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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 241: Sleepy Macs, Defragging, SysPrefs and Cool Stuff Found

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2010

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dave and John dig into the mailbag and discuss a few issues of sleepless Macs, managing system preferences, defragmentation and then a great Cool Stuff Found segment. Don't miss it - download today!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Greetings folks and welcome to the show. I'm Dave Hamilton here in Durham,

0:29.2

New Hampshire and on the other end is... John Affron, here in Fairfield, Connecticut.

0:35.0

Chilly, not too Chilly.

0:38.0

Chilly, but survivable, right?

0:40.0

Yeah, we haven't had any major weather events yet, but, uh, yeah, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been,

0:47.4

on and off, very cold and then, you know, yeah, whatever.

0:50.4

And anyways, Dave, I think both, both you and I are getting very excited because there's this event coming up next week. I forget the name of it.

0:58.0

Oh, the Olympics start? That's right, no, Mac Macrolled expos next week.

1:04.2

It starts actually on Tuesday, the ninth.

1:07.6

The conference, right?

1:08.6

Yep.

1:09.6

Conferences are the ninth and the tenth.

1:11.2

Actually the conferences are the ninth through the through the 13th and then the exhibits start

1:15.2

Thursday, the 11th through the 13th. We will be out there. I'm flying in, actually I'm flying

1:20.0

in Monday night because we have a Macworld All-Star band rehearsal on Tuesday.

1:24.7

You're flying in Wednesday, is that right, John?

1:26.8

I am coming in Wednesday afternoon.

1:29.8

So we might get to have dinner together on Wednesday night?

1:32.4

Um, well, there's a flight schedule permitting.

1:35.0

Well, there's a, well, yeah, I assume that'll work well, but I think there's some parties.

1:40.0

Oh, yeah, of course.

1:41.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it'd be great for you and I to do dinner at a, you know,

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