It’s All About Learning How To Fish
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Things get deeper with listener questions—from phantom iMac reboots to the clever use of dry-erase markers when fixing hardware. You’ll also get practical ways to manage family passwords and discover why teaching someone to fish (figuratively, of course, though fish can be yummy, too!) beats fixing their tech woes every time. Cool Stuff Found includes compression tools, trackable flashlights, and ChromeOS Flex as a Mac revival trick. Don’t Get Caught missing this one—it’s packed with geeky gold.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1100 for Monday, July 28th, 2025
July 28th: National Milk Chocolate Day
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Victrola Turntable
Quick Tips
00:00:01 David-QT-Drag files to a blank space and Finder creates a folder for you
00:06:05 Gary-QT-Apple released a new AppleCare One plan for $20/month
Apple Support App
9to5 Mac’s Article about AppleCare One
00:14:34 Rob-1099-Phonetic vs. Pronunciation Contact Fields
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MOAR Quick Tips
00:21:07 Adam-Bulk Scanning Quick Tip – Use your all-in-one printer’s direct-to-thumb drive scanning option
Using ChatGPT’s summarization feature to jog your memory for public performance and public speaking
Apple’s Files app scanning option
00:25:00 For AirPods Pro as earplugs, AirPods > Accessibility > Loud Sound Reduction needs to be on
AirPods Magnetic Strap
00:33:41 David-TestFlight can get in the way of merging Apple accounts…and there’s a fix!
00:37:19 Andrew-QT-Some USB-C devices need a USB-A to USB-C cable to properly charge
00:43:05 Chris-QT-Turn Off Notification Sounds on Mac & iPad to Avoid Notification Overload (aka MacProCT)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac, geekab, and listener David, not me, listener David, brings us our quick tip of the week by sharing. |
| 0:08.4 | He says, I highlighted a bunch of files in the finder, and I dragged them to a blank spot in a new folder. |
| 0:16.6 | And I got prompted to create a folder and copy the new files to that folder. |
| 0:24.1 | It must have been moving to a different disk. |
| 0:25.8 | That's very interesting. |
| 0:27.0 | I've never, with multiple files highlighted, dragging to a blank spot, an option to create a new folder appeared. |
| 0:36.3 | I like that. |
| 0:36.9 | More quick tips like this. Plus, your questions answered today. |
| 0:42.5 | A Mackey Cab 1100. I know. It's crazy. For Monday, July 28th, National Milk Chocolate Day. |
| 0:50.7 | Do we have a National Dark Chocolate Day? I sure hope so. If not, we will be the ones to create it. Twenty-twenty-five. |
| 1:17.6 | Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show where we share quick tips like that. |
| 1:18.8 | We share your cool stuff found. |
| 1:19.7 | We share your questions. |
| 1:21.2 | We try to answer your questions. We string it all together into an agenda that hopefully facilitates us as part of the system of ensuring that every single one of us |
| 1:31.7 | learns at least five new things. Every single week we get together. A bunch of sponsors this |
| 1:38.3 | week, including Eternal Storms with a new app that's very cool. I'm going to make you wait to hear about it because this one kind of blew my mind. |
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