Managing Privileges App with Mosyle MDM- and Logging!

30th Aug 2020 | Tips

Privileges is an application designed to give Standard Mac users the ability to become Admin for the purposes of installing software, changing settings etc. It’s very straight forward, but has some downsides if you want to use it in a truly managed way- clicking...

Pi-Hole in Docker on Synology- The Best Way!

16th May 2020 | Tips

*Now with added Pi-Hole v5.0 OMG It’s… beautiful! The post with a similar title called ‘the easy way’ is far and away the most popular post on this entire site, but I’ve been wanting to improve it for ages. As stated in the notes to that...

State of The Mac 2020- Updated May 2020

15th May 2020 | Opinion, Reviews, Tips

We like Macs, but there are some er, less desirable models in the line up- so If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? This post was originally written in March 2017, and since then Apple has updated pretty much everything- I have updated each of...

Home WiFi Optimisation

3rd Apr 2020 | Tips

This article came about because of a series of FaceBook posts that I wrote to try to help my friends working from home entitled ‘Why Is My WiFi Sh!t?’ Hopefully it helps some people… If you want help, please fill out the form here and we’ll get...

New Computer Migration

19th Mar 2020 | Tips

Often when you buy a new computer we would come onsite, transfer the data, check the apps and leave. In this brave new world of disease, we’ve had to develop a better way, and it goes like this – WORK WITH YOUR IT PERSON- can’t stress this enough-...

Remote Server Access Slow?

18th Mar 2020 | Tips

This article was inspired by a ticket we received yesterday – the client has a 1000mbps fibre internet connection at their office, but he was experiencing really slow access to the server from home. Let’s find out why… Scenario 1At the office...