Hidden Files, Address Bar Navigation, and HomeKit Cameras

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Mac Geek Gab, Pilot Pete, John F. Braun, and Dave Hamilton start with some Quick Tips shared by the audience. Bruce, Erik, Ben, and Wayne share the tip of using Cmd-Shift-Period for showing hidden/invisible files in Finder. Scott shares a better way of navigating messages on Mac, while Henry provides more Safari address bar navigation tips. The group also discusses changing Twitter 2FA to a one-time password if you lose text message 2FA support and logging your router’s MAC address if you’re on fiber.
The show then moves on to answering listeners’ questions and sharing tips. Jedd asks why Apple Maps became a data hog, and the group discusses the merits of using private networks for iOT devices. Robert suggests using Tailscale as your inbound/outbound VPN, and the group talks about the recently improved Tailscale Free Plan. Craig shares an issue with HomeKit cameras regularly going offline and how HomeBridge can help. John’s Apple Watch stopped unlocking one of his Macs, while Mike’s Apple Watch and phone are on different carriers. Finally, Curt wonders if Apple stopped warning users about macOS memory usage.
The show concludes with some Cool Stuff Found. Your three favorite geeks shares the Juice-Jack Defender Plug, a portable charger battery for Apple Watch, and a TerraMaster TNAS F4-423 that costs $499 on Amazon.
If you’re looking for quick tips, answers to your tech questions, or just some cool stuff to check out, Mac Geek Gab 979 has it all. Tune in and join the conversation!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 979 for Monday, May 1st, 2023

Bruce (and Erik, Ben, Wayne)-QT-978-Cmd-Shift-Period for Showing Hidden/Invisible Files in Finder
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:02:20 Scott-QT-978-Better Keys for Navigating Messages on Mac
00:04:05 Henry-QT-978-More Safari Address Bar Navigation Tips
00:05:10 QT-Change Twitter 2FA to a One-Time Password if you Lose Text Message 2FA support
00:06:42 QT-Log Your Router’s MAC Address if You’re On Fiber

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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:16:34 Jedd-Why Did Apple Maps Become a Data Hog?

Sirius XM App

00:23:39 Robert-976-Use Tailscale As your Inbound/Outbound VPN, too (and Jonathan and Mike)

Tailscale Free Plan Gets Better!

00:34:43 Craig-HomeKit Cameras Regularly Going Offline

HomeBridge
A Lengthy discussion of the merits of employing homekit, private networks for your iOT devices, and more

00:48:58 John-Apple Watch Stopped Unlocking One of My Macs
00:53:28 Mike-Apple Watch and Phone on Diff...

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac Geek Aben listener Bruce brings us our quick tip of the week with a follow-up from last week.
0:10.0	There is a very simple way to show or hide normally invisible files in the finder and that is by pressing command shift period
0:19.6	More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on Mackey Cab 979 for Monday, May 1st,
0:27.0	2023. Oh, Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geekab the show where you send in tips like that
0:50.9	and it was that that particular tip came from Bruce and
0:55.2	Eric and Ben and Wayne and so many of you I missed it during the show because I
0:59.4	wasn't paying attention next time I endeavor to do better. But you send in quick tips like that. We share
1:06.1	your quick tips. You send in your cool stuff found. We share cool stuff found. You send in your
1:10.2	questions. We try to answer your questions. we stitch it all together into an agenda, and the goal is such that by doing all of that and following through the agenda, we each learn at least five new things every single time we get together.
1:27.0	Sponsors for this episode include collide.com.
1:30.0	com slash MGG, K-O-L-I-D-E dot com slash M- g g we'll talk more about what you will get when you go there but it's awesome
1:38.5	Zero trust tailor-made for octa cool For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave
1:45.8	Hamilton. And here in Fairfield, Connecticut, this is John F. Brown.
1:51.6	And here in Lee in Hampshire's pilot Pete, listening to the British jets going home overhead.
1:59.4	I think they're gone now.
2:00.4	Okay, yeah, yeah, it's been loud over my house and then Pete's house as a bunch of
2:06.9	jets are leaving from Pease, Air Force Base, right, kind of down the road from us both. all right let's uh let's get into this cool
2:16.2	stuff but this quick tips here because we have yet another follow-up in fact we've got
2:21.0	some great quick-tip follow-ups here.
2:23.4	We were talking in episode 978 about the tip for moving messages,
2:29.7	moving among messages in MacOS and using Control tab or Shift Control tab.
2:37.7	And Scott says rather than using Control tab, which I find unnatural to use within an application, he says I use it to shift between
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