macOS 15.4 Fixes, Smart Home Discounts, & AirPods Battery Tips
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Troubleshooting? We’ve got you. Fix grayed-out Mail send buttons, navigate quirks from macOS 15.4 updates, and avoid wasting money on third-party toner. Get pro tips on black-and-white printing, keeping MakeMKV functional, and how to protect your color ink. The gang also tackles questions like whether your browser really needs LAN access, optimizing AirPods battery settings, and improving iPhone-scan photo quality. Wrap it all up with killer Cool Stuff Found like the INIU Qi2 charger and Lutron Caseta shades. Stay tuned, stay geeky, and stay safe out there.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1084 for Monday, April 7th, 2025
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 Lisa-QT-Tell your homeowners’ insurance company about your smart home devices
00:04:51 Dan-QT-Use UK Plugs on airplanes to avoid power socket fallout
00:09:27 Ben-QT-Notes: Change focus between list and editor
Command+Return
Command+Option+F
00:12:54 Andrew-QT-Create gestures that you can trigger with your voice
00:15:21 Ian-QT (and thanks) for bringing an Apple TV on vacation
00:17:22 Mike-QT-Get plenty of memory with your M4 MacBook
00:19:50 John-Considering options for a new MacBook Air
Dave’s Discord Thread about CPU Usage
Target Display Mode
Luna Display
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Don’t Get Caught
00:37:51 Allan-DGC-Mail Send Button turns Gray and Won’t Send
00:39:54 Dominic-DGC-1083-macOS 15.4 (temporarily) breaks MakeMKV
MakeMKV Downloads
00:42:19 Larry-DGC-Check ACTUAL toner (and ink) levels before changing cartridges.
QT-When printing black-and-white on a color printer,
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Matt KeeKab and my wife sent in the quick tip of the week when yesterday she emailed me and says, hey, it was reviewing our homeowners insurance with our homeowners insurance agent. |
| 0:15.3 | And when I mentioned to them that we have a ring camera in the driveway and also a sensor near our water heater to test for water leaks. |
| 0:27.5 | It saved us $71 on our homeowners insurance. So tell them about your smart home devices. |
| 0:35.6 | More quick tips like this. |
| 0:37.7 | Plus, your questions answered today on MacGeb-1084 for Monday, April 7th Metric System Day, 2025. |
| 0:48.1 | Thank you. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where you send in quick tips like that, sometimes unintentionally. |
| 1:11.1 | I love the unintentional quicktives. |
| 1:13.2 | You send in cool stuff found. |
| 1:14.8 | You send in questions that hopefully we answer. |
| 1:17.1 | The goal being that each of us gets to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:24.6 | Screencasts online.com slash MGG is our sponsor. |
| 1:27.8 | It's also where you will go to get a seven-day free trial of their ever-expanding |
| 1:35.0 | library of over 1,400 tutorials for our Mac and other Apple devices and stuff. |
| 1:42.4 | I'll talk more about that in a little bit. |
| 1:44.1 | Back here after being at podcast movement in, I don't even remember where I was. devices and stuff. I'll talk more about that in a little bit. |
| 1:48.5 | Back here, after being at podcast movement in, I don't even remember where I was. |
| 1:49.1 | Chicago. |
| 1:50.6 | Back here in Durham, New Hampshire. |
| 1:51.2 | I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:56.6 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 1:57.0 | Sorry. |
| 1:58.9 | Slow on the uptake this morning. |
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