There was some news this week about Apple refocusing the next major OS updates on bug fixing. Will this be (High) Sierra’s Snow Leopard?
Getting ready for my MacAD.UK presentation next week. Looking forward to meeting some of you there!
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📰News and Opinion
- How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software – Mark Gurman, Bloomberg
- Apple’s Software “Problem” and “Fixing” It (via twitter) – Steven Sinofsky
- How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs – Michael Tsai
- How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel – Mark Gurman, Bloomberg
🐞Bugs and Security
- macOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images – Mike Bombich
- This new text bomb crashes most Mac and iOS apps with a single Unicode symbol – Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch
- Mac Privacy: Sandboxed Mac apps can record your screen at any time without you knowing – Felix Krause
- 10 Security tips for the average user – Darren Wallace, moof IT
🔨Support and Tutorials
- Migrating Data From The Apple Wiki Server – Charles Edge
- Getting Started with Autopkgr – Charles Edge
- Licensing a vmWare vCenter Server – Robin Laurén
- Configuring The New HomePod – Charles Edge
- Get up and running Zentral on Google Cloud Platform — Chapter 1
- Get up and running Zentral on Google Cloud Platform — Chapter 2
- Patch Starter Script – Bryson Tyrell
- Node Plugin To Embed Device Details From Jamf Pro Into Jira Service Desk – Charles Edge
- Migrating the Mail Service From macOS Server – Charles Edge
- Backing up the contents of an AWS-hosted Jamf Pro cloud distribution point to a local directory – Rich Trouton
- Users, Accounts and You! – Josh Wisenbaker, NoMAD
🤖Scripting and Automation
- BBEdit script to open the file I’m looking at in github and copy the URL to my pasteboard – Ben Matasar
- Clean Up XML Formatting in BBEdit – Eric Holtham
- Updating TeX Live – Andrew Valentine
- Setting a Random Wallpaper at Enrolment – James Smith
🍏Apple Support
♻️Updates and Releases
- VLC 3.0 Vetinari
- Compositor 1.0
- Jamf Pro 10.2
- LemonJar – iOS Console
- GitFinder 1.0
- Script Debugger 7 will offer a free lite mode – Mark Alldritt, Late Night Software
🎧To Listen
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