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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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Mac OS X

Troubleshooting AirDrop issues in OS X Yosemite

For today’s blog I thought I would mention some options to get the best out of AirDrop file sharing. Since Apple made some hardware and software changes over the past couple of years, sometimes AirDrop discovery and file sharing is

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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

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Amsys Blog

An Introduction to Python – Part 2

Welcome to the second part of our introduction to Python. If you haven’t done so already, you take a look at part 1 here. In part 2, we are going to look at variables and some basic operators. A simple

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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Events

An Intro to Munki – Amsys Meetup

Join us for a talk on Munki, the open source deployment software for Mac OS X. If you’re researching Mac deployment solutions for your organisation and want to learn more about Munki and the kind of benefits it can deliver,

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Other Technical

An Introduction to Python – Part 1

OS X has a rich array of development/scripting languages. From Objective-C and Swift for building iOS and OS X native apps to scripting solutions like Ruby, PHP, and Python. Certainly in the Mac technical community Python has become very popular

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News

Cant get to our Amsys Store? We could pay your cab fare.

We’ve been talking to our lovely customers in Soho and we’ve learned that some people don’t have enough time to get to our Mac repair walk-in centre. So, if it’s too far, too hot or you just haven’t got the

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Amsys Blog

Setting Users to Non Admin

For years, I’ve been running Mac deployment projects for companies and schools.  In a lot of cases, we’re asked to set the users to be non-admins.  Lots of people have said to me that setting users to be non-admins can