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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Cool Stuff Found While Surfing with Agentic Browsers

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

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Cool Stuff Found While Surfing with Agentic Browsers — Mac Geek Gab 1128 episode image

This week on Mac Geek Gab 1128, you dive into a treasure chest of Cool Stuff Found with Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton. From DockLock Lite keeping your Dock in check to Backdrop 2.0’s animated lock screens and BookMacster’s bookmark magic, you’ll uncover smart Mac tricks you didn’t know you needed. The geeks take a nostalgic tangent into podcasting history before jumping into the now: Agentic browsers like ChatGPT’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet that are reshaping how you browse today. Safari killing your Tahoe? Find out why Apple’s AI choices might change how your Mac thinks.

Then it’s back to more gems: Bootable clones return with SuperDuper, World Clock Widget makes global time simple, and Fastmail’s new desktop app joins BusyCal and Fantastical in taming your digital life. You’ll also learn how not to get caught with Apple Notes overwriting your data (keep the app open until it syncs!). Wrapping up, apps like Pixeldrop, Shutter Declutter, and Brick help you tidy photos, redact safely, and silence distractions. Plus, creative NFC tag hacks that make your smart home even smarter. As always, the MGG crew makes sure you Don’t Get Caught.

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Bruce brings us our cool stuff of the week with.

0:08.9

In a recent episode, Dave and Adam talked about an app that used to be included in the MacOS

0:13.1

Utilities folder called Network Utility, which Apple has long since discontinued.

0:17.9

However, Dev and Technologies picked it up and continues to develop this extremely

0:22.8

handy utility, now called Neo Network Utility. Bonus, it's free, and of course we'll have the link

0:31.0

in the show notes for you at Macgeekab.com. More cool stuff found like this, plus your question answered today on MacGeekab 1128 for Monday, February 9th, 2026. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Kikup, the show where we share cool stuff found like that.

1:06.6

And normally, we also share quick tips and your questions and answer your questions.

1:11.0

And we might do a little bit of that this week.

1:13.3

But as promised, it is a cool stuff found focused episode.

1:18.4

A lot of the stuff is free.

1:20.6

Like our first one, some of it's not.

1:23.1

I know.

1:23.8

Some of you call these wallet buster episodes.

1:26.2

We try to be cognizant of that and mindful but stuff's

1:30.2

cool so it's fun to just dream a little bit isn't it and that is why we do what we do so that we can

1:36.0

each learn or learn about five new things every single time we get together um our sponsors for today uh include shopcom slash MGGG where you can sign up for your $1 per month trial period and a new sponsor, Sundays for Dogs.com slash MGG50 where you get 50% off your first order of this dog food that's made from like real meat and fruits and veggies.

2:00.4

I tried it.

2:01.8

So we'll talk about that in a little bit.

2:03.9

For now, here on National Clean Out Your Computer Day in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

2:09.9

And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.

2:13.6

And here also in New Hampshire, and I'm going to have a cool stuff found later about clean-notch phone too. It's pilot, Pete. Good to be back with you, gents. Great to see you. Yeah. Oh, it's fun. Here we are. No matter where we went. Here we are. Except for, oh, how about that game yesterday, huh? What a Super Bowl. Go, Pat.

2:34.9

That's right.

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