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A Glympse Into Where You’re At
When you’re flying, you might find that you’d like to let someone know here and there where you’re at. For example, someone who’s supposed to pick you up at the airport. Or someone who you’re supposed...
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Kill Windows Processes In Windows 8
You can gracefully stop Windows processes using the Stop-Process command let. For example, to stop Chrome: Stop-Process -Name Chrome Or to stop it by ID. To locate the ID of a process, use get-process:...
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Use a Keystroke to Maximize Finder Windows In OS X
The Maximize jelly in OS X that makes a screen the full size that the screen should be is great. The command that it runs is called Zoom. There’s another one to minimize screens, as well. The minimize...
View Article36 Tips For Companies Using Twitter
This is just my opinion, but… There are no good rules/tips for Twitter, so pretend you never read this. Be appreciative! Don’t be a dirtbag or people will unfollow you and block you. Not everything you...
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Destroy Open Directory Servers Using The Server App
You can destroy an LDAP server using the Server app (and still using slapconfig -destroyldapserver). To do so, open the Server app and click on Open Directory. Then click on the Open Directory server...
View ArticleLinux and Free Memory Space
The free command in Linux is used to show memory utilization. When run without any options, you can see the used and available space of swap and physical memory. By default, the option is displayed in...
View ArticleCompletely Reinstall Final Cut In OS X
I’ve seen a few instances where an upgrade caused Final Cut to run kinda’ strangely. To resolve, I’ve just been doing a quick reinstall of Final Cut. To do so: First move the Final Cut application to...
View ArticleMacTech Pro
MacTech just announced MacTech Pro: a new series of one day, regional events that are specifically designed for professional Apple techs, consultants, and support staff. MacTech Pro Events are...
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MacIT Is Coming Back In July
MacWorld is kinda’ dead. Long live MacWorld (I cry nightly over this). But MacIT, alive and well and awesome (I hadn’t really spent any time on the floor for a long time anyway)! Here’s the email...
View ArticleInterview with Chuck Joiner of MacVoices re: Bushel
My third podcast in the last couple of months, this time with Chuck Joiner again, of MacVoices. And we talked a pretty good bit about Bushel and Mobile Device Management. Thanks to Chuck formatting...
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Modern Mac Synchronization with ChronoSync
ChronoSync is one of those tools that’s been in the Mac community for a long time (rightfully so). It’s been a little while since I got the chance to really tinker around with ChronoSync so I thought...
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Dead Tech Books
As an author of technical books, I’ve been very interested in the comings and goings of technical books for a long time. This new Instagram feed is an expedition into what once was and how quickly the...
View ArticleInstall Pow for Rails Testing On OS X
Pow is a Rack server for OS X. It’s quick and easy to use and lets you skip that whole update an Apache file, then edit /etc/hosts, ethane move a file, then run an app type of process. To get started...
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Take Control Of OS X Server (Yosemite) Now Available
I’ve been light on posting here, mostly because I’ve been swamped with work, selling my old house, buying a new house, doing some crazy taxes, wrapping production on a new book and updating the Take...
View ArticleIt Makes Myself More Bearable
Funny how I’m so prominently featured in the bloopers of the first ever Mac Myriad Podcast!
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Learning iOS Security Now Available for Pre-Orders
Boom. 3 books in about 6 months. The next, and likely last for a few months at least, book is finally ready. Written with Allister Banks, Learning iOS Security is a look into iOS Security for those...
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Package Manager Like apt-get For Windows 10
In Windows 10, Microsoft has finally baked a package manager called OneGet into Windows. It works similarly to apt-get and other package managers that have been around for decades in the Linux world;...
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