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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 269: A Ton of 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

🗓️ 21 June 2010

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The Cool Stuff Found has simply piled too high, which means it’s time for an episode just chock full of all these tips, apps, and tidbits that will undoubtedly help make your Mac and Apple-centric computing life a better place. Download today and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac GeekCat!

0:02.0

Geek Cat! Number two six, nineer for June 21st, folks. Thanks folks and welcome to a huge cool stuff found episode.

0:28.1

I am Dave Hamilton here in Durham, New Hampshire.

0:30.6

On the other end of the Skypeline, even though, for at least most of the time the audio

0:34.6

quality wouldn't let you believe it, it is?

0:37.1

John Eprong here in Fearfield, Connecticut, but then I'm going to throw it back at you, Dave,

0:40.8

because we also have... Pilot Pete Pete here and why part of the cool

0:44.4

stuff found you found me we finally found you you're cool Pete yeah yeah you're

0:50.7

the first on the list. That's right.

0:53.0

You know what, let's dive right in.

0:54.0

Let's go to Elliot here,

0:56.0

and that would be even better if I was ready.

0:58.0

But Elliot says he wants to talk about a couple of keystrokes.

1:01.0

One is, he said the first one is a keyboard shortcut

1:04.8

to restart Mac OS 10, which is Control, Command,

1:09.0

Eject.

1:10.2

And he says the second one,

1:11.6

and this is actually the one I thought was really cool because I've looked for this.

1:15.0

I've wanted this, though I haven't looked for it.

1:17.0

Is if you hit the command key while clicking on either an application in the dock or a stack in the dock

1:25.8

it will instantly reveal that in the finder. It makes perfect sense but I had never

1:31.2

used it before and I know I'm going to use that going forward because it's such a cool thing to do

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