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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Doing The AirPods Dance

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

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Doing The AirPods Dance — Mac Geek Gab 1098 episode image

You’re swimming in Quick Tips this week on Mac Geek Gab 1098! You’ll learn how to fix flaky Apple TV Wi-Fi, make your AirPods fit better (hint: flip ’em), and finally tame Hot Corners with a smart modifier key. Discover the secret to custom routes in Apple Maps on iOS 18 and why renaming flags in Mail might be the power move you didn’t know you needed. Oh—and don’t forget: July 14th is National Tape Measure Day, so measure twice before you trigger that accidental corner action.

Then it’s your questions answered, from routers with nerdy flexibility to iCloud alias issues and Apple Music migration woes. We dive into why not all USB-C cables are created equal—seriously, Don’t Get Caught with the wrong one—and help you vet display brightness before buying. Plus, Cool Stuff Found brings Raspberry Pi Time Machine backups, Copilot Money, and Setapp’s killer image tools. Always be learning, always be tweaking—just don’t get stuck with bad cables.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab, and listener Jim brings us our quick tip of the week with,

0:07.0

in system settings, you can configure hot corners and by themselves they can be great,

0:11.9

but you can accidentally trigger them too easily.

0:14.7

This can be remedied by adding a modifier key when you configure it in system settings.

0:20.0

You do this by holding down the desired modifier key when you configure it,

0:24.2

and no more accidental hot-corner shortcuts when you fling your mouse out of the way.

0:30.3

More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1098 for Monday, July 14th, 2020.

1:00.3

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

1:01.4

You send in cool stuff found.

1:02.2

You send questions.

1:03.4

We share them all.

1:06.5

We try to answer your questions or at least provide a troubleshooting path.

1:14.5

Where the goal is we each get to learn at least five new things every single time we get together.

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