244: When Bad Things Happen

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2015

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

David and Katie discuss what to do when the worst things happen to your tech. We'll discuss malware, compromised passwords, stolen devices and more and what what you can do to prepare now to be ready when disaster strikes.

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0:00.0	MacPower users episode 244, when bad things happen. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users
0:17.0	podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside David Sparks.
0:20.0	Hey David! Hello Katie Floyd, how are you today?
0:22.0	I'm well, how are you? I am doing great. I just released that new workflow video field guide. Everybody's loving it getting some nice messages. Thanks everyone for the support on that and I'm ready to talk about some geeky MAC stuff.
0:36.0	Yeah, well we'll see how happy you are at the end of this episode because we are talking about
0:40.5	Doomsday scenarios today.
0:43.0	These are opportunities to become a hero.
0:46.0	That's what the show should be called.
0:47.2	Hero opportunities.
0:48.6	They could be opportunities, but it's planning for the worst
0:51.8	so that when the worst does happen you don't freak out.
0:54.4	Yeah. It's disaster preparedness.
0:57.4	And also it's disaster avoidance. I got an email. I wrote a post at Max Sparky like like four years ago about I called
1:07.1	it Macbook scuba and my sister had was visiting and the cat knocked over a glass of water and her Mac and it was like
1:14.8	in water for the evening and so I wrote up a nice post about all the steps we took and it
1:20.4	ultimately recovered the computer and I just got an email the other day from
1:24.8	someone in like Argentina who had had the exact same thing happen, did a search
1:29.3	somehow my post came up and all the noise that is the internet and it saved her computer.
1:33.2	So when you finish this episode, we're hoping that you'll be able to be the hero for the next person
1:39.3	in your life that has one of these problems.
1:41.6	Sounds like a plan.
1:43.0	Okay.
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