Is your Mac no longer working? I share my experience in macOS recovery that could help you.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Thanks to the amount of passion folks showed in wanting assistance there’s now a much better guide to recovering Sierra and High Sierra in a new blog post. You should ignore the instructions here and go there. In the case of my organization, this cropped up because of an improperly tested JAMF script that set the permissions to core folders incorrectly.…
Canada Post’s tools are a must-have for many businesses shipping in Canada. Even though many of the tasks you can do for business mailing are now accessible on their website one mainstay office tool is still desktop-only. That’s EST Desktop 2.0. EST (Electronic Shipping Tools) Desktop lets you connect to a digital scale, prepare bulk shipments, mail quick-ship and thermal labels, prepare manifests,…
US-based Toys “R” Us has enjoyed a unique place as the largest chain toy store in North America for years. Despite it’s leading position, recent years of seen the chain begin to enter hard times. Going into any Canadian Toys “R” Us will greet you with a slight smell of an old basement along with yellowed flooring, cream-colored shelves, and fixtures from the…
It’s getting closer to the yearly celebration of small, inexpensive sugary treats given to absolute strangers. If you’ve put off buying candy and don’t want to go to the local department store to trudge through the now mostly-empty shelves you still have time to order your candy online. Both Amazon and Walmart are selling their candies online at prices on par or better…
Since writing my last post on the state of buying coffee online in Canada several more online coffee roasteries have come to my attention. So here are two more sources for glorious caffeine that you should try the next time you want your cup of joe to be a bit more special.
As a user of a product or service you want to maintain a certain kind of status quo for what you expect the product usage to be like and what sort of interaction you’re going to have with it. This status quo is a sort of “goldilocks”-zone where you want to keep your users secure and trusting of your product. But what happens when you let your users make the content that other users can see?
If you have an iMac with Thunderbolt or USB 3 but without an SSD you can boot from a full-speed external SSD without opening the case. It’s possible for that Mac to boot in under 30 seconds and to jump generations ahead for under $200.