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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 236: Video Encoding, Damaged Preferences, Unfreezing Locked-Up Macs and More

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2010

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave take this snowy New England Monday afternoon to dig through the mailbag, answering questions and sharing tips about things including encoding video on your Mac, the telltale signs of damaged preference files (and how to fix them!), getting a locked-up Mac to speak again, and much, much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Act Geek ad number 236 for Monday, January 18, 2010. Oh, we know. Greetings folks and welcome to a daytime edition of the Mac Observers Mac Geek.

0:30.3

I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:31.3

Yeah, it is.

0:32.3

Yeah, I'm Dave Hamilton's but yeah it is yeah I'm Dave Hamilton coming to you from snowy Durham, New Hampshire today

0:37.4

And I'm John F Braun here in fearful Connecticut and all the snow washed away we had some rain last last night. We had some nice high winds. That's all was fun.

0:45.0

Oh yeah, that's a blast. Yeah, the trash cans were all over the yard and the chairs on the porch were flipped over.

0:55.1

All right, so we have what I would consider a very normal show

1:00.4

except there's way more stuff than we'll find time to get.

1:04.4

Now today is also Martin Luther King day at least in the United States and maybe elsewhere,

1:09.0

which is a weird holiday because you know I had sort of a little emergency this morning my ball rod

1:14.0

assembly broke and I wasn't sure if the store would be open so I'm sorry to hear

1:17.8

that yeah do you know what I'm talking about I think we all know what you're

1:21.6

talking about John no no no no it's the little thing that goes between in your sink the plunger or whatever or the drain in your sink and the lever. Oh yeah. And basically you know I shaved this morning And, you know, I went to hit the drain, and I hit it, and I'm like,

1:35.6

the water's really not draining that quickly, and I move it a couple of more times.

1:40.4

I'm like, oh, great.

1:42.0

Yeah, so, but anyways, Home people has it for like five bucks so

1:44.7

so that was very nice but but I wasn't sure because today is weird because I think it's

1:47.9

kind of a federal holiday there's no mail it is yeah I don't think the stock

1:51.5

market's open but stores are open so yeah, go figure anyway, so so yeah, we got way

1:56.4

Yeah, what's what's the summary day? What are we going to talk about? You know, let's just go right into it. Let's not worry about the summary.

2:04.0

Let's listen to Bill.

2:06.0

Yes.

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