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...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
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 t...
Read post →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 pas...
Read post →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 . Fil...
Read post →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...
Read post →Microsoft will deliver a full Linux Kernel with Windows 10
Microsoft are really stepping things up with their Windows Subsystem for Linux ( WSL ). In the current release of Windows 10, the WSL layer has a custom-buil...
Read post →Fix Finder not displaying icon previews
Here's a quick fix for the Finder not displaying a thumbnail of an image for it's icon. Drop into the Terminal and type: qlmanage -r cache This resets the Qu...
Read post →"Secret" shortcut keys to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery
This is a good article to bookmark from Apple - I wasn't aware that there were different keyboard shortcuts to boot into the macOS Recovery system, and which...
Read post →What does Apple's T2 Security chip mean for you?
There's a really good article over on TidBITS - What Does the T2 Chip Mean for Mac Usage . If you've wondered what the T1 and T2 security processors do in th...
Read post →Apple quietly releases new iMacs
With no fanfare whatsoever, Apple overnight have released new iMacs . This is the first meaningful update to the lineup since June 2017 and brings them up-to...
Read post →Set, check and remove Calendar sharing permissions in Office 365 with PowerShell
Now that PowerShell works pretty well on macOS, including remote sessions to Office 365, I'm able to use it a lot more for administering client tenancies in...
Read post →Delete a stubbornly un-deletable user on macOS High Sierra
I had a client with an unusual issue on a Mac mini that used to be a file server, but now is just sharing out some archived content and their Munki repositor...
Read post →Fix Wordpress over HTTPS with CloudFlare SSL
I've had an issue with my site that prevented it from working fully over https - and as it turns out, it's due to CloudFlare's reverse proxy and the way it d...
Read post →What to do if you can't remember the password for your iPhone backup in iTunes
I've encountered a few cases where a client has forgotten the password for the iTunes backup they've made for their iPhone, and the password was either set u...
Read post →Zero-day exploit against macOS Keychain
This is pretty serious - a researcher has discovered a zero-day exploit against the Keychain in macOS. As a protest against Apple not paying a bug bounty for...
Read post →Beware of cheap USB to Lightning Cables
I needed a short USB to Lightning cable for my car stereo - there's a USB port in the centre console and I don't need a 1m cable tangling around the dashboar...
Read post →Widespread outage on Office 365 - 30 Jan 2019
Microsoft have widespread outage on the Office 365 login/authentication servers this morning and it's affecting multiple tenancies. The official report from...
Read post →Apple Releases macOS 10.14.3 and iOS 12.1.3
Apple today pushed software updates for a range of its devices. They are all minor releases that simply offer a few bug fixes and security updates, with no n...
Read post →Microsoft Office 365 Price Increase in Australia
From 1st Jan 2019, Microsoft are increasing the pricing of Office 365 subscriptions by up to 8% in order to bring them in-line with pricing in other regions....
Read post →Distance to 3rd Party DNS Resolvers from Telstra nbn in Melbourne
Further to my previous post, DNS Speed Testing on Telstra nbn in Melbourne , I've used the Traceroute command to measure how far away (or how many hops away)...
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