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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Headless Macs, Resizing Images, Cable Modems, and More

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Finding geeks ways to make your computing life more efficient is fun, and your three favorite geeks share tips for resizing images, managing calendars, using the Finder’s toolbar, controlling your Apple TV and much, much more. Listen as John, Pete, and Dave answer your questions and share your tips, ensuring that you learn at least five new things this week!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 960 for Monday, December 19, 2022

Graham-QT-Set Flashlight Brightness in iPhone Control Center
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!


Cool Stuff Found

00:02:40 Ben-CSF-Meeter Highlights Meeting Links to Join You Faster
00:04:35 Synology Drive for iOS adds ability to edit Docs and Sheets!
00:08:20 Ed-CSF-Imageprep to Use sips for Image Processing

Homebrew
brew install tldr
Cakebrew


00:13:00 What’s Docker and how does it relate to Homebrew?
00:17:21 Resizing Images

PP# -> Automator App Created -> Get Selected Finder Items -> Scale Images (set size) -> Copy to a folder (easier to find) – Put the App in your Finder ToolBar at the top!
GraphicConverter
ImageOptim


00:22:10 The Mac Geek Gab Calendar Feed is now MUCH more Robust


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More Cool Stuff Found

00:30:01 Ben-CSF Visible Verizon MVNO (use Ben’s code for $20 off)

Mint Mobile


00:40:38 Jim-CSF-Function101 Button Remote for Apple TV
00:42:20 QT-Fix Brightness of Netflix
00:47:23 CSF-SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB-A/USB-C Thumb Drive

Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (for Mac)




Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:51:05 Bruce-Ventura Removes Ability to Set Wi-Fi Priority

How Apple Devices Choose Wi-Fi
Using Terminal to Reorder Wi-Fi Networks


00:57:19 Eliot-Do I need a cable modem with a 2.5G Ethernet Port?

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geek Cab and Listen to Graham brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:07.0

Within Control Center on the iPhone you can have the flashlight icon available.

0:11.0

Tapping on the icon turns the flashlight on and off, but if you tap and

0:15.4

hold, you get presented with an icon that lets you choose between four levels of brightness, whichever

0:20.8

level you choose is remembered for subsequent flashlight activations.

0:27.0

More tips like this plus your questions answered today on Maci Gabb 960 for Monday, December 19th, 2022. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geeky up the show where you send in tips like that one

0:57.5

cool stuff found you send in your questions we share everything that we can, we try to answer your questions, we loosely

1:06.6

string together an agenda of all of these things in some semblance of an order with the goal being that each of us me John P you

1:18.1

Every single one of us that gets together we learn at least five new things every single week. Sponsors for this episode include

1:26.9

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and it's it's great so go to masterclass dot com slash mg g g g we'll talk more about that too in a little bit

1:55.4

for now here in Durham new hampshire i'm Dave hamilton

1:59.8

and here in fearful connecticut this. This is John F. Brun.

2:04.0

In here, in snowy, Le New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete.

2:10.0

What a surprise. Woke up this morning, it's supposed to be in the 30s and rain and I got four inches of snow but at least it's wet and heavy

2:17.4

Right, yeah, I've got the same here too. Yeah, I don't know what's going to happen.

2:22.6

This is, we record this on Friday the 16th and so, yeah,

2:25.5

we'll see what, we'll see what transpires.

2:27.8

But I do know what's going to happen

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