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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Bring Your Own Dog

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Bring Your Own Dog — Mac Geek Gab 1097 episode image

You’re in for a fast-paced ride with Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton as they dive into power-user Quick Tips that’ll change your Apple game. From lightning-fast navigation in Notes to creating Spotify-style stations in Apple Music, and securing your Time Machine volumes inside encrypted APFS containers, this episode is loaded. You’ll rearrange CarPlay apps like a pro, check your battery with Siri, and streamline iCloud Mail aliases. And if you haven’t played with ChatGPT’s new voice mode recently, you’re missing out—it’s weirdly friendly.

Then it’s a hard turn into real-world snags, like when JP’s HomePod stopped being a Home Hub—Don’t Get Caught like he did. Adam tries—and fails—to merge his Apple IDs, raising red flags for developer account holders. Cool Stuff Found includes retro-modern turntables from Victrola (this month’s MGG giveaway!) and a handy AirPods noise guide. Listener questions dig into hostname quirks and CarPlay glitches, and the crew weighs in on Apple’s 2026 OS betas. Pilot Pete gives iOS 26 a solid 95%, so maybe it’s time to test the waters—maybe just not on your main device?

 

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac geekab and listener Dan brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:07.0

He says a few weeks ago, you mentioned the trick in the notes app on the Mac that if you

0:11.6

press command enter while in a note, it jumps you back to the main list where you can then

0:16.2

arrow up or down in the list of notes.

0:18.5

And if you press command enter while in the list of notes, it jumps your cursor to the end

0:23.3

of whatever note you have selected.

0:26.0

The new tip, if you hit tab while in the list of notes, it jumps your cursor to the start

0:32.3

of that note instead of the end.

0:34.3

I use this command all the time to order my notes by number since I keep it sorted alphabetically.

0:41.1

Ah, I like this.

0:42.5

All right.

0:43.6

More tips like this.

0:45.3

Plus, your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1097 for Monday, July 7th World Chocolate Day, 2025.

0:56.6

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where you send in quick tips like that.

1:19.4

You send in cool stuff found.

1:21.4

You send in your questions.

1:22.9

We share it all.

1:24.1

We answer your questions.

1:26.0

We string it all into an agenda that hopefully makes

1:30.1

both logical sense and is formulated just so, handcrafted with love, to encourage each of us

1:39.6

to be able to learn at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:47.9

Our sponsors for this episode include strawberry. me slash MGG.

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