The Sony PlayStation turns 25
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...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Caching Server data location on macOS Mojave without Server app
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 →macOS Catalina Supplemental Update
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 →macOS Catalina File System Layout
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 →How to check for 32-bit apps on macOS before upgrading to Catalina
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 →macOS 10.15 Catalina Released
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 →Update all of your Adobe Creative Cloud apps before upgrading to macOS Catalina
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 →Configure the macOS Automounter system
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 →Quick Tip: Stop Firefox zooming the page when you scroll with the Command key held down
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 →Public Service Announcement - Confirm when changing supplier bank details
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...
Read post →Microsoft: Your password doesn't matter
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 →Unable to add, modify, or delete items from the System Keychain on macOS – UNIX[Operation not permitted]
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 →Mac mini (2018) won't power on, or how to restore the T2 bridgeOS from DFU mode on a Desktop Mac
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 →RPC Error -2147220992 with Start-ManagedFolderAssistant on Office 365 Mailboxes
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 →Acrobat DC on Mojave crashing when dragging a PDF to another monitor
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 →Change the Time Zone for a Resource Calendar or Shared Mailbox in Office 365
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 →Bose Sleepbuds - File Format Specifications
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 →Hacking the Bose Sleepbuds
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 →Clear out the /Library/StageExtensions folder on macOS Mojave
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 →Publish an Office 365 Resource Calendar to iCal or the web
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...
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