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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 245: Prepping a Mac for Sale or Service, Your Questions, 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

🗓️ 22 February 2010

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The mailbag is overflowing, and John and Dave do their best to get through as much of your feedback as possible. A common theme this week is prepping your Mac for sale or service, and your two favorite geeks talk through that as well as sharing some listener tips on the subject. Restoring from backups, what to do with .do files, iCal to Google Calendar syncing, and even a winning answer for our Geek Challenge posed in show 244 are all here! Subscribe, download, tune in, and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac observers

0:25.2

Matt Geekcap I am Dave Hamilton here in Durham, New Hampshire on the other end from

0:29.4

Fairfield Connecticut is me. John F. Braun. Field, Connecticut, is... Me.

0:33.0

John F. Braun.

0:36.0

It's afternoon here yet again.

0:38.0

We seem to have settled into a Monday afternoon thing temporarily, which to work okay I'm getting used

0:44.4

of the light shining in I'm not used to the cold I forgot to turn the heat on up here in the

0:47.9

studio John so it's a little chilly but that's okay I'll live if you hear chattering, you know, it's not the audio stirring. It's just my teeth

0:58.2

I had the G5 on that that end of itselfets the room up pretty good.

1:03.0

Yeah, seriously.

1:04.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:06.0

All right, so we have quite a few things to go through today.

1:08.6

We've got a ton of questions.

1:09.8

Sean, when I got to my desk this morning and figured oh I'll take about an hour maybe an hour

1:16.4

and a half and go through all the questions. Oh you are going at it I saw it man because

1:19.8

you know of course you copy me right you know I do the pre-show and then you

1:23.4

you look at that and then you go through the things and yeah you're going at it man

1:27.0

hours hours hours we have like three shows worth of material so let's let's get

1:31.8

right into it here and we'll go to well we you know

1:35.9

we issued what we called a Geek Challenge last week John when we had a

1:41.7

listener Mark I believe, that wrote in and asked, okay, I want I want to do is,

1:48.8

can I have a way to get to the recent items from the keyboard.

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