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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Don't Forget TOTO!

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

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Don't Forget TOTO! – Mac Geek Gab 1104 episode image

Learn how to use hyphens for strike-through in Messages, schedule a Mac restart, and even tell Siri or Alexa to run one-time automations. Master plus-addressing in iCloud Mail for cleaner inboxes and privacy with Hide My Email, and keep Safari’s tab bar neat by ditching Favorite Icons. And of course, Don’t Forget TOTO—Turn it Off, Turn it On again—to solve more problems than you think. Don’t Get Caught missing these fixes, including ways to recover from a too-dim iPhone screen or undo accidental changes in Notes.

Then it’s a flood of Cool Stuff Found: from an AI-built Coffee Finder app to the Scosche PBJ2000 jump starter, US Mobile’s pick-your-network option, and ViewSonic’s 27” 5K Thunderbolt display. Discover tools like vFlat for clean scans, WATTBOX for remote gear reboots, and GL-iNET’s Brume VPN appliance. Add in Braxley Bands for Apple Watch, EVapo-Rust for metal cleanup, and Treedix’s USB Cable Tester, and you’ve got an arsenal of gear to make your life easier. This episode is packed with shortcuts, hidden features, and gadgets you didn’t know you needed. Press play and enjoy, folks!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Ben brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:05.6

He says, when typing on iPhone, I found that I can type a hyphen immediately before and after any text string.

0:13.8

And the predictive text keyboard will then suggest the strikethrough style with that text.

0:22.6

The result is only a little visually odd

0:24.9

because the original hyphens are still present.

0:27.1

However, it otherwise is a lot easier

0:28.9

than manually trying to stylize the text.

0:33.1

And then Ventworth,

0:35.2

event more, sorry, in the same chat says

0:36.9

it also seems to work with asterisks for bold and underscores for underline.

0:42.4

Also, if you add a tilde to the end of a word, it'll suggest the ripple effect.

0:47.4

More tips like this, plus your questions answered and a healthy dose of cool stuff found.

0:54.1

Today, I'm MacKeeKeekeeb 1104 for monday august 25th national banana split day 2025 Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where we share your tips like that.

1:24.0

We share some from us, too.

1:25.3

We share your cool stuff found.

1:26.8

We share some from us too. And we share your questions. And we share some from us too. We share your cool stuff found. We share some from

1:27.5

us too. And we share your questions. And we share some from us too. And hopefully we share some

1:32.5

answers to those questions, all strung together in an agenda that makes it as easy as possible

1:39.0

for each of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:45.8

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1:50.7

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1:55.3

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