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Mac OS X

New OSX Sierra Update: Are you ready?

What is the New OSX Sierra Update? Sierra is the newest operating system from Apple. The question is are you prepared for the upgrade? Did you backup? It’s always a good idea to backup your data, especially before a big

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

Change Internet Sharing subnet on Mac OS X

During one of our Support Essentials Courses a delegate asked me if it was possible to change the subnet supplied by Mac OS X default internet sharing service. After some searching on both the system files and Google, I found

Mac OS X

Cloud Based Authentication: Auth0

Our mobile/web team are always looking out for great user authentication services. A recent one we have been testing is Auth0. This company has been going for a couple of years now and have built up a really great reputation is

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

Beginner Mac OS and iOS Blogs

How to Remove Bluetooth devices from your Mac

Have you been in the situation where you have remove bluetooth devices from your bluetooth list that you no longer have? The problem is that when you go Bluetooth Preferences it doesn’t give you the option to delete the device

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Mac OS X

Manipulating Apple Applications: El Capitan and SIP

I’m writing this blog after having sat through Rich Trouton’s great JNUC talk on OS X security, especially around the use of SIP. The usual Disclaimer: While the author has taken care to provide our readers with accurate information, please use

Mac OS X

Connecting to a file server from Mac OS X – Part 3

Next in this series is a short blog about a relatively new way to mount network drives with configuration profiles. This process uses the login items payload in a configuration profile to set the target Macs to mount the network