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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 249: Terminal, Backups, Quick Look 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

🗓️ 12 March 2010

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave come to you on this Friday morning for the first Premium show of March. This one’s full of great info, including how to manage login items, spotlight, and Safari’s default search engine. Then your geeks get into a good primer discussion for how to safely use the terminal to do some things that you simply can’t do anywhere else. Subscribe today, support your two favorite geeks, and learn even more!

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Guicab No 49 Premium for Friday, March 12, 2010. Good readings folks and welcome to the podcast. I'm Dave Hamilton here in Durham, New Hampshire.

0:29.0

All the way from Fairfield, Connecticut is...

0:32.0

John F. Braun and also back for a special appearance.

0:38.0

Yes, after four and a half years of training, I'm back.

0:41.0

Okay, it only seems like four and a half years.

0:44.0

Pilot Pete ladies and gentlemen.

0:46.0

Hi everybody.

0:47.0

We got to turn Pete's mic up here.

0:49.0

Oh, that's all right.

0:50.0

I want to be into it, that'll work.

0:52.0

Yeah, Pete gets anywhere near as Mike, it'll be into it that'll work yeah peak gets anywhere near as Mike it'll be all right okay so

0:55.5

John we have we have a lot of cool stuff a lot of good questions to go through today and

1:01.8

and you you actually found on your own a cool thing that

1:06.0

will mention at the end about quick look and of course today mere hours hour and a half ago, at least at the time of this recording, the iPad became

1:19.4

available for pre-order.

1:20.5

So how many did you order, John? I think that'd be none. Oh what a

1:26.5

party pooper you are I ordered one. I'm ordering mine as we speak. I'm like I'm

1:31.1

letting you people debug the thing for me.

1:33.0

No, John, that's our job.

1:35.0

We'll give you a pass on this one because, you know, of course, you did just upgrade to mail.

1:40.0

I can't handle too much change in my life. I know. But yeah, pretty much everybody, you know, we had a Mac round

1:50.2

table earlier this week and I think almost everybody on the call was

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