As you may have noticed, we’ve been working on building some links between the App Store and patch management tools such as Casper, FileWave and Munki. We’ve been looking at policy-based management of apps as well. In this semi-new world of signing and stores and the such, there’s actually a good bit you can ascertain about an app both inside the app as well as inside metadata OS X keeps about the app. I’ve discussed signing (apps and packages) in the past, but let’s look at using some commands to help us out with some tasks. The first command is to determine some information about apps that are on the…
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On the Road Again
When you’re traveling it can be difficult to keep track of all those receipts. Whether it’s cabs, parking or meals you’re bound to loose a receipt or two. That’s one reason I like to reconcile my expense reports on a nightly basis. I’ve made a little spreadsheet to do it for me, but sometimes I get back to the hotel room and realize I’ve lost that receipt. This is where being able to log into Amex comes into play. I scribble down what I missed in the spreadsheet and then it appears on Amex shortly thereafter. I print the copy out of the web portal, attach it to my expense report, and…