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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 277: Mail Tips, Secure Backups, Finding Preferences

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2010

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave kick off August with a show that combines your feedback about previous topics with their answers and thoughts about new topics. Subjects covered include Mail tips, securing your backups (in some very creative ways!), managing videos, and more. Definitely check it out!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek G Thanks folks and welcome to a sunny afternoon edition of the Mac Observers

0:28.4

Mack Kitkav, hailing here from Durham, New Hampshire, I am Dave Hamilton.

0:33.0

And here, New Hampshire. I am Dave Hamilton. And here, Fearfield, Connecticut, John F. Ron, it's not quite sunny, it's kind of cloudy, but I'm hoping for some nice

0:39.2

storms this evening.

0:41.8

Hey, speaking of storms, and many of you will hear this too late but last night which would be Tuesday

0:48.4

the third and tonight Wednesday the fourth people in the northern hemisphere in the

0:56.9

states and I'm not sure if Europe will get it I think Europe, will have the possibility of being able to see the

1:05.6

northern lights. There was some solar activity, two periods of solar activity

1:11.1

over the last several days that have this whatever it is and

1:15.9

I'm going to screw it up if I try to explain it so I'm not going to explain it.

1:19.0

But whatever it is that would cause the Northern Lights is coming in and people are seeing it you know

1:25.0

Toronto was reported to have seen it last night there was some areas in

1:28.5

Germany last night that we're seeing it and and there's reports that you know it might get as far down as Maine

1:34.1

and you know kind of middle of New Hampshire which is really really far south for

1:39.7

for that's north. That's solar activity I just got 12 you know I mean solar activity is the

1:48.2

after after that extreme solar activity it's a end of times so if you get this in time

1:52.2

check it out but but yeah, I know they were they were they were

1:57.2

reporting that this could happen. They say yeah, they say the sun goes through periods of like, you it waxes and wanes in terms of its

2:05.4

activity and things are we're in a where we've been we just came out of a 10 year

2:09.6

period where it was kind of very low and it was actually a very quiet, quiet period as far as quiet periods go.

2:16.0

So now apparently we're heading back into a more active.

2:20.0

So expect all your radios and all that stuff to, you know, start malfunctioning with the solar flares.

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