5,862 Days of Pre-Flight
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Discover how to jazz up your iPhone lock screen widgets, effortlessly identify shuffled Lockscreen photos, and streamline your contacts with a personalized “My Card”. macOS 14.1 is in the spotlight with its new tapback feature that keeps your conversations engaging.
In the quest for Mac wisdom, the duo tackles the big questions: to migrate or nuke-and-pave when moving to a new Mac, and which Mac to get when upgrading from Intel. Safari’s potential memory leak in macOS 14.1 sparks debate, while tips on tagging photos in macOS and turning emails into reminders keep your digital life on point.
Remember, “Don’t Get Caught” in tech snafus—instead, arm yourself with knowledge on migration safety with Synology Drive and other syncing solutions. Plus, the episode is peppered with Cool Stuff Found, from the utility magic of Plain Clip and Texts consolidating messaging apps to the cutting-edge RoomPlan API for spatial planning, ensuring you’re always one step ahead of the tech curve.
Press play and enjoy learning at least five new things with your two favorite geeks!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1008 for Monday, November 6th, 2023
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
00:02:52 5,862 Days of Pre-Flight!
X-Plane
ForeFlight
Sentry ADS-B AHRS
Electronic Flight Bags
FliteDeck Pro
Quick Tips
00:00:01 QT-Change the Color of Lock Screen Widgets By Tapping on (and Stylizing) the Clock
00:11:47 QT Hold globe at bottom of iOS keyboard and select left/center/right Keyboard icon to type w/one thumb
00:13:50 Henry-QT-Identify Lockscreen Shuffled Photos
00:16:46 Kent-QT-Setting up Your “My Card” in Contacts
00:18:58 QT-macOS 14.1 brings tapbacks front-and-center
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:23:20 Bill-To Migrate Or Nuke, That Is The Question
00:32:46 Glen-Upgrading from Intel to…Which Mac?
MacUpdater
00:39:28 Is Safari in macOS 14.1 having a Memory Leak?
00:41:16 Neal-Is Migration Assistant Safe with Synology Drive and other third-party syncing engines?
00:44:31 LockTutor-How can I quickly tag photos?
macOS Photos Keyword Manager
00:48:45 DJ Mac-How can I create a Reminder from any email client?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Matt Geek Cab and I'll bring us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:05.9 | Changing the color of your lock screen widgets. I was messing around with my phone. I put a new picture on my lock lock screen I actually like I take a lot of pictures at concerts because I go to a lot of concerts and I always pick one is like sort of my main lock screen for my normal focus mode and whatever one I picked the for whatever reason I picked, I couldn't see my widgets anymore. |
| 0:27.0 | You know, I have like the weather and the stocks up there, you know, below the clock and all that. And the time was fine, but I just |
| 0:35.6 | couldn't see the text on my widgets and I went into the widgets and I'm trying |
| 0:38.8 | to change the color of them. The place that you change the color of your lock screen widgets is by tapping on and stylizing the clock. |
| 0:48.0 | Whatever color you set the clock to is what your widgets will inherit. More quick tips like this plus your |
| 0:56.3 | questions answered today on Matt Geekab 1008 for Monday, November 6th, 2023. Geeings folks and welcome indeed to mak geek g, the show where you send in your quick tips like that, |
| 1:26.0 | your cool stuff found, your questions, |
| 1:27.0 | we try to answer your questions, |
| 1:29.0 | we try to share your quick tips and cool stuff found |
| 1:31.0 | we share as many of them as we can in an order that |
| 1:35.4 | makes it such that we are each most likely to learn at least five new things |
| 1:42.0 | every single time we get together. Sponsors for this |
| 1:45.2 | episode and again sometimes we'll even play that sound when we learn something |
| 1:48.7 | especially exciting at least exciting for us it might be exciting for you too hopefully something is |
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| 2:00.0 | ten percent off your first year of the email provider that I've been using for five, six, seven years. |
| 2:06.6 | I don't know how long. |
| 2:09.2 | We'll talk more about that in a little bit here. |
| 2:11.5 | For now, back here on Terra Firma in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave |
| 2:15.3 | Hamilton. And here in Lee, New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete and that opening quick |
| 2:20.4 | tip Dave, if you'd asked me how to do it, couldn't have told you but I already did it. Yeah I had done it but yeah I had done it in the past but and so I knew it was doable |
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