May 02, 2014

048: Stream of Conciousness

May 02, 2014/ Jerry Zigmont

Recorded live on April 29, 2014

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TOPICS:

Joe discusses his own personal with his iPhone 5 battery drain and the article for troubleshooting by a former Apple Genius - The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain — Overthought
Sam has used iFunBox to remove unwanted files from his clients IOS devices.PhoneView from eCamm is recommended and Jerry has used PhoneClean from iMobie.
Creating email signatures and client frustration.
Chungwa Soft's - Graffiti Email Signature Plugin for Apple Mail
Jerry used Joe Workman's Blog post from a few years ago to create his signature - Joe's Blog
Reference to HBO's new series Silicon Valley and a great t-shirt "I Know HTML" - t-shirt
Joe makes progress troubleshooting a clients email issues
How to send an email via telnet - blog post by Drew Moris
Mavericks Server Caching Service - Great overview from Krypted
A discussion about turning Software Updates on or off
PowerMac G4 to Mac mini
Team Viewer For Mac and PC - Team Viewer
Free Option join.me from LogMeIn
What's your fastest SpeedTest?
SpeedOf.Me HTML5 speed test recommended by Kevin Ginger; no Flash or Java required
uninstall Flash Player in Safari for better full screen experience with multi-screen in Mavericks; YouTube's HTML5 player performs better than Flash will less CPU impact; in full screen mode using the Flash Player in Safari on Mavericks
fit-Headless recommended by Michael Reinhart to solve "black screen" issues in screen sharing connections

March 27, 2014

043: Synology DS1513+ vs. Mac mini Server: Return of the Jerry

March 27, 2014/ Joe

Recorded live March 25, 2014

We are pleased to be joined this week by Ryan Grimes of HoosierMac Consulting. Ryan has been a longtime user of Synology products and has been writing a series of blog posts comparing Synology network attached storage devices to the Mac mini Server.

Thanks to our exclusive sponsor this week, Smile Software. Smile makes great products for Mac and iOS, including our favorite time-saver, TextExpander.

Topics:

- Ryan’s comparison of Mac mini w/Thunderbolt RAID storage vs. Synology 1513+: Part 1 & Part 2

- How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS

- CloudStation

- Plex

- complications from Apple changing default connection method for Mac servers to SMB when using Bonjour

- MineCraft server

- DHCP, DNS, VPN services

- Surveillance Station

- how to find the "Performa 600" among Synology’s huge product lineup

- live demo of DSM 5.0

- cleaning up after non-certified fly-by-nights (“Anger Work”)

- Brett Terpstra's blog post on automating dynamic date math in TextExpander

February 18, 2014

037: Anecdotal Anecdotes

February 18, 2014/ Joe

Recorded live February 11, 2014

Topics:

- Jerry walks us through how to resolve a failure to start Mail server and Calendar server on Mac OS X Server after renewing a certificate, and tells us what Dovecot means

- Sam explains how to resolve failure to login to iCloud by removing the NetworkInterfaces.plist

Simplenote

Notational Velocity

SubEthaEdit

ScreenSteps; see also: Clarify

September 06, 2013

014: Pricing Roundtable

September 06, 2013/ Joe

Recorded Live on 8/27/2013

Sam, Jerry, and Joe discuss rates and pricing after a digression into Mac OS X Server services.

Followup:

- Jerry reports that Find My Mac only works on WiFi; only works when WiFi network interface is listed first in Network preferences set service order; requires Recovery Partition