If you’ve recently updated your Mac to 14.1, you may have noticed some rather annoying popups that say “Home” would like to use your current location. This is perplexing, since it appears even if the user has never used the Home app or even signed into iCloud. This is happening because macOS Sonoma introduced a […]
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This post is a list of resources for my 2022 Brainstorm session, Practical Automation for Apple Devices. The slides are available here: Time Tracking Apps: Hourstack Timing Clockify Sunsama (Note – this is a referral link) Stopwatch and calendar AutoPKGr Resources: Download AutoPKGr – The source. Make sure to check out the readme. AutoPKGr for
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This is part two of my post from November with a few updates, a script that works nicely for fixing errors, and a LaunchDaemon for even more automation. It’s February and we are still seeing problems with users that are on iPadOS 15 and getting errors when trying to load Apple Classroom. As I said
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In Big Sur 11.5, Apple introduced the ability to set a recovery lock password on Apple Silicon computers. This was a very welcome announcement, since many of us have been mourning the loss of the EFI firmware password that was so effective on Intel Macs. The firmware password was an important security feature, especially in
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In the past couple months, we have been getting reports of teachers randomly getting this error on their iPads: Configuration Invalid Classroom must be configured with a valid education configuration profile. Contact your network administrator for assistance. We were able to fix this by assigning the iPad to a different user and then assigning if
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Resources for my JNUC presentation, Intro to LaunchDaemons Links Video Breakdown Slides Links: launchd.info – This is the holy grail for launchd information and where I did a ton of my research for this topic. There are a lot of references to an older tool known as LaunchControl, which I do not use, but the
Earlier this year, I gave a presentation at the Brainstorm 2021 virtual conference titled Life Beyond Interactive Whiteboards that chronicled our transition from interactive whiteboards to teachers using iPads as portable whiteboards they could use to present from anywhere. The conference session is still available on demand for another month if you attended the conference.
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I will preface this by saying that I think that the hype about Silver Sparrow has been overblown. All the headlines make it seem scary, but the truth is that the malware doesn’t actually have a payload. Additionally, Mac’s Gatekeeper and XProtect services jumped on the malware very quickly, preventing it from running. That being
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