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Though it didn't make the WWDC keynote, Apple didunveil some changes to the device management features used by business and schools for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and even Apple TVs. Those tweaks and updates were discussed at a developer session that took place earlier this month, and they highlight areas IT admins should be focusing on now before the arrival of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave this fall.

Mac users have been able to create and use text clippings since the last century and Mac OS 9, but the feature remains relatively underexploited & despite being such a great way to boost productivity.

What are text clippings

Text clippings are small chunks of text on your Mac. Easy to create, they are also easy to use: to add the text to anything you write in any application you just need to drag---drop the clipping to the document and the words in the clipping will be added to that document. The text can be long, short, or medium and it can contain HTML links.

How do you create a text clipping

Creating a text clipping is very easy. If you ever select text to copy---paste it then you&re almost there. Herethe fastest way to make a text clipping:

IT director pilot fish at a daily newspaper is reworking the company's entire network. Why "There is no security," sighs fish. "None, with about 90 users in a peer-to-peer Mac and PC environment."

One night he gets a call from an editor: One of the applications isn't working. It's the one that lets a reporter find a photo on a wire service's website and save it to a folder. The app then moves the folder to a holding folder on another machine, where yet another machine can grab it and put it into the newspaper's production process.

It takes a couple hours of troubleshooting, but fish tracks down the problem. That holding folder The one that's actually named "Do not touch, do not delete"