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Moment Helps You Gauge Your iPhone Use

To start, you might want to quantify the problem, and for that, you can turn to a free iPhone app called Moment. Written by developer Kevin Holesh, Moment is designed to track three key pieces of data:

May 22, 2018

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What Is The Best Hard Drive to Use for Your Backups?

May 16, 2018

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Using Internet Sharing in macOS

It really does do what it says, you can share the internet connection on your Mac with other computers on the same local network.

May 13, 2018

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Enabling Remote Apple Events in macOS

Continuing our run down of the sharing preference pane we’ll cover remote Apple events, remote Apple events allow apps running on other Macs to send commands directly to the Mac with remote Apple events enabled these commands can include “opening an app”, “printing a document” or even playing music.

May 4, 2018

Apple Pay Is Faster, Easier, More Secure, and More Private Than Using Credit Cards

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Apple Pay Is Faster, Easier, More Secure, and More Private Than Using Credit Cards

May 2, 2018

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So long AirPort, been nice knowing you

AirPort products have not seen an update since 2012 & the Time Capsule has not had an update since 2013, In 2016 news sites had started to report Apple had moved its developers that were assigned to AirPort to other products signalling the coming of the end.

Apr 30, 2018

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Wrap-Up and Beta

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Wrap-Up and Beta

Before anything else, I want to call out the people who have participated in the beta program. The feedback, logs, screenshots, and bug reports have all helped improve the app. That input...

ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Managed Preferences

The goal here is not just to show that managed preferences exist. I want to show how the full workflow works: how I format the credential data, how the packaging script outputs...

Low Profile Walkthrough and Review

One of the most common profile problems in the real world is conflict. You can end up with multiple profiles pushing the same settings, old settings that have been deprecated, or machines...

ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Multiple Credentials

This matters because the interface changes in important ways once I stop working in a single-credential setup. The storage changes, the switching behavior changes, and some convenience options have to behave differently...

ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Introduction

ABM Warranty exists because Apple Business Manager gives us the raw information, but not a good operational dashboard for acting on it. I built this app so I could quickly see where...

ABM Warranty 0.4.1

This release is not just a feature bump. It changes how ABM Warranty fits into real administration workflows. Multi-tenant support, managed deployment options, credential flexibility, targeted refresh behavior, and deeper logging all...

The warranty dashboard Apple doesn’t provide… yet

What neither platform shows you is which devices are quietly becoming liabilities.

Why Apple Fleet Risk Isn’t a Security Problem—Until It Is

Many technicians and administrators are exposed to risk primarily through mitigation techniques — hardening systems, applying controls, closing gaps — rather than through formal risk assessment processes. They are asked to reduce...

ABM Warranty 0.3.1

Version 0.3.0 introduced several foundational changes, while 0.3.1 follows shortly behind as a maintenance release that reinforces those foundations with important fixes and consistency improvements.

ABM Warranty 0.2.0

This release was all about making the system observable, predictable, and recoverable.

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Wrap-Up and Beta

Before anything else, I want to call out the people who have participated in the beta program. The feedback, logs, screenshots, and bug reports have all helped improve the app. That input...

ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Managed Preferences

The goal here is not just to show that managed preferences exist. I want to show how the full workflow works: how I format the credential data, how the packaging script outputs...

QuickPKG - More to Unpack

I wanted to talk about some of the packaging features in QuickPKG 2.0 that I have specifically found very handy with the hopes that you will find them handy too!

Low Profile Walkthrough and Review

One of the most common profile problems in the real world is conflict. You can end up with multiple profiles pushing the same settings, old settings that have been deprecated, or machines...

ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Multiple Credentials

QuickPKG Walkthrough and Review

If I need a fast packaging path for testing or straightforward deployment prep, this is one of the utilities I reach for.

ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Introduction

ABM Warranty exists because Apple Business Manager gives us the raw information, but not a good operational dashboard for acting on it. I built this app so I could quickly see where...

10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Apple Configurator (That Save Mac Admins Hours)

1) Retro-enroll Devices into Apple Business Manager (iOS/iPadOS) If a Mac wasn’t purchased through your ABM-linked reseller, you can still claim it. Adding it via Configurator means you get Automated Device Enrollment...

Secure Software, Secure Career: How I Passed the CSSLP

Where the CISSP is broad, the CSSLP is laser-focused. This exam dives deep into secure software principles, threat modeling, data protection, API security, database hardening, and development methodologies like Agile, DevOps, and...

Amphetamine: The Ultimate Mac Utility to Keep Your Computer Awake

What is Amphetamine? Amphetamine is a versatile application available on the Mac App Store that allows users to keep their Mac awake for extended periods. Whether you’re downloading large files, running presentations,...