We have a date for the next Apple Event: Oct 30! And it happens in Brooklyn and has hundreds of Apple logo designs. (Seriously, keep reloading the event page, it’s awesome.)
Will it be iPad Pro? Macs? Both?
Also, Adobe is showing off the new Photoshop for iPad. Some news on the new Adobe CC 2019 affects the Cloud Packaging tool.
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News and Opinion
Adobe CC 2019
- How Adobe is bringing “real Photoshop” to the iPad – Dami Lee, The Verge
- Apps not available in Creative Cloud Packager – Adobe Support
- Adobe Creative Cloud 2019, the death of Creative Cloud Packager, Serial Numbers & Device Pool Licensing – Ben Toms
- Update apps to the latest release of Adobe Creative Cloud, Auto-Update – Adobe Support (via Jason Broccardo)
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Steve Yuroff: “Today I find myself wondering why the MDM is not notified when the user approves UAMDM. I have things for the MDM to do once the approval is made… let’s get on it.”
- Adam Langley: “Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla today jointly announced a timeline for the removal of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 from their respective browsers.” (Links in tweet)
- Adam Codega: “@gregneagle built the best way to install/update Mac software @Contains_ENG helps fill Apple’s MDM gaps @rtrouton documents it all and makes some cool utilities @ftiff makes DEP look nice…” (read the thread)
- Brian Stucki:
“A happy fourth birthday to this little guy today. Old enough to start preschool. But seriously, can’t wait to meet your younger sibling.” (Happy Birthday, Mac mini!) - William Lam: “FYI – @Apple MacOS Mojave (10.14) is now officially supported on vSphere 6.7u1, 6.7, 6.5u1, 6.5u2 & 6.5”
- Sacrilicious: “In tribute to @Morpheus______ ‘s ‘liberal’ take on pronunciation, I propose we rebrand anything with ctl as a suffix ‘cuddle’, and anything w/suffix ‘util’ as ‘uddle’. e.g. launchctl, ‘launch cuddle’ ‘sysadmin cuddle’ scuddle discuddle fontuddle assetk’shuddle H-duddle”
- Tim Perfitt: “Filed this bug about feedback for bugs. I get the irony.”
Support and HowTos
- Apple stops maintaining its printer compatibility list – Howard Oakley
- Fusion Drives in APFS – Howard Oakley
- Google Packages and Munki – Zack McCauley
- Suppress new OS major version updates with Munki – Rick Heil
- AirPrint or you’re on your own: macOS printing changes – Howard Oakley
- Updating to Mojave? – Victor Vrantchan, MicroMDM
- To bind or not to bind – Yoann Gini
Apple Support
- Printer and scanner drivers for Mac “This list is no longer updated.”
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