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Elevator pitch I’m excited to introduce two plist tools for macOS plb the plist broker and plx the plist extractor.

So here’s the situation: You have a Mac mini that’s used as a Zoom Room controller.

Or rather should I say, “Do you know when they are”?

UPDATE: Heads up, either by shear coincidence or my salty appeal to not play hide and seek, the ability to detect Apple Intelligence will no longer be found in the binary plist data of com.apple.gms.availability.key in the user’s .GlobalPreferences domain…

It’s been a busy 2 weeks since Apple released macOS Sequoia!

My new tool clui, pronounced “clue-ee” offers Command Line Unicode Info with the ability to export to a variety of formats like CSV, JSON, YAML, RTF and more.

Computers are “the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds” as Steve Job once said.

Every year Mac admins wonder which Macs will make the cut for the new MacOS.

Lockdown mode is new feature for macOS Ventura and for many MacAdmins we’ve been wondering how to detect this state.

Adobe Creative Cloud app can get in weird state that blocks users from seeing their apps.