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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 323: Modifier Keys, Custom Icons, Spotlight, 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

🗓️ 4 April 2011

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

As always, your two favorite geeks are here to start the week! John and Dave dive right in and start helping listeners answer their questions about keyboard modifier keys, custom Finder icons, why Time Machine grows to fast (and how to stop it!) and more. This show’s packed full of stuff, and you’re welcome to join. In fact, you can send in your own questions to John and Dave and they’ll happily answer them in the show. Download today (it’s free), press play, and enjoy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek

0:02.0

Geek ad number 323 for Monday, April 4th, 2011. Good meetings, folks,

0:25.0

folks and welcome to the Mac Observers, Mac Geek Cab,

0:27.8

the show where you send in your questions,

0:29.8

you send in your tips,

0:31.0

we provide answers, we share tips, and in general, we work hard to make sure

0:35.7

use learn, you learn something new every times use.

0:40.3

That's right, and that would be the Royal use, because we like to to learn too here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton

0:45.6

And here in Fairfield, Connecticut John F Braun

0:48.8

That's John F Braun ladies and gentlemen

0:51.2

The Fairfield Connecticut. Yeah, that's right ladies and gentlemen.

0:52.6

in Fairfield, Connecticut, yeah.

0:54.3

That's right.

0:55.3

All right, so we have a lot of great little stuff to go through today. Lots of cool little things and

1:05.1

probably some deeper discussion because that's how we roll here. Anything to

1:10.2

report John before we dive right in?

1:15.0

No. Nothing. All right.

1:17.0

No, not really.

1:18.0

That was just, now I was having a good time researching a lot of these though.

1:21.0

It was like peeling an onion you know started

1:23.8

looking at the problem and then got to another layer and another layer which

1:26.4

revealed some interesting things so well let's start let's share let's start

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