510: Interview With Dav James of DIJ Consulting

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Topics:

-This week we welcome Dav James of DIJ Consulting.

-Dav originally started at Apple in a variety of roles and moved to corporate IT support.

-DIJ Consulting is a Monday.com partner and works a lot on the automation side of things.

-We get into using integrations with Monday and services like Zendesk for automatic creation of tickets.

-Joe does some reporting in Numbers but it is more of a manual process so automation peaks his interest.

-The basics of Monday is that it is a task management software.

-Some of the frustrations Sam is feeling is the need of many different portals to manage things. Monday can integrate with a variety of those services and provide a centralized portal.

-Something as simple as centralized alerts was a big reason why Sam moved to Monday.

-Moving large amounts of data used to be a weak link that has now seen a major improvement.

-Affordability is a big draw of Monday.

-Connecting all the dots between the various services and Monday.com may be an initial challenge. Dav is working on how to make that easier for consultancies.

-You can find Dav on YouTube and in MacAdmins Slack.

-Taking action on a show request, Dav started the Monday channel in MacAdmins Slack as well.

509: Interview With Adam Engst Of the TidBITS Content Network

Topics:

-On today’s show, we welcome Adam Engst of TidBITS Content Network.

-We review key features of phishing emails, as discussed in a recent TCN article.

-One of the newer tricks is to send the entire email as an image.

-Will better grammar pose a challenge to users detecting spam emails?

-It takes just a beat longer to identify a spam email message.

-Legitimate training tools like KnowBe4 can be good to keep employees on their toes.

-We discuss the LastPass breach and how far reaching it was.

-Thieves are getting more clever by first capturing iPhone passcodes in public places, then stealing the device.

-A challenge to this is that the iPhone passcode can be used to reset an Apple ID password.

-This can also cause a company breach if an employee’s iPhone is stolen.

-Send out your own newsletters to customers that discuss this and more by using TidBITS Content Network.

508: Just Give Me The Fish

Topics:

-Jerry shares an odd printer story.

-Apple Mail was having an issue using a self signed certificate.

-“Don’t trust email”

-Joe describes emulation vs virtualization.

-Virtual Buddy & UTM are solid virtualization products.

-Joe uses the ability to virtualize other versions of macOS to support clients that use a different OS than he is currently running.

-Pro Tip: You cannot use an Apple ID with a virtual OS.

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506: Time Machine Blues

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Topics:

-We would like to thank new Patreon member Rolf Woodward, and thank Bruce Corson for increasing his pledge.

-Time Machine is hopelessly broken in Jerry’s recent dealings.

-He has been recommending Carbon Copy Cloner.

-Joe had a specific issue where the Contacts app database was extremely large and causing an issue with backups.

-Sam is very keen on company policies where local file data is not company responsibility.

-Jerry talks about supporting a customer who had some major issues after a computer migration.

-BackBlaze has a great service to ship a drive with backup data.

-Joe talks about important directories to be aware of when troubleshooting macOS.

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505: DuckDuckNo

Topics:

-Joe likes Apple Music playlists. Sam takes live notes. Some good recommnendations:
Restorative Yoga
Headspace

-Jerry can’t listen to music while working.

-He didn’t find Apple Fitness was working for him. Athlytic is an app that he highly recommends.

-Jerry is currently watching Skinwalker Ranch on Netflix.

-HomePod Mini should have a chargeable battery.

-Sam uses his HomePod as a speaker for his bedroom TV.

-Dark Reader is a great browser extension Sam uses with Safari to automatically enables dark mode for sites, even if they don’t support it.

-Sam’s latest gripe about 1Password is that it has a legit issue auto filling SonicWall pages.

-Why is 1Password 8 not in the App Store?

-Jerry doesn’t like DuckDuckGo.

-We get into browser preferences.

-Jerry and Sam both are independently testing Yubikey by Yubico for authentication.

-HCS wrote a guide for using security keys as a second factor with an Apple ID.

-Sam works with a client for a while before he asks the most basic of questions.

-Amazon DNS causes an issue with internet connectivity for one of Jerry’s clients.