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 2005:

December 2005 Issue

  • Deconstructing RSS 2.0
    Understanding How RSS Feeds Work
  • Nagios on OS X, Part 1:
    Installing and Setting Up One of the Best Net Monitoring Tools Around
  • XRackPro2: Noise Reduction Rack Mount Cabinet
  • Building a Table View Project in AppleScript Studio
  • What’s Rattling Around in my sed:
    Automating edits.
  • “Why Am I The Only Woman At This Table?”
  • State Property 2:
    Opening QuickTime Movies using Properties
  • MacTech 2005 High-Tech Gift Guide
    Sonos Digital Music System
    EyeTv and EyeHome
    One for the Kids: The Mac Mini
    Lift and Separate: The XStand
    Gigs on the Go: The StoreJet 1.8
    Carry On: Laptop Cases
    Lots of Fun: Video Games
    GooBall and Jammin’ Racer
    The Unofficial Lego Builder’s Guide
    Nice Dreams: Pzizz
    Musical Digerati: Get Digital
    iPod Shuffle Accessories
    Look Ma, No Hands: Phone Headsets
    More Free Sound: iCombi
    The National Geographic Back Roads Explorer
    It Came Inside A Midnight Beer
    Waterproof Camera Housings

November 2005 Issue

  • Vodcasting: Exploring the Future of Syndicated Media
  • Using Open Source Tools to Filter Email on Mac OS X Server
  • Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X
  • Introduction to Core Data, Part III:
    Fetch, Clarus, Fetch
  • In The Trenches:
    Talking With One Man on the Front Lines of Mac IT
  • Bonjour, Mon ami:
    Automatic Service Discovery in Tiger
  • State Property:
    Working with QuickTime Properties and Property Listeners
  • Back to bash Basics:
    Part 2 Time to Advance Ourselves
  • Introduction To Scripting iCal
  • Making The Invisible Files Visible

October 2005 Issue

  • Bluetooth: The Basics and How Apple Implemented it in OS X
  • An Open Source Primer:
    A Practical Guide to Using Open Source Software for the Non-Developer
  • Creating Interface Builder Palettes with Bindings Support
  • The Informer: Using the QuickTime Metadata Functions
  • Introduction To Scripting Address Book
  • Back to bash Basics:
    Following Up on the bash Presented Thus Far
  • Knock Knock Knocking on LDAP’s Door, Part 2
  • Tips and Tidbits:
    A Step-by-Step Guide to Making and Promoting Your Own Podcast

September 2005 Issue

  • A MacMini Robot:
    Building A Vision Capable Robot Using A Mac Mini
  • ADHOC 2005 (aka MacHack):
    A Much Loved Mac Institution Comes To An End
  • iPod – Linux: Get Your Geek-On
    With This Amazingly Feature Rich Companion OS
  • Storage Interconnect Technologies: A Quick Reference Guide
  • Introduction to Core Data, Part II:
    Diving More Deeply Into Apple’s New Persistence Framework
  • Enterprise Backup and Recovery: Practices for
    Streamlining Large-scale Backup and Recovery Implementations
  • Playing With A Mac and A PSP
  • Screen: Living In A Virtual World
  • Introduction To Scripting Mail
  • Knock Knock Knocking on LDAP’s Door
  • Kool Tools:Must Have iPod Accessories
  • Tips & TidBits:
    Centralized Device Logging with Tiger and Syslodg

August 2005 Issue

  • Building An AppleScript-Based Automator Action
  • PHP, MySQL, And Forms
  • DNS And E-Mail Part 2: Troubleshooting
  • Part 2 of Mac OS X Server 10.4: An Overview
  • QuickTime Toolkit: Threads
  • Nuts About SquirrelMail
  • Securing Mail With GPG: A Graphical Tutorial
  • Palm On OS X: Dissecting the PDB File
  • Exclusive File Access In Mac OS X
  • Mac OS X Programming:
    Mineralogy 101- Use The Quartz (2D), Luke!

July 2005 Issue

  • iClip And Advanced UNIX Programming
  • Developing Applications with the
    QuickTime for Cocoa Kit, Part III
  • Tips From Big Nerd Ranch:
    Style For Cocoa Programmers
  • Mac OS X Server 10.4, An Overview
  • AppleScript Essentials: Working With Text
  • DNS And E-Mail, Did You Know They’re Related?
  • Using Tiger’s New Persistence Framework and Modeling Tool
  • Save Our Screens -102-
    How To Write A Mac OS X Screen Saver, Part II
  • REALbasic Development:
    What’s New In REALbasic 2005?
  • KoolTools: Game Controllers
  • KoolTools: Final Cut Express HD
  • KoolTools: Vendetta Online
  • KoolTools: Point-and-Click Astronomy With A Mac

June 2005 Issue

  • Itanium, And Pentium, And MacTel, Oh My
  • PHP And MySQL, Together At Last
  • The Source Hound: Business Unusual. Open-Source With Teeth
  • Developing Applications With The QuickTime For Cocoa Kit
  • Tips From Big Nerd Ranch: Life With SQLite
  • AppleScript Essentials: User Interface Scripting
  • launchd: Judge, Jury, Executioner
  • Journaling Bits: A Look At The OS X “Personal Diary”
  • Indexing Darwin Files. Extending Spotlight’s Reach
  • Mac OS X Programming: Save Our Screens 101
  • Serving From Home: Running A Mac Web Server With A Dynamic IP Address
  • Cocoa’s New Tree-Based XML Parser
  • Using NSXML To Parse, Edit, And Write XML

