Head-Banging With AppleScript
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Raise your watch, say “five minutes,” and boom – timer set. Jazz up your Notebook with emojis in the folder names, create a dedicated email address for newsletters, and if you’re into privacy, set up DuckDuckGo as your default email.
Navigating Safari 17? Set your default search for private browsing. Here’s a zinger – erasing junk in Mail wipes it for all accounts. Don’t get caught unprepared.
Migrating your Photos Library or wondering about Time Machine backups post-macOS Sonoma upgrade? They’ve got you. And if you’re hunting for that one mail client to reign supreme, they dive deep into Thunderbird Supernova, Send Later, Canary Mail, and AI assistant integrations.
Dive into your tech week informed and ready. Don’t get caught slipping!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1004 for Monday, October 16th, 2023
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:00:01 QT Just Raise your watch and say “Siri, twenty minutes” and a timer will set
00:02:22 Tony-QT-Unsend Delayed Email with Command-Z
00:05:27 Mark M-QT-1002-Add Emojis to Notebook Folder Names in Notes
00:07:42 QT-Create a separate email address just for newsletters
00:10:15 Get a DuckDuckGo Email Address
00:11:59 Chicago Tom-QT-Set Default Search for Private Browsing in Safari 17 for macOS and iOS 17
00:14:32 Pensacola Craig-PSA-Erasing Junk or Trash in Mail Does So for ALL Accounts
00:16:18 Email Plus-Addressing
00:19:33 Lew-Use Shortcuts to Auto-Enable Airplane Mode
00:24:28 Todd-QT-Right-Click Twice to Copy Amazon Image to Clipboard
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:30:37 Innocuoso-How do I migrate my Photos Library to a new disk?
00:37:45 QT-macOS Monterey-and-later has Resumable Copy Operations
00:39:33 Gino-Do I Need to Start My Time Machine Backups Fresh after Upgrading to macOS Sonoma?
00:40:58 PCUnix-PSA-Some Apple TV 4Ks need to be replaced to control LG Televisions
00:42:45 CrazyNinjaPapa-Replacing a Synology DiskStation with a Mac mini?
00:51:50 Walter-1003-Apple Silicon requires True Thunderbolt to Boot Externally on *some* Macs?
00:56:37 Jedd-One Mail Client to Rule Them All?
Thunderbird Supernova
Send Later for Thunderbird
Canary Mail
AI Assistant for Thunderbird
Show Business
01:08:25 Premium Thanks
Fountain.fm
01:10:14 Migrating To a New iPhone
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for the Mac Geek Cab and listener pilot Pete that's me brings you this |
| 0:06.6 | week's quick tip if you have an Apple watch and it's in the always on mode |
| 0:11.6 | it's muted when you raise your arm and look at your |
| 0:14.9 | watch as it comes to light all you have to do is say 20 minutes and it will |
| 0:20.9 | automatically start a 20 minute timer for you or you could say |
| 0:25.6 | one thirty p.m. and it will set an alarm for you at one thirty p.m. I |
| 0:30.8 | discovered this quite by accident but it works. Give it a shot. More quick |
| 0:35.8 | tips like this plus your questions answered today on the Mac Geek Cab number |
| 0:40.5 | one thousand and four for Monday October 16th |
| 0:44.4 | 2023. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geekab. We are the show where we take your |
| 1:08.8 | quick tips like that one. We take your questions, we take your cool stuff found, we share them here, we try to answer your questions, |
| 1:15.6 | we pull it all together into an agenda such that we all have a great shot. We are all but guaranteed to each learn at least five new things |
| 1:28.4 | every single time we get together. Sometimes we even play that ding when we learn something especially good. |
| 1:35.0 | I love that intro quick tip Pete. |
| 1:36.7 | That was fantastic love it. |
| 1:38.5 | Sponsors for this episode include fastmail.com slash MGG where you can go get 10% off your first year of the email |
| 1:47.0 | service that I use and have been using for a long time. Clean my Mac X, you can go get 5% off of that at MacPaw. App slash Mac Geek |
| 1:57.5 | gab. Of course the links are always in the show notes and we'll talk more in depth |
| 2:01.4 | about that in a little bit. |
| 2:02.8 | For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, |
| 2:05.1 | as far as I know, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:08.1 | And here in lead to New Hampshire, |
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