A little while ago I covered a technique that could be used to obfuscate sensitive text in scripts used to manage macOS; a recent issue with this particular technique left…
Category: mac os
A recent need for managing iPads within my workplace is creating a custom wallpaper for each device that includes a picture of the person the device is assigned to, as…
A few months ago while planning for future macOS upgrades, I realised that the existing methodologies for managing the audio content for GarageBand (and other Apple audio apps) in munki…
For many years I’ve been using a simple method of obfuscating sensitive information in shell scripts. I can’t take the credit for this, as it was something inherited in my…
Installing the Xcode command line tools is generally a pretty easy affair, with either a visit to the Apple Developer portal to download the single DMG file, or using the…
Apple have a great EDU deal going for their ‘Pro Apps’, consisting of Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4, and MainStage 3, all up, this deal…
If you’re installing the Promethean Activ Driver “app” on Mac OS El Capitan and macOS Sierra, as well as running into issues with the software not launching or not detecting…
This notification bugs me, but only because I don’t particular care for operating systems taking me on a tour of all the “magical” features that I end up ignoring, and…
I often find myself in a spot where I’m always re-downloading and re-caching iOS IPSW files because they’re infrequently being downloaded from Apple. This is pretty frustrating when it comes…