Our thinking
Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
The only way to be sure is to look up the serial number against a 3rd party service. You can check in the Apple Menu > About this Mac, however the model name...
Read post →If you want to do it without purchasing any additional software, format the disk as exFAT format. Windows and macOS can natively read and write ExFAT disks a...
Read post →I've recently been dealing with a really large .ics file (10.5 MB of data, 17,364 events spanning 10 years) and it seems to be able to choke just about anyth...
Read post →The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbe...
Read post →Thanks to Joe Fitz (Twitter: @securelyfitz ) who has written a relatively easy to understand overview about how the recent #meltdown and #spectre bugs work i...
Read post →Because Apple believed in making the best desktop printer with available technology at the time and cost was a secondary consideration. The Apple LaserWriter...
Read post →The new iMac Pro is getting closer. As well as announcing the availability date (15 December), Apple have seeded some review units to prominent individuals a...
Read post →In Apple's continued drive to simplify macOS Server, in High Sierra they have completely removed the File Sharing section from the Server.app and force you t...
Read post →I've just discovered a handy command for macOS that will show you Apple Caching Service servers that are available to your Mac. It lives in: /usr/bin/AssetCa...
Read post →I think that .bashrc, is only used for interactive shells (i.e. when you open Terminal) and the other one is for all shell executions (e.g. background proces...
Read post →I've been moderately active on Quora for a while now. Quora is a site where people can ask questions and others can answer them. The blurb about the site say...
Read post →Over on the highly-technical, and very informative, Objective-See blog, there is a great in-depth writeup on Apple's recent High Sierra root access bug . Why...
Read post →If you're running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, run, don't walk, to the App Store and install Apple Security Update 2017-001 right now. If you want to download...
Read post →I recently set up a new Mac mini server for a client. macOS High Sierra was released 3 days ago, however the server shipped with macOS Sierra and I thought i...
Read post →I'm setting up a HP Server and didn't configure it with an optical drive. No problem, I thought, just boot it off a USB. Easy. Not so much... This was consid...
Read post →It's long been a painful thing for me that macOS Server.app not only binds to all IP addresses on a system, but takes port 80 and 443, even if all web-relate...
Read post →The installer for FileMaker Server 16 refuses to install on a Mac if Apache is running. It doesn't check what ports Apache has grabbed, just the fact that Ap...
Read post →This one is pretty short and simple once you get down to it. I recently set up a client's boardroom with a really sweet 75" Sony 4K Android TV , a Logitech G...
Read post →I recently had a client with a huge amount of email stored in Kerio Connect and they needed to perform discovery against some mailboxes with a lot of email i...
Read post →Firefox for Mac can get stuck in an update loop if you have been using an older version and it's downloaded a new version to install, but before it gets to i...
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