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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Head-Banging With AppleScript

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Head-Banging With AppleScript – Mac Geek Gab 1004 episode image

You’ve got some juicy tidbits from Mac Geek Gab 1004 with Pilot Pete and Dave Hamilton. Ready?

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!

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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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