Down The Meta Rabbit Hole
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Yep, this one’s got more rabbit holes than most, but you get to join your three favorite geeks having fun doing what they love: geeking out! Heck, they even geek out about the nerdy particulars that might have caused TicketMaster’s recent Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco.
Don’t worry, they also answer your questions and even share some Cool Stuff Found, too! Press play and enjoy learning at least five new things with John, Pete, and Dave!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 957 for Monday, November 28, 2022
QT-macOS Ventura Adds Background Noise
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:04:06 Cord-Cutting Hangout: Saturday, December 10th, 2022 at 4pm EST (9pm UTC)
MGG Calendar
00:06:43 Down The Meta Rabbit Hole
00:09:10 Garry-QT-Slow Down Double-Click on Apple Watch for Apple Pay (Caveman!)
00:10:57 Apple Watch Ultra uses ~ 1.2% hour in theater mode 3+ days! 93% → 19% 62 hours YMMV
00:14:33 Sleep-tracking with Apple Watch
00:15:31 QT-Your Watch Alarm Can Be Set to Wake You Up At the Lightest Stage of Sleep
00:17:02 Jim-QT-Disable AirPlay Receiver to Screen Share over Zoom
00:18:21 Drewski-QT-Apple Maps Offers Location and Quite a Bit More
00:19:29 PP-QT-Single Ear ANC with AirPods Pro added with macOS Ventura
00:21:23 Bill-QT-Use Water Mode to disable Watch Screen when Babies Are Around
00:24:13 Stephen-QT-Use The Watch’s Red Light to Read Menus
00:25:01 SPONSOR: MasterClass – Imagine learning new recipes from Gordon Ramsay, or photography from Annie Leibovitz. Now you can. Visit MasterClass.com/MGG for unlimited access to MasterClass.
00:26:47 PODCAST: HTML All The Things – Matt and Mike from the HTML All The Things Podcast have you covered with weekly episodes on all things web development, web design, and small business.
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:28:02 Kevin-Why Is My Mac Out Of Memory? (Touch column header to sort!)
Quitter from Marco Arment
00:36:14 Bob-My Externally-Stored Photo Libraries Keep Getting Corrupted
00:40:29 Gary-Sending to People Not Accepting Apple Cash
Set Up Apple Cash
If You Can’t Send Or Receive Money with Apple Cash
00:43:53 Allison-Tailscale Slows Down The Network … At Least a Little
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00:53:00 Ticketmaster vs. The Bots
Cool Stuff Found
01:09:26 Bruce-CSF-Actions to enhance macOS Shortcuts
01:11:01 Bob-CSF-940-Use One Switch When Cleaning Your Mac’s Screen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It is time for Mac Geek Cab and our opening quick tip of the week comes from me. |
| 0:07.6 | I was looking at the release notes of some of the new rogue amoeba apps and I noticed them referring to something called |
| 0:14.8 | background noise in Mac OS Ventura. |
| 0:17.8 | Well, I dug into this. |
| 0:19.5 | If you go into system settings, accessibility, audio, at the bottom there is background sounds, |
| 0:28.6 | so maybe it's background sounds that it alluded to. |
| 0:30.8 | What do I know? I'm just a podcaster. What this is is white noise or |
| 0:37.8 | you know background noise, rain noise, ocean noise, things that you can turn on in the background. |
| 0:43.2 | And they say this is why it's in accessibility. |
| 0:47.3 | It says plays background sounds to mask unwanted environmental noise. |
| 0:51.5 | These sounds can minimize distractions and help you to focus, calm, or rest. |
| 0:56.8 | So the feature is there. |
| 0:59.4 | There are a bunch of different |
| 1:04.0 | things for them are like pink noise and white noise. |
| 1:05.0 | They have different names for them because those are |
| 1:08.0 | technical terms that most people don't know |
| 1:10.0 | but then they also have like rain and ocean. |
| 1:12.0 | They aren't all downloaded. They will |
| 1:14.2 | download as you select them to play them. But yeah, go check it out in Ventura. |
| 1:18.3 | Go into system settings, accessibility audio and scroll to the bottom you'll see |
| 1:24.8 | them there more tips like this plus your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 957 for Monday, November 28th, 2022. Greetings folks! Thanks folks and welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where you send your tips |
| 1:59.6 | your questions your cool stuff found into feedback at Matt GeekGab.com. |
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