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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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 for hardware I don't have, nor do I plan to get. I didn't...
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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 to subscribe to the calendar in their favourite client software. How...
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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 past and turns it up to the next level. It features a tubular...
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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. Filesystem snapshots on APFS have grown from the capabilities of local backups, that Time...
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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 count of the number of years that I've been using VLC (and recommending...
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