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Claim your free year of Apple TV+

Apple are offering a free 1 year subscription to the new streaming service Apple TV+ for all users that purchase a new iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac after September 10, 2019. The offer is limited so make

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Claim your free year of Apple TV+

Apple are offering a free 1 year subscription to the new streaming service Apple TV+ for all users that purchase a new iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac after September 10, 2019. The offer is limited so make

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Amsys Repair Update – Covid 19

Working to maintain business as usual – Mac, iPhone and iPad repairs. We have had to make further adjustments to our services and close our walk in centre to the public but we are still conducting repairs through our mail in service.

Apple News Roundup

Product News It’ a busy time of year for Apple with several exciting new products on the horizon. Here’s what we know about the upcoming products so far: Ars Technica talks about the iPad Trackpad ARM based Macs to make

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Apple Repairs

How to create an external bootable installer for macOS

The way we install our operating system has changed with the introduction of macOS Mojave. Most notably, imaging and installing via target disk mode have been dropped. We can still download the installer from the app store but we can

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Beginner Mac OS and iOS Blogs

In the beginning there was Sudo: macOS Terminal Skills

Having sat on our recent four-day JAMF200 course it was great to revisit some command line skills from times past. Time to dust off those macOS Terminal skills. Bring on Sudo (and the disclaimer of course) Type the following ‘whoami’

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Apple Announces Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro

Apple has determined that a small percentage of the keyboards in certain MacBook and MacBook Pro models may exhibit one or more of the following behaviours: Letters or characters repeat unexpectedly Letters or characters do not appear Key(s) feel “sticky”

outsourcing its all about money
Best Practice

Outsourcing Part 3: How the numbers stack up

It’s all about the money! Or is it? In my last two blogs I went into the details of why a company would decide to outsource and some of the factors to take into account. It is really important that

Unable to unlock FileVault due to Authentication Server refusal
Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Unable to unlock FileVault due to Authentication Server refusal!

This week I have been running a macOS 10.13 Support Essentials Course. As part of the course, we cover security features of macOS and in particular FileVault. Now during the exercise for this lesson I came across an issue which

Best Practice

Outsourcing Part 2: How Outsourcing Jobs Can Work

What to look out for when outsourcing jobs. In my last blog I went into the details of why a company would decide to outsource. It is really important that you understand the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing (and there