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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Car As a Service

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

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Car As a Service — Mac Geek Gab 1126 episode image

You start with deceptively simple wins that immediately clean up your digital life. You batch-rename files in Finder, unlock hidden gestures on both Mac and iPhone, and speed yourself up with small but mighty keyboard and touch tricks. Along the way, a nostalgic detour into Lotus 1-2-3 sparks a surprisingly intense discussion about competitive spreadsheeting, airline safety systems, and how that thinking naturally leads to a bigger question: when does “Car as a Service” stop being a punchline and start being reality? Even the travel hacks stay practical, from surviving cruises without surprise data charges to resetting your internal clock before you even land.

Then you shift into defense mode. You learn where password chaos actually comes from, why panic-resetting devices is sometimes the worst move, and how to spot bugs masquerading as personal failure. Listener questions take you deep into Lightroom quirks, CarPlay gesture mysteries, app safety checks, and Contacts behaving badly, with calm, methodical ways to unweird your setup instead of burning it down. It’s classic Mac Geek Gab: curiosity, experimentation, and real-world fixes that keep your tech working for you. Stay sharp, stay efficient, and Don’t Get Caught.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab and Craig brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:06.8

He says, as can happen, you find things by accident.

0:11.3

Today, I was wanting to rename a file the old way by typing into the box.

0:16.7

But accidentally, I had two files selected when I clicked and chose rename.

0:23.2

To my complete surprise, a dialogue box I'd never seen before, popped up,

0:27.4

and it had a capability to do a search and replace of text in the selected files.

0:32.2

I'm not sure if this is new or recent or has been around.

0:34.6

It's been around.

0:35.6

But it is news to me.

0:38.9

Thank you, Pensacola, Craig. Indeed, you can do a whole sorts, all kinds of things with find and replace with multiple

0:46.3

files right there in the finder. More tips like this. Plus, your questions answered today on

0:52.9

MacGeekab 1126 for Monday, January 26th, Lotus 1, 2, 3 day, 20, 26.

1:02.9

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

1:24.5

You send in some questions.

1:26.0

You send in your cool stuff found.

1:27.8

We share it all with the questions.

1:29.7

We try and provide answers or something fun because we want to make sure that each and every one of us has the opportunity to learn at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:42.7

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1:48.7

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1:57.0

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2:01.7

and be it from Bare Bones.

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