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Events

Munki URLs: Amsys Seminar

I love that logo! Hi all, for those that came to the seminar for Munki! As promised, please find below the URLs shown as part of the presentation: Adobe Flash Release History Munki Munki Admin Munki Web Admin Munki Report

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Other Technical

Adobe CS6: Hide Undesired Items

This is another of those, ‘a customer asked for a solution and a I wrote a script that I want to share’ posts. One of our customers wanted Adobe CS6 Master Collection deployed out, but didn’t like all the ‘gubbins’

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Other Technical

What you need to know about Thunderstrike 2

An inevitable by-product of Apple’s success is the emergence of people looking to target any vulnerabilities they can discover. Over the last month or so two new serious vulnerabilities that could affect your Mac have come to light. The first

Amsys Blog

Eddystone – an alternative to iBeacon

Here at Amsys, we are big fans of iBeacons. iBeacons can enhance your iOS apps to make them location-aware. We have a few blog articles explaining how they work; you can read them  here and here. Google has just announced their

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Amsys Blog

El Capitan: System Integrity Protection

Over the years, Apple has added some great security layers to OS X to help make using a Mac more secure. These have included FileVault, App Sandboxing and Gatekeeper. In El Capitan, Apple are adding a new layer of security

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Amsys Blog

Installing, configuring & automating OS X Yosemite seminar

Hello, Mac World! I thought it was about time that I let everyone know about a new venture we have recently started in bringing 1-day seminars to the Mac community. This week, I delivered our second successful OS X Yosemite

How to use the Emoji Skin Tones in OS X & iOS

Apple recently released its OS X v10.10.3 and iOS v8.3 updates. Amongst the large list of bug fixes and improvements came “a redesigned Emoji keyboard with over 300 new characters”! Not just that, but there are now various skin tones

Microsoft, iOS and New Dev Tools

This week saw Microsoft host its developer conference and announced a host of exciting new tools for iOS and OS X developers. The first piece of news is that Microsoft will be adding a new toolkit to Visual Studio, which

Pro Video Formats 2.01

A few days ago Apple released the Pro Video Formats 2.01 update for OS X. A lot of people have noticed that after installing the update, it keeps re-appearing as an available update to install within the Mac App Store

Understanding Apple's Device Enrolment Program (DEP)

DEP or Device Enrollment Program is a new service from Apple that lets you automatically enrol new devices (OS X & iOS) with your MDM as they progress through the setup assistant. Up until now, connecting devices to a management