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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 317: Personal WiFi Hotspots, Aperture, Hot Corners, Time Capsule, More

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Technology, How To, Education, News, Tech News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2011

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Dave’s back from vacation and boy howdy do he and John have a ton of great tips to share, questions to answer, and more! Dave checked out not one, not two, not three, but four different personal WiFi hotspot options on his trip and lives to tell the tale. Then he and John dive into the mailbag and answer your questions, including some about importing pictures into Aperture, malfunctioning hot corners, powering your Time Capsule, and figuring out what is causing excessive hard drive activity. Don’t miss this one, folks!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek app

0:05.0

Geeke Ab No 317 for Monday, February 28th, 2011. I'm going to go and Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab here in sunny

0:29.6

New Hampshire. Oh it's not sunny at all today. John, it's rainy and dreary.

0:34.3

I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:36.3

And here in Fairfield, Connecticut, um, which is rainy and dreary, but it's warm.

0:40.9

It's a balmy 52 degrees here. I mean, it's almost spring.

0:46.1

Yes, Jonathan Ron.

0:47.6

Hi, Jennifer, so yeah, we are the Mac Geek app. We come here every week unless we take a week off, like we did last week, because I was on vacation.

0:55.0

And we come here every week to share tips, answer questions, share some experiences, and essentially try to enhance and increase your knowledge of all

1:06.1

things Mac and Apple and technical and all that stuff. So John you know I was on

1:11.6

vacation last week as as I mentioned.

1:14.0

And we took a trip out to San Francisco

1:16.6

with the family, which was great.

1:19.3

While I was gone, I took it as a good opportunity. And I'm going to do more of this testing while I'm at

1:24.3

Macworld Expo here. I'm sorry Macworld Expo. It's South by Southwest here down in Austin later

1:29.8

later later well I guess it's not March yet, but later in March.

1:33.6

So you weren't, you didn't unplug?

1:35.2

Because I know you've taken vacations where you would vow to be off the grid,

1:39.3

but I guess this was not one of them.

1:40.7

Yeah, so we were on the grid, and'll well I'll take a minute and talk about why.

1:46.4

There were a couple of reasons we were we remained on the grid this vacation.

1:49.8

One was we wound up renting an apartment as opposed to renting a hotel we rented an apartment

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