Geeks, Gear, and Grievances
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week, Adam, Pete, and Dave dive into a treasure trove of Quick Tips and Cool Stuff Found. Learn how to take screenshots of your Applications folder for easy reference, and explore the power of markdown for creating timeless, portable documents. Don’t get caught without knowing how to use your iPhone’s action button effectively or how to prevent holiday music from skewing your listening recommendations.
The episode also covers the benefits of using an external DAC for improved sound quality on your Mac, and the importance of a good base layer for staying warm in cold climates. Plus, get expert advice on transferring settings and apps to a new Mac, and learn why sometimes it’s better to just listen rather than troubleshoot. Don’t get caught missing out on these valuable insights – tune in now!
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00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1069 for Monday, December 23rd, 2024
December 23rd: National Christmas Movie Marathon Day (and Festivus)
Police Code 10-69 – Clear to Copy Transmission?
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Marked 2 for December, 2024
00:03:00 MGG Monthly Giveaway – Marked 2 for December, 2024
Markdown
MacSparky Field Guide for Markdown
Zamzar
00:09:16 MGG CES 2025 Sponsors
CCC Backup from Bombich
The Omni Group
Private Internet Access
Roborock
eero
00:12:00 Next MGG Hangout on January 19th, 4pm EST
The Randos We Know
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Andrew-QT-Print a list of your Mac’s apps for future installation needs
00:13:42 Tony-QT-Turn Off Apple Music Listening History For the Holidays!
00:18:31 Andrew-QT-Enable Column View in iPad Files App
00:19:35 Andy-QT-When in doubt, try Safe Mode
Don’t Get Caught
00:23:53 Dave-I deleted files…and recovered some with Disk Drill (also Available on SetApp)
ChronoSync
CCC Backup
Arq
Minio on Synology Marius
Sponsors
00:31:30 SPONSOR: OWC’s new Thunderbolt 5 hub is available and ...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for MacKeecap and listener Andrew brings us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:08.5 | Andrew says I used to take screenshots of my applications folder and keep them in Evernote. |
| 0:13.2 | So I had a list of all my Mac apps if my machine crashed and I had to do a clean install. |
| 0:19.4 | I thought there must be a way to print a list. |
| 0:22.1 | And there is, and it works. |
| 0:24.3 | You can make a PDF of your text file if you just go to the applications folder and print that list or screenshot it and put it in notes. |
| 0:32.9 | More tips like this. |
| 0:35.2 | Plus, your questions answered today on MacGeek 1069 for monday december 23rd national |
| 0:42.6 | christmas movie marathon day festivis and happy birthday pilot pete twenty 24 |
| 0:49.4 | oh shit Greetings, folks, and indeed, welcome to Matt Geek of the show where you send in tips like that. |
| 1:10.5 | We bring in tips like that. We share tips like that. We bring in tips like that. |
| 1:11.5 | We share tips like that. |
| 1:12.5 | We share cool stuff found that we all bring in. |
| 1:14.5 | We share your questions. |
| 1:15.7 | We try to give you answers. |
| 1:17.1 | The goal being that we each learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:24.4 | Our sponsors for this episode include OnePassword.com slash MG. |
| 1:29.2 | That's where you can go to learn about OnePassword Extended Access Management, which we'll talk about later, |
| 1:33.5 | and Otherworld Computing. |
| 1:35.5 | And we'll talk about their new Thunderbolt 5 hub a little bit later here. |
| 1:39.5 | You can find out more about that at MacSales.com or clicking the link in the show notes. |
| 1:43.2 | For now here in |
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