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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Backups vs. iCloud vs. Time Machine – Mac Geek Gab 668

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder how to test an external battery? Ever want to enforce parental controls from afar? Ever wonder just how different Time Machine and iCloud are from normal backups? Well, your two favorite geeks discuss all this and a LOT more in today’s episode. Press play and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek App Episode 668 for Sunday,

0:05.0

Sly 30th, 2017. Oh, readings! Go readings folks, folks, and welcome to the Mac Observers, Mac Geekab, the show

0:29.1

where you send in questions, tips, cool stuff, found, all of that stuff.

0:34.7

We answer the questions, share the tips.

0:37.1

Really, everything we do here is with the goal of all of us.

0:41.1

Me, John, you, everybody, learning at least four new things each and every time

0:46.9

we get together. Sponsors for this episode include ERO at eERO.. The Ero is the mesh wireless vendor that just came out with

0:56.4

Generation 2 of their product. We'll talk a little bit about that.

0:59.0

Coupon code, MGG there saves you all the costs of free shipping, free or all the costs of overnight

1:06.5

shipping makes overnight shipping free. We'll talk more about that in a little

1:09.9

while here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:13.0

And here in Fearful, Connecticut, John F Braun.

1:17.0

How you doing today, Mr. F Braun?

1:19.0

I am doing great.

1:21.0

That's good.

1:22.0

We're not really recording this on Sunday.

1:23.8

We should tell people in case there's some, you know, massive news

1:26.6

that, you know, there's some OS update that comes out

1:28.7

between Wednesday and Sunday.

1:29.8

We're just recording a little bit early

1:31.0

because some various travel stuff that we've got going on.

1:35.6

But let's dive in.

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