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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 337: Navigation Apps, Flat Rate Repair, Quicken & Lion, Data Migration

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Technology, How To, Education, News, Tech News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dave starts off today’s show talking about how he’s been using his iPhone more and more for turn-by-turn directions, and discusses his picks for the best apps to get the job done. Then he and John discuss the differences between logging out and restarting, a little more about backing up your iDevices, some quirks with Time Machine, and much, much more. Subscribe, download and listen (it’s free!), and even feel free to submit a question of your own to John and Dave for a future episode!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab the show where you send in your

0:27.6

questions you send in your tips we try to answer your questions we share your

0:31.7

tips we talk about all things Apple and Mac here answer your questions, we share your tips.

0:32.9

We talk about all things Apple and Mac.

0:34.7

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:37.4

Here in Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

0:39.7

And here in Durham, New Hampshire is Pilot Pete.

0:43.8

And there he is.

0:45.1

There I Pete.

0:46.1

Yeah, so, you know, John, lately, I've been,

0:50.9

and I talked about this a little bit, and promised we would talk about it more, so we are now. I've been and I talked about this a little bit and promised we would talk about it

0:53.2

more so we are now I've been using my iPhone more and more for GPS for turn by turn directions

0:59.2

uh... both of our really yeah you don't have a a dedicated, I'll tell you I have a rather dated but but a it's a

1:07.9

Garmin, New V, I believe it's a 360. Yeah. And it does just great. The only aggravation is that now it keeps

1:15.2

pestering me every now and then for map updates because the maps are a couple of years old

1:18.7

but right, right? My needs, they're they're accurate but but yes of course we know that the the iPhone has a

1:25.0

GPS and and of course some apps that can take advantage of that. That's right yeah and

1:30.4

and so we do have dedicated we had a garment an old street pilot that we still have.

1:37.4

And then of course both of the vehicles that we own have their own in-dash GPS systems, but the one in our Toyota Sienna has we've had

1:45.8

the vehicle four years and it's been trying to kill me for four years now and I've

1:50.4

pretty much given up on on having the thing try to guide me anywhere because it's totally out to get me.

1:55.7

It sucks. It really, it, you know.

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