Doing The AirPods Dance
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
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.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1098 for Monday, July 14th, 2025
July 14th: National Tape Measure Day
Police Code 10-98 – Assignment Completed…or…JailBreak! (why can’t both be true?)
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Victrola Turntable
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Jim-QT-Add a modifier key to hot corners to keep from accidentally triggering them
00:02:12 Chicago Tom-QT-Renaming Flags in Apple Mail
00:04:54 rnDoug-QT-Flip your AirPods upside down to resolve fit issues
00:08:36 MySpoonIsTooBig & ChicagoTom-QT-Possible fixes for flaky Apple TV Wi-Fi connections
00:10:32 Chicago Tom-QT-Apple Maps lets you do custom routes in iOS 18, too…kinda
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:17:54 Michael-Should I consolidate Dropbox into iCloud to save $$?
Mint Mobile (it’ll cut your “big three” cell phone bill in half)
00:25:28 Eddie-I need a good, standalone router with some nerdy flexibility
Synology WRX560
GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000)
UniFi Cloud Gateway Max (doesn’t have Wi-Fi, so you’d need to add that)
00:30:28 Ian-Why can’t I receive to my new iCloud aliases?
Check out NosillaCast
00:34:02 Michael-New iPhone and watch craziness
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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. |
| 1:20.8 | Our sponsors for this episode include some new ones and some ongoing ones. |
| 1:31.6 | K12.com slash MG is where you can go today to find a tuition-free K-12 powered school near you and enroll now. |
| 1:33.8 | We'll talk more about that later, of course. |
| 1:40.9 | coda.io slash MG, where you can go to get six months of the team plan for startups for free. |
| 1:48.8 | Openphone.com slash MG, you guessed it. You get 20% off your first six months of the number one business phone system. And functionhealth.com slash MG gives you access to the kind |
| 1:55.9 | of data most people never get to see about yourself. The first thousand of you that sign up, get a $100 credit towards your membership |
| 2:04.7 | at functionhealth.com slash mG and constant contact.com. |
| 2:10.1 | You can try constant contact free for 30 days at constant contact.com. |
| 2:15.0 | We'll talk more about all of those in a bit. For now, here in Durham, |
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