The new MacBooks have been getting some attention, in large part due to the single USB 3 Type C connector that further simplifies Apple’s hardware connectivity options. Our mission was to install Windows 10 for testing Winclone and Boot Runner and the process had some interesting twists. The one-port challenge First of all, due to…
Beacon Scan is an OS X app to find any iBeacons or Physical Web beacons. It requires a Mac with Bluetooth LE and 10.10 (Yosemite). Just launch it, and it will start showing nearby beacons. You can copy the UUID or other data for easy pasting into apps. Download it here. We’ll have a fancy…
Beacon Launcher is an OS X app that allows you to easily run scripts when your Mac is near a beacon. Just add in the beacon identifiers, tell it what apps or scripts to run when entering or exiting a beacon, and BAM!, you are done. Beacon Launcher is free, but you can support it…
The early 2015 MacBook now ship with drives that use native advanced format 4096 bytes per sector drives and we suspect that this will continue in future models. Larger block size means that large files can be written faster, since more data can be written at one time. However, this mean that filesystems and drivers…
One of the common requests for our Bleu Station beacons is how to prevent hijacking, or “spoofing”, of the beacon signals. Since the iBeacon spec (and for that matter, Physical Web Beacons) do not provide a way to prevent someone else setting up a beacon in a different location that broadcasts the exact same identifiers,…
Twocanoes Software today is proud to announce the release of Boot Runner 2, the premier OS startup control manager for Macs. Boot Runner 2 adds support for virtual machines as startup disks, making it easy to offer a selection of any combination of OS X, Windows, Chrome OS, Linux, and other systems installed natively or in a virtual machine. Boot Runner 2 includes new customization options to make the startup selection screen easier for end users to find and start the OS environment that they need.
If you’re using Core Location on iOS to range iBeacons, your app gets a constant stream of data from all iBeacons in signal range of the device. iOS gives you the radio signal strength (RSSI), but it also give you something a little more immediately useful in the form of accuracy. Accuracy takes the RSSI…
Today we released Winclone 5, the next version of our Boot Camp cloning utility for OS X. I have always hesitated to call Winclone a “backup” utility, since the sys admin in me always considered backup utilities to be both file based and have the ability to do incremental backups. With Winclone 5, we can…
Winclone 5 is here Greetings from Twocanoes Software! We are excited to announce the release of Winclone 5, the most complete Boot Camp backup solution on the planet. Winclone 5 features the new Winclone Backup solution for automatic file-based backup of your Windows user files. For IT administrators, Winclone 5 Pro now supports Core Storage…
Animal Dental Care and Oral SurgeryColorado Springs, Co. image courtesy of https://twitter.com/copetdentist/ Winclone recently helped the canine hygiene clinic in Colorado Springs. Tony Woodward, DVM, uses a Mac but needs Windows to view canine dental X-rays. He uses a dual-boot configuration on his Mac to run both OS X and Windows on Boot Camp. Tony…
It’s been less than two years since Apple announced iBeacons, but the landscape for retail and other large beacon venues is starting to take shape. Twocanoes Labs has been deploying beacons for the enterprise sector for well over a year and we’ve learned a great deal about it from our customers. We have tens of…
Introducing Bleu Meetings Greetings from Twocanoes Labs! Late last year we unveiled the beta version of Bleu Meetings, a beacon-enabled meetings service for location-aware smartphone passes. Bleu Meetings is an easy, low-cost way to provide custom smartphone passes to keep participants in the loop with event updates, barcode check-in, lock screen alert messages and location-based…
Beacons are a powerful yet often misunderstood technology currently gaining ground in retail, hospitality and other sectors. As a consumer or business owner, you’ll be hearing even more about this technology in 2015 as beacons become ubiquitous. Despite the greater exposure, there are some persistent misunderstandings about what beacons do. Let’s tackle some of those…
Twocanoes Labs today announced the launch of their complete line of Bleu Proximity Beacon products and solutions to be presented at the upcoming NRF 2015 Expo in New York. Twocanoes Labs offers a complete line of Bleu Proximity beacon solutions designed for any deployment environment. Bleu Station beacons are equipped with physical and data security features, extensive deployment tools, an admin SDK and options for AC or battery power.
Setting up a statusboard to automatically show when people enter or exit a building or room is a great small project and is easy to do with our beacons, a Raspberry Pi, and Geohopper. It would be great for an In/Out board, Meeting or Event Attendance, Time Cards, Personnel Availability, or other ways you can…
For the last couple of months, I have been getting a feature request for SSL Detective (an app of ours in the App Store). I could see how the feature would be useful, but since it wasn’t something I needed personally, I had to justify spending time on updating the app. I knew that people…
Guest Pass makes sharing your Wi-Fi network with guests easy. Just fill out the simple questions in Guest Pass and e-mail the resulting Guest Pass without ever leaving the app. Your friends or family receive an attachment that they tap or click, and the next time they are near your network, their iPhone, iPad, or…
Turn off iPhone Camera With iBeacons In many environments it is important to turn off the camera on an iPhone when entering into a facility. Using Bleu Station Beacons, you can automatically disable a camera when in range of a beacon, and re-enable the camera once you are out of range of the beacon. You…
