osascript provides a simple way to grab the bundleid of an app in macOS. Simply use -e and then single quote id of app with the app in double-quotes. And viola: osascript -e 'id of app "Audacity"' The output will be as follows: org.audacityteam.audacity

I think doing one of these episodes with Chuck Joiner is becoming a really fun holiday tradition. Here’s the clickbait tagline: 4 Holiday gifts you muuuuust buy (and you won’t believe what number three is!!!) Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!

You can disable dark mode but keep the menu bar dark. To do so, set NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance to true in the global defaults domain on the Mac using the defaults command: defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool true

In case anyone needs the link to Sierra, here ya’ go: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?ls=1&mt=12 This would then bring up a page similar to the same Sierra download page you’re used to. Most older operating systems are also available through a similar direct download link as well.

I’ve covered the log command previously, but here’s a quick and easy one-liner to find logs for a specific application. Simply run the log command with the show verb. I’m including –last to only look at the last couple of minutes and then using –predicate to define that the processImagePath contains the word Slack, the app I’m searching for: log show --last 120s --predicate 'processImagePath CONTAINS[c] "Slack"'

Jeremy Butcher (Enterprise Product Marketing) and Doug Brooks (Mac Hardware Product Marketing) from Apple join the podcast this week to talk about Mobile Device Management, Apple Business Manager, the T2 chip, and how it all comes together.

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There are a few sites that parse the CVE database into easy lookups. Here we’ll use circl.lu – if only because it’s easy to parse: curl https://cve.circl.lu/api/search/apple/mac_os_x:`sw_vers -productVersion`