iTunes 11
iTunes 11 arrived overnight, hitting Apple's promised November '12 deadline (in the USA at least) and they've finally fixed one of the long-standing interfac...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Fixing Windows File Sharing (SMB) Permissions on OS X Server
With Apple hiding a lot of the more useful and fine-grained controls over the services on OS X Server, the SMB Service is one area that has suffered. There i...
Read post →Product Review: Audioengine A2 desktop speakers
I've had a pair of Audioengine A2 self-powered desktop speakers for a bit over a year now and they still continue to impress. Easily the best desktop speaker...
Read post →Setting Internationalisation Preferences for OS X in a script
One thing that is a lot harder than it needs to be is managing the internationalisation preferences in OS X from a script, via MCX or via a configuration pro...
Read post →Revisiting converting videos for Apple TV
Further to my earlier post on converting videos to MP4 for Apple TV and easy playback from iTunes , I've recently been using another app for adding metadata,...
Read post →Kerio Connect and Kerberos Authentication against a 10.7/10.8 OpenDirectory Server
To cut a long story short, if you're trying to get Kerio Connect to authenticate against an OD server running on 10.7 or 10.8 (Lion or Mountain Lion) that's...
Read post →Can't connect to SMB shares on Mountain Lion Server after a reboot
It seems that when starting up the SMB service on OS X Mountain Lion Server, there is a race condition and some of the prerequisites may not get started up i...
Read post →Flying with a Jetpack
I've just installed Jetpack by WordPress.com into this site, the main improvement you'll probably notice is that commenting is easier - you can now comment u...
Read post →Ads Removed
Seeing as I've made a grand total of about $7.55 running Google's ads on my site, and seeing as they're pretty ugly, I'm getting rid of them as of now.
Read post →Dealing with the hell that is running Windows Update on a freshly installed machine
OK, it's no secret, I hate Windows Update. I think it's absolutely unbelievable how many updates it needs to run, and how many times it needs to reboot, befo...
Read post →Convert videos for watching on Apple TV/iTunes
I've been converting videos in order to watch on the Apple TV. There are numerous advantages to having a movie collection in iTunes, some of which are the va...
Read post →Watch How This Time-Expanding Car Commercial Was Painstakingly Stitched Together
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader It turns out Phantom cameras are useful for more than just destroying household items and blowing stuff up. Thi...
Read post →Adding incoming and outgoing access rules on a Cisco ASA
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader To understand incoming and outgoing rules there are a couple of things to know before you can define your rules...
Read post →Configuring a Cisco ASA 5505 with the basics
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader The Cisco ASA 5505 is great for small to medium businesses. Below are the steps you will have to complete to co...
Read post →How to create and update a Lion Recovery Partition
Good article on Mac OS X hints today with a shell script to create or update the Lion Recovery Partition http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120316...
Read post →Problems with installing/using imapsync on Mac OS X
I have done a number of mail server migrations and imapsync has come through with shining colours for me in the past. I'm moving a client's email up to Telst...
Read post →10.7: A look at /etc/authorization usage
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader The /etc/authorization file in Mac OS X can be used to control access to the various panes of the System Prefer...
Read post →HP’s User Serviceable All-in-One Workstation
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader The 27" monitor opens to expose user-serviceable components designed for no-tools swapping. The Z1 isn’t even s...
Read post →ZFS for Mac OS X – ZEVO
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader As drives become huge , the risk of data corruption becomes an ever increasing concern. Corruption can be subtl...
Read post →How to give a Mac OS X machine a new Kerberos identity
If you're doing a quick-n-dirty deployment of a few Macs, and instead of building a real SOE, you just build one machine and image it to the others, you can...
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