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 metric, except GPU power, it trounces the...
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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 up some space. I assigned the users an Exchange Online...
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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 when you opened a PDF in Acrobat, it would come up...
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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 for hardware I don't have, nor do I plan to get. I didn't...
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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 past and turns it up to the next level. It features a tubular...
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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. Filesystem snapshots on APFS have grown from the capabilities of local backups, that Time...
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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 count of the number of years that I've been using VLC (and recommending...
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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-built kernel that translates Linux APIs through to Windows APIs. This translation layer should mean...
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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 QuickLook cache. As QuickLook is responsible for extracting the thumbnails for...
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