CSF from CES 2023
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
That’s not all, though! The episode starts with some Quick Tips that you’re definitely not going to want to miss.
Press play and enjoy learning no less than five new things!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 963 for Monday, January 9, 2023
QT-Enable 3-Finger-Drag for macOS Trackpad
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:04:10 JF-QT-Use Command-Numbers to Select Pinned Messages on macOS
00:05:47 Kenny-QT-Apple Watch multiple timers and Dock Favorites
00:09:57 DLH-QT-Alphabetize Checklists in Notes by Dragging on the Checkbox
00:14:09 CES from beginner’s eyes
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Cool Stuff Found from CES 2023
00:23:40 CSF-Snap 3 Pro MagSafe Phone Holder
00:27:43 CSF-OWC’s Thunderbolt Go Dock $399 – Shipping in March 2023
00:30:35 CSF-Eve SmartPlugs with Matter
CSF-Homey Pro Smart Home Matter Hub
00:34:37 CSF-Scosche GoBat MagSafe 5K Power Bank
QT-Use a Shortcuts Automation to Keep Low Power Mode Active
00:40:46 CSF-Samsung ViewFinity S9 27” 5K Thunderbolt Display
00:42:10 CSF-Wireless TVs at CES (LG, Displace)
00:47:54 CSF-AromaJoin
00:51:38 CSF-SoundFun Mirai Speaker for audio clarity
00:54:51 CSF-Victrola Stream Onyx – $599
01:01:26 CSF-FluentPet lets your pet talk back to you!
01:04:34 CSF-Qi 2 includes collaboration with Apple to bring MagSafe to all
01:05:52 CSF-USB-4 vs. Thunderbolt 4
01:11:04 CSF-Catalyst AirPods Pro Gen 2 Case
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings folks and welcome it is time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Ari brings us our |
| 0:07.0 | quick tip of the week with three-finger drag says it's an accessibility feature that he turns on immediately when he sets up his laptop. |
| 0:16.5 | And the reason is clicking with one finger and awkwardly scrabbling with another |
| 0:21.5 | to move things is no |
| 0:23.4 | Bueno. However, you go into system settings or |
| 0:27.5 | system preferences if you're not yet on Ventura, click |
| 0:30.3 | accessibility, click pointer control, or Mouse and Trackpad |
| 0:34.0 | if you're not on Ventura, |
| 0:36.3 | click on the Trackpad Options button |
| 0:39.1 | and then turn on, use Trackpad for dragging |
| 0:42.4 | or enable dragging from the pop-up menu choose three-finger |
| 0:46.2 | drag as the dragging style. I tried this it is amazing because you just put three fingers down |
| 0:51.7 | and now you can drag a window. |
| 0:53.2 | It's like you are clicking and dragging except it's not that awkward thing you have to do with |
| 0:57.3 | like three thumbs or any of that. |
| 1:00.3 | More tips like this plus your questions answered today on |
| 1:04.8 | Mac Geekab 963 for Monday, January 9th, 2023. 23. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Matt Geek Cab the show where you send in |
| 1:30.8 | tips like that you send in your cool stuff found you send in your |
| 1:35.1 | questions we share your tips and cool stuff found we try to answer your |
| 1:39.2 | questions sometimes like today we bring our cool stuff found of our own because we were just at |
| 1:43.9 | CES. The goal is when we get together for each of us, every one of us, me, John, P, you, |
| 1:51.3 | for every one of us to learn at least five new things every time we get together sponsors for this episode. |
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