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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week on Mac Geek Gab 1087, you get packed with Quick Tips to sharpen your workflow: send lyrics via text from Apple Music with a long press, use ChatGPT smarter for search, and master the magical Cmd-Opt-Shift-V paste for plain text. Discover how Hazel tames your Downloads folder, 1Password tags speed up your secure searches, and a Finder favorites fix keeps your go-to folders front and center. Plus, learn how Apple’s Custom Domains give you unlimited email aliases and why your password settings might be grayed out — little things that make sure you Don’t Get Caught fumbling with your Mac.
Dave, Pilot Pete, and Adam dive deep into the tools behind your favorite podcasts, from Audio Hijack and Hindenburg to Feeder and Keyboard Maestro for ninja-level chapter marking. Dave also shares his slick new eero Outdoor 7 and UniFi Flex Mini 2.5G setup. In Cool Stuff Found, grab nine free Waves plugins, snack on Chomps Beef Sticks, clean your menu bar with Barbee, track planes with FlightAware, and level up your game nights with Apple Game Room and Game Pigeon. Stay geeky, stay sharp — and remember, Don’t Get Caught!

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1087 for Monday, April 28th, 2025

April 28th: National Superhero Day
Police Code 10-87 – Give call letters of your station
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Win a CleanMyMac Membership!

Quick Tips

00:00:01 Corky-QT-Long-press lyrics in Apple Music to sent a text message
00:03:51 Joel-QT-Use ChatGPT to search and parse results
00:04:51 PensacolaCraig-QT-Paste Plain Text Only Cmd+Opt+Shift+V
00:07:20 Val-QT-Apple’s Custom Domains support Unlimited Email Aliases
00:09:43 Mike-QT-Download Folder Management with Hazel
00:13:19 GW-QT-Tags in 1Password expedite specifics.
00:15:58 n-Chris-QT-1086-Solve your Disappearing Finder Favorites with Aliases (and Steve)

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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:19:07 Tim-Why is Option to require Password Immediately grayed out?
00:24:35 Larry-Different AppleID to return with electronic devices from overseas?

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MOAR Questions Answered

00:36:42 Chris-What apps do you use to produce and record your podcast?

GarageBand
Fission
Audio Hijack
Discord
Farrago
StreamYard
Auphonic
SoundDesk
Hindenburg for Podcast Editing
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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Matt Geekab and listener Corky brings us our quick tip of the week.
0:06.0	He says, if you long hold on a lyric in Apple music on your phone, the text message
0:13.8	send box pops up. You can then select lyrics and the specific place in the song will generate a text message to send.
0:23.2	And it'll give you the little timestamp and the lyrics.
0:25.8	And of course, the name of the song and a link to Apple Music for the recipient.
0:29.1	More tips like this plus your questions answered today on MacKeekept 1087 for Monday, April 28th National Superhero Day, 2025.
1:02.2	Greetings. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show where you send in tips like that.
1:02.7	We share them.
1:03.8	We share your cool stuff found.
1:04.8	We share your questions.
1:06.3	Hopefully we answer the questions.
1:21.1	Really, though, we just try to provide guidance on the troubleshooting path engineered in such a way that each of us has a fantastic shot at learning at least five new things every week when we get together.
1:26.8	Our sponsors include a new sponsor, store.
1:33.2	com, where you can use promo code MG to bag a free invisible selfie stick when you get their new Insta 360 X5 camera.
1:37.7	We'll talk about that in a little bit.
1:39.1	We'll also talk about OWC's new Gemini, dual bay storage built-in dock at macsales.com and storyworth.com
1:48.1	slash mac geekab where you can save 10 bucks on your first purchase with this cool
1:52.5	prompting thing that lets you create a book with one of your family members. I'm doing it
1:56.8	with my dad. We'll talk about all those things in a little bit. For now, here in Durham,
2:00.3	New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here also in New
2:08.3	Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete. Greetings, everyone. I hate to talk about 1087, because it's often used
2:14.4	to report someone's demise. So let's move away from that quickly.
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