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Bring displays menubar back to Mountain Lion

In 10.8 the Displays menubar item was replaced with an AirPlay one, and I’ve missed the original one especially when we are presenting during our training courses. So, currently the only way to get around it seems to be going

Advanced Deployment course updated for Mountain Lion 10.8

Since Apple obsoleted their ACSA System Administrator Certification and courses, my fellow trainers and I have been creating our own courses to provide Apple Techs more advanced training after they have completed the Apple ACTC Certification Our popular Advanced Deployment

Podcast: Gatekeeper

[embedvideo type=”youtube” id=”ycClUL7M9lQ”] Hello and welcome to this Amsys Training podcast.  My name is John and today I will be talking you through one of the new features of Mountain Lion, Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper is a new security feature that has

OS X Server – Caching Service Part 2

By David Acland and Richard Mallion In a previous blog (Caching Service Part 1), we discussed the Caching service that Apple shipped with the latest update to OS X Server. In this blog we will discuss some of the advanced

OS X Server – Caching Service Part 1

By Richard Mallion and David Acland So one of the advantages of Apple moving OS X Server to a single app is that they can deliver faster updates and new features. Last week Apple delivered an update to OS X

Setting up window policy banner in OS X lion & Mountain Lion

I cannot believe I haven’t yet blogged about this superb feature which was released in OS X Lion. Many companies have usage policies which users have to be made aware of whenever they use a company computer. Applying these policies

Setting up window policy banner in OS X lion & Mountain Lion

I cannot believe I haven’t yet blogged about this superb feature which was released in OS X Lion. Many companies have usage policies which users have to be made aware of whenever they use a company computer. Applying these policies

How to use Mountain Lion's Dictation & voice shortcuts

Dictation falls short of Siri integration, but now with Mountain Lion you can now dictate your text directly to your apps. You first need to enable Dictation Mountain Lion by navigating to: System Preferences > Dictation & Speech > Dictation.

How to Take Screenshots of Sheets in Mountain Lion

Back in June I wrote my ‘Some more Screenshot Tips and Tricks’ blog. These handy tips are very useful to me as writing training courses involves taking many screenshots of a Mac screen for demonstration purposes. Recently though, purely by

Fix Corrupt PDF's from Safari in Mountain Lion

By Richard Mallion For a while I have been experiencing issues when saving PDF’s from Safari. By either using the ‘Save-As’ option or attempting to print them resulted in a corrupt file. If  I attempted to view the saved PDFs