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 new tab. With Firefox,...
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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 Account Number at the request of an email from a supplier, colleague...
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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 technical at times, if you're interested in security, I recommend at least skimming it. If you want my...
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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 irritating, there was clearly something wrong. The Mac was running macOS...
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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 metric, except GPU power, it trounces the...
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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 up some space. I assigned the users an Exchange Online...
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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 when you opened a PDF in Acrobat, it would come up...
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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 that the published calendar doesn't have the time zone set,...
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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 needs a collection of background images, thumbnail images, a preview WAV and separate...
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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 to hack the Bose Sleep app. https://www.bose.com.au/en_au/support/products/earphones_support/noise-masking-sleepbuds.html This is going to be...
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