Nov 21, 2013
Recorded live on November 19, 2013
- Day 392: the Mac mini held hostage
- Apple Configurator insight/anecdote from Jerry; 20 device limit syncing to MacBook Air
- cleaning the dyld cache and font cache
- OnyX, Cocktail, CleanMyMac, TechTool Pro, DiskWarrior, memtest with 7 loops, Disk Utility's verify disk, Drive Genius hard drive test
- MacKeeper finds over 8 PB (Petabytes) of wasted disk space, courtesy Mike Kingsley
- use resetpassword Terminal command to reset home folder ACLs
- repairing permissions: helpful or just another 15 minutes of billable time? Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
- repairing permissions can fix some printing issues; reset printing system is the nuclear option
- Knock your iPhone to unlock your Mac; great third-party app (not secret Cupertino project)
- Apple Stores configure machines to use OpenDNS and block DNS queries to non-OpenDNS servers
- VPN Reorder: app to reorder connections in VPN Status menu, courtesy Allen Hancock
- whatsmydns.com – Jerry
- Another 15 minutes of billable time! - Jerry, re: repairing permissions