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iOS IT

Copy and paste across apple devices with universal clipboard

Universal Clipboard is one of the latest Continuity features available on Apple Devices. Before Universal Clipboard Apple previously released Handoff as a Continuity feature for starting a document within an app on one Apple device and then continuing that document

Mac OS X

Creating XIP files in OSX

A few years ago Apple introduced XIP files to OS X. I recently noticed Apple are using them for delivery of the Xcode 8 beta’s so I thought now was a good time for a quick overview of creating xip

Mac OS X

Authentication Issues: Microsoft Word for Mac

Update 2016-07-21: Since originally drafting this blog, the slow launch issue detailed below has been fixed with version 15.24 of the Microsoft 2016 applications. The proxy pop messages still occurring as per the below. Hi all. In this post I’ll

Business

Business accounts with Amsys Mac Repair

Even with Apple… Fail to prepare, prepare to fail Once upon a time, the average workplace was a sea of grey plastic with PC clones wall to wall. Now, you’re just as likely to see brushed aluminium because Apple devices

Mac OS X

Unit Conversions on Mac: Spotlight

I haven’t really noticed before but Spotlight has been able to do Calculations for a while now. Since Yosemite it can now also do Unit conversions. It’s a nice feature because you don’t need to specify which conversion that you want,

Sync Home Folders with the Cloud

I use multiple machines and a few months ago I found myself trying to find a solution to the old problem of finding that the document you need is never on the machine that you are using. The reason I didn’t

Sync Home Folders with the Cloud

I use multiple machines and a few months ago I found myself trying to find a solution to the old problem of finding that the document you need is never on the machine that you are using. The reason I didn’t

Creating Config Profiles instead of a First Boot Script

Download your free guide to Mac OS X Deployment Techniques   As a follow up to my first boot script blog, I wanted to spend a bit more time with configuration profiles to see if they could be used to

Give your old Mac a new purpose in life

Very often I speak with people who say that they have upgraded to a new Mac, either because of the new operating system or speed, but that there was nothing actually wrong with the old one (beside being old)! This

Why Your Mac is Running Slowly: RAM

In all the time I have been working with Mac’s, one of the most common complaints I have heard is “My Mac is running slow!”. Now obviously this could be caused by many different things but probably the most common