Our thinking
Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
I have a Mac mini as a server here at the Automatica World HQ, and it's downstairs, in a cabinet, running headless with no peripherals attached. I needed to...
Read post →Further to Darren's post , here's the short and sweet how-to configure an L2TP VPN on an EdgeRouter. First edit the commands below. Next, log into the router...
Read post →With the increased need to enable people to “Work From Home”, setting up VPN access is a vital step to ensure a secure connection to the work envir...
Read post →Occasionally I need to list all the folder names in someone's mailbox in Office 365 via PowerShell. Microsoft have a cmdlet called Get-MailboxFolder however...
Read post →I'm posting this as a bookmark to this article on Ars Technica. I know I'll need this at some stage in the not too distant future, so present me is bookmarki...
Read post →I had a client today who after every email they received in Apple Mail on Catalina, an error dialog box would pop up saying "The Message could not be moved t...
Read post →I've occasionally needed to fix certain aspects of the Dock on some people's computers - one particular case comes to mind was an elderly client who somehow...
Read post →On macOS Catalina 10.15, the entire boot volume is mounted read-only. All user data, apps, configuration, preferences etc, exists on the data volume which is...
Read post →This has popped up a couple of times recently and I can never remember where to go in Office 365 to fix it, so after spending some time on the phone to Micro...
Read post →Apple have finally opened their order books for the 2019 Mac Pro , and what a beast it is. Now that it's available for sale, we can see the pricing, not only...
Read post →The original PlayStation has turned 25. I spent many an hour with one of these units flying anti-gravity racers in wipEout, driving fancy sports cars in Gran...
Read post →I was trying to track down the location of the Caching Server cache on macOS Mojave, this is with just the Caching service enabled in Sharing, not with the f...
Read post →Apple have just pushed out an update to Catalina - the macOS Catalina Supplemental Update. The description is pretty vague; "The macOS Catalina Supplemental...
Read post →Wow, Catalina really mixes things up with regard to the file system layout. It also introduces something called firm links, which are not symlinks nor hard l...
Read post →In my last post, outlining the release of Catalina , I covered the process to check for 32-bit apps on your system prior to upgrading. Here's the info as a s...
Read post →Apple have released macOS 10.15 Catalina overnight - this is a big update that is going to break a lot of old software, so please be very careful when instal...
Read post →Adobe have published a list of apps that are 64-bit compatible for macOS. Fix Adobe app 64-bit compatibility errors on macOS Before you upgrade to macOS Cata...
Read post →macOS continues to maintain a fully-functional and highly reliable Unix automount system. This system allows us to keep network shared folders mounted on a M...
Read post →I will often open up a page with a lot of links, e.g. Feedly to read the news, and as I scroll down the page, I like to use ⌘+click to open the links in a ne...
Read post →I received this notification from my bank recently, and it's very good advice that really needs to be passed around. It is critical when changing a BSB and A...
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