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Mac Support for PC Techs 10.9 Training at Lancaster Uni!

Firstly a Happy New Year to all. With a New Year comes new adventures for all at Amsys Training, and mine arrived in the first working week! I was given the opportunity to travel to Lancaster University to teach not

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Time Machine changes in Mavericks

Following on from my previous post on cheeky changes to OS X Mavericks, (Or 10.9), today I wanted to point out some subtle changes to the way Time Machine backs up. First of all, the Time Machine menu bar icon

Mavericks Tip: Bring Christmas cheer to your computer name

Last Christmas, my Amsys guru and IT Director Richard Mallion blogged about how to ‘Bring Christmas cheer to your computer name.’ This is an updated version of that blog for Mavericks (OS X 10.9) as the keyboard shortcut has been

Apple updates Dictation in OS X Mavericks

One of the lesser known features of Mavericks is an upgrade to the Dictation Software. In 10.8 Dictation was available but required an internet connection so that it could contact Apple Servers to translate speech to text. In Mavericks, Apple

Mavericks Server: A must have for any Apple developer

One of the great new features of Mavericks Server is the new Xcode service. The Xcode service has been added to give developers a central repository for their development projects as well as support for Xcode’s continuous integration workflow. When

Mavericks: SMB – CIFS

With the introduction of Mavericks, Apple has changed the network game slightly and have started migrating away from their own file sharing protocol of AFP to the more common SMB protocol found in Windows. This makes sense because 95% of