Special thanks to Tim Robertson and macsales.com for including me along with some of the great ones like Tidbits’ Engst family! http://videos.macsales.com/podcasts/OWC-Radio-2-21.mp3
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Bushel FAQ
What is required to setup an account? To get an initial account setup that can do basic management of devices such as locking a device and enforcing a good passcode policy, you will need a functional email address and company name. We do much more than just these basic functions though. In order to deploy apps, you’ll need an Apple Volume Purchasing Program account and in order to automatically configure devices before they even show up on your coworkers desks you’ll need an Apple Device Enrollment Program account. These aren’t required for basic functionality but they do make the product all the more useful! What is DEP? The Apple Device…
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10 Yosemite Widgets That Extend Notification Center In OS X
The latest widget functionality built into OS X Yosemite places widgets into the OS X Notification Center. This means you can click on the Notification Center in the upper right hand corner of an OS X screen. From here, you can see a ton of cool stuff. These widgets are parts of fully functional apps easily installed right from the Mac App Store (and via VPP from Bushel if you so choose!). Learn About 10 Yosemite Widgets That Make Notification Center in OS X Even Cooler Here…
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10 Travel Apps for iOS 8
In businesses big and small, iOS 8 devices continue to change the way we work and live, incrementally allowing 3rd party services, through apps, make our lives easier. Bushel allows you to push a variety of apps to the devices that are in your Bushel. The traditional approach is to push apps that really help you get business done. But you can also push apps that make people’s lives better, that make it easier for them to do things that they have to do as part of their jobs and make certain job-related experiences even better. One such way is through improving travel. Click Here To Find Out More About…
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Update rake For OS X
Rake is basically make for Ruby. I recently needed to update rake for something I was working on. After doing so, I tried to update some stuff in Profile Manager and it seemed to work on the outside, but a lot of stuff in Yosemite and Yosemite Server rely on rake so be careful when doing this kind of thing. So, to update to the latest version of rake, use the gem command along with the install verb and then rake as the gem being updated: sudo gem update rake This is an interactive command line environment so you’ll be asked a few questions in order to update the gem.…
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Use libimobiledevice To View iOS Logs
Xcode and other tools can be used to view logs on iOS devices. One of those other tools is libimobiledevice. I usually install libimobiledevice using homebrew, as there are a few dependencies that can be a little annoying. To install homebrew if you haven’t already, run the following command: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" Once run, follow the prompts to complete the installation. Once homebrew is installed, run the following brew command to download the required components and then libimobiledevice: brew install -v --devel --fresh automake autoconf libtool wget libimobiledevice Then run ideviceinstaller: brew install -v --HEAD --fresh --build-from-source ideviceinstaller Once these are installed, you can plug in a paired…
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Startup Profiles
The profiles command in Yosemite (and Mavericks for that matter), can configure profiles to install at the next boot, rather than immediately. Use the -s to define a startup profile and take note that if it fails, the profile will attempt to install at each subsequent reboot until installed. To use the command, simply add a -s then the -F for the profile and the -f to automatically confirm, as follows (and I like to throw in a -v usually for good measure): profiles -s -F /Profiles/SuperAwesome.mobileconfig -f -v And that’s it. Nice and easy and you now have profiles that only activate when a computer is started up.
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10 Reasons Uber Kicks Ass
I’ve spent way too much time traveling in my life (and way too little time writing about non-technical things). It’s had ups and it’s had downs. But these days, a bunch of fun little technical breakthroughs that make traveling incrementally better. And one of those things is Uber (and other similar services) who have disrupted the short-range ground transportation game. And I like them so much, I decided to write a little list of the reasons why! While writing, I also realized that you can use this code and we both get Uber credit I never used a promo code. But you can: https://www.uber.com/invite/uberkrypted. Has nothing to do with why I wrote this, but…
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How Product Managers Feel When New Features Are Loved By All
You get requests for features. Lots of requests. What do you pick? Why? Sure, vote up, vote down, statistics, choosing people you respect, looking at potential new customers, and tons of other attributes go into this, but at the end of the day, there’s a judgement call. And some people hate what you pick. But sometimes, everyone is into it. Yup.
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qlmanage
QuickLook scans file contents before you open those files. Usually this just lets you view a file quickly. But you can also use this same technology from the command line to bring about a change to the Finder without actually opening a file. To access QuickLook from the command line, use qlmanage. qlmanage -p ~/Desktop/MyTowel42.pdf While open, click the space bar to go back to your Terminal session. The most notable use case here is that when you use qlmanage you don’t run the risk of changing the date/time stamp of the files.