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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
I wanted to clean up my Sent Items folder in my email - I don't have time to go through and manually sort them, nor do I have time to delete some and keep ot...
Read post →FileMaker Server 13 is a bit of a pain to install - it absolutely insists with no option to change it that it MUST listen to ports 80 and 443 on whatever it'...
Read post →Apple now have enabled 2 factor verification for iCloud - 2 factor means you need two things, such as a password and a code sent to your phone, to access you...
Read post →It seems my Windows-fu is lacking a bit in my sysprep knowledge. As it turns out, you can't sysprep a Windows machine more than three times. Unfortunately yo...
Read post →Taken from https://github.com/trevor/calendarserver/blob/master/doc/Client-Server/calendar-client.rst and put here so I can find it later... Additional debug...
Read post →I've spent too long this morning trying to install Windows 8 on a new Retina MacBook Pro. The first error I received was that "Windows can't be installed in...
Read post →I have something to confess. This is the first Otterbox I've owned. I've long known about their cases for mobile devices and have always meant to check them...
Read post →You'll occasionally get errors downloading apps or updates from the App Store that are rather vague and difficult to fix. Errors like Xcode failed to downloa...
Read post →Quick tip to allow you to delete hiberfil.sys on a Windows system. Run CMD as Administrator and enter power cfg /hibernate off If this doesn't automatically...
Read post →Beamer 2.0 is the long-awaited follow-up to an excellent video streaming app that I've been using for years. The first version of Beamer was a pretty simple...
Read post →OK, let me say this up front - people we are living in the future. This is it, wireless power. What I have here in front of me is simply magic. It's an iPhon...
Read post →NFS mounts have two parts. The first part is the server that hosts the share point. The second part is the client that access the share point. You can have o...
Read post →I've started putting up some how-to guides that I can direct people to so I don't have to answer the same questions time and time again. Here they are: Autom...
Read post →Could this be it? The perfect car kit for the iPhone, or any device for that matter? The basic premise of the Logitech case+ range is simple. There's a case...
Read post →I'm on the hunt for the perfect car mount for my iPhone. Shouldn't be too difficult, no? Well, as it turns out, it's harder than it looks to find something t...
Read post →I was recently given this Magnetic Battery Case for an iPhone 5S to review and whilst it's generally a well made case that does exactly what it says, there a...
Read post →Sometimes when you clone an OS X installation, for example using Carbon Copy Cloner , it will create a Recovery HD partition but not hide it for you. The "hi...
Read post →I've been doing a fair amount of non-standard tweaking to Mountain Lion's web services. It's not difficult to completely break the web server, and initially...
Read post →I recently set up a Mac mini Server with a Promise Pegasus R4 RAID. I reinitialised the array a RAID6. I left the stripe size at the default of 128k, and cha...
Read post →Sorry to anyone who's inconvenienced by the addition of reCAPTCHA to the comments, but even with Akismet I'm still getting an unacceptable amount of comment...
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