Slowly emerging from the post-holiday and vacation swamp. CES was this, and even though Apple had no official presence, they did gather some headlines from smart TV support of AirPlay 2, HomeKit and iTunes videos. Also they got some attention for this banner ad.
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News and Opinion
- OWC Acquires Akitio
- Best of 2018: the conferences – DAM SAN
- Best of 2018: FCPX and iMac Pro – DAM SAN
- New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering – The GitHub Blog
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Mac Mule: “TIL: https://help.apple.com/businessmanager/#/apd1d81e5169 The timescale for processing app licences depends on how many you purchase: 5,000 licences or less are processed straightaway. 5,001 to 19,999 licences are processed after 13:00 PST daily. 20,000 licences or more are processed after 16:00 PST daily.”
- Erik Gomez: “InstallEnterpriseApplication is broken and I’m really hoping Apple fixes this by 10.14.3, or the next few months are going to be extremely painful.”
- Kyle Crawford: “SecureToken is broken and I’m really hoping Apple fixes this by 10.14.3, or the next few months are going to be extremely painful.…”
- Eric Holtam: “
softwareupdateis broken and I’m really hoping Apple fixes this by 10.14.3, or the next few months are going to be extremely painful.…”
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- Reaching Parity in Office for Mac – Adam Gold, WalmartLabs
- Disk Mount Conditioning In macOS – Charles Edge
- Adding a Command Line Tool Helper to a Mac App Store App – Tim Perfitt
- Git Quick-start – Charles Edge
- How To Quickly Open a Policy in Jamf Pro – Steve Wood
- Application Playpen – Providing “Adult Supervision” to Immature Applications – Marriott Library – Apple ITS
- Backup and Restore a Parallels VM Programmatically – Charles Edge
- Create a github.io page for your GitHub project – Charles Edge
- Howard Oakley has taken a deep dive on Links and Aliases in several posts on his Blog:
- Aliases, hard links, symlinks, and copies in Mojave’s APFS
- Links and aliases beyond local files: advanced file system techniques
- Copies, clones, links and aliases: summary in tables – Howard Oakley
- Inside Mojave’s Aliases and Bookmarks
- Serious Finder bug in Mojave 10.14.2 with broken aliases
- Aliases and Bookmarks are smarter than you think
Scripting and Automation
- Using AWS Lambda To Relay Jamf Pro Webhooks to Slack – Steve Wood
- Using BBEdit and Excel to revive a dead podcast feed – Jason Snell
Updates and Releases
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