June 2018 WWDC Keynote
Apple held their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) overnight. This is where they generally announce all the new features in upcoming versions of...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Daring Fireball: 10 Strikes and You’re Out — the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should
I was unaware that there was quite a safety net built into this feature. Like many other people, I haven't enabled the option to erase all data on my phone a...
Read post →TipBITS: Reveal Invisible Files on the Mac with a Keystroke - TidBITS
Here's a great tip over on TipBITS that I didn't know, but could come in handy some day. I usually have no need at all for seeing invisible files in the Find...
Read post →Connect via ssh to an old, insecure device
I recently needed to use ssh to connect to an old Cisco ASA5505 firewall. As it turns out, the Java interface doesn't work in any current version of Java and...
Read post →How Apple Dethroned Intel As the World's Most Innovative Chipmaker
There's a very interesting article over on The Motley Fool today comparing Apple and Intel in an area where people wouldn't usually think they compete - that...
Read post →iOS 11.4 brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio with AirPlay 2 - Apple
Apple have released the iOS 11.4 update for iPhones and iPads. The main improvement is the addition of AirPlay 2 which allows HomePod speakers to play multi-...
Read post →Download a file with PowerShell for Windows Server Core
If you've got a Windows Server without the Desktop Experience (which, in Windows Server 1709 is the default, and only option) then you're going to have to ge...
Read post →Archicad + Munki
It's long been a source of frustration for me that CAD software usually doesn't use the OS vendor's provided installers and instead they roll their own. Vect...
Read post →Windows Service with PID 4 listening on TCP Port 443
I had an issue where I couldn't start a web server on a Windows Server as something was already listening on TCP Port 443. netstat -a -b just showed me that...
Read post →Troubleshooting AD replication error -2146893022: "The target principal name is incorrect"
I'm too tired to write up more background information on this, suffice to say I spent quite literally hours searching for this and I want to be able to easil...
Read post →Windows 10 - Remove Active Directory Users
We've been using cloud-based Active Directory through Office 365 for our Windows-based clients. It simplifies adding user accounts to Windows workstations be...
Read post →Force Exchange Online Archiving to start archiving email on Office 365
When you enable Exchange Online Archiving for a user on Office 365, it can take 24 hours or more for the Managed Folder Assistant to start it's first run and...
Read post →How did manufacturers manage to make space storage (SSD, HDD) so dense? - Quora
By continually refining methods and technology, by constantly evolving and pushing and exploring new areas of technology. One of the earlier breakthroughs wa...
Read post →Really good advice on passwords from Microsoft
Microsoft have published a white paper - Microsoft Password Guidance that contains some very good advice on what passwords need to be to be secure against mo...
Read post →Can't image a new Windows 10 machine with Clonezilla, NTFS partition shows as RAW
I had an issue today with trying to create an image of a brand-new Windows 10 laptop (HP EliteBook x360 in case you were wondering). When running Clonezilla,...
Read post →Can't invite people to events in macOS Calendar app via Kerio Connect
I've got a client with Kerio Connect as their mail/contacts/calendars server. They were seeing an issue on some workstations where when the user created a ca...
Read post →Get PowerShell remoting working on macOS without installing Homebrew
The PowerShell Team at Microsoft have put in a lot of work to port PowerShell to other (non-Windows) systems. As part of their porting efforts, they've also...
Read post →Stop Apache web services on macOS with Server.app
In recent versions of macOS with the Server.app, the Server software has been more and more persistent about having Apache running. Even if you're not using...
Read post →Is there a way I can tell what year a MacBook was manufactured without asking someone at Apple? - Quora
The only way to be sure is to look up the serial number against a 3rd party service. You can check in the Apple Menu > About this Mac, however the model name...
Read post →Which hard drive format should be used if I'm using both a Macintosh and a Windows machine and I am working with large files? - Quora
If you want to do it without purchasing any additional software, format the disk as exFAT format. Windows and macOS can natively read and write ExFAT disks a...
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