As If It Were a Swarm Of Bees!
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
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!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1049 for Monday, August 5th, 2024
August 5th: National Dashcam Day
Mac Geek Gab’s August Giveaway: Win a free license to Reincubate Camo!
Quick Tips
00:03:53 Random isn’t always Random
00:05:49 Mike D.-QT-Prioritize App Downloads on iPhone and iPad
00:10:23 Alex-QT-iOS Select multiple items gesture
00:14:25 ATC-Mail App Displays ‘Your Network Preferences Prevent Content From Loading Privately’ Message
00:21:52 David-QT-1048-Reminder to Drag a File to get its path also!
And now…a quick detour into Terminal Geekery with some helpful commands:
pwd from the Terminal to display the working directory
open . opens a Finder window with the current directory from the Terminal
cd brings you to your default directory (on macOS, that’s usually your home folder)
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:29:33 Terry-Mounting (or NOT) External Drives
Prevent Automount of External Volume(s) on macOS
Avoid as if it were a swarm of bees!
EjectBar
00:38:33 Brian-How to selectively unlock my Mac with Apple Watch? ->Geek Challenge
00:44:28 Kent-I Got Caught Updating My Printer’s Firmware
00:47:32 Tangent: Coffee-Maker Talk!
Keurig vs. Tassimo
Open Source with Super Automatics
Philips 4400 with LatteGo is what Dave has (look for it on sale!)
00:49:41 Neal-Would You Recommend Migrating from Eero to UniFi?
UniFi Cloud Gateway Max
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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