Don't Forget TOTO!
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
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!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1104 for Monday, August 25th, 2025
August 25th: National Banana Split Day
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Default Folder
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Ben-QT-Use hyphens to create strike-through text on iPhone Messages
00:03:33 Robert-QT-Don’t forget to try the restart
Don’t Forget TOTO! (Turn it Off and Turn it On)
Schedule a Restart Of Your Mac
00:06:54 QT – Tell A-Lady or S-Lady to do something at a set time
00:10:30 Where does it store those one-time automations
00:12:40 Scott-QT-Use plus-addressing for your iCloud email (and also iCloud’s Hide My Email)
RFC for email plus-addressing
Duck.com/email
00:20:46 SteveHammond-QT-Disable Favorite Icons to clean up Safari’s tab bar
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Don’t Get Caught
00:26:40 Stephen-DGC-You can’t delete custom-created Stations in Apple Music
00:29:59 Ed-DGC-Don’t turn your iPhone brightness all the way down…and some fixes if you do!
Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap
00:32:37 David-DGC-Apple Notes doesn’t have a undo revisions
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. |
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