Beware The Robocalypse
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Don’t miss out on harnessing AI to create personalized wallpapers, and make sure your read receipts in Messages are working as intended. The latest Apple event brings exciting updates too, featuring new iPad Pros, iPad Airs, and major upgrades to Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro, and your two geeks discuss their reactions to all of it!
In the question and answer segment, Dave & Adam tackle problems like correcting your Mac’s time settings with a simple terminal command and deciding whether to migrate your system or start fresh with a ‘nuke-and-pave’ approach.
Learn how to approach DKIM records to ensure your emails aren’t bouncing back and explore tools like 1Focus for enhanced screen time management and New.Space for securely transmitting sensitive documents.
Remember, in the ever-evolving tech landscape, always stay informed and “Don’t Get Caught” unprepared!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1037 for Monday, May 13th, 2024
May 13: Top Gun Day
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Ben-QT-Option-Space in Finder for Full-Screen Quick Look
00:03:28 Troy-QT-In Safari, Control-Tab moves you from Tab to Tab
00:07:31 Mike-QT-Set the distance on proximity reminders
00:10:30 Using an Airtag as a beacon and trigger
00:12:02 David in Missouri-QT-Use AI to generate custom wallpaper
00:15:37 DLH-1034-Read Receipts for Messages follow-up
00:20:02 Andrew-QT-1034-Remove Extraneous Text from Contacts’ Notes Field
00:23:28 Dan-QT-Encryption can slow down the mounting of Time Machine drives
Sponsors
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00:29:17 SPONSOR: BBEdit, the power tool for text from Bare Bones Software; now with integrated Notebooks and extended language support.
00:30:51 Apple Event – New iPad Pros, New iPad Airs, New Logic Pro, New Final Cut Pro
00:37:28 Check in on Apple Vision Pro
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:46:31 Gil-Should I Migrate or Nuke-and-Pave?
00:53:29 Jeremiah-My Mac’s Time is Wrong…How do I fix it?
sudo sntp -sS time.apple.com
Lingon
00:57:48 Jedd-DKIM Records on my Custom Domain are Bouncing Mail
DKIM Is A Four-Letter Word
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mackey Cab and listener Ben brings us our quick tip of the week by telling us he says I learned from an outdated |
| 0:10.4 | Wikipedia article that you can press option space in the finder to |
| 0:16.3 | instantly preview a selected item in full screen. I know it's crazy and he continues he says in the full screen you can |
| 0:28.1 | page through a multi-page PDF using the space bar. Additionally, you can select multiple items of one or more kinds |
| 0:36.3 | first in the finder and then use option space to present a slideshow, the same kind that works |
| 0:42.3 | invoking normal quick look and then manually |
| 0:44.7 | to full screen as reported by Kent back in episode 1031. |
| 0:50.3 | Very cool. |
| 0:52.3 | More tips like this. Plus your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 1037 for Monday, May 13th, Top Gun Day, 2024. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where you send in and we share |
| 1:26.2 | tips like that you send in and we share your questions hopefully with some answers |
| 1:30.6 | for you and you and we contribute cool stuff found that we share we |
| 1:36.0 | string it all together into an agenda that is organized such that we each have a great opportunity to learn at least five new things. |
| 1:46.6 | Every single episode we get together. Sponsors for this episode include |
| 1:52.4 | BB Edit at barebones.com and Coda.io slash |
| 1:57.6 | MGG where you can go sign up for free to create the one dock to kind of rule them all, |
| 2:04.4 | bring all your text and tables together. |
| 2:05.7 | We'll talk more about both of those in a little bit. |
| 2:08.2 | For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:11.3 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:15.1 | And Adam, we're missing Pete this morning because he didn't have room in the plane to fit his |
| 2:21.2 | microphone. That's that's only sort of a |
| 2:27.3 | misinterpretation of what happened. He flew his small plane somewhere and repacked his luggage for weight and in the process wound up forgetting his microphone for today. |
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