MacTech Magazine: Table of Contents

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Want to know what’s covered in MacTech? Take a look at our table of contents for 2007:

	December 2007 Issue Mac in the Shell: Pashua: Helping the GUI Crowd Give your shell scripts a GUI The Road To Certification Increase your knowledge and build credibility along the way DIY: OpenVPN Server How to turn OS X client into an OpenVPN server Leopard’s New Toolbox What’s new for the system administrator in OS X 10.5 The Road to Code: Primary Objective Introduction to Objective-C Data Overflow: What’s Your Back-up Plan? Why you must protect an ever-increasing volume of valuable data Product Guide Our annual guide to advertisers and their products MacTech Spotlight Dr. Michael Watson, Freeverse, Inc.


	November 2007 Issue 5 Leopard Features To Make Your Sys Admin Happier Here are a few features that will make your life as a systems administrator easier Mac in the Shell: Leopard Terminal.app: Create Your Workspace Have all the comforts of ~ The Road to Code: Leopard Detour What’s new for developers in Leopard Changing Spots New ways of manipulating Directory Services in Leopard Using the RADIUS Service in OSX 10.5 Aimed at Airports, but flexible under the hood Affordable NAS Integrating FreeNAS appliance software into a Mac environment Exploring Leopard with DTrace How to use DTrace for debugging and exploration Easily Capture video from any VGA or DVI device Discover how to grab raw video frames and stream them to your preferred utility MacTech Spotlight: Kent Sutherland Independent Developer/Student


	October 2007 Issue Demystifying Windows network browsing A behind the scenes look at how it really works Strangers in a foreign land Integrating OS X with Active Directory The Road to Code: Getting Oriented Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Mac in the Shell: ssh Basics and More Is there anything ssh can’t do?! Archiving with Tar Learn how to use the tar tool MacTech Spotlight: David Sinclair Owner, Dejal Systems LLC


	September 2007 Issue More ftp I’ve got a fever, and the only cure is more ftp! The Mac Consultant’s Guide to Managing Windows Product Keys Do your customers (and yourself) a favor with our best practices The Road to Code: Bits and Bytes and Everything Nice More Memory Topics FTP Clients for Mac OS X Roundup of some popular FTP client apps Quoting in the shell Dealing with interesting characters in shell programming My Sojourn Through Cocoa Boot Camp Or What It’s Like Getting Back Into The Trenches… MacTech Spotlight: Brian Webster Fat Cat Software

	August 2007 Issue USENIX != WWDC An impressionistic report on two very different technical conferences Mac in the Shell: Plumbing the Depths Finding hidden gems in application bundles Backups on a Budget Build your own backup utility with AppleScript Studio Developing for the iPhone OR: how I learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0 The Road to Code: Pointing the Way Game on! Understanding SMB in OS X There are many more pieces than you may realize Real World Review: REALbasic 2007r2 KoolTools: MacCase Premium Leather Collection MacTech Spotlight Dave Schroeder, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

	July 2007 Issue AppleScript and Apple Remote Desktop Automating an automation tool More from the Unknown More shell tools that typically go unnoticed DIY: BIND DNS Server How to turn OS X client into a full-featured DNS server The Courage to Start Take the first step toward programming for Mac OS X Environment Variables What they are and how to use them Advanced Tables with AppleScript Studio Learn how to support editable tables and drag-and-drops Using NetBooting on the Mac OS X Server for delivery of mass client deployment MacTech Spotlight Steve Modica, CEO, Small Tree Communications

	June 2007 Issue Automation Potpourri Shell and GUI scripting come together MSX: Client Wrangling 101 How to gain and keep control of your clients The MacTech 25, 2007 Troubleshooting Directory Services The basics Open Source Options for Mac OS X How to leverage open source applications in Mac OS X 10.4 Copy That Why you need a clipboard manager MacTech Spotlight Eric Schwiebert, Microsoft Corporation

	May 2007 Issue Introduction to AppleScripting Microsoft Entourage Learn F-Script in 20 Minutes And have fun playing with Core Image The man Show Learning shell utilities with and without man Perl 6 on XCode Bringing the power of Perl 6 to the OS X environment Apple’s Transition from Open Firmware to Extensible Firmware Interface Uninstalling with AppleScript Building an uninstaller with AppleScript Studio Real World Reviews: AMCC 3Ware Sidecar Kit When it’s time to step up to more and better MacTech Spotlight Paul Kafasis, CEO, Rogue Amoeba Software

	April 2007 Issue Remotely Control Your Mac Without a Computer Use the world, and your location, to control and manipulate your home Lego NXT on the Mac Lego’s next generation Mindstorm kits play nice with the Mac. Using “Parallels Desktop” with Bootcamp to run Windows XP KoolTools: Maxtor Shared Storage Drives MacTech Spotlight Jonathan “Wolf” Rentszch, Founder, Red Shed Software Company SPECIAL SECTION: Moving from Microsoft Office VBA to AppleScript MacTech’s Guide to Making the Transition

	March 2007 Issue Introduction to Scripting Microsoft PowerPoint OS X Failover – Part 1 A beginner’s guide Apple’s Transition: Apple Partition Map to the GUID Partition Table The Source Hound: MacFUSE: The Man Behind the Mask Open Source Strikes Again Which Log? Following up on which log shows you what Virtual Reality Which solution is right for me? Local File Transfer on the Easy Your clients, and their mail server, will love it Real World Review: MyVu Personal Media Viewer MacTech Spotlight Tim Standing, VP Engineering, SoftRAID, LLC

	February 2007 Issue Introduction to Scripting Microsoft Excel Virtual Choices on the Mac VMWare brings their wares to Intel Macs Pwn your Tab Key Mice are for wimps Automate Your Place, Part 2 Have your Mac brew your coffee and take care of the lights on your way out More on Logs Watching log files without really watching them Matching satellite Altec Lansing FX 6021 speakers with Apple Display Camping in OS X A file sharing primer Real World Reviews: BravoPro Disc Publishing System DiskWarrior 4 KoolTools: RadTech Sleevz and Krussell Music Series Cases iSkin Claro and eVo3 Cases Newer Technology’s TRAFFICJamz and NuPower ViDEO+ MacTech at Macworld 2007 …a gathering not quite like any other MacTech Spotlight Michael Clark, VP Engineering, Marketcircle

	January 2007 Issue Introduction to Scripting Microsoft Word Can RAID be used for Backup? Creating and installing Xcode menu scripts using Xcode The R statistics package Automate Your Place, part 1 Real-world Integration On Logs Everything you need to know about your system Jumbo Frame Networks Tap into extra Ethernet Speed Laptop Hard Drive Speed 4200, 5400, 7200 RPMs… does it really matter? Focus Review: Juniper/Netscreen Protection Sound Studio 3 Height and Angle FootRester MacTech Spotlight Featuring: Christoph Nadig and Pascal Freiburghaus