Important Tidbits of Now Useless Information (and Some Useful Ones, Too!)
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Don’t get caught missing out on how to adjust photo timestamps on your Mac or record videos with your AirPods. Your three favorite geeks answers listener questions, providing practical solutions like using MetaImage for metadata edits and Filmic Pro for capturing top-quality audio with your iPhone. Whether you’re automating drive mounting or keeping your Synology Docker containers up-to-date, these tips ensure you’re always a step ahead in the tech game.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1051 for Monday, August 19th, 2024
August 19th: National Aviation Day
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Makay-QT-Remember that CONTROL sends Screenshots to the Clipboard
00:02:20 More Screen Capture Options
Shottr
CleanShot X
OnyX for configuring screenshots’ saving location
Important Tidbits of Now Useless Information
00:11:42 Raymond-QT-Reinstalling macOS the Apple Way
How to download and install macOS
00:18:10 Grumpy-You can still buy an unlocked phone with Apple financing
Follow-Ups
00:22:13 Scott-CSFR-1049–BLE Unlock solves the selective unlock problem
00:25:24 Ben-1049-Lock Your Mac with the right key combinations
00:27:01 Managing HDR on iPhone
00:30:41 Raph-1047-Adam encoded DVD collection
MakeMKV (MakeMKV on BluRay)
Mac DVD Ripper Pro
00:35:17 Peter-1049-Mount drives with automation and smart home!
00:39:14 Michael-CSF-1049-Jettison from St. Clair ejects disks automatically
Sponsors
00:40:55 SPONSOR: 1Password Extended Access Management solves the problems traditional IAM and MDM can’t touch. It’s security for the way we work today.
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:42:52 Joe-How do I adjust the timestamp of Photos on my Mac?
MetaImage – Edit Image Metadata from SetApp
00:47:08 Nicole-How do I record videos with audio from my AirPods on my iPhone?
Filmic Pro
00:52:04 Adam Almost Got Caught…Backups Saved The Day!
Plex Pass
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener McKay brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:07.0 | on the Mac to save a screenshot to the clipboard and not to the |
| 0:14.0 | clipboard and not to the disk as is the default, add the control T. |
| 0:15.0 | So for example, if you're taking a screenshot of the entire screen, |
| 0:18.0 | then it's saved to disk, you do it with command shift and three. |
| 0:22.0 | But if you want to take a |
| 0:23.4 | screenshot of the desktop and save it to the clipboard and the |
| 0:27.4 | control key so you go control command shift and three. More tips like |
| 0:32.2 | this plus your questions answered today on |
| 0:34.1 | Matt Key Cab number 1051 for Monday August 19th 2024 before. Greetings folks |
| 0:58.0 | folks and welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where we take your quick tips like that, we take you and share them. |
| 1:06.0 | We take your cool stuff out and we share them, we take your questions questions, easy for me to say, |
| 1:10.1 | and share them and hopefully answer them. |
| 1:13.0 | We loosely string it all together into an agenda that gives us all a great opportunity to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Our sponsor for |
| 1:25.9 | this episode is One Password Extended Access Management which solves all the |
| 1:30.6 | problems that traditional I am and MDM can't touch. We'll talk more about |
| 1:35.4 | that a little bit later in the show and in the show notes we have a link where |
| 1:39.2 | you can learn more to. We'll talk more about that in a minute, here on this National Aviation Day here in Durham, |
| 1:47.8 | New Hampshire. Hey, hey, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:51.6 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 1:55.0 | And here back in New Hampshire, it's pilot Pete. |
| 1:59.0 | Good to be back with you guys this week. |
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