techmail
Use Fake to automate web testing on the Mac
Last week’s Mac techmail was Use Fake to automate web testing on the Mac which takes a look at a neat app for the Mac called Fake. This app is similar to Automator, except instead of automating desktop-related tasks, it automates web-related tasks. With it you can automate web submissions, use it to do regression [...]
Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM
This week’s techmail was Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM which talks about how to combine RAID1 with LVM for a few rich, flexible storage management solution. The tip describes how to get started with setting up RAID and LVM (although here’s a hint: the Anaconda installer makes this an absolute snap). Combining RAID and LVM [...]
Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X
Last week’s mac techmail was Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X in which I looked at the Tower application, a Git GUI client for OS X. I’ve looked at a few Git clients for OS X and Tower was my application of choice amongst the contenders; the tip explains why. Tower [...]
Printing to AirPort shared printers from Linux
Last week’s techmail was Printing to AirPort shared printers from Linux, which looks at how to configure a Linux system to print directly to an AirPort shared printer. This is actually quite easy to do, as the tip explains, but it’s not overly straightforward (hence the need for said tip)
Two tips: OS X ACLs and hidden Option key commands
I’m a little behind on putting up my recent Mac articles for TechRepublic here, so I’m going to put them all in one post. The first is Introduction to OS X Access Control Lists (ACLs) which introduces you to OS X’s implementation of filesystem access control lists. OS X, like Linux, has ACLs that can [...]
Two tips: Using GTG and using NX
I’m a little behind on putting up my recent articles for TechRepublic here, so I’m going to put them all in one post. The first one is Use Getting Things GNOME to get things done which looks at Getting Things GNOME (GTG), a GTD application for GNOME. It’s pretty basic compared to other GTD apps [...]