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Batch Download All Of GarageBand's Loops, Jingles, And Sound Effects

GarageBand has a lot of cool loops and sound effects. If you are a systems administrator, you might be tasked with deploying these sounds and loops so you don’t need to download it onto each computer when GarageBand opens up. Or maybe you

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Quickly Download Or Install Common Apps Without Going To The Website

While helping friends and family with their computers, I often need to download an app they don’t have or update it to the latest version–something I

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How I Went Paperless And Clutter-free For $32

Ever since I discovered Dropbox, I felt weighed down by the clutter of physical documents. I use it for all of my digital documents. After a while, physical documents and

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Make Animated GIFs In OS X With A Right-click

UPDATE 2020-05-23: I updated the post with instructions and screenshots for newer versions of macOS. The biggest thing to note is to remove the "Get selected Finder items" task. Create

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Twin Cities Mac Admins » Meetup notes – April 23, 2015

Featured Presentation Jacob Salmela with Hopkins High School provided our feature presentation Under Cover Of Shell (Scripting). Take a look at Jabob’s website and his GitHub repository. You’ll find he’s solved plenty of issues with scripting. He introduced us to GeekTool,

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Shell Scripting Presentation at JAMF HQ [MSP Mac Admins]

I will be presenting Under Cover Of Shell (Scripting) at JAMF HQ at 5:00 on April 23rd. There is still time to register if you are interested in attending;

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Bash Script: Fix Paused Printers In OS X

You need an administrator password to un-pause a printer in OS X. It is possible to add a user to the lpadmin group. sudo dseditgroup -n /Local/Default -o edit

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Twin Cities Mac Admins Presentation: Under Cover Of Shell (Scripting)

On April 23 at JAMF headquarters in downtown Minneapolis, I will be presenting at the April MSP Mac Admins Meetup. My presentation will cover real-life examples of how scripting can

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Bash Script: Set Favorite Servers In "Connect To..." Menu

The Connect To… menu (Command+K) lets you quickly connect to a server using different protocols. If you are deploying these settings to a bunch of computers, it can be done quickly using a simple bash script. Just replace or add whatever servers

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Bash Script: Reset Root Volume Name To Macintosh HD

In true Borg fashion, I like to keep the devices I manage consistent. This includes the volume name: Macintosh HD. I have a simple shell script that will restore the

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Bash Script: Remove An SSID From The Preferred Network List

I use this script to remove the Guest network from staff computers. It can be adapted for any network. Just modify the variable to be the SSID you want to

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Prevent Access To Certain Wi-Fi Network SSIDs Via Bash Script

In enterprise environments, there is often an open guest network and a secured enterprise network. Often, you do not want users to connect to the guest network because it is throttled down and does not grant access to organizational network resources. Below is a

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Fix (Error code -36) on OS X with dot_clean

The error stems from the way OS X stores files. If you have ever seen Apple files on a PC, you may have seen files beginning with a ._ (dot-underscore). While this problem was seen on Snow Leopard, I recently saw this issue after trying

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List Open Files By User

The command lsof lists open files. However, even if you use the -u option to show files open by just the user, there is a lot of files used in the background that you don’t really know about. I wanted to parse this

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Apple Remote Desktop Not Finding Computers? Try This

Apple Remote Desktop has become flaky over the last few versions of OS X. Apple isn’t really working on it anymore. It is still a great tool, but often,

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Batch Rotate Photo Files With Hazel and sips

If you have a ton of photos that are all facing the wrong direction and don’t want to do them individually, you can use Hazel to automatically go through

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Generate Random Number With Bash Script

I use this script to generate random numbers. This is useful if something needs a random time delay (for network performance issues) or choosing a random selection from a case statement. #!/bin/bash RANGE=90 number=$RANDOM let "number %=$RANGE" echo "$number is a

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Reduce And Resize Dropbox Camera Uploads Automatically With Hazel

I usually use my iPhone to take pictures for my Website and then upload them via the Dropbox app so they appear on my computer. This is a nice feature,

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OS X: Bulk Rename Computers That Are Being Repurposed

Whenever I get a bunch of new computers and phase out some old ones, I typically want them to have the same name. Since I do not want duplicates, I just prepend (or append) “Repurpose-” to the computer name. Then, I can

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OS X: Set All Computers Names Script

I use this simple bash script to set all four of the computer names so they are consistent. There are differences between the computer names, but I typically want them all the same. The only one I set differently is the NetBIOS name because

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Use TextExpander To Run Shell Scripts

TextExpander is great for saving time writing repetitive text. However, I recently discovered that you can also run scripts via a TextExpander keystroke. To do this, create a new snippet

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TestNav Workflows - OS X and Windows

OS XPre-requisitesInstall click (direct download)Create an ARD workflow to prepare machines for testingSave each script as a template. 00.Enable Accessibility Run this once per computer and then reboot. 01.Login student user This will log in the student user from the login

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More Minnesota Testing Woes: Scripting MN ACT Compass Test

While not nearly as awful as Pearson’s TestNav, the Web-based MN ACT Compass Test still requires manual intervention before students are able to test–enough that some scripting is warranted. The technical requirements are much better than Pearson’s, but this test requires

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terminal-notifer Scripts Via the JSS

Scripts run as root when executed via the JSS. This caused problems when trying to send notifications using terminal-notifier to users because root does not have a NotificationCenter instance, so

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Geeklets In OS X Yosemite's Notification Center (Using Today Scripts)

I have been a long time fan of GeekTool, and more recently Übersicht. Now there is something I think is even better: Today Scripts, which puts your shell commands into Notification Center in Yosemite! Today Scripts lets you run your Terminal commands and print

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