May 2005 Issue

  • Tiger. Automator
  • QuickTime Toolkit: Back To The Future
  • Tips From Big Nerd Ranch: Tiger Time
  • ACLs: Finer Grained Permissions
  • What’s New With AppleScript In Tiger
  • Outside The Web-Safe Palette. New Software Gives Designers A New Way To Look At Color
  • Fun With Quartz Composer
  • The Source Hound, Ghost In The Machine
  • Enterprise Information Systems On Mac OS X
  • KoolTools: Business Card Composer
  • KoolTools: DeskMount G5
  • KoolTools: Skin Tight Armbands
  • KoolTools: Pro Pack For GarageBand
  • KoolTools: Digital Satellite
  • KoolTools: PostWorx Speedball
  • KoolTools: ScreensavRZ
  • KoolTools: Tron 2.0

April 2005 Issue

  • Combining Two Faces Of OS X: AppleScript and Java
  • FileMaker’s 7 “Biggest” Change
  • The iPod Mobile Challenge:
    How Hard Is It To Get An iPod To Sound Great In A Car?
  • What’s New For Developers In FileMaker 7?
  • Smarter Playlists:
    Getting More Out Of iTunes With Smart Playlists
  • An Introduction To Builds:
    Creating And Using Builds In Mac OS X
  • Improve PDF Search By Making HTML Clones
  • Getting Started with MySQL, Part Deux
  • Introduction To AppleScript Studio
  • The Source Hound: Coneheads At The Gate
  • The Shell: Automation, Doing Something Useful
  • KoolTools: Huge Systems Media Vault U320-R
  • KoolTools: iPod Fan Book
  • KoolTools: eMedia Rock Guitar Method
  • The Motorola RAZR Is Cool, But I Want To Use Bluetooth!

March 2005 Issue

  • MySQL: PHP’s Perfect Partner
  • Enterprise Information Systems on Mac OS X
  • AppleScript Essentials: Performing Basic Image Manipulation
  • Quicktime Toolkit: The Incredibles
  • Virtual Private Networks: Secure E-Commuting
  • The Shell: What?
  • Programming Python
  • The Source hound: A Smart World After All
  • Focus Review: Near-Time’s Flow
  • Basic Admin Skills: Cron and Crontab In-Depth
  • Patch Panel: Movable Type on Panther
  • Halo: Combat Evolved

February 2005 Issue

  • BBEdit: Somehow, It Still Doesn’t Suck!
  • New technology: Podcasting 101
  • The Source Hound: Betting on The Dark Horse
  • Matchmaking with Regular Expressions
  • Quicktime Toolkit: Terminal Velocity
  • Mac in the Shell: The Terminal Why?
  • Securing Mac OS X
  • AppleScript Essentials: An Introduction to Handlers
  • Imaging in Forensics
  • Software Marketing: Broadcast Your News with RSS
  • Patach Panel: An Introduction to Kerberos and Single Sign-on
  • iBoom from Digital Lifestyle Outfitters
  • AXIO Swift hardpack

January 2005 Issue

  • The 2005 Apple Sysadmin’s Wishlist
  • Creating a Cocoa AppController Class
  • Mac OS X Server’s Print and File Services for Mixed Networks
  • Quicktime Toolkit: Black Hawk Down
  • Database Applications in REALbasic
  • AppleScript Essentials: Thinking Logically
  • Software Marketing: Choosing an E-Commerce Partner – part 2
  • KoolTools: Round-Up of a big Show!
  • Starting an on-Line Business
  • The Application Formerly Known As…
  • The Web Server in OS X
  • MySQL -vs- PostgreSQL

December 2004 Issue

  • BZFlag: A SourceForge Open Source Project
  • Zero-Day Exploit
  • MacAlly USB Combo Kit
  • Belkin Digital Camera Link
  • LetterRip Professional 4.0 Mailing List Server
  • STM large Loop Backpack
  • Griffin GarageBand Guitar Cable
  • Quicktime Toolkit: The Terminal
  • Backup! Backup! Backup!
  • When Disaster Strikes
  • AppleScript Essentials: Should I Repeat Myself?
  • NeoOffice: J Walks into Aqualand
  • Software Marketing: Choosing an E-Commerce Partner – part 1
  • All Keyed Up
  • In Focus: Mac OS X Services
  • Patch Panel: An Apple remote Desktop Critique
  • Using Entourage and Mail with an Exchange Server
  • Remote Control It’s Not Just for Your TV
  • Business Processes… they’re good for you… No, Really
  • Unix in OS X- Getting More From OS X

November 2004 Issue

  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Becoming a Blogger with iBlog
  • Software Marketing: Serial Number Politics
  • Fill Online PDF Forms Using HTML Forms
  • Java versus .Net
  • ADHOC/MacHack: I Love the Nightlife
  • Active Directory and Mac OS X
  • Focus review: Archos AV420
  • Altec Lansing AHS602 Gaming Headset
  • EarJams or In-Ear Headphones?
  • BlueTake i-Phone BT420 EX
  • Belkin Digital Camera Link
  • Macally BT Mouse Jr.
  • Transpod FM
  • Applescript Essentials: More Finder Scripting
  • Conference Report: WWDC, Steve, and Tiger
  • Looking for Open Directory
  • Using SOAP with PHP
  • Python for AppleScripters
  • Patch Panel: Kerio Mail Server