The iOS 12 and macOS Mojave public beta dropped this week. They are the same as the developer beta 2. Have you dared install it on your main Mac and iPhone yet!? (you have a backup, right?)
Erik Berglund’s app Profile Creator is in beta! The feature set is still limited, but I am very excited about this.
Finally, I have added Scripting OS X as a channel to Apple News. You can search for ‘Scripting OS X’ among the channels. (I have not yet figured out how to link to a channel directly.) There are still a few things I need to figure out. For example, Apple News does not seem to like something about the Weekly News posts, so for now it’ll be the ‘article’ posts only.
If you would rather get the weekly newsletter by email, you can subscribe to the Scripting OS X Weekly Newsletter here!! (Same content, delivered to your Inbox once a week.)
📰News and Opinion
- Last Week on My Mac: Just taking a Quick Look – Howard Oakley
- Making The Grade: Apple’s biggest mistake in K–12 happened in 2006 – Bradley Chambers 9to5Mac
- 2018 APNS Changes – Richard Purves
- Two Keyboards at a Bar – Rands in Repose
- Why Jamf Now is the official MDM solution of Cult of Mac – Ami Icanberry, Cult of Mac
- Help, It’s Summer – Robin Laurén
🏜 macOS Mojave
- macOS Mojave: Back to the Mac – Jason Snell, Six Colors
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave Hidden Features – Jason Snell, Macworld
- Apple Event sandboxing in macOS Mojave lacks essential APIs – Felix Schwarz
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Rich Trouton: “I spent a lot of time today figuring out why a Java app on CentOS couldn’t talk to a server which uses Lets Encrypt certs. Solution: Get the Lets Encrypt IdenTrust cross-signed .pem file from here: https://t.co/lQToWy7reZ Then run the following command: https://t.co/8E8JY3bQ7B”
- NoMAD: “Sweet anticipation… updates are being made to the admin guides for NoMAD Pro and NoMAD Login+ v. 1.2. Look for updates to these apps in our download area at http://NoMAD.menu/support this week!”
- Adam Rawnsley: “Coding tutorial vs your first script… ” (watch the gif)
- Anthony Reimer: “Every time I prepare a presentation, I learn the tool/topic more deeply, often in unexpected ways. Even if you’re just presenting internally to colleagues, it’s always worth it.”
- Nick McSpadden: “Anyone who wants to take a look at the WIP for Autopkg Windows compatibility can follow along: https://t.co/8fqklbWH2C It’ll go a whole lot faster people help me port more of the non-Mac specific processors over :)”
- Charles Edge: “My next book on Apple Consulting is now available for pre-order at https://t.co/SQUIm5HUCT ”
- Elgato Systems Sells Gaming Business and Renames to Eve Systems
- eWhizz: “Have an older Mac that can’t run High Sierra? download El Capitan here https://t.co/pD5e7TRene”
🐞Bugs and Security
- Apple comments on erroneous reports of iPhone brute force passcode hack – Rene Ritchie, iMore – Keith Mitnick, HCS Technology Group
- Airdrop logging on a Mac Computer
🔨Support and HowTos
- Creating a least privileged Jamf Pro user account for Jamf Infrastructure Manager setups – Rich Trouton
- Automating Jamf Infrastructure Manager setups on Red Hat Enterprise Linux – Rich Trouton
- Where to Download Old Mac OS Software From – OSXDaily
- Disabling Jamf Pro LDAP wildcard searches to speed up user and group lookups – Rich Trouton
- Define docstrings in Python – Charles Edge
- Speeding Up WWDC Videos – Michael Tsai
- Hidden caches in macOS: where your private data gets stored – Howard Oakley
- How to Add AirDrop to Your Mac’s Dock for Quicker Access – Chris Hawk, MacTrast
- Installing PIP on MacOS 10.12 and above – Calum Hunter
- Custom Gemalto Packaging – Richard Purves
- Hacking my shell prompt so I make fewer mistakes working with Xcode projects – Marc Palmer
🍏Apple Support
- Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
- Apple Beta Software Program iOS12, Mojave and tvOS12 in public beta. (same as developer beta 2)
- Mobile Device Management Protocol Reference now as PDF
- Getting Started With Schoolwork
♻️Updates and Releases
- Gatekeeper-service
- afro (APFS File Recovery)
- Fusion Tech Preview 2018 Available for Testing – VMware Fusion Blog
- Apple’s free Schoolwork app now available for teachers – Apple
- Imagr 1.4.2
- Profile Creator (Beta 1)
- Honestpuck/jss_tools: Tool functions to ease the use of python-jss
📺To Watch
📚Support
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