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📸 Focus
The first membership drive of the Mac Admins Foundation ends today!
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Mac Admins Podcast: Mac Admins Foundation
This year, the Mac Admins Foundation is hosting a fundraising drive to build the future of the organization and shore up the financial future of the foundation.
📰 News and Opinion
Suspicious Package keeps on tickin'
Suspicious Package is an indispensable tool for macOS with a long history, and surprisingly, it’s free. I’ve rarely mentioned it, so I thought I’d give it a quick review.
🔐 Security and Privacy
How is Thunderbolt 5 doing so far?
Although there are still relatively few computers in use with support for TB5, and a dearth of peripherals, this article summarises early experience with this exotic new bus.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
Detecting Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT Integration Status
Would you like to collect stats on who’s turned on Apple Intelligence so far? That is, if your company hasn’t already had you put the kibosh on it!
Undocumented change in Jamf Pro 11.11 limits policy logs
In Jamf’s November 2024 Jamf Pro 11.11 update Jamf silently added in a 25 KB limit to policy log output. This will limit the your ability to troubleshoot scripts that fail to run with an output more than 25 KB.
MIST (macOS Installer Super Tool)
MIST – macOS Installer Super Tool – is a remarkable Mac app from Nindi Gill that greatly simplifies the processes of downloading macOS and firmware versions that Apple itself complicates and makes difficult (especially with older releases).
Building Mac mini servers with Jamf Setup Manager
Provisioning a server is the simplest of our Setup Manager provisioning processes. Prior to using Setup Manager, we had no formal process for setting up a Mac server.
🤖 Scripting and Automation
Reading actual Wi-Fi hardware MAC address on macOS Sequoia
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder:
for shops which don’t want to disable this privacy protection but still want to be able to find out what the actual MAC address of the Wi-Fi network interface on Macs running macOS Sequoia and later, it’s possible to use the networksetup tool to do so.
Using Privileges post-actions
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder
Provisioning a server is the simplest of our Setup Manager provisioning processes. Prior to using Setup Manager, we had no formal process for setting up a Mac server.
♻️ Updates and Releases
📺 Watch
I Built Apple’s 1980s iPad Concept!
Kevin Noki recreates an 80s Apple concept design that never made in into production. The video is amazing to watch and skills presented are astounding.
🎧 Listen
Unraveling Unifi: From Overseas Travels to Technical Troubles
the team delves into recent UniFi updates, touches on managing Sonos integrations, and shares on-the-ground troubleshooting experiences.
Fleet launches iOS device management
Mike McNeil from Fleet about its recent upgrade to iPhone and iPad device management.
Patrick Wardle, Objective for the We, DoubleYou, & More
Patrick Wardle from DoubleYou and the Objective See Foundation joins us to talk about their recent event in Kyiv, as well as everything Mac Security, along with Mikhail, his collaborator at DoubleYou.
🎈Just for Fun
Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpapers (Mac Edition)
I hope you enjoy what'll likely be my last wallpaper of 2023. The design features Clarus the Dogcow & Happy Macintosh in the same five colours I introduced last week. Enjoy & my warmest holiday wishes to everyone.
Looney Tunes Backgrounds
This Instagram account posts the backgrounds of Looney Tunes cartoons with the Looney Tunes characters removed.
LIMINAL Spaces Wallpaper
Liminal Spaces is a wallpaper set created while playing with different shapes, textures, patterns, and perspectives.