As expected, the public betas of iOS 13, iPadOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Catalina were released this week, keeping MacAdmins busy with both preventing users from installing them and starting their own testing procedures.
Together with the public betas, we get a bunch of early Catalina reviews and opinions.
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Headlines
On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- I was 7 words away from being spear-phished – Robert Heaton
- Raspberry Pi 4 specs and benchmarks – The MagPi Magazine
- A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop – Cindi May, Scientific American (use Apple Pencil on iPad, obviously)
- Secure ShellFish Review: Adding Your Mac, or Another SSH or SFTP Server, to Apple’s Files App – Ryan Christoffel, MacStories
- UFS Spotlight: Jesse Kriss of Netflix – Jason Meller, Kolide
macOS Catalina and iOS 13
- Should I Install iOS 13 Public Beta?
- Why Catalina has got a read-only system volume – Howard Oakley
- First Look: macOS Catalina Public Beta – Jason Snell, Six Colors
- macOS Catalina: The Preview – Rene Ritchie, iMore
- Catalyst Can Rescue the Mac and Grow the iPad – John Voorhees, MacStories
- Apple Releases First Public Beta of macOS Catalina 10.15 (19A487m) – Mr Macintosh
- Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS – Curtis Wilcox, TidBITS
- On scripting runtimes and macOS – BrettTerpstra
Bugs and Security
- Burned by Fire(fox) (part 1, part 2, part 3)
- Chrome causing Final Cut Pro X to slow down, freeze, and crash – Andrew O’Hara, AppleInsider
- OSX/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper bypass – Joshua Long, The Mac Security Blog
- How Two Firefox Zero Days Led to Two macOS Backdoors – Phil Stokes, Sentinel One
- Anthony Reimer: “I’ve updated my Mac Obsolescence Chart to include the latest MacBook Pro models and add Catalina compatibility. Link”
Support and HowTos
- Apple Releases Third Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G59b) Beta 3 – Mr Macintosh
- What is Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP)? – Jon Xavier, Fleetsmith Blog
- Deploying and Configuring Enterprise Connect, HCS Technology Group
- Wrap-Up Documentation from the Fundamentals of Wi-Fi: Physics Always Wins – Tom Bridge
Scripting and Automation
- 2015 MacBook Pro battery recall checker script – Neil Martin
- Lightning-Quick Maintenance With Puppet Bolt – Garrett Yamada
- Julia Evans: “how to debug: check your assumptions… ”
- Scripting CIS security recommendations – SoundSNW
- Starting the switch to python 3 – Carl Ashley
Updates and Releases
- Fleetsmith June Product Update
- Numbers (Mac, iOS)
- Pages (Mac, iOS)
- Keynote (Mac, iOS)
- MacTracker 7.8
- BBEdit 12.6.5
- DropDMG 3.5.6
To Watch
- iPhone connected to Iomega Zip Drive? WILL IT WORK? – napabar, YouTube (the other video on how to sideload an eBook from iOS 13 to Kindle is actually useful.
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