How to take a screenshot on your Mac
This is new to me, as it's a new feature in macOS Mojave. On older systems, to capture a screenshot, you can use Shift+Cmd+4 and either select a rectangular...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
How to create a bootable installer for macOS
With the recent release of a new Mac operating system, macOS Mojave , it's worth digging out and rehashing the instructions to create a bootable installer. I...
Read post →Fix a Broken Open Directory app
Back in 2016 I posted some steps to repair Open Directory when the LDAP database has problems. On some servers this happens very rarely, on other servers it...
Read post →The upcoming Office for Mac 2019
Microsoft will be releasing an update to Office for Mac next month. This update will change the branding from Office 2016 to Office 2019 and it will also req...
Read post →The iMac at 20 Years Old
The iMac is getting on a bit. Old enough to vote in some areas (and almost old enough in others), it's been a staple of our computing landscape for two decad...
Read post →Change Primary Email Address without changing Login Name on Office 365
I have a client who is in the process of changing their email addresses over - from something like @examplecompany.com.au to @example.com.au. We have just mi...
Read post →What APFS Does for You, and What You Can Do with APFS - TidBITS
If you've been wondering what APFS is, and how it affects your use of your Mac, over on TidBits there's a good article by Jeff Carlson that covers the releva...
Read post →Case Study - Migration to Dropbox & Office 365
Introduction Established in 2005, Hamton are a forward-thinking and design-conscious developer who have set out to provide institutional investors with expos...
Read post →Solution to failed firmware updates in a UniFi Cloud Key
I've had a few UniFi Cloud Key wifi controllers with this issue - they seem to be stuck on a particular version of the firmware and can't be updated. Both ma...
Read post →Rogue Amoeba Blog - On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
I could not agree more with this sentiment. There's nothing wrong with speed bumps, small and more frequent updates to the hardware rather than going for yea...
Read post →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...
Read post →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...
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