Can You Spatchcock a Jackalope?
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Adam, Pete, and Dave dive into a variety of tech tips and discussions. From troubleshooting AirPlay 2 issues by reserving IP addresses to exploring the nuances of iPad upgrades, there’s something for every Apple enthusiast. They also tackle the intricacies of managing DHCP reservations and share insights on optimizing your home network for seamless connectivity.
But that’s not all! The team delves into the world of photo organization in the Photos app, shares a Don’t Get Caught story about the pitfalls of syncing music libraries, and offers a solution for those pesky calendar reminders that clutter your schedule.
Don’t miss out on these valuable insights and tech tips. Click play and join the conversation—just remember, whatever you do, “Don’t Get Caught” without your tech in check!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1060 for Monday, October 21st, 2024
October 21st: National Apple Day
Police Code 10-60 = Squad In Vicinity
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Eternal Storms with Yoink AND Screenfloat for October, 2024
00:02:46 Upgrading an iPad
New iPad mini with A17
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Joe-QT-Slide to indent Reminders
00:07:11 Bruce-QT-Access Unencrypted Login – NeverSSL.com
Or captive.apple.com
00:10:01 Todd-QT-Managing the Always-On Display During Sleep Time
00:13:45 Adam-QT-123 Swipe to Punctuate
Linus Tech Tips
00:18:02 Andrew-QT-Setup DHCP Reservations for your AirPlay Speakers
Netgear Orbi Mesh
00:26:47 Alex-QT-You can re-order Photos in an album
00:28:16 Todd-QT-You can keep Scheduled Reminders from Appearing on your calendar
00:30:41 Kurt-QT-1058-Use Terminal to retrieve data off of failing drives
rsync
cp
brew install ddrescue
Sponsors
00:34:01 SPONSOR: 1Password Extended Access Management solves the problems traditional IAM and MDM can’t touch. It’s security for the way we work today.
Don’t Get Caught
00:35:27 Jürgen-DGC-A Tale of Woe! Don’t Get Caught Without a Backup
00:41:29 Todd-DGC-There’s No Easy Way to Backup (and Restore) Notes
00:46:15 Andrew-DGC-Velcro Backup Drives to your monitor.
00:52:08 Joe-?/DGC-iPhone 16ProMax and Ventura Compatibility issues?
Reset iPhone/Mac “Trust” Settings: Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Location & Privacy
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:59:56 Andy-What is the Apple Vision Pro for? And whom?
Have we hit the Four-Way-Stop moment with Smartphones yet?
01:17:42 Zoe-How do I tell my Mac to mirror the correct iPhone?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Joe brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:07.3 | ever wanted to have items and reminders be indented like Shop at Lowe's |
| 0:12.3 | versus at Ace. Sure you could create a different note but with a general |
| 0:17.5 | shopping note you could make things easier by having subtitles as it were right? Well son, son of a gun. Notes can do this. Who knew? All you do in |
| 0:26.4 | iOS is slide an entry to the right and a little indent area shows up. |
| 0:31.2 | Tap it and it's indented. |
| 0:33.4 | Easy peasy. |
| 0:35.4 | Who knows how to spell that anyway? |
| 0:38.2 | More tips like this plus your questions answered |
| 0:42.1 | on today's Mac Geek Cab number 1060 for Monday, October 21st, |
| 0:47.5 | 2024. Oh. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geekab the show where you send in tips like |
| 1:11.2 | that and we share them you send in your questions we share them and |
| 1:14.8 | hopefully can provide some answers or at least some guidance we honor the |
| 1:19.0 | troubleshooting process here you send in cool stuff found, we share that, we string it all together loosely |
| 1:26.5 | into an agenda such that we are each perfectly set up to learn at least five new things every single episode. |
| 1:37.0 | Our sponsor for today is One Password.com slash MGG. |
| 1:42.0 | That's where you can learn all about one password extended access management |
| 1:45.3 | Which will solve all the problems that traditional I am and MDM can't touch we'll talk more about that in a little bit. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:57.8 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:00.9 | And here also in New Hampshire where it was a cool 28 degrees this morning. |
| 2:06.0 | It's Pilot Pete could be back with you guys on show 1060. |
| 2:10.3 | 1060 code for squad in the area. I guess we're a geek squad in the area today and in some locations it's also dead dog. So we will do our best not to kill your dog during this show. |
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