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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

As If It Were a Swarm Of Bees!

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

As If It Were a Swarm Of Bees! — Mac Geek Gab 1049 episode image

Dive into this week’s Mac Geek Gab episode 1049 with Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton, where you’ll uncover some savvy Quick Tips to make your tech life smoother. Learn how to prioritize app downloads on your iPhone, master the iOS gesture for selecting multiple items, and tackle the pesky Mail app message about network preferences. You’ll also get a taste of Terminal Geekery with essential commands like ‘pwd’ and ‘cd’ to streamline your workflow. Don’t get caught missing these tips!

Then your three favorite geeks address listener questions and geek challenges, such as mounting external drives, selectively unlocking your Mac with Apple Watch, and whether it’s time to switch from Eero to UniFi. A detour into coffee makers reveals the Philips 4400 with LatteGo as an “open source” standout. Plus, get advice on avoiding Amazon Basics UPSes, upgrading to MacOS Sonoma, and safeguarding your data from web-based tools. Always stay ahead with Mac Geek Gab—Don’t Get Caught!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geek Cab and in lieu of a quick tip today I want to tell you about

0:06.5

something that we are starting new here in August and we are planning to do it

0:11.5

every month and that is we are doing a Mac Geekeb giveaway.

0:14.7

You go to Mac Geekub.com slash giveaway and that's always where that will be.

0:20.0

This month we are giving away five licenses to Camo, which is the app that I use and that

0:26.7

Pete uses to make our iPhones into even better web cameras than continuity camera does and we're gonna get out

0:34.6

him on camera I swear. No it really it's absolutely it's a total game changer

0:41.6

and you can win one of the five free licenses just by going

0:44.3

to Mac Geekhub.com slash giveaway and entering our giveaway that we're doing in

0:47.7

partnership with Camo I've really stoked our priority with these is to bring you

0:51.8

something great to give away every month.

0:54.7

And we, by saying it out loud here, I am making that commitment in public.

1:00.6

So now we're going to do it.

1:02.2

No, it's happening. The machine is running. It's all good. So

1:05.8

Mackie.gov.com slash giveaway. And once we get to this show, we will have tips plus your questions answered and cool stuff found today on

1:15.4

Matt Geek, you have 1049 for Monday, August 5th National Dash Cam Day, so maybe

1:22.2

we'll talk about that later in the show.

1:24.0

20, 24. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Ekeeb the show where we share like I said

1:48.0

your quick tips and your cool stuff found your questions we even try to answer

1:51.6

your questions sometimes we have questions quick tips and cool stuff found of our own.

1:55.3

We string them all together into an agenda that is organized, giving us all the best shot at learning at least five new things every single time

2:06.2

we get together. Our sponsor for this episode is Coda.io slash MGG that's where you can go to bring all your text and tables together onto literally

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