OS X

Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X gets updated to version 4

This past week’s mac techmail was Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X gets updated to version 4 which looks at the new version of Panic’s Transmit FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/S3 client. Transmit is pretty good; I’ve been using it for years and the new version is a nice upgrade. I don’t agree with the speed gains they [...]

Fun tricks with Growl and GeekTool

This week’s mac techmail is Fun tricks with Growl and GeekTool which looks at a (probably rather unique) scenario of running an IRC client in a virtual machine (running Linux) and having alerts show up on the OS X desktop. The tip, while relatively specific to one function, should provide some ideas on cool things [...]

Monitoring MySQL with mytop

This week’s techmail is Monitoring MySQL with mytop which looks at the mytop perl tool that can help monitor and diagnose problems with MySQL (mytop is essentially a top for MySQL).

Get increased password protection on the iPhone

Last week’s mac techmail was Get increased password protection on the iPhone which looks at using the iPhone configuration utility to create security profiles. While this isn’t a pure and perfect security solution, it’s another layer in the onion that will keep casual folks off your phone and getting at the data. It would be [...]

Get cross-platform remote access via LogMeIn and your Web browser

This week’s mac techmail was Get cross-platform remote access via LogMeIn and your Web browser which is a really interesting remote login system. With it I was able to control my OS X workstation from a Fedora box, from within Firefox. The downside is that I couldn’t control my Fedora box from OS X (you [...]

Advanced tips for using LaunchBar shortcuts with Mac

This week’s mac techmail is Advanced tips for using LaunchBar shortcuts with Mac. I love LaunchBar and have talked about it before. I absolutely could not imagine life without it, and I’m still learning new things to do with it, so this tip mentions some of that stuff. Specifically, on how to use it to [...]