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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to troubleshooting, you’ll see how to fix blank Mail previews, keep your number abroad for iMessage, and squeeze the most out of budget carriers. Round it out with negotiation strategies to lower your mobile and ISP bills, plus Wi-Fi service order tweaks and DHCP reservation tips to keep your Mac running smooth.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1103 for Monday, August 18th, 2025
August 18th: National Fajita Day
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Default Folder
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Pogo Kelly-QT-Turn Screenshots into a PDF in the Finder
00:02:50 Karl-QT-CHiPs taught us some police 11-codes!
00:04:34 Kiwi Graham-QT-Apple devices use randomized serial numbers
00:07:36 Mike-QT-Files.app document scanning maxes out at 24 pages
00:10:59 CSF-Genius Scan (free version)
00:12:10 Peg-QT-Scanning using Image Capture
00:13:48 Craig-1101-QT-Most Macs can’t support USB 20Gbps
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Don’t Get Caught
00:20:50 RandyWalker-DGC-Change Out Your CarPlay Cable
Coiled cable for CarPlay
00:24:09 Wireless CarPlay and GPS Passthrough
CarLinkIt 5.0 Wireless CarPlay Adapter
Cool Stuff Found
00:30:16 PorthosJon-CSF-uBar, a Dock Enhancer
00:32:16 Ben-CSF-Sketchybar to customize your menubar (video instructions!)
00:34:30 Andrew-CSF-Looking Glass for Apple Music (or Spotify) to control Apple Music from your Mac’s Menu Bar
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Matt Geekab and listener Pogo Kelly brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:07.0 | Turn Your Screenshots into a PDF in the Finder. When attending a webinar, I often take screenshots of the presentation. Afterwards in Finder, I select the screenshots. Right-clicking on one brings up a menu near the bottom. I hover on |
| 0:22.4 | quick actions, which opens a sub-menu where I click on Create PDF. The newly created PDF shows up |
| 0:30.3 | in the finder window with the name, with the file name highlighted, ready for me to type in a useful |
| 0:36.1 | name. Then I can delete the screenshots because they |
| 0:39.4 | are no longer needed. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on Mac Geekab, |
| 0:46.1 | 1103 for Monday, August 18th, 2025. 25. |
| 1:13.1 | Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekup, the show where you send in and we share tips like that. |
| 1:15.3 | You send in and we share cool stuff found. |
| 1:24.3 | You send in and we share your questions and sometimes, hopefully, often, are able to provide answers or a nice path to them. |
| 1:33.4 | All in the interest of each of us learning at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:37.5 | Our sponsors for this episode are varied and many. |
| 1:40.4 | We have BB edit from barebones.com. |
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| 2:11.3 | K12.com slash MG is where you're going to go today to find a tuition-free K-12 powered school near you and enroll now, and there is still time to enroll for the fall. |
| 2:19.1 | And webroot.com slash MG, where you can get 50% off of webroot total protection or webroot essentials. |
| 2:25.5 | We will talk more about each of those in a little bit here on National Fahita Day in Durham, New Hampshire. |
| 2:26.7 | I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:28.6 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:32.4 | And here, also in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete, and it is the weather |
| 2:38.3 | for National Feated Day. It is sizzling, man, and much of the country. Well played. Oh, man. |
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