A Quick and simple video on how to create a 10.13.6 USB memory stick installer on you Mac.
This link may help you with the terminal command:
Make a bootable external Operating System Hard drive
In this post we will go through the steps of how to create a bootable hard drive and install 3 Operating Systems.
For this process we are going to install 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 macOS Sierra on an external Hard drive. Continue reading “Make a bootable external Operating System Hard drive”
tuneupmymac nightmare!
What to do if you install tuneupmymac and how to uninstall it?
OK so I was on download.com today and a piece of software decided to download itself to my downloads folder. The programme was automatically downloaded as a little extra piece of software from my original programme I downloaded. The program was called “tuneupmymac”. This programme is another one of those call called pieces of software that will “fix” your mac mac it go faster etc etc. Well thats what is says on the tin, so it must be true? Mustn’t it?
Format a Drive in Terminal
If you have to run a terminal command to format a hard drive then you might be in a bit of trouble. Formatting a Hard drive on a Mac is very simple using Disk Utility. However there may come a time you are required to formate a drive using a Terminal Command. Continue reading “Format a Drive in Terminal”
Add WPS Printer to Airport Extreme
Adding a Wi-Fi printer to a network using the WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup Method) feature on your Broadband Router is, well straightforward. Press the button on the WPS on the router and then press the Wi Fi button on the Printer. 
The machines talk to each other and less than a minute the printer is now on the network.
The Question I have is how do you do that if your Router is a Airport Extreme, there is no fancy button for WPS on the Apple Device what do you do. The process is rather simple but before we go into that I would have to ask one question.
Zoom Function in Safari 10 macOS Sierra
The zoom function on a mac has been around for awhile and I have enjoyed using it on my MacBook Pro with the trackpad and the pinch method (index figure and thumb) to zoom in and out of a safari page. The issue I have found is what to do when you dont have a trackpad to use that method?
Command Line to Create USB OSX Stick
As many people are aware creating a USB installer for OSX is ideal for any IT Engineer. I have spent many hours searching for the terminal command to create a USB Bootable memory stick.
To simplify I am assuming you know what terminal is,you have a USB stick (8GB or more), have formatted it to untiled in disk utility and finally downloaded the latest version of the Mac OS you want an installer for. All you need is the terminal command to run the installer to create the USB Installer.
VPN L2TP Connection issues with Windows machines connecting to OSX Servers
If anyone has any dealings with OSX Server Licence 5.1 and above for El Capitan or MacOSX Sierra (10.11 or 10.12) will have come across PPTP is no more. For VPN you have L2TP as your only option. This is not a issue and it is a lot more secure than PPTP. Always ensuring the correct ports are open for it to work.
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Remote Desktop Support
How do I remote into my mac, or get someone to access my machine and help me out.
This question has been around for a number of years. There are lots of remote programs out there here are the top few I find work very nice with your mac.
Top one I would always use if you don’t have access to the network you need to connect to (i.e VPN) would be Teamviewer. Free to the end user, paid service for commercial user.
Virus software
I am afraid gone are the days when Macs seemed to be impervious to virus. In the past 4 months I have seen a influx of malware, adware and spyware virus’s which have compromised a number of client machines both business and home users. People have been drawn into installing software programs such as Mackeeper to help improve the performance of their machine and identify “problems” within the machine before it affects the work flow of the end user. The really annoying thing about these programs is the easy that they are available while surfing the net. Continue reading “Virus software”