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<h1 align="center">MacTech Magazine: Table of Contents</h1>
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<p><strong>Want to know what's covered in MacTech?</strong> Take a look at our table of contents for 2008:</p>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Mac in the Shell<BR />Learning Python on the Mac<BR /><em>All about strings</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">A Dashboard Widget that Supports Drag-and-Drop<BR /><em>How to drag-and-drop files and directories between Dashboard Widgets and/or Finder</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road to Code<BR />Writing Even Less Code<BR /><em>Introduction to Core Data</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Built for iPhone 2.0<BR /><em>Developing utility applications with the iPhone</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">MacEnterprise<BR />Managing Firefox<BR /><em>Configuring Firefox for your organization's environment</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road To Certification: Revisited<BR /><em>Increase your knowledge and build credibility on the way</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Mac in the Shell<BR />Customizing the bash Experience Further<BR /><em>Changing the bash shell to suit your needs</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road to Code<BR />Come Together, Right Now<BR /><em>Combining bindings, document-based applications, and table views</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">MacEnterprise<BR />Migrating FileVault<BR /><em>Moving FileVault-encrypted accounts to a new machine</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">A Dashboard Widget that Reads and Saves its Preferences<BR />Create a Dashboard Widget that can save and read data after restarting it</li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Packaging Special Payloads with PackageMaker<BR /><em>Bringing drivers, libraries, and plug-ins to the OS X target</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Kool Tools<BR /><em>Microsoft Expression Media 2</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Kool Tools<BR /><em>Kerio Mail Server</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Mac in the Shell<BR />Customizing the bash experience<BR /><em>Get comfortable in the bash shell and make the experience your own</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">MacEnterprise<BR />FileVault in the Enterprise, Part 2<BR /><em>Data security for OS X administrators</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Writing Help for man<BR /><em>Learn how to write, install and test man help files on Mac OS X</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">A Fresh Perspective On AppleScript:<BR />An Interview with an AppleScript Newbie<BR /><em>AppleScript insights and thoughts from a newcomer to the language</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road to Code<BR />Writing Less Code<BR /><em>Introduction to Cocoa bindings</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Beginning REALbasic:<BR /><em>Inside the Application</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Book Review<BR />OS X Exploits and Defense<BR /><em>"Own it...Just Like Windows or Linux!"</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Major Releases, Benchmarks, and Feedback<BR /><em>Benchmarks and how the community contributes</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Creating Widgets with Dashcode<BR /><em>When to use Dashcode, and other important widget information</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">LBackup<BR /><em>Flexible backup for system administrators</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">MacTech Salutes the 2008 Apple Design Award Winners<BR /><em>Showcasing the best of the best of 2008</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Creating a Backup Policy<BR /><em>Design and document an effective backup system for your business</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">AppleScript and BBEdit<BR /><em>Extend and enhance your BBEdit experience with AppleScript</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">SNMP Primer for OSX Leopard<BR /><em>An article on "Understanding, Configuring, and Customizing SNMP on OS X Leopard" that might change the way you think about your Mac.</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road to Code: Patterns in the Sky<BR /><em>The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Book Review:<BR />Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, Take Control of Easy Backup in Leopard<BR /><em>Two backup titles in the Take Control of series</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Beginning REALBasic<BR /><em>Designing the application</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">FileVault in the Enterprise, Part 1<BR /><em>Data security for Mac Administrators</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">VBA's Coming Back. Is it right for you?<BR /><em>VBA coming back is great, but it's not here yet, and even so, it may not be your best solution.</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road to Code:<BR />One for the Archives<BR /><em>Archiving objects and document-based applications</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Creating a Dashboard Widget that Processes an RSS Feed<BR /><em>What is an RSS feed and how do I process it from within a Dashboard Widget?</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Enhancing Your Application with NSStatusItem<BR /><em>How to Utilize the NSStatusItem API to add functionality</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Wiki Services in Leopard Server Overview<BR /><em>A "fast" introduction to wiki and blog services in OS X Server for the SysAdmin</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Mac in the Shell:<BR />Data Manipulation with PHP<BR /><em>PHP provides easy access to MySQL on OS X</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Test-Driven Development Using AppleScript<BR /><em>Using testing frameworks to create more robust AppleScript applications</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Modularity<BR /><em>Continuing our look at creating deployment images, with an intro to InstaDMG</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">RubyCocoa<BR /><em>A new way to write Cocoa applications--Part 1</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Grokking OS X's Undo Support<BR /><em>How to effectively use the Undo Manager built into Cocoa</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road to Code:<BR />Nice and Gooey<BR /><em>Writing your first Cocoa GUI interface</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">What's in Your Target<BR /><em>Unit testing and analysis coverage</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Geoff Perlman on REALbasic<BR /><em>Catching up with Geoff and REALbasic 2008</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">MacTech Spotlight:<BR />Eberhard Rensch<BR /><em>Founder, Pleasant Software</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Virtualization Benchmarking<BR /><em>How do Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, and VMWare Fusion stack up?</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road To Certification-Part 3<BR /><em>Increase your knowledge and build credibility along the way</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Mac in the Shell:<BR />What Has Really Changed in Leopard?<BR /><em>Some differences for us Unixy scripty people<br /></em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Getting Started with Git<BR /><em>Learn how to use Git to manage your project</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Managed Preferences, Part 2<BR /><em>New options in Workgroup Manager in Leopard</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">The Road to Code:<BR />There's a Hole in Your Bucket<BR /><em>Objective-C memory management</em></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">Adobe CS3 and Apple Script<br /></li>
<li class="MacTechTOC">MacTech Spotlight:<BR />Marcus S. Zarra<BR /><em>Owner, Zarra Studios, LLC</em></li>
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