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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Mac Geek Gab with Pilot Pete and Dave Hamilton is packed with Quick Tips and Cool Stuff Found to keep your tech life running smoothly. Discover hidden battery drains on your iPhone by sorting battery usage by time, then take ChatGPT customization to the next level—give it a full list of your installed apps for smarter suggestions! Want faster Terminal work? Just Cmd-Right-Click to paste selected text instantly. Always be tweaking, always be learning… and as always, Don’t Get Caught without the best tech tricks at your fingertips.
Cool Stuff Found is on fire this week, from tools that supercharge your workflow to gear that levels up your setup. Rectangle Pro lets you save entire workspaces of apps and windows, while BetterDisplay gives you ultimate control over your virtual desktops. Need more? Planck SSD expands your iPhone storage, and the ShiftCam SnapGrip Pro transforms it into a photography powerhouse. For research, Perplexity LLM might just outshine ChatGPT. Oh, and if you want a killer backpack, the Portland Gear Cascade has you covered. Whether it’s monitors, media converters, or dash cams, MGG delivers—so geek out and grab what works for you!

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1079 for Monday, March 3rd, 2025

March 3rd: National If Pets Had Thumbs Day
Police Code 10-79 – Notify Coroner / Bomb threat
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Quick Tips

00:00:01 QT-Sort iPhone battery usage by time and scroll down to find hidden consumers
00:05:38 Scott-QT-Give ChatGPT a list of your apps to help better craft solutions!

sudo ls -R /Applications > ~/Desktop/Installed_Applications.txt

00:11:58 Customize ChatGPT’s Behavior
00:17:45 Google Notebook Podcast
00:19:53 Ventmore-QT-Quickly paste selected text in Terminal with Cmd-Right-Click

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Cool Stuff Found

00:24:34 Dan-CSF-Rectangle Pro stores entire workspaces of apps and windows
00:25:55 Jim-CSF-BetterDisplay for Virtual Desktop and More
00:28:34 Kent-CSF-Planck SSD for iPhone
00:30:56 Pilot Pete=CSF-ShiftCam SnapGrip Pro
00:33:53 CSF-OhSnap SnapGrip Wallet
00:37:31 Dan-CSF-Aeon Timeline for creating gantt charts
00:38:55 Russ-CSF-Perplexity LLM is better than ChatGPT at research
00:43:31 DLH-CSF-Portland Gear Cascade Backpack

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac geekab and I'll bring us our quick tip of the week.
0:04.4	I was looking to try and figure out why my iPhone's battery usage was, or battery, you know, drain was higher than I would have liked.
0:15.9	And I went into settings battery on my iPhone.
0:20.7	And of course, it shows you the percentage used however
0:26.6	you can tap on the top of that column and change it to the time used it will still remain
0:34.0	sorted by its interpretation of percentage used, putting that at the top.
0:37.9	So go ahead and scroll down and you might find some things way down the list that show hours of background time.
0:48.9	And those things can chew your battery more than you might imagine.
0:54.1	More tips like this.
0:55.3	Plus, your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1079 for Monday, March 3rd National
1:03.2	If Pets had Thumbs Day, 2025.
1:07.5	Thank you. 25.
1:29.4	Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where you send in tips like that.
1:30.5	We bring in tips like that.
1:32.0	You send in cool stuff found.
1:33.6	We share cool stuff found.
1:34.8	You send in questions.
1:36.6	We answer your questions.
1:43.6	The goal being each and every one of us learning five new things every single time we get together.
1:47.8	Our sponsors for this episode include new sponsor.
1:49.8	Well, not a phone, no.
1:55.1	New sponsor, screencasts online.com slash MG, where you can get a lifetime 20% discount on your subscription.
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