Just Call It Touch-Touch
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this Mac Geek Gab episode, Dave Hamilton and Pilot Pete start with app permissions and then dive into the world of shortcuts, offering valuable resources like MacSparky’s field guide. Listener Ben contributes a shortcut for opening folders in the Finder, and the hosts discuss the magic of the option key and terminal shortcuts.
They highlight advanced Mac OS command-line tools and share tips for activating Siri without a mouse. They urge listeners to experiment with Siri’s efficiencies across devices. A travel tip comes from a listener about manually adjusting the iPhone time when traveling, and they debunk the myth about phones causing flight disruptions. The hosts emphasize the need for system-wide clipboard managers and explore the usefulness of keyboard automation tools.
Dave and Pete endorse training Apple’s filters to manage junk mail, stressing consistent efforts for efficiency. They recommend QR code scanner apps, share a unique QR code usage at a Dutch restaurant, and suggest attaching receipts to digital user manuals. They wrap up discussing Duck.com email service, CleanMyMac X, QuickTime Player for video editing, and encourage listener questions. Press play and enjoy!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 989 for Monday, July 3rd, 2023
- 00:04:10 Hangout on July 9th, 4pm EDT: SHORTCUTS. Come and share!
- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 QT-Go into Your Mac’s System Prefs/Settings > Privacy and check every category
- 00:05:45 Ben-QT-Command-Option-Click Dock Folder to Open in Finder
- 00:06:36 Chicago Tom-Run Shortcuts from the command line with “shortcuts run”
- 00:08:26 Lawyer Jeff-CSF-Advanced macOS Command-Line Tools
- 00:10:02 Chicago Tom-QT-Set a Keyboard Shortcut for Siri on your Mac
- 00:15:02 Martin-QT-Manually Change Your iPhone’s Time Zone
- 00:19:53 Ben-QT-Adjust iPhone and iPad Haptic Touch Speed
- Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Haptic Touch
- 00:22:10 Ben-QT-Relaunch Finder to Resolve Clipboard Failure
- killall pboard
- 00:23:37 Clipboard Managers
- 00:27:59 Setup Shortcuts for your email addresses and phone numbers
- 00:29:35 QT Shift-Option-Command-v does a “Paste and Match Style” in MacOS
- 00:31:17 Grumpy-QT-988-Open Code Scanner in Safari and Add Model & Serial to Manuals in Notes
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- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:37:43 Larry-How do I manage iCloud Junk Mail?
- 00:49:49 Kent-Google Results in Safari not what I expected on iPhone & iPad
- 00:53:22 CarPlay Speed Limits Follow Local Units instead of System Settings
- 00:59:25 Steve Hammond-How do I keep my Apple TV from repeatedly locking up?
- 01:01:41 Brent-Best Malware Scanner for Mac?
- 01:05:32 Gary Stitcher Going Away Aug 29th
- Gary-How to Stream (and not Download) Podcasts?
- Overcast
- 01:08:28 Chad – Overcast isn’t a video player
- 01:11:04 Mac Geek Gab 989 Outtro
- Hangout on July 9th, 4pm EDT: SHORTCUTS. Come and share!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and I'll bring us our quick tip of the week. On your Mac, go into system |
| 0:09.2 | preferences, system settings, whatever version of the OS you're running go into privacy and look at every |
| 0:14.8 | category and make sure all the apps that you want enabled for things like |
| 0:20.1 | full disk access and accessibility and all of those things. |
| 0:23.4 | Make sure the ones that you want enabled are enabled. |
| 0:26.2 | I did it this morning on two of my max, |
| 0:28.2 | and there were like four things in a few different categories |
| 0:31.5 | that I wanted enabled. I swear I enabled them at some |
| 0:34.4 | point, but no, they were not enabled. More quick tips like this plus your |
| 0:40.0 | questions answered today on Mac Geek have 989 for Monday, July 3rd, |
| 0:45.0 | 2023. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geek, you have the show where you send in your |
| 1:07.9 | tips like that, you send in your questions, you send in your cool stuff found we take all of those things we string them together into a |
| 1:18.8 | thought-created agenda that sometimes we completely abandon mid-show so that we can each be sure |
| 1:27.4 | that we learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include |
| 1:36.1 | Hello Fresh where you go to hello fresh.com slash MGG50 and use code |
| 1:41.4 | MGG 50% off plus free shipping. We'll talk more in depth about that in a little bit. |
| 1:48.3 | For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:51.5 | And here in Lee, New Hampshire. It'm Dave Hamilton. And here at Lee, New Hampshire. |
| 1:54.0 | It's Pilot Pete. |
| 1:55.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 1:57.0 | Welcome, indeed, yeah. |
| 1:58.0 | Let's do this thing. |
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