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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tired of your hotel room feeling like a sterile box? Discover how to make it feel like home on the go!
This week on Mac Geek Gab, Dave shares his travel tip for adding ambiance to hotel rooms using the JBL Pulse speaker. Learn how this lava lamp-like device can transform your temporary living space. The hosts also dive into the perils of double syncing folders to different cloud services, offering valuable advice to avoid potential data disasters.
From calendar booking solutions to secure DNS options, the episode covers a range of tech topics. Explore the Nomatic Travel Pack, a versatile backpack that expands into a weekender bag. Plus, get the scoop on Quad 9, a privacy-focused DNS service. Don’t get caught with boring hotel rooms or syncing mishaps – tune in for these tips and more!
Ready to upgrade your tech knowledge and travel game? Listen to this episode of Mac Geek Gab for a wealth of practical advice and cool stuff found!
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1081 for Monday, March 17th, 2025
- March 17th: Corned Beef & Cabbage Day
- Police Code 10-81 – Traffic stop initiated / Breathalyzer request
- MGG Monthly Giveaway – Unite 6 from BZG Apps!
- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 Val-QT-Drop a file into ChatGPT with instructions to shrink it down
- 00:02:41 CSF-BACTrack
- 00:03:23 Eddy Cue and Ben Stiller @ SXSW 2025
- 00:07:02 JanLandy-QT-Quickly access Crop on iPhone Photos
- 00:08:20 Adam-QT-Hide Screenshots in Photos
- 00:10:15 There’s also a “Hidden” Album in Apple Photos
- 00:11:08 Andrew-QT-Create a Smart List of Undated Reminders
- 00:12:09 Pilot Pete-QT-Instant Info about your Current WiFi
- 00:14:09 Dave-Check your WiFi details when you check-in to your hotel$
- 00:17:58 n-Gene-QT-Enable Safari’s Debug Menu to Configure Specific Options
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- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:21:22 Bob-How to Be Sure a Drive is Ejected Before UnPlugging
- 00:26:55 Karl-1080-Logging in with Apple ID versus using Hide My Email
- 00:32:09 David in Texas-Mixed-RCS and SMS Cage Match: Platform Message Groups Keep Getting Duplicated
- 00:42:01 Fr. John-Restoring Mail’s Badges to Normalcy
- 00:44:30 Bill-Domain Registrar Advice?
- 00:52:18 Brian-I got caught double-syncing!
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- Cool Stuff Found
- 00:57:17 Dave-CSFR-JBL Pulse for your Hotel Room
- 00:59:51 Andrew-CSF-1080-TidyCal to book appointments on your calendar
- 01:02:05 Dave-CSF-Nomatic Travel Pack Backpack is what Dave used for SXSW
- 01:06:13 Pilot Pete-SF-Quad9 DNS – 9.9.9.9
- 01:11:59 Adam-CSF-Jaipur 2-Player Board Game
- 01:14:30 MGG 1081 Outtro
- MGG Monthly Giveaway – Unite 6 from BZG Apps!
- Bandwidth Provided by CacheFly
- Pilot Pete’s Aviation Podcast: So There I Was (for Aviation Enthusiasts)
- The Debut Film Podcast – Adam’s new podcast!
- Dave’s Business Brain (for Entrepreneurs) and Gig Gab (for Working Musicians) Podcasts
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- feedback@macgeekgab.com
- 224-888-GEEK
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geekab. And listener Val brings us our quick tip of the week saying, |
| 0:07.9 | I got caught listening to your discussion about reducing file sizes. And one tip that might be interesting, |
| 0:15.1 | you can drop a file into chat GPT, give it a prompt to compress it to a preferred size, and it can handle that quickly. |
| 0:25.1 | You can do it with images. |
| 0:26.3 | You can do it with documents, whatever you want to compress. |
| 0:29.1 | It will figure it out and do it. |
| 0:31.2 | Thought that might be a neat addition to your tips. |
| 0:33.9 | Val, I couldn't agree more. |
| 0:36.0 | More tips like this. Plus, your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1081 for Monday, March 17th, Corned Beef and Cabbage Day, 2025. |
| 0:48.5 | Thank you. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Keekab, the show where you you send in tips like that and we share them. |
| 1:11.2 | You send in cool stuff found. |
| 1:12.5 | We share them. |
| 1:12.9 | You send in questions. |
| 1:14.4 | We share those and discuss potential answers, sometimes even the right ones. |
| 1:18.9 | We do it all so that each and every one of us can learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:27.8 | Our sponsor for today, our coda.io slash MG, where you can go sign up for free for the |
| 1:34.4 | one doc to rule them all. |
| 1:36.2 | You can bring all your text and tables together and our friends at screencasts online.com |
| 1:41.7 | slash MG, where you can now go to try it free for seven days and then get a lifetime 20% discount on your subscription. |
| 1:50.9 | We'll talk more about both of those in a little bit here. |
| 1:54.3 | For now, here in sunny, Austin, Texas. |
| 1:59.1 | I'm Dave Hamilton. |
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