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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Don’t Exposé Your Mac's Hidden Features

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

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Don’t Exposé Your Mac's Hidden Features — Mac Geek Gab 1048 episode image

Dive into this week’s Mac Geek Gab with Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete, and Adam Christianson as they share invaluable quick tips and answer your burning questions. Discover how to command-click your Dock icon or use Siri for timer math to streamline your workflow. Got a tech issue? It might be cosmic karma or solar flares at play! If you’re not satisfied with Apple’s trade-in assessment, listener Badger advises taking it to an Apple Store—justice matters over logic! Plus, learn to disable wallpaper-click-hides-everything, one-handed map zoom on iPhone, and more. Remember, Don’t Get Caught without these tips!

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!

Transcript

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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

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1:29.6

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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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