• Apple Configurator,  Mac OS X,  Mass Deployment

    Using Apple Configurator 2 Blueprints to Manage iOS Devices

    Blueprints are a new option in Apple Configurator 2. Blueprints allow you setup a template of settings, options, apps, and restore data, and then apply those Blueprints on iOS devices. For example, if you have 1,000 iOS devices, you can create a Blueprint with a restore item, an enrollment profile, a default wallpaper, skip all of the activation steps, install 4 apps, and then enabling encrypted backups. The Blueprint will provide all of these features to any device that the Blueprint is applied to. But then why not call it a group? Why call it a Blueprint? Because the word template is boring. And you’re not dynamically making changes to devices over…

  • Mac OS X

    Backgrounds for Terminal Screens

    Terminal screens can use backgrounds in OS X Lion. To configure these settings, open Terminal and choose Preferences from the Terminal menu. Then click on the Window tab. Use the Image drop down to select Choose. This brings up a browse dialog box that you can use to choose an image. Browse to the image and then click on Open. Choose images that are pretty much all dark or all light as your font should be the opposite color.