Posts Tagged ‘mavericks’

Get SendEmail working with Yosemite and Yosemite using SSL A while back, we found a nice little command line tool to send emails with authentication settings, custom subjects, etc., without using any of the built in email sending tools. This was handy for situations where a client might have various restrictions in place such as a relay server that requires authentication and / or a specific sender address to allow the emails to pass through. The tool is called “SendEmail” and is available from the Caspian webpage for free! We commonly used this with a number of custom client-side notification… read more →

Last night Apple released a new ‘point’ update to their Mac OS X Mavericks Operating System, taking the latest version from 10.9.2 to 10.9.3. The details of this update are below. Now it has been reported that in some cases this update removes the Users folder on your Mac (/Users). What is actually happening is in some cases the folder is being hidden, not removed. It is still present and can be accessed using the method below. The main problem with this update is that this behaviour (namely, hiding the User folder) appears to be inconsistent and currently a pattern… read more →

Greetings Mac Community! Back in January I blogged about “How to Instantly Lock your OS X Screen in 10.9‘. In this blog I mentioned that Mavericks has changed the default behaviour when pressing the Power button key. You can no longer simply press the power button key to bring up the ‘Restart, Sleep, Cancel, Shut Down’ pop up. In Mavericks, you can hold down the Control key whilst pressing either the power button or the Media Eject key () if you have one, to bring up this menu to quickly choose one of these options: As an update to this… read more →

If you’re being stalked or pranked over iMessage or FaceTime, you can block that contact and prevent them from bothering you ever again. It’s simple, it’s easy, and it’s oh-so-gratifying. If there’s an especially annoying someone you’ve been waiting to ignore, here’s how to do it! With the OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 update, amongst the bug and security fixes, Apple also introduced a feature that had been missing for iMessage users on the Mac – the ability to block individual contacts within the Messages and FaceTime app. Block your Messages Contacts in Mavericks: 1. Go your Message app and select… read more →

Greetings from Amsys Training HQ! Following on from Hugo’s blog announcing the exciting news that Mavericks has come to town, I was the lucky trainer given the pleasure of delivering our very first OS X Server Essentials 10.9 course!   As Hugo explained, the OS X Server Essentials 10.9 course continues in much of the same format as the previous 10.8 version, but Apple has added some nice changes. Our first Mavericks 201 OS X Server Essentials 10.9 course kicked off this Monday in our Soho training centre, and followed this structure, as all of our OS X Server Essentials… read more →

We’re pleased to announce that our app, Revise IT, has now been updated to Mavericks 10.9 Certifications and is available to download from the App Store today, for free! This latest version, has been updated for iOS 7 and is packed full of new test questions and extra features (some of which were requested by users from previous versions) such as the ability to share your results with your friends and colleagues on Twitter and Facebook. New to this Update: OS X Support Essentials 10.9 OS X Server Essentials 10.9 Mac Integration Basics 10.9 Rewritten for iOS 7 (new interface… read more →

Last week I finished teaching my last 10.8 Apple Certified course, OS X Server Essentials 201, which concluded with a 100% pass rate – a very nice way to complete the series on! I am now looking forward to the challenge of teaching our new 10.9 Maverick courses, in fact I am just about to go and prepare my classroom for my first set of 10.8 – 10.9 upgrade courses of the year! I will also be teaching OS X Server Essentials 10.9, our first course is on 3rd of February at our Apple Training Centre in Soho. The course… read more →

Back in June 2012, I blogged about ‘How to Instantly Lock your Mac OS X Screen in Lion’. This is an updated version of that blog for Mavericks as I wanted to add a couple of new comments and an even quicker way in Mavericks to achieve a locked screen. The easiest and quickest way to lock an OS X screen is to put the display to sleep, ensuring you have configured your Mac to ask for a password after sleep or screen saver. If you do not have the password required feature enabled, then follow these simple steps to set… read more →

Back in February last year, I blogged about ‘Troubleshooting Bluetooth devices and their connection strength in Mountain Lion‘. This is an updated version of that blog for Mavericks as TJ Luoma kindly commented on my blog to inform me that these features have changed in Mavericks (OS X 10.9), prompting me to update my blog. Thanks TJ! So, to monitor and troubleshoot Bluetooth connections in Mavericks, here’s how! Mavericks has simplified Bluetooth Preferences along with other GUI settings that Apple prefer end users not to play with. The good news is that as long as you know where to look,… read more →

Firstly a Happy New Year to all. With a New Year comes new adventures for all at Amsys Training, and mine arrived in the first working week! I was given the opportunity to travel to Lancaster University to teach not just any onsite course, but Amsys’ first OS X Mavericks Course! I was sent to teach our Mac Support for PC Technicians course not once but twice – back to back. The University had also decided that they would offer the exam for each of the delegates. Upon passing the Mac Integration Basics 10.9 Exam, therefore, each delegate would then… read more →