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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 296: Unformatted Pasting, Automounting, iTunes NAS, 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

🗓️ 8 November 2010

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave have put together another great show this week. Highlights include answering one of Dave’s favorite tricks as your two favorite geeks discuss pasting with and without formatting included, also a discussion on automounting drives that leads into some great tips for storing your iTunes library on Network Attached Storage (i.e. NAS). All this and a LOT more today in this episode of Mac Geek Gab.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Good meetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geekup the show where you

0:27.0

write the agenda we answer your questions we share your tips we provide our own tips. We comment from Durham, New Hampshire. I am Dave Hamilton

0:37.8

And then here in Fairfield, Connecticut, where it's a bit chilly.

0:41.0

John F. Braun.

0:42.0

Yeah, it's windy too, isn't it?

0:44.0

We had wind like crazy yesterday.

0:45.6

And it was sleedy and, yeah.

0:48.0

Winter is almost here.

0:50.1

Actually, we're about a month and a half away, technically.

0:52.6

And there's a time warp this week, and too, as far as I can tell.

0:55.0

That was so much fun.

0:56.3

We're going to do it again next weekend.

0:58.2

So just remember that.

1:01.6

We have a huge show here for you today. I don't know how much we'll get to but I think we're going to start with Paul. Before we start with Paul, though, I do want to get to our first sponsor which is

1:14.3

barebone software and of course bear bones flagship product is BB edit they're

1:19.5

up to version 9.6 BB edit is the text editor to beat all text editors. Now, some of you may think, why do I need a text

1:30.0

editor? Well, if you're a programmer, you know that the text editor built into X code is nothing compared

1:36.9

to what BB edit can do for you.

1:39.6

BB edits got all this cool stuff. Doesn't matter what language you're programming in.

1:44.6

I think they've got, it's something magic in there. They've got support for all languages.

1:48.4

Well, maybe not all. Maybe that's a little bit of hyperbole. But they do have support for any language

1:54.9

I've ever looked up.

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