Hey, 19!
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
The Quick Tips segment is packed with gems like using the Google app to recognize a song you hum, dragging icons from Control Center to the Menubar, and a discussion about the new owners of Bartender. Learn about the importance of unplugging your office for some tech therapy, backing up cloud-stored files with CCC Backup, and setting up Apple Pay for developers on macOS 15. Keep the pace up by slowing down Mission Control with a terminal command and using your Apple Watch to identify circuits.
Dive deeper into listener questions with tips on configuring Safari’s “Open Links with Profile” list using Velja and Open In, and managing Time Machine on an existing external disk. Discover solutions for email archiving with Mail Steward, Google Workspace, and Mail Archiver X, and stop Maps from offering unwanted directions. In the Cool Stuff Found segment, check out the iOS 18 Beta App Compatibility Chart, Howard Oakley’s Mints, and the Pass2U Wallet for custom Apple Wallet passes.
Remember, with Mac Geek Gab’s 19 years of wisdom, “Don’t Get Caught” without the latest tech insights and tricks!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1042 for Monday, June 17th, 2024
00:03:29 Hey, 19!
June 17th: World Tesselation Day
Mac Geek Gab’s 19th Birthday!
First MGG
First MacCast (and Adam’s first post announcing the new podcast)
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Uncle Jamie-QT-Google App Can Recognize a Song you Hum
00:05:14 Mark M-QT-You can Drag Icons from Control Center to the Menubar
00:07:06 James-PSA-Bartender under new, mostly-silent, owners
00:13:18 Jedd-QT-I unplug everything in my office every six months…for therapy!
00:17:14 Grumpy-QT-CCC Backup has an option to back-up cloud-stored files like those on iCloud Drive
00:18:15 Chris-QT-Regarding the hassle of setting up ApplePay for developers
…and related: macOS Sequoia will allow iCloud Sign-ins when Virtualized
00:22:18 Jim-QT-Use your Apple Watch to Identify Circuits
00:24:51 PorthosJon-QT-Slow down Mission Control/Spaces’ switching speed with Terminal Command
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 2.0; killall Dock
00:30:22 JMM-PSA-iCloud Drive doesn’t back-up overwritten files
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Uncle Jamie brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:06.7 | the Google app from the App Store can identify a song you hum. That's right you hum it and |
| 0:12.4 | it'll get it you press the microphone button and then search a song |
| 0:16.7 | while playing the song, but unlike Shazam, Google can recognize the tune of the song that you're humming, not just a recording. |
| 0:27.0 | So you can hum a song and it'll tell you the name of the song with a fair amount of accuracy |
| 0:31.3 | in spite of my inability to carry even a very good tune. |
| 0:35.0 | So give it a try. |
| 0:36.7 | More tips like this plus your questions answered today on the Matt Geek Cab. |
| 0:40.8 | Number 1042 for Monday, June 17th, 2024. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geek Cab. We are the show where you send in |
| 1:08.1 | tips like that that we share you send in cool stuff found that we share you |
| 1:11.4 | sending questions that we hopefully answer at the |
| 1:14.2 | very least we will discuss and really try to impart what we know about the |
| 1:21.9 | trouble shooting process even if we can't get to the actual |
| 1:26.4 | answer we can all learn something about the troubleshooting process when we do that and in |
| 1:31.5 | fact that's the goal is each of us learning at least five new |
| 1:36.7 | things every time we get together and when I say each of us I mean all of us is the |
| 1:40.9 | hosts like we're all one big family of learners here and we can help each other do that. |
| 1:48.6 | And that's what we're going to try to do today here on June 17th. June 17th of course being World Tesselation Day, but we are |
| 1:56.4 | recording this on June 13th, which is Mackeykep's 19th anniversary so you know hey 19 we can't dance at all |
| 2:06.7 | I know pretty amazing sponsors for this episode include coded dot.io slash MGG where you can go and sign up for free. |
| 2:18.2 | One dock to rule them all. |
| 2:19.6 | You get to bring all your text and your tables together. |
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