of their new GPG keys. It is really important that, when you update GPG keys …

And this is why I have randomly generated passwords on all sites and services... this is funny, but sadly way too true.

As with the Linux tips, I've been so busy that I've neglected the mac tips, so here they are:

Power up your Apple Mail with MailTags and Mail Act-On discusses two very useful plugins for Apple Mail. With these plugins you can put Mail on steroids with some great filtering …

I've been so busy in the last little while I've not had a chance to post the recent techmails that have gone up, so here goes:

Cloud-based RSS reading with Google Reader and Liferea looks at using Liferea as a client for Google Reader. The nice thing about using Google …