Form 1040-MGG for Your Itemized Tips
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Mac Geek Gab, dive into the latest Quick Tips and Cool Stuff Found that will keep your Mac life smooth and efficient. Time Machine gets a tweak with hourly, daily, and weekly options, while Zoom for Apple TV lets you disable Center Stage and manually control zoom and center. Learn about T-Mobile for international calls, using Google Voice, and the handy Digital Color Meter Mac app. Plus, find out how iCloud keeps backups of your contacts and fix that pesky Apple Pay double-click issue. The catchphrase “Don’t Get Caught” is your reminder to stay ahead of the curve with these essential tips.
Listeners’ questions bring even more insights. Ralph wants to know why file copies slow down, and John seeks tips for narrowing search results on the Mac. We discuss moving OneDrive or iCloud Drive to an external drive, explore smart plug replacements for Wemo, and setting light or speaker volumes to specific percentages. Discover the budget-friendly Onn TV Box for streaming and AirReceiver for Android or Chromecast. Don’t miss out on reviews of microphones and grill thermometers, too! As always, Mac Geek Gab is your go-to source for the best Mac tips and tricks – don’t get caught without us!
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1040 for Monday, June 3rd, 2024
- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 Joe-QT-Time Machine now has options for Hourly, Daily, and Weekly
- 00:03:19 TimeMachineEditor
- 00:05:48 QT-Zoom for Apple TV lets you disable Center Stage *and* then control zoom and center manually
- 00:09:23 Lew-QT-CSF- T-Mobile for International Calls – AnonymSMS for Texts
- 00:12:20 Todd-QT-Digital Color Meter Mac App
- 00:16:15 QT-Use the eyedropper in Pages (an other apps) to set the color of your image/font
- 00:17:23 Mark-QT-iCloud Keeps Backups of your Contacts
- 00:19:55 Jeff-QT-Fixing Apple Pay Double Click -v- Touch issue.
- 00:23:18 HuskerDiver-QT-Apple TV Aerial Screensaver Will Show You Location Descriptions
- You can also swipe on the remote to change Aerial locations
- NVIDIA SHIELD
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- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:30:18 Ralph-Why do my file copies slow down to a crawl after a while?
- 00:41:25 John-QT and ?-Searches in Messages and Mail
- 00:51:08 Pete-Move OneDrive or iCloud Drive to an external drive in spite of macOS Limitations?
- Will iCloud Drive Cross SymLinks? (answer: probably not)
- TwelveSouth iMac Stands
- 01:01:57 Kim-Replacement for Wemo Switch?
- 01:07:11 Set Lights (or speaker volume) to percentages
- Cool Stuff Found
- 01:07:58 Joe-CSF-1024-The Onn TV Box is a $20 4K Android TV Streaming Box
- 01:08:57 Andrew Woodward-CSF-AirReceiver for Android or Chromecast lets you AirPlay to non-Apple devices ($2.99)
- 01:10:00 Bart-CSF-Reminders MenuBar
- 01:11:06 JT-CSF-512 Audio Tempest for only $35
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Joe brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:07.0 | for those of us who have Time Machine on autopilot and may not have looked at the |
| 0:12.3 | settings recently Time Machine now has options |
| 0:15.8 | to select backups hourly, daily, or weekly or even manually. |
| 0:21.6 | I've been listening to the Mat MacCast since podcasts were added to iTunes |
| 0:24.5 | and the Geek Cab shortly after you started. It's a great way to have you all |
| 0:27.6 | together. I enjoy listening to Adam slowly and gradually adopted the humor. |
| 0:31.8 | All right, well thank you. |
| 0:34.0 | More tips like this plus your questions answered today on Maca Geek Cab |
| 0:38.0 | 10 to 40 for Monday June 3rd, 2024. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where you send in questions, tips, like that one. |
| 1:07.0 | Cool stuff found. We share all of those loosely strung together into an agenda that hopefully facilitates each of us |
| 1:16.7 | learning at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:21.6 | Sponsored for this episode is LinkedIn.com |
| 1:25.0 | slash MGG. |
| 1:26.0 | That's where you're gonna go to post your first job for free. |
| 1:29.0 | We'll talk more about that in a little bit. |
| 1:32.0 | For now, here on... that repeat day interesting is that repeat |
| 1:37.0 | day interesting is that repeat EAT or is that repeat ETE? I don't know. In Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:46.3 | And in South Dakota, South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 1:50.0 | And in New Hampshire, it's repeat. |
| 1:55.0 | That was my call sign in the Marine Corps. |
| 1:56.8 | Pilot beat everybody. |
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