Apple announces new hardware at WWDC - Mac Pro and Pro Display
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...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Managing snapshots on Apple File System (APFS) formatted volumes
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 →Check out the IINA Video Player
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 will deliver a full Linux Kernel with Windows 10
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 →Fix Finder not displaying icon previews
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 →"Secret" shortcut keys to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery
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 →What does Apple's T2 Security chip mean for you?
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 →Apple quietly releases new iMacs
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 →Set, check and remove Calendar sharing permissions in Office 365 with PowerShell
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 →Delete a stubbornly un-deletable user on macOS High Sierra
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...
Read post →Fix Wordpress over HTTPS with CloudFlare SSL
I've had an issue with my site that prevented it from working fully over https - and as it turns out, it's due to CloudFlare's reverse proxy and the way it d...
Read post →What to do if you can't remember the password for your iPhone backup in iTunes
I've encountered a few cases where a client has forgotten the password for the iTunes backup they've made for their iPhone, and the password was either set u...
Read post →Zero-day exploit against macOS Keychain
This is pretty serious - a researcher has discovered a zero-day exploit against the Keychain in macOS. As a protest against Apple not paying a bug bounty for...
Read post →Beware of cheap USB to Lightning Cables
I needed a short USB to Lightning cable for my car stereo - there's a USB port in the centre console and I don't need a 1m cable tangling around the dashboar...
Read post →Widespread outage on Office 365 - 30 Jan 2019
Microsoft have widespread outage on the Office 365 login/authentication servers this morning and it's affecting multiple tenancies. The official report from...
Read post →Apple Releases macOS 10.14.3 and iOS 12.1.3
Apple today pushed software updates for a range of its devices. They are all minor releases that simply offer a few bug fixes and security updates, with no n...
Read post →Microsoft Office 365 Price Increase in Australia
From 1st Jan 2019, Microsoft are increasing the pricing of Office 365 subscriptions by up to 8% in order to bring them in-line with pricing in other regions....
Read post →Distance to 3rd Party DNS Resolvers from Telstra nbn in Melbourne
Further to my previous post, DNS Speed Testing on Telstra nbn in Melbourne , I've used the Traceroute command to measure how far away (or how many hops away)...
Read post →DNS Speed Testing on Telstra nbn in Melbourne
I've recently seen a number of people recommending that I use various 3rd party DNS resolvers - CloudFlare, OpenDNS etc. One problem I've encountered with us...
Read post →Xero not loading in Safari in Mojave
This is here just so I can remember what I did later when I need to undo it. I've got a problem where Xero is simply not loading in Safari 12 on macOS Mojave...
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