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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 349: Lion (and other) Tips Shared, Your Questions Answered, 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

🗓️ 22 August 2011

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave are back at it, this time with August’s second Premium episode. There are more great Lion tips here than you can shake a stick at, including some hidden Mail shortcut keys, information about Time Machine doing local backups, seeing recent documents per Application, and more. Then your two favorite geeks answer your questions about putting alternate OS installations on external disks, the benefits (and nuances) of FileVault 2, iCloud and how it will impact your Music and Photo Lives, and much, much more. Subscribe today for just US$25, and get this episode and access to everything in the Archives, too!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Webb number 349 Premium from Monday, August 22nd, 2011. Oh, God! Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geekab the show where you send in your questions

0:31.2

you send in some tips we We provide some answers. We all learn

0:35.0

something new. Here from Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:38.6

Here in Fearful, Connecticut, John F. Braun. You know, it feels like it's been a long time since we've been here, John, but really it's only

0:45.8

been a week.

0:47.2

I've been traveling a lot.

0:48.2

And I've actually done a lot of different things since we spoke last but we'll wait to chat about some of those.

0:57.8

That being my new I-Mac has arrived and I've set that up.

1:01.0

Ah, yeah.

1:01.8

Excellent.

1:03.0

And the 27 inch was it?

1:04.0

The 27 inch, yeah, cord, I 7, 8, you know, 4 cores, whatever.

1:08.0

But I want to wait a little bit to talk about that.

1:12.0

And then I also also and we'll probably talk about this in the next show I've been

1:17.5

Playing with some of the new sonos units and this is this is a frankly a ship that that sailed and I missed it and I'm glad to be on board.

1:26.8

But but so that's the short answer of my review of all this stuff.

1:30.2

But we'll talk about that in the probably in the next show because we'll have a

1:34.6

little more data. Sonos if I just looked to a manufacturer of multi zone

1:39.6

digital music systems. Yeah okay yeah oh so it's an in-home audio system? Correct.

1:46.5

Oh, correct. Okay. But it's totally the right way to manage all your music in your home.

1:51.6

It's awesome. But we'll again, we'll talk about it in probably, you know, show 350.

1:55.8

Yeah, I look forward to it. Yeah, it's cool. All right, let's um, let's dive right in here and let's go to Greg and there's a couple from Greg.

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