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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Microsoft have published an excellent article on the Azure Active Directory Identity Blog titled Your Pa$$word doesn't matter . Although it gets pretty techn...
Read post →I was setting up a new user on a laptop recently and every time I rebooted the machine, I had to re-enter the wifi password. Aside from being really irritati...
Read post →It's Alive! I've got a Mac mini (2018), one of the new models in Space Grey with a T2 chip. It's a powerhouse, it replaced a Mac Pro (Late 2013) and on every...
Read post →I've got a few users who have recently filled up their mailboxes (I thought 50 GB was a huge amount of email, apparently not), and I urgently needed to free...
Read post →I had an issue at a client's site today where they have a MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.5 and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. What would happen is that whe...
Read post →I recently posted an article on how to publish a resource calendar in Office 365 as a live HTML feed . In testing this further with a client, it turns out th...
Read post →Here's a quick companion post to the previous one with some raw technical information on the file formats for the Bose Sleepbuds. Each sound in the library n...
Read post →Edit: Bose have discontinued the SleepBuds and are offering everyone a full refund if they return them. As such, I'm not going to spend any more time trying...
Read post →I installed some software that I wanted to quickly check out. As it turns out, it helpfully decided to install a couple of Extensions. These extensions were...
Read post →With Office 365, it is very easy for an individual user to share their calendar out to external recipients, and those recipients get a URL that can be used t...
Read post →Apple have finally announced a new Mac Pro and matching Pro Display at WWDC. The Mac Pro returns to the beloved "cheese-grater" form factor of years gone pas...
Read post →Over at Der Flounder there's a great article on how to manage filesystem snapshots on APFS volumes, using the Time Machine utility in Terminal - tmutil . Fil...
Read post →Reading over an article on TidBITS today, I've now discovered a new media player that may take the place of the venerable VLC Media Player . I've simply lost...
Read post →Microsoft are really stepping things up with their Windows Subsystem for Linux ( WSL ). In the current release of Windows 10, the WSL layer has a custom-buil...
Read post →Here's a quick fix for the Finder not displaying a thumbnail of an image for it's icon. Drop into the Terminal and type: qlmanage -r cache This resets the Qu...
Read post →This is a good article to bookmark from Apple - I wasn't aware that there were different keyboard shortcuts to boot into the macOS Recovery system, and which...
Read post →There's a really good article over on TidBITS - What Does the T2 Chip Mean for Mac Usage . If you've wondered what the T1 and T2 security processors do in th...
Read post →With no fanfare whatsoever, Apple overnight have released new iMacs . This is the first meaningful update to the lineup since June 2017 and brings them up-to...
Read post →Now that PowerShell works pretty well on macOS, including remote sessions to Office 365, I'm able to use it a lot more for administering client tenancies in...
Read post →I had a client with an unusual issue on a Mac mini that used to be a file server, but now is just sharing out some archived content and their Munki repositor...
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