HOT 186: Recovery Email Accounts - Apple Screen Share, External Drives, AirPlay Troubles

Hands-On Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On Hands-On Mac, Mikah answers a listener's follow-up question about being unable to remotely access their friends' Mac after a recent update, why an external drive is taking a while to be detected by a newer Mac, and a previous listener's follow-up question about a connection error they were having with their Apple TV and an interesting fix that was discovered.

Judy writes back in, providing additional details to their question about how, after a recent OS update, they cannot remotely access their friend's Mac via the Messages app.
MacFixerDK got a new M3 MacBook Pro but is having issues with the different external drives attached to it. They are looking for any help or resources to further troubleshoot the problem.
Nancy is having trouble playing back videos from YouTube or accessing websites through her web browser through Apple AirPlay.
Dan is looking to strengthen his email security after being prompted by Google to add a recovery email for their account. However, he doesn't have another email account! He wonders if he should create another email account just to be able to access his primary account if needed.
Ross follows up on his question a while back with a humourous fix for a connection error he was facing with his Apple TV.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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0:00.0	Coming up on hands on tech, I've got a show full of questions that also has a bunch of answers.
0:06.7	We talk about what to do when you're trying to connect to a friend's computer to help them actually solve a problem on their
0:16.2	machine by virtually connecting to their device.
0:20.2	We also talk about what is the right disk format to use for your external drives.
0:27.2	We touch on a question of email providers and a little bit of follow-up. Plus, a little bit of follow-up plus a little bit more coming up on
0:36.7	hands-on-tech.
0:37.7	This is Twit. Live electricity wires are always near and coming close to them can be dangerous.
0:52.0	So always ask yourself, are you sure? And coming close to them can be dangerous.
0:52.5	So always ask yourself, are you sure it's safe?
0:56.0	Look out for electricity wires above and below you.
1:00.0	If in doubt, call us on 1-800-377-999. It might just save your life.
1:08.0	E-S-B networks, stay safe and stay clear of electricity wires.
1:17.0	Welcome, welcome to Hands-on-Tech.
1:20.0	This is the show where I, Micasargent, take your tech questions and do my best to answer them,
1:25.7	sometimes with the help of our wonderful chat room. I also do product reviews and I've got one coming up I'm pretty excited about so we'll be checking that out soon.
1:36.2	But this is an episode where I do plan to answer some really great questions.
1:42.0	I'm really happy with the questions that came in either
1:44.9	that I've just now been able to get around to or that came in this week. The first
1:50.4	question as we get rolling here comes in from listener.
1:55.3	Judy writes in and says, I sent a related question a while back and I tried everything you
2:01.6	suggested but still no luck here are some
2:03.0	additional details I have always used messages to connect remotely to friends
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