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Apple COVID-19 Screening Tool

Apple have been working with the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA to produce a COVID-19 website and COVID-19 app. The tool helps individuals find official guidance based on symptoms, exposure and other risk factors. Anyone can use

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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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OpenSSH updates in macOS 10.12.2

Prior to macOS Sierra, ssh would present a dialog asking for your passphrase and would offer the option to store it into the keychain. This UI was deprecated some time ago and has been removed. Instead, a new UseKeychain option was introduced in macOS

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Bash Scripting: Functions 2

Bash Scripting: Functions 2 Hi all. For this post I decided to share a scripting practice I’ve started using, utilising functions to help make the whole thing easier to read! Looking back This blog builds on my previous Bash Scripting series, including the

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Casper: Launch Apps Only For Certain AD Users

This is another of those, ‘a customer asked for a solution and a I wrote a script that I want to share’ posts. This customer runs a ‘Pcounter’ pull printing solution. This requires that their local application be launched at

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An Introduction to Python – Part 3 – Amsys

Welcome to the third part of our introduction to Python. If you haven’t done so already, you take a look at the previous parts – Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In part 3, we are going to look at strings. Strings