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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
I've got a few decently-specced Synology servers out there that seem to be constantly running with nearly 100% CPU usage caused by synoelasticd. This task is...
Read post →I have a client with a strange, ongoing issue with their email. Particular emails – in this case invoices I send them from Xero, land in the Inbox and then a...
Read post →I've seen a couple of Apple Silicon MacBook Pros recently with an incorrect date and time set, even though "Set time and date automatically" is switched on a...
Read post →As of December 2023, Dropbox have finally updated their app to run natively on Apple Silicon. They say that you're supposed to be updated to it automatically...
Read post →WireGuard is an excellent, secure and fast VPN with full support for macOS. It is frustrating however that the official macOS app is only made available via...
Read post →It's frustrating that out of the box WireGuard only allows admin users to open the main WireGuard window. The error you receive says "WireGuard may only be u...
Read post →I've had a client creating quite a few forms on Microsoft Forms recently and quite inexplicably two of the forms were locked by Microsoft as being phishing....
Read post →If you've got a lot of email in Outlook on Windows, you'll sooner or later come across a rather cryptically worded error message that doesn't really clearly...
Read post →Synology Drive occasionally gets out of sync when you're making changes at both ends of a synced folder. Fortunately, there's a command you can run, either o...
Read post →This script will count the files in the current directory and all the subdirectories - it's useful for checking if you have sync issues with Dropbox as Dropb...
Read post →Yes, I know this isn't tech related, but I need to write this down somewhere where I won't lose it. 3 medium/large carrots 2 large brown onions (or 3-4 small...
Read post →I had a strange issue recently where Microsoft Word was unable to open files from the Recent Files screen. The files were there, e.g. sitting on the Desktop,...
Read post →I had an issue recently where a client was editing Word documents on a server and when they went to save them, they would save but they were hidden. You coul...
Read post →I had a very annoying problem recently when setting up a couple of new iMacs for a client. Although their email and calendars are hosted on Office 365, they...
Read post →Microsoft and Parallels have teamed up to deliver an officially supported solution to run Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs. https://support.microsoft.com/en-...
Read post →I'm just putting a quick snippet here so I can find it later on. When you create a brand-new Microsoft 365 tenancy, it often takes a while before you can ass...
Read post →I've set up a couple of servers recently to host Munki and generally prefer to use nginx now that macOS doesn't ship with a built-in web server. Allowing ngi...
Read post →My web server of choice is nginx, so I've been using that to host on-premises Munki Managed Software Centre instances ever since macOS stopped shipping with...
Read post →I've been using ChatGPT for more and more random things lately, and tonight I asked it to help me out with dinner. I wanted a vegetarian chilli with eggplant...
Read post →I have recently switched over from IT Glue to Hudu for my documentation platform, and am running it as a self-hosted instance. As I have root access to my se...
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