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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 290: iCal Syncing, Nuke & Pave, 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

🗓️ 7 October 2010

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave kick off this first Premium episode of October with lots of goodies, including discussing some creative ways to sync calendars, the best practices for nuking & paving your Mac, plus some listener comments about using Windows-only webcams on the Mac, as well as a great comment about softare AND hardware issues. If you’re not already a susbscriber, why not become one today to get instant access to this episode and support your two favorite geeks.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Premium, number 290 for October 7th, 2010. I'm going to go and

0:14.0

and do you know and do you know I'm good reasons folks and welcome to the show. I'm Dave, but you probably knew that already if you have subscribed to the premium version here.

0:32.0

So yeah, I'm Dave Hamilton on the other end of the story. to the premium version here.

0:33.0

So yeah, I'm Dave Hamilton on the other end of the skypline.

0:35.4

Of course, as always.

0:37.8

John Frawn here in Fairfield, Connecticut,

0:41.5

are you? You sure about that?

0:44.0

At present, yes. All right. Cool. That could change at any time.

0:49.0

Probably not during the show though. I would hope not. No we're not going to do the mobile

0:54.1

Mac dicab. No but next week we are taking the show on the road so we are. Oh yes we

1:00.8

are. Yeah we're heading to Vegas for Blog World Expo. So if any of you will be out there of course let us know.

1:08.0

We are there what Thursday through Saturday night or something.

1:12.5

So, should be a good time.

1:15.1

I like Blog World Expo.

1:16.6

It's a fun little show.

1:20.0

You know what, let's dive right in here, John.

1:22.7

In the last premium episode, we talked about Marion

1:27.6

who had an issue that we diagnosed,

1:31.5

that you diagnosed, you're the one that kind of figured out that there

1:34.6

was that firmware password issue.

1:37.4

And we got a comment from Mike that's awesome, so about this expounding on it.

1:43.0

And he says, I believe Marion actually has two separate issues, one hardware and one software.

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