Don’t Inception The Cloud
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Tackle your backup concerns head-on with practical tips, such as using PowerPhotos for local photo backups and understanding Time Machine’s role in iCloud Photos Library backup. They discuss the safety of using Backblaze for iCloud Drive and how to recover data from a formatted SSD with tools like Disk Drill and Stellar for Mac. Get amped with Cool Stuff Found, featuring apps like CloudMounter and Cyberduck, and gadgets like the Tayasui Sketches app for Wacom users and high-end robovacs.
Remember, “Don’t Get Caught” unprepared—stay savvy with Mac Geek Gab!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1043 for Monday, June 24th, 2024
June 24: Midsummer
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Dave-QT-On macOS, long-press a letter on your keyboard to see accents and special versions with numbers beneath!
PopChar
00:05:40 Uncle Jamie-QT-Add Shazam to Control Center
Gracenote Database of Songs
00:09:18 Adam-QT-Scanning on your iPhone instead of Taking a Photo
forScore
Documents by Readdle
00:16:35 CSF-CloudMounter
Cyberduck
Transmit
Forkflight
00:22:40 The Setapp vs. Bundle Models
Sponsors
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:29:28 Dan-Can I use my 5K iMac as an External Display?
Luna Display
00:35:40 Prof Josh-QT-Use Jump Desktop as an External Monitor
OWC Headless Dongle
macOS Screen Extension
Backup Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:46:27 Jeff-What’s the Simplest Way to Backup Local Photos?
PowerPhotos
00:53:02 Sandro-Does Time Machine back up my iCloud Photos Library?
00:54:49 John-Is it safe to use Backblaze to backup my iCloud Drive?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and I've got our quick tip of the week on your Mac on my Mac too if you are in a text input |
| 0:09.0 | window hold down on a key and watch as like if you hold down the O key if you hold for a second |
| 0:18.3 | above the key will appear all different versions of that letter the the letter O, with an um loud and an accent and all the other things that you might want to use with an O. |
| 0:28.9 | It's a great way to get to those special characters. |
| 0:31.9 | Try different keys because each key |
| 0:34.4 | you might have something different hidden behind it. |
| 0:37.8 | More quick tips like this. |
| 0:40.0 | Plus, your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab, 1043 for Monday, June 24th, midsummer. |
| 0:49.4 | I don't know, feels like the beginning of summer, I don't know why we call it midsummer, |
| 0:52.1 | or they call it midsummer but that's |
| 0:53.2 | the day 2024! Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geek Gob, we are in fact the show where you send in quick |
| 1:17.2 | tips like that, you send cool stuff found, you send in questions that hopefully we can |
| 1:21.3 | answer for you. |
| 1:22.8 | We string them all together into an agenda that hopefully makes some version of thematic sense |
| 1:30.3 | which is done to make it as easy as possible for each of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together so we can ring that bell and we learn something especially new or especially interesting or |
| 1:43.6 | something that makes people want to bring the bell sponsors for this episode |
| 1:48.4 | include Zoc Doc.com slash MGG that's where you can go sign up for free |
| 1:54.7 | Download the app today and instantly find a great doctor and book an appointment and also fast mail dotcom slash MGG. |
| 2:03.5 | That's where you can go to try Fastmail for free for 30 days and get 10% off your first year. |
| 2:09.5 | We'll talk more in depth about each of those in a little bit as always using ad scripts that |
| 2:15.4 | chat gpity has written for me sometimes it makes me say funny things but it's |
| 2:21.1 | how it goes here in Durham Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
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