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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Your Apple and tech questions answered include Doug, who has trouble with Safari loading pages, Bob, whose DiskStation is being hacked, and Richard, who wants to connect external drives to his Mac. Also, learn how to check your Carbon Copy Cloner Free Space Requirement to be sure you’re not over-filling your drive with snapshots. All of this and WAY more — and how to use your technology to weigh less — here with John, Dave, and Pete this week. Press play and don’t get caught! You’re guaranteed to learn at least five new things!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 951 for Monday, October 17, 2022 <https://mgg.fm/951>

Allison-QT-Finder Spotlight Search Keyboard Shortcut is Opt-Command-Space
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:03:32 Eduardo-QT-Use Shift-Option to make vertical text selections
00:05:15 Jacques-950-QT-Emergency SOS Can Be Set to Display By Pressing Power/Side Button 5 times
00:06:48 Bill-QT-watchOS 9 Lets Us Delete Reminders
00:08:53 Craig-QT-Move the Dock on Your Mac With the Flick of a Mouse

Universal Control

00:14:11 Jim-QT-Use Preview to Fill Out PDF Forms

PDF Expert

00:18:16 Michael-QT-949-Use AssistiveTouch Dot to Restart iPhone
00:20:10 Donna-QT-949-Remember UDP (Up, Down, Power) for iPhone Reset Button Order

00:23:16 SPONSOR: Kolide – Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today at Kolide.com/MGG
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:24:36 Doug-Safari Not Loading Pages

How to Flush DNS Cache on a Mac
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

00:33:21 Bob-How Do I Protect My NAS From Hackers?

Synology Security Advisor

00:44:51 Richard-Connecting External Drives to new iMac

Anker 533 USB-C Dongle
OWC Thunderbolt 3 Docks

00:50:57 DLH-Check your Carbon Copy Cloner Free-Space Requirement
00:55:10 JP-943-VPN “Network Protection” blocks AirDrop…Sometimes!

00:57:21 PODCAST: The Notnerd Podcast is a different kind of tech podcast aimed at—you guessed it—those who are not nerds. If you, or someone you know, is looking to keep up with the wild world of technology, head over to Notnerd.com or go to your favorite podcast app and search “Notnerd,” so you can Tech Better!
Pepcom notes/follow-up

00:58:19 Seagate will NOT be at CES. Others have a very different approach (press vs. industry focus)
01:01:59 Apple Watches are on the way
01:05:50 JFB & DLH-Each

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Allison sent in our quick tip for the week.
0:05.0	You know that whatever app you're in on your Mac you can launch Spotlight with
0:09.5	Command Space? Well, try command option space instead.
0:17.0	It opens a finder window to the spotlight search field.
0:20.0	More tips like this plus your questions answered today on
0:24.8	Matt Geek Cab episode 951 for Monday October 17th
0:29.5	2022. Thanks, folks, and indeed!
0:47.0	Greetings folks and indeed!
0:49.0	Welcome to Maciqueb, the show where you send in your tips like that one, your
0:54.8	questions, your cool stuff found. We share them all. We try to answer your
0:58.5	questions, we sometimes we have questions, tips, and cool stuff found of our own.
1:03.7	We share it all with the goal being that each and every one of us learns at least five new things.
1:10.4	Every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include
1:14.0	collide.com slash MGG device security that uses education to help make your company more secure as opposed to mandates.
1:24.8	It's pretty cool the way they do things.
1:26.3	You're going to want to check that out.
1:27.4	We'll talk more in depth about that a little bit later here in the show.
1:30.9	For now, here in what amounts to be a very rainy Durham, New Hampshire, I am
1:36.5	Dave Hamilton.
1:37.5	And here in Fearful, Connecticut, this is Jonathan.
1:41.6	John F. Ron. In Ohio Goseima. This is Jonathan Brun.
1:48.6	In Ohio Goseymas from Osaka, Japan, pilot Pete here, guys. Amazing.
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