Updates

Booting to macOS Recovery and Diagnostics Mode

January 27, 2020

All Macs now come with a Recovery partition to reinstall macOS and do some common maintenance. In order to restart into recovery, there are a …

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Mac Pro 2019

December 27, 2019

We got a Mac Pro (2019) for testing software compatibility with Winclone and MDS. Both softwares depend on Mac hardware, so validating those apps on …

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Identity Manager

November 19, 2019

Code Signing with Apple Tools Outside The Keychain We have been working on a project that solves the problem of code signing with Apple tools …

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Why We Charge for Upgrades

October 16, 2019

Twocanoes Software is a small software company that focuses on macOS software. We make software that does things that some people may not need but …

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Apple Ramps Up Fight against Malware with Notarization, Stapling, and Hardening

April 17, 2019

Apple recently announced that new Mac developer accounts (and eventually all mac developers) who distribute Mac apps outside the App Store will be required to …

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Adding Notarization to Xcode Builds

April 12, 2019

macOS 10.14.5 will require notarization for macOS apps to run on a Mac. I had to modify our build scripts in Xcode to add in …

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Math in the Shell

March 30, 2019

I recently had to update a script that ran in bash that was failing. It was due to the lack of “bc” on the system …

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MDS – The Fastest Way To Deploy Macs, Free!

February 20, 2019

I sent this letter out to our newsletter list today. Explains a bit what MDS is and why we did it. –tim Hello. This is Tim …

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Showing the log and accessing other utilities from the macOS installer

February 10, 2019

The macOS installer has gone to a more sleek, black screen. However, sometimes it is helpful to see the installer log and get access to …

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Adding a Command Line Tool Helper to a Mac App Store App

January 6, 2019

I recently was working on a Mac app to flash an Arduino using the open source project avrdude in my Mac app, and got it …

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