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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 281: iTunes Management, Sleep Issues, AppleCare, More

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2010

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave answer reader questions about managing iTunes music and libraries, helping listeners with sleep issues, troubleshooting AirPort and more. Then there are a few follow-up questions about PowerLine and how best to use it, plus some tips and thoughts from previous shows. Finally, Dave wraps it up telling of a very curious experience he went through recently with mail-in AppleCare.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek

0:02.0

Geek Lab Number 281 for Monday, August 23rd, 2010. Good meetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers, Matt Geekap.

0:26.0

It is Monday. I'm Dave Hamilton, here in Durham, New Hampshire, as always.

0:30.0

And it's time to do the show John you're with me yes

0:35.0

Yeah, John F Braun, Fairfield, Connecticut. It's nice out here. Is it? This is pretty it's almost fall-like, so it's about 70, it's cloudy and overcast,

0:45.9

but and a little breeze opened up all the windows there out the house, actually went for a bike ride.

0:49.8

You know what? With 20, 25 mile an hour winds, bike riding can get to be a bit of a challenge.

0:54.7

Or maybe they were higher.

0:56.7

Yeah, we've got rain here today.

0:59.3

It's been like rain on and I'm looking

1:05.0

I'm looking forward to the air and and I'm looking forward to fall.

1:09.0

It's you know I always do this is the this is the week every year that we you know place our order for

1:13.9

firewood if we don't have enough or whatever and it's just all that stuff to

1:17.8

prep for for fall is is right here and it's a maybe it was actually below 60

1:21.6

earlier today.

1:22.8

It might even be cool enough for a fire in the house tonight,

1:26.6

but I doubt it.

1:27.8

And the big benefit, I think, is getting ready to,

1:32.4

you know, ship the kids off to school right?

1:34.8

Yeah I miss them when they go to school well you know I mean I don't see them that

1:38.4

much during the day when I work anyway but but yeah I'm actually looking

1:41.7

forward to getting back into the system my daughter starts middle school this year

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