No quiet before the storm with this year’s WWDC. After macOS 10.14.5 and iOS 12.3 dropped last week, we got new MacBooks Pro with a decent speed bump this week. Their keyboard only got minor changes, but Apple has also announce a Keyboard Service program.
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News and Opinion
- Apple introduces first 8-core MacBook Pro, the fastest Mac notebook ever – Apple
- Some Good Old-Fashioned Speed Bumps for the MacBook Pro Lineup, and a Tweak to the Butterfly Key Mechanism – John Gruber, Daring Fireball
- Last Week on My Mac: Notarization arrives in 10.14.5 – Howard Oakley
- Scaling Mobile Device Management for macOS with Chef at Uber – Erik Gomez and Nate Walck, Uber Engineering Blog
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Timo Perfitt: “If you are interested in the Twocanoes MDS slides, exercises, or links from my roadshow, this tweet is for you! https://t.co/AZ8rJcafCD”
- tlark: “Want to try to get rid of Adobe products? It may not be possible, but there are alternatives… ”
- Edward Marczak: “Or you can go all in and just not allow 32-bit execution:
sudo nvram boot-args="-no32exec"… ” - John C. Welch: “I was just thinking, at random about Macworld Expo, and I realized why its end, and the end of end-user/consumer-focused computer shows in general are a bad thing. What happens when all computer shows are for devs or industry “insiders”?” (Long thread)
- Minko Gechev: “A bash function I use constantly on airports:
function changeMac() { local mac=$(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//') sudo ifconfig en0 ether $mac sudo ifconfig en0 down sudo ifconfig en0 up echo "Your new physical address is $mac" }Unlimited WiFi ” - Timo Perfitt: “Turns out that the plural form of ”Mac“ is ”a murder of Mac computers“.”
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- Translating an ARM iOS App to Intel macOS Using Bitcode – High Caffeine Content
- Office AutoPkg Recipes, Update – Anthony Reimer
- Browsing your log with Consolation 3, full release at last – Howard Oakley
- How should I manage my Apple Devices: Apple MDM or 3rd-party Agent? – Jon Xavier, Fleetsmith Blog
- Investigating Time Machine errors with T2M2 and Consolation 3 – Howard Oakley
- OS Upgrades: Are They Necessary on Day One? – Frank Yang, Fleetsmith Blog
- MacBook Pro Supplemental Update & 10.14.5 18F203 for 2019 MBPros – Mr Macintosh
- How to disable external USB storage in two clicks with Fleetsmith – Jon Xavier, Fleetsmith Blog
Scripting and Automation
- Dad Jokes as a (Self) Service (DJaaS?) – Neil Martin
- Automatic Configuration of Zoom Rooms on macOS & iOS – James Smith
- tlark: “Here is a very quick and dirty Python script I wrote a while ago to build a CSV of all your 32bit apps. It is poorly written, but it works”
- PrimeTime – Free Digital Signage – Robert Wetzold, SAP Blogs
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- ProfileCreator 0.3.1 (now with a gorgeous icon)
- ninxsoft/Bombardier: A Mac utility that downloads and extracts Boot Camp drivers with a single click (via Tim Perfitt)
- Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS – Microsoft Edge Blog (via William Smith)
- AutoPkg 1.1 Release Candidate 2
- New Website: Mac Open Web – Brent Simmons
- Official WWDC app (iOS)
To Watch
To Listen
- Jamf After Dark: A Day in the Life of a Client Engineer on Apple Podcasts
- Episode 122: Managed App Config – Mac Admins Podcast
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