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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

CarPlay Widgets, eSIM Swaps, Photo Preservation & AI Assisted Living

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

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

CarPlay Widgets, eSIM Swaps, Photo Preservation & AI Assisted Living — Mac Geek Gab 1108 episode image

You kick things off with a stack of Quick Tips that make your Apple gear feel smarter. From getting a free year of Perplexity Pro, to turning on CarPlay widgets in iOS 26, to using ChatGPT itself to search for Mac Geek Gab answers (like which dash cam Pilot Pete prefers), you’re reminded how powerful the tools you already have can be. You’ll also learn how Apple Maps saves your recent routes, how to grab a full-res screenshot from a video, and why buying an AirPrint-capable printer is always the move. The point: these bite-sized tweaks add up fast, and you don’t want to miss them. Don’t Get Caught overlooking the simple wins.

From there, you dive into Cool Stuff Found and listener Q&A that blend everyday utility with future-facing tech. MGG-listener vibe-coded StockTrackr helps you spot Apple Store inventory, GoodSync makes backups painless, and UGreen’s clever AirTag key accessories keep your essentials trackable. You also face the reality of e-waste, the looming Nest thermostat cutoff, and how AI is evolving from assisted coding to assisted living—crafting web pages, logic, and even graphics on command. Questions push you deeper: swapping eSIMs, nuking stubborn trash files, using Tailscale exit nodes for Netflix, and preserving family photos for generations. The thread through it all? Practical hacks that save your time, money, and sanity.

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab and Shannon, listener Shannon, and also my co-host Shannon with Business Brain, brings us our quick tip of the week by sharing that you can go if you have a PayPal account, which I think everybody does, you can go and get a year of Perplexity Pro for free.

0:20.5

You sign up for a subscription.

0:22.8

It gives you a one year free trial.

0:25.5

And then after that, it will start charging you.

0:28.5

But of course, you can cancel before the gear is up.

0:30.9

Perplexity Pro is a fantastic AI engine.

0:33.7

It lets you pull in GPT.05 from OpenAI and Sonnet 4 from Claude in addition to

0:40.5

perplexity's own stuff.

0:41.6

So it's a great little engine and gets you all the pro features and it reduces the rate

0:46.7

limits and all that stuff.

0:48.1

So we'll put a link in the show notes at macgeekab.com for that.

0:51.3

More tips like this.

0:52.5

Plus your questions answered today on Mac Geekab 1108 for Monday,

1:00.4

September 22nd Hobbit Day.

1:03.9

2025.

1:04.6

Thank you. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Keycab, where we share tips like that.

1:26.2

We share cool stuff found, which is kind of like that.

1:28.4

And we share your questions and sometimes even answer your questions. In fact, hopefully always,

1:33.1

if we can't provide an answer, at least provide some guidance down the troubleshooting path,

1:38.5

such that we can each learn at least five new things every single time we come together here on the show.

1:46.8

Our sponsors for this episode include mintmobile.com slash MG, where you can cut your wireless bill to just 15 bucks a month like Pete and I have done.

1:59.5

Barebones.com's BB Edit, one of our favorite apps to use here.

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