macOS Ventura Is Apple's Vista

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Quick Tips about Apple Pay, Spotlight, Advanced Data Protection, iCloud Storage, Picture-in-Picture, Apple Watch, and Stage Manager are just the start of today’s episode! Then your three favorite geeks go on to help solve your macOS Ventura woes (as much as that’s possible!), discuss the best way to configure DNS, help you choose a mesh router in today’s world, and so much more. Press play and enjoy learning five new things with John, Pete, and Dave!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 961 for Monday, December 26, 2022

Mike-QT-Apple Watch Apple Pay Goes the Distance (through clothing)
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:03:28 QT-Use Your Apple Watch Face for Apple Pay
00:06:23 Tim-QT-Spotlight additions: Travel and File Path
00:08:30 AlexS-QT-Use Command-Tab-then-1 to see app windows (“Show Me The Windows” Mode…or “Application Windows”)
00:09:53 Jim-QT-Quitting Apps with Command-W on iPad and Magic Keyboard
00:14:09 Check Calendar > Preferences > General > Default Calendar App
00:15:58 Barry-QT-Advanced Data Protection and Prior macOS Versions
00:19:54 Lawyer Jeff-QT-You can now buy additional iCloud Storage
00:21:48 Karl-QT-960-You Can Disable Scrubbing on AppleTV Remote Control

White Lotus
Wednesday

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More Quick Tips

00:31:15 Jeff-QT-960-“Hey Siri: Turn Bluetooth On”
00:33:43 AndrewWoodward-QT-Use iCloud Link to Send Large Videos
00:35:20 David-QT-Slide Left for Timestamp in Messages
00:37:29 Abhi-QT-Double-Swipe Up to Prevent Picture-in-Picture on iPhone
00:39:49 QT-What to Do When Your Apple Watch Gets Stuck
00:44:56 Ken-QT-Stage Manager requires “Displays Have Separate Spaces”
00:45:55 Kirit-QT-Shift-Click a Window to Add (not Replace) in Stage Manager
00:47:21 AndrewWoodward in Discord-QT-949-Hey, Siri: Turn on Apple TV

Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:48:25 Allen-Resetting Full Disk Access and Other System Settings
00:52:48 Mark-DNS Stalling and DNS Selection and Setup Strategy

1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 = Cloudflare DNS
8.8.8.8 = Google DNS
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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Matt Kiekeab and listener Mike brings us our quick tip of the week. Mike take it away.
0:08.0	Hi Dave and John, it's Mike calling you from Wake Forest, North Carolina.
0:12.0	Welcome back to my car from the Super... calling you're from Wake Forest, North Carolina.
0:12.6	Welcome back to my car from the supermarket where I always use Apple Pay.
0:18.6	And it's getting cold here.
0:20.4	And I frequently would pull up my sleeve and look at my watch and double tap the side button get my card ready and I've decided that's too much so I can reach under my sleeve, double tap the button, I know what my default
0:35.3	card is, and I lean my sleeve against the reader, and it worked just fine. I know there's a distance thing for the
0:45.0	and FC but through my through my sweatshirt worked great
0:49.7	Happy holidays
0:52.0	That's a great tip.
0:53.0	More tips like that, plus your questions answered today on
0:57.0	Matt Geek of 961 for Monday, December 26th, 2022. Thanks folks and welcome to Mackey of the show where you send in tips like that
1:24.4	questions cool stuff found we try to answer your questions we share your tips we
1:28.5	share your cool stuff found the goal is we link it together into an agenda so that each of us learns at least five new things every single time we get together.
1:40.0	Sponsors for this episode include factor.
1:43.2	We're at go dot factor 75.com slash mGG 60
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1:56.2	ready to heat and eat in just two minutes. Two minutes. Get 60% off your first box. We'll
2:01.4	talk more about that in a little bit and also rocket money go to rocket money.
2:05.7	Come slash MGG seriously could save you hundreds per year cancelling all those things you didn't know you had
2:16.6	for now here in the bunker the generator-powered bunker in Durham, New Hampshire I'm Dave Hamilton. And here where things are pretty much normal. He got a little rain,
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