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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 345: Mail, Time Machine, Lion, Tips, and 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

🗓️ 1 August 2011

⏱️ 80 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dave and John kick off August with an absolutely overflowing mailbag. Today’s show kicks off with a healthy serving of tips, including solving a frozen mouse and keyboard, reducing the size of PDFs without killing their quality, and a note from an Apple Genius clarifying more about how they choose who to service and when. Then it’s on to your two favorite geeks answering questions about software updates, restoring Address Book backups from Time Machine, solving a few Mail.app issues, and how to install Lion on some unsupported Macs. Cool Stuff Found is thrown in for good measure, and your geeks cover it all! Download today and enjoy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek

0:02.0

Geek Ab number 345, 345 for August 1st, 2011.

0:09.0

That's really funny, you know, last show we had a problem with this, and now it just won't play.

0:13.0

Nice, I didn't say. Good readings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers, Matt Geek,

0:33.8

have the show where you ask questions you send in tips,

0:36.2

we provide answers, we provide tips.

0:38.4

Sometimes we even share a tale of woe?

0:42.1

Here from Durham, New Hampshire, United States.

0:47.8

Third Stone from the Sun, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:51.0

I gather you're not gonna to redo that one.

0:53.0

No, we're not going to keep going with it.

0:55.0

We got a roll.

0:56.0

We got to roll.

0:57.0

And here in Fearful, Connecticut, Stormy, or it was five minutes ago.

1:03.0

John F. Brown.

1:04.0

Yeah, no, we fudged the intro on the last show and we fudged it on this show.

1:07.5

What's interesting is usually I just press the little play icon and the intro goes and it did not this time.

1:12.2

I had to right click on it. So I don't know what that's going to mean when we try to play our first audio comment but we're going to go ahead and roll with it and and see what happens

1:20.7

But I'm not alone here John next to me. Here in another part of Durham,

1:25.3

New Hampshire is Pilot Pete. Welcome back, Pete. Thanks, guys. It's good to have you here, man.

1:31.6

Yeah. So sometimes you get the music right on the intro to this show, huh?

1:35.0

Sometimes, yeah.

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