Heisenbugs Are Expected Behavior
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Setting a Shared Screenshots Folder and OnyX for Mac
At the start of the episode, the hosts discuss how to set up a shared screenshots folder for all your Macs, a handy tip for keeping your images organized. They also touch on OnyX for Mac, a versatile utility for optimizing and maintaining your macOS system.
Quick Tips
The quick tips continue, with Steve sharing how to back tap your iPhone for shortcuts, DJ Mac explaining how to use Control + Tab in Messages on Mac, and Gary providing an update on solving Apple Watch unlock issues. Ben and Bav offer useful Safari and Mac App Store tips to improve your browsing and download experiences.
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
In this section, our hosts tackle several listener questions:
* Raymond asks about Apple TV buffering and spinning beach balls. The hosts discuss Speedtest for Apple TV and compare Wi-Fi versus Ethernet.
* Phil wonders how to manage his Mac’s battery life, and the hosts offer helpful advice.
* Steve shares an unlikely solution for his MacBook Pro M1 running out of disk space. You’ll want to hear this!
* Jess asks about Siri reading emails aloud, leading to a discussion about accessibility solutions.
* Deborah wants to know how to archive email, and the hosts suggest MailSteward and share Dave’s Gmail Archive Deletion Search Criteria.
* Jürgen shares how he used iperf to solve his Mac to Synology speed issue, with the hosts offering insights on the topic.
Heisenbugs and Restoring Wi-Fi Passwords
As the episode wraps up, the hosts chat about Heisenbugs and the quirks of expected behavior. Finally, Alex shares a brilliant tip on how to restore Wi-Fi passwords after resetting network settings, and the hosts dissect this long-standing problem for Apple users.
Don’t miss this episode of Mac Geek Gab, packed with tips, tricks, and expert advice to help you get the most out of your Mac experience. Press play on episode 978 and join Dave Hamilton, John F. Braun, and Pilot Pete for a fun and informative discussion.
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 978 for Monday, April 24th, 2023
00:00:01 QT-Set a Shared Screenshots Folder For All Your Macs
OnyX for Mac
You Outsmarted yourself
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:03:10 Steve-QT-Back Tap Your iPhone for Shortcuts and More
00:05:15 DJ Mac-QT-Use Control + Tab in Messages on Mac to jump to next message!
00:08:12 Gary-QT-Update Your Devices to Solve Apple Watch Unlock Issues
00:10:33 Ben-QT-Swipe iPhone Safari Address Bar For Tab Browser
00:11:40 Bav-QT-Hover over Mac App Store Download Progress for Realtime Speed
Sponsors
00:12:46 SPONSOR: Shady Rays. What’s better than getting one pair of Shady Rays and not worrying if you break or lose them? Getting two! Go to ShadyRays.com/mgg and use code mgg and for a limited time, when you buy one pair of Shady Rays, you’ll get a second pair FREE.
00:14:23 SPONSOR:
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and I have our quick tip of the week. I've mentioned this a few times in passing on the show. |
| 0:09.0 | It is super valuable to, I find it super valuable, to store all of my screenshots from all of my |
| 0:16.2 | Macs in a shared folder so that no matter where I took a screenshot, be it in the office, the studio, or on my laptop, I can always |
| 0:26.2 | see it on all of my Macs. And I do this using Onyx, the free software that you can use to do all kinds of tweaks you can set |
| 0:34.9 | the location of screenshots you can change it from being on your desktop to say a |
| 0:38.9 | Dropbox shared folder or an iCloud Drive shared folder and then you're good to go. It's synced everywhere. |
| 0:46.0 | More quick tips like this, plus your questions answered and maybe some cool stuff found today on Mac Geek Cab 978 for Monday, April 24th, |
| 0:57.0 | 2023. reading. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to a Mackeyke of the show where we send |
| 1:18.9 | that where the point is that we each learn five new things. That's the point. We do that by sharing and sometimes we'll even play that sound if it's something really cool that we've learned. We do that. We learn those five new things by sharing quick tips like we just did |
| 1:34.9 | sometimes there are sometimes they're yours you send them into feedback at |
| 1:38.3 | Mackeyab.com and we share them you can also send in your questions which we will answer and cool stuff found that |
| 1:46.2 | That you know, it's just cool stuff that we've all found it's it's a good name. It's not clever. It's just a name. We stitch that all together into the agenda. |
| 1:56.6 | We loosely follow it. And maybe, hopefully, we each hit our goal. |
| 2:01.3 | Sponsors for this episode include private internet access. Pia Vpn.com slash |
| 2:08.0 | MGG is where you can go to save 82% off your VPN service plus four free months. |
| 2:14.0 | ShadyRaze.com slash MGG because you want to be able to get two pairs of |
| 2:21.7 | sunglasses for the price of one. You buy one pair, you get a second pair free. |
| 2:27.2 | And then Honey at Join Honey.com slash MGG, the tool, the free tool that scours the internet for promo codes and it automatically applies |
| 2:38.5 | them to your shopping cart. We'll talk more in depth about each of those in a few minutes here. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:49.0 | And here in Pollen-infested Fairfield, Connecticut, this is Jonathan here in |
| 2:56.5 | Lee, New Hampshire is Pilot Pete. Glad to be back, guys. |
| 3:00.0 | It's glad, I'm glad that we're all back. I'm glad we're all here. Yeah, good stuff. It's good stuff. All right, should we keep rocking with these quick tips here? John, you want to take us to Steve? Yeah, here's a good one or a bad one. Hi guys, today I learned a handy little |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.