Don’t Get Caught With Your Tech Down
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week on Mac Geek Gab 1035, dive into a treasure trove of quick tips and cool finds with your favorite tech trio, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton. Discover how to leverage Siri to unearth unread messages or take hands-free notes—even with paint on your hands! Learn how to utilize smart plugs for automating troublesome tech at home, like that stubborn old Sonos or garage door opener. Did you know that bright LED bulbs could be interfering with your Wi-Fi? Keep this in mind to avoid tech hiccups. And remember, don’t get caught with your tech down on Email Debt Forgiveness Day!
In the Cool Stuff Found segment, explore the potential of iOS’s ChatGPT app’s voice interaction, and consider Pandoc for effortless format conversions. Curious about running your 2019 iMac from an external USB SSD? There’s a tip for that too. Syncing issues between Mac and iPhone? Get the fix here. And don’t miss the scoop on eero’s latest networking solutions. Make your digital life smoother and stay ahead—after all, “Don’t Get Caught” means being prepared with the right knowledge from Mac Geek Gab.
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1035 for Monday, April 29th, 2024
- April 29: Viral Video Day
- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 QT-Use Siri to find Unread Messages When “Unread Messages” won’t show you anything but Messages is still badged
- 00:03:14 Paul-QT-Hey, Siri Take a Note… / Pause (with paint on hands and airbuds in!)
- 00:06:00 Joe-QT-1034-Get Bookmarks Right From Safari’s Search Bar…and Have Siri Remind You At a Place
- 00:11:04 QT-Use a Smart Plug and automation to restart pesky devices (older Sonos, MyQ Garage Door Opener, More)
- 00:13:53 CSF-Meross HomeKit Compatible Garage Door Opener
- 00:15:56 Allison-CSF-Tailwind iQ3 garage door remote
- 00:23:26 Uncle Jamie-CSF-ratGDO for controlling your garage door openers
- 00:25:08 Tim-PSA-1033-Bright LED Garage Light Bulbs Can Create Wi-Fi Interference
- 00:27:10 QT-Email Debt Forgiveness Day coming on April 30th
- Sponsors
- 00:28:50 SPONSOR: Ecamm Live is the all-in-one live streaming and video production studio for Mac Get one month free of Ecamm Live using promo code ‘macgeekgab’ at checkout.
- 00:30:35 Don’t Get Caught With Your Tech Down
- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:32:40 UpsideDownFoodPyramid-How can I sync Apple Photos with Google Photos?
- 00:34:12 OurStanley-Can I run my 2019 iMac from External USB SSD?
- 00:39:29 DanWieder-Messages Not Syncing Between Mac and iPhone
- 00:48:07 MIke-Should we increase the number of things we learn each episode?
- 00:53:27 Log the name of people in your photos
- Show Business
- 00:57:09 MGG Premium Listener Contribution Appreciation Moment
- Cool Stuff Found
- 01:00:18 PPete-CSF-iOS ChatGPT App’s Voice Interaction
- 01:03:35 Chicago Tom-CSF-1027–Pandoc to convert between different text formats
- 01:05:15 eero Max 7 Review and eero Pro 6E, too
- 01:12:43 Bombshell, the Hedy Lamarr Story
- 01:14:35 Paul-CSF-iCalBuddy to Access Calendar from Terminal
- icalbuddy -iep datetime,title eventsToday+14
- 01:16:12 Eliot-CSF-1034–TouchRetouch for cleaning up photos on iPhone (also Elbert, Allison, and more)
- 01:19:11 MGG 1035 Outtro
- Bandwidth Provided by CacheFly
- Pilot Pete’s Aviation Podcast: So There I Was (for Aviation Enthusiasts)
- Dave’s Business Brain (for Entrepreneurs) and Gig Gab (for Working Musicians) Podcasts
- MGG Merch is Available!
- MGG Live Calendar
- MGG Apple Podcasts Reviews
- 224-888-GEEK
- The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
- Active MGG Sponsors and Coupon Codes List
- BackBeat Media Podcast Network
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right folks it's time for Mac Geek, |
| 0:03.0 | Gavin I'll bring us our quick tip of the week. I had a |
| 0:08.0 | badge on my messages app on all of my devices that said I had one unread message but when I went |
| 0:16.2 | in on my phone to the unread messages there was nothing there I scroll through my |
| 0:21.5 | messages I found nothing I couldn't find a little dot to press to make the |
| 0:26.8 | badge go away. I did a little searching, frustrated, and someone suggested the answer. |
| 0:36.5 | I asked the S lady, read me my unread messages and sure enough it told me hey Jeff sent you this video back in |
| 0:42.3 | December which was true and I had marked it as |
| 0:45.0 | unread because I wanted to come back to it of course that failed so but at |
| 0:51.0 | least it got rid of it and it got rid of it on all my devices. |
| 0:53.3 | So if you can't find an unread message, let Siri find it for you. |
| 0:58.0 | More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on Mackey at 1035 for Monday April 29th |
| 1:07.2 | viral video day 2024. 2024. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Matt Kieke of the show where you send in or we provide tips like that you send in or we provide tips like that you send in, or we provide, tips like that, you send in or we provide |
| 1:35.2 | cool stuff found, you send in, or sometimes we provide questions that we all endeavor to answer here. |
| 1:41.6 | We string it all together into an agenda that gives us each the best |
| 1:45.8 | shot at learning at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:51.7 | Our sponsor for today include eCam. Live the all in one streaming |
| 1:56.6 | and video production studio and you can use promo code Mac Geek Gab at eCam. |
| 2:02.1 | live to get one month free. We'll talk more in depth |
| 2:05.9 | about that in a little bit. For now here in Durham, New Hampshire after a quick |
| 2:09.7 | down and back to New York, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in South Dakota I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:15.0 | And here are also in New Hampshire's pilot Pete could be back with you after a week off |
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