Brick Walls and Brain Waves
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
As the discussion heats up, Pete and Dave tackle some quirky tech challenges that might have you nodding in agreement or scratching your head. Did you know your 2.4GHz network penetrates brick walls more effectively than higher frequencies? And when it comes to sending sensitive documents securely, they suggest top tools like Tresorit Send and Dropbox Send to keep your private info under wraps. So, as you navigate these tech waters, remember: “Don’t Get Caught” unprepared. Tune into Mac Geek Gab for these insights and more, ensuring you stay one step ahead in the digital realm.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1036 for Monday, May 6th, 2024
May 6: National Beverage Day
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Blocktek-QT-Use Caps Lock as a Shutdown Notification Indicator
00:03:41 Nescafe Milk Foamer
Throat Coat Tea
00:05:50 Uncle Jamie-QT-Add, reorder, merge PDFs and more with Preview
PDFExpert (available with a student discount with a .edu)
00:08:40 QT-Disable WPA3 on Your Network. Your IOT Devices Will Thank You
Skylight Frame
00:18:55 Missing Adam Today
00:19:44 Phil-QT-VPNs can add duplicate AirDrop destinations
00:21:37 StephrabNYC18-Turn off your VPN when using Ticketmaster
00:24:59 PP- Sending Mail Getting Blocked… Receive OK – It was “TailScale” VPN
Tailscale
WhatIsMyIp.com
Wireguard VPN
00:32:15 Can I Use Two VPNs Simultaneously?
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00:40:22 Pete Outsmarted Himself!
00:42:26 What the Heck Happened With Our Reset Apple ID Passwords?
Making SWAGs Again
Send Us Your SWAGs
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:54:49 JT Ray-Why Do I have Both Local and iCloud Desktop Folders?
00:57:00 Why Do I have Two Mail Accounts Listed?
01:02:23 JP-Duplicate File Finder?
Gemini from MacPaw
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Block Tech brings us our quick tip of the week by saying |
| 0:06.6 | I often pull my Macbook pro out of my travel bag only to find that the battery is dead or extremely depleted, it seems that if I close |
| 0:16.6 | the lid immediately after invoking the shutdown command, it doesn't always have time to |
| 0:21.4 | complete the process and instead goes to sleep mid-process |
| 0:25.6 | to make sure that my machine has completely shut down before closing the lid. |
| 0:30.2 | I now press the caps lock key first. |
| 0:33.2 | After shutting down, I know the lid is safe to shut |
| 0:36.6 | once the keys LED turns off. |
| 0:39.2 | I just wish that there was a way to turn off the startup on open or key press function as I find |
| 0:44.5 | that I still sometimes inadvertently restart the machine when closing it up. |
| 0:49.7 | More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on |
| 0:54.8 | Mackey cab 1036 for Monday, May 6th National Beverage Day |
| 1:00.0 | Something near and dear to our hearts here at Mackey, cab, |
| 1:03.7 | two thousand twenty four. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Mac Geek have the show where you send in |
| 1:25.2 | quick tips just like that one you send in your questions which we try to answer |
| 1:28.8 | we send in we all send in cool stuff and we all send in quick tips too and |
| 1:32.3 | really sometimes we all send in questions like I'll bring |
| 1:35.4 | questions to the show and hopefully we get to answer it together. We also sometimes |
| 1:39.5 | answer questions in our discord community at Matt Geekob.com slash discord and when I say sometimes I mean all the time huge community of |
| 1:47.3 | Fantastic well-intentioned folks who are kind and helpful to one another. I can't be more thankful for that as part of |
| 1:58.3 | our community here. Our sponsors for today include LinkedIn.com slash MGG where you can go and post your first job for free |
| 2:08.5 | Backplace.com slash MGG where you can go and start protecting yourself from potential bad times and also |
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