Apple's built-in Preview app has long had a way that you can reduce the size of a PDF by recompressing and downsampling the images in the PDF. Simply open a PDF in Preview and go to File > Export and...
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Disable Azure AD users from having to set up a PIN on Windows 10
This information is condensed from Håvard Siegel Haukeberg's blog over at https://haukeberg.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/disable-pin-code-when-joining-azure-ad/ You need to log in as the actual admin user for the domain, you can't do this through a partner account with delegated administration. First up, go to the Azure...
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Give an Azure AD user Local Administrator user privileges on Windows 10
When you join a Windows 10 machine to Azure AD, the user account you use to join to the domain is automatically given local administrator permissions to the machine. If you noodle around in the Azure management portal, there doesn't...
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Fix file timestamps with dates in the future on OS X or Unix/Linux
I recently needed to fix a heap of files with invalid timestamps for a client to sync between two sites. The issue was that some files had modification dates in the year 2032 or something like that. With a 2-way...
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Issues authenticating Windows 10 to OS X/macOS with Server.app
Ever since Apple were forced to ditch Samba due to their changing the licensing to GPL3, we've been stuck with a second-rate SMB implementation on OS X and Server called smbx. As it turns out, there are numerous issues with smbx...
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Troubleshooting: Fetch a web page as Googlebot
I've had a couple of clients come to me recently after their WordPress site was pwned. Sometimes you're able to use a tool like Wordfence to clean it up and secure the site and it's all OK. Sometimes however it...
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Product Review: Bidsketch – easily and quickly send out proposals to clients.
I've been trialling Bidsketch as a more efficient way to get written proposals to my clients. I don't write a huge number of proposals, and am prone to reinvent the wheel each time I need to do one, which is...
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