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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 287: Time Machine, ToDos on iPhone, Webcams, Multiple Clipboards

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 September 2010

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave discuss using the old Apple Pro Speakers on newer Macs (good luck!), Time Machine issues when moving disks between Macs, syncing tasks/todos from your Mac to your iPhone, Mac HD webcams, and multiple clipboards. Subscribe today - it’s cheap, just $25 for 6 months - and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Act Geek ad number 287 premium for Thursday, September 23rd, 2010. Oh, I'm Dave Hamilton here from the

0:25.0

Go on the phone! It's folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab.

0:30.0

I'm Dave Hamilton here from Durham, New Hampshire.

0:32.0

On the other end of the Skypeline is...

0:35.0

John F Braun in Fairfield, Connecticut.

0:38.0

That's right. And we are here... Well, you know why we're here. You are premium subscribers and thank you very much for subscribing.

0:44.2

We look forward to doing these shows a couple of times a month for you and more when we can.

0:49.6

But yeah, thank you very much for being our premium subscribers.

0:53.3

Should we just dive right in with that, John, and go to go to Rob?

0:58.4

I think so.

1:00.1

Having some technical issues, to keep talking. Okay, all right. Now you now you sound no you're so good now okay I'm gonna go to Rob and Rob says

1:10.2

my power Mac G4 the old 867 megahertz quicksilver from January 2000,

1:16.4

has some Apple Pro speakers, the spherical Perspex enclosures.

1:21.6

They still work just fine,

1:23.0

and I'm about to retire the G4

1:24.8

in favor of a new Mac mini.

1:26.9

Now, the speakers plug into the G4

1:28.5

using an Apple-specific speaker jack.

1:30.8

The plug on the end of the speaker cable

1:32.4

looks a lot like a standard 1-eighth inch 3-millimeter

1:35.8

stereo plug much like the one on stereo earphones and the like, a lot like it except smaller, more like 2 millimeters

1:42.2

in diameter and a bit shorter.

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