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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
This has popped up a couple of times recently and I can never remember where to go in Office 365 to fix it, so after spending some time on the phone to Micro...
Read post →Apple have finally opened their order books for the 2019 Mac Pro , and what a beast it is. Now that it's available for sale, we can see the pricing, not only...
Read post →The original PlayStation has turned 25. I spent many an hour with one of these units flying anti-gravity racers in wipEout, driving fancy sports cars in Gran...
Read post →I was trying to track down the location of the Caching Server cache on macOS Mojave, this is with just the Caching service enabled in Sharing, not with the f...
Read post →Apple have just pushed out an update to Catalina - the macOS Catalina Supplemental Update. The description is pretty vague; "The macOS Catalina Supplemental...
Read post →Wow, Catalina really mixes things up with regard to the file system layout. It also introduces something called firm links, which are not symlinks nor hard l...
Read post →In my last post, outlining the release of Catalina , I covered the process to check for 32-bit apps on your system prior to upgrading. Here's the info as a s...
Read post →Apple have released macOS 10.15 Catalina overnight - this is a big update that is going to break a lot of old software, so please be very careful when instal...
Read post →Adobe have published a list of apps that are 64-bit compatible for macOS. Fix Adobe app 64-bit compatibility errors on macOS Before you upgrade to macOS Cata...
Read post →macOS continues to maintain a fully-functional and highly reliable Unix automount system. This system allows us to keep network shared folders mounted on a M...
Read post →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 ne...
Read post →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 A...
Read post →Microsoft have published an excellent article on the Azure Active Directory Identity Blog titled Your Pa$$word doesn't matter . Although it gets pretty techn...
Read post →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 irritati...
Read post →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...
Read post →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...
Read post →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 whe...
Read post →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 th...
Read post →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 n...
Read post →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...
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