If you have ever wondered about hosting your Casper server in the cloud, check out this post on Justin Rummel’s blog.  He has some notes he made during a recent JSS setup on Amazon EC2 hosting.  This is a very compelling setup if you have a fair amount of machines that are never on your network and can easily access the internet.  Check it out!

About Nate WalckNate is a Macintosh Systems Engineer at Tamman Technologies, Inc in Philadelphia, PA. He is the managing editor for afp548.com and one of the founding members of the ##osx-server IRC channel on freenode.net. He loves being involved in the Mac Admin community and using Open Source projects whenever possible, especially Munki and The Luggage.... | Read more »

Learn about how iPhoto handles importing images from your iOS device when My Photo Stream is enabled.

MacBook Air bootstrapping with Munki via Wi-Fi
The Premise:
Nick McSpadden and I were both working on a similar goal this week: getting Macs to connect to Wi-Fi at the loginwindow. By default, adding preferred wireless networks will only connect once a user is logged in, either via the networksetup command or Profiles. By using a modified .mobileconfig from the iPhone Configuration Utility, we can achieve this goal without having to use Profile Manager.
We shared a common goal in this, to be able to bootstrap new MacBook Airs over Wi-Fi using Munki. I had an additional goal, to be able to authenticate to Active Directory over Wi-Fi. Without a Wi-Fi connection at the loginwindow, Directory Services must rely on... | Read more »

If you create or duplicate a track, solo that track, and then choose Undo (which undoes creating or duplicating the track), all other tracks will remain silent.

Apple has updated the Safari web plug-in-blocking mechanism to disable the web plug-in for Adobe Flash Player.

It's easier than ever for users around the world to purchase your apps, now that the App Store supports local currencies in Russia, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. To see how these currencies align with price tiers, view the Rights and Pricing section of the Manage Your Applications module in iTunes Connect.

It’s easier than ever to get your apps in front of more users around the world. Make your iOS apps available to businesses and educational institutions in the Volume Purchase Program, now offered in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. Learn more.

Make sure your apps take advantage of the great new features in OS X Mountain Lion when the world's most advanced operating system ships to millions of customers worldwide. Download OS X Mountain Lion GM seed and Xcode 4.4 GM seed, now available on the Mac Dev Center. Build your apps with these latest seeds, then test and submit for review. You can also submit iOS apps that take advantage of the new cross-platform Game Center Groups, so they'll be available when OS X Mountain Lion ships. Learn more.

You can now watch over 100 session videos covering iOS and OS X essentials, app services, developer tools, graphics, media and games, and more from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Watch videos.