Today, March 31, is World Backup Day. Backup is something I take very seriously, but unfortunately many users do not. Computers, smart phones, tablets, Internet of Things devices (smart devices), etc. are very much a part of every day life, and should be backed up in case disaster strikes. In both my professional and personal life, I routinely […]
Use The Terminal to Setup Apple Remote Desktop Computer Info #1
UPDATED: Since this writing, I’ve switched from Mike Bombich’s NetRestore, to DeployStudio. DeployStudio offers the ability to populate all 4 computer info fields after restoring an image, as part of an imaging workflow. I highly recommend DeployStudio for system imaging. Occasionally, I still use the method outlined below to tweak these fields. Part of my […]
A Workaround for removing Western Digital’s SmartWare Virtual CD Partition
UPDATE 2: A Mac OS X version of the firmware update and VCD Manager are now available here. In my own test updating my MyBook Essential 1TB, both utilities worked perfectly. See the comments below for more information. UPDATED: It appears that Western Digital has released a firmware update and a utility called VCD manager, […]
Fix ARD Crashing with Multiple Instances
I use Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) to connect to my servers at work. I have another copy of ARD installed on one of the servers as well, and occasionally I’ll need to use ARD on my local machine to connect to a server remotely, and then run another instance of ARD on the server, all […]
Enable OS X Dock Magnification on the Fly
I accidentally discovered that in OS X Leopard, if you have dock magnification turned off, you can temporarily enable it by holding Shift and Control while moving your cursor over the dock. This does not appear to work at all in Tiger, and I’ve only tested it in OS X 10.5.6, so it’s possible it […]
Change Twitterrific’s Default Protocol
We have a web filtering appliance installed as part of our network at my place of work. Among the many functions it performs, packet shaping and filtering is one of the most important, and most annoying. In our setup, port 443 (https) isn’t heavily restricted, so I use port 443 where available for any software […]