Don’t Exposé Your Mac's Hidden Features
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
As always, your questions were front and center. Wondering why your Mac’s free space didn’t grow after deleting files? Your three favorite geeks explain the mystery of APFS snapshots and recommend tools like CleanMyMac X and Carbon Copy Cloner. For those seeking the perfect portable Bluetooth speaker, the team shares their favorites, including the JBL Flip 6 and Go 3. Wi-Fi 6E mesh systems are also on the table, with top picks like Eero Pro 6E, Deco XE75 Pro, and Orbi Quad-Band 6E. Plus, cool stuff found this week includes Diptic for collages and Headway’s new CarPlay support. Tune in and Don’t Get Caught without your tech essentials!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1048 for Monday, July 29th, 2024
July 29th: National Lasagna Day
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Jim-QT-Command-Click Dock Icon (and Spotlight Search) to Show in Finder
00:03:31 Jose-QT-Use Siri to do Timer Math for you
00:06:36 Are Karma or Solar Flares Causing Tech Issues?
00:10:00 Badger-QT-If you don’t agree with Apple’s trade-in reassessment, bring it into an Apple Store.
Justice Matters Over Logic!
00:13:08 Andrew-QT-Disable the Wallpaper-Click-Hides-Everything Option
00:16:01 Jim-QT-Hold Command in Spotlight Search Results to see WHERE a file resides
Exposé vs. Mission Control
Don’t Exposé Your Tips
00:20:53 rnDoug-QT-One-handed Map Zoom on iPhone
00:22:16 Mark M-QT-Mute the sound in Safari from the URL Bar
00:23:20 Phone calls ringing on your Mac…or not?
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:28:46 Adam-I Removed a Bunch of Files But My Free Space Didn’t Grow
APFS Snapshots
Empty Your Mac’s Trash
CleanMyMac X
Carbon Copy Cloner
00:37:59 Garry-1045-Eight is Not (always) Enough
00:41:35 Scott-What’s your favorite, portable Bluetooth Speaker that sounds good?
JBL Flip 6
JBL Go 3
Sirius XM Top 1000 Classic Rock and Classic Country playlists
00:49:45 Chris (and many, many others)-QT-1047-Apple Watch Shuffle Mode Is Still There
00:51:23 Nick-Which Wi-Fi 6E Mesh should I get?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Jim brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:07.2 | Discover this by accident when I held the wrong modifier and clicked an app in the dock |
| 0:12.4 | command click an app in the dock and a finder |
| 0:15.0 | finder window will open with the location of an application |
| 0:19.0 | selecting the app you clicked on. |
| 0:21.0 | Most of us keep all of our apps in the applications folder, so this is probably of limited utility, but it's a hair faster than right clicking and selecting show and finder from the options menu. |
| 0:32.0 | More tips like this plus your questions answered today on |
| 0:36.0 | Mac Geek Cab 1048 for Monday, July 29, 2024. Thanks. to Matt Geek up the show where you send in tips like that. We share them. We share them. You send |
| 1:06.0 | in questions. We answer them. Or at least we discuss them and maybe share what our troubleshooting method would be. |
| 1:14.4 | The goal being every single one of us |
| 1:17.6 | learns at least five new things every single time we come together. Our sponsor for this episode is |
| 1:24.5 | Fastmail.com slash MGG. That's where you can go to try it for free for 30 days |
| 1:29.6 | and then get 10% off your first year. |
| 1:33.8 | We'll talk more about that in a little bit. |
| 1:35.5 | For now, here, back here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:39.8 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 1:43.7 | And here are also in New Hampshire is pilot Pete. |
| 1:46.8 | And right before the show, Adam brought up a great technical term, |
| 1:50.9 | a hair faster. |
| 1:52.0 | And it can, we can go either way. It be H a r a or a ch a i r |
| 1:56.0 | because they're both fast one's oh yeah one's a one's fast and one's a little bit so |
| 2:01.6 | one's a little bit. A little bit, that's true, yeah, yeah. |
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