MGG 363: Deciphering Mac Error Codes, Time Machine, & More
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2011
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
John and Dave have some fantastic tips and tricks in store for you in this, their first Premium episode of November. Today’s geeky goodness includes learning more about Spotlight, copying your synced photos back from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, LOTS of help with Time Machine (well, LOTS of you asked for it!), and soon to be a new favorite, a terminal trick that teaches you exactly what your Mac’s pesky error messages mean. All this and more in today’s Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe for just $25, get this and all the extra episodes for 6 months, and support your two favorite geeks.
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Stuff mentioned:
- 6502
- Apple //e
- Apple //c
- Apple II accelerators
- Spotlight no longer shows the path?
- PhoneView
- macerror
- Time Machine Editor
- Portal 2
- Lingon 3
- Growl
- Mac Feet
- exFAT
- Tuxera NTFS for Mac
- Google Safe Browsing API
- D-Link Routers
- Linksys by Cisco
- Buffalo Switches
- DD-WRT
- iCloud: Mail server information
- dashkards
- Apple Releases iOS 5.0.1 with Battery Life Fix
- Turducken
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Mac Geek Gap Number 363, 4. |
| 0:05.0 | Thursday, November 10th, 2011. Oh, Go readings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab Premium Edition, the show |
| 0:31.0 | where just like every other episode, you send in your questions, you send in your |
| 0:37.0 | tips, we share some answers, we share our own tips, and together we all learn something |
| 0:41.6 | about the Mac and we do it here where we can thank you for supporting us directly |
| 0:47.0 | and being a and subscribing to our premium feed and John and I really appreciate that and speaking of I'm Dave |
| 0:55.9 | Hamilton here in Durham, New Hampshire and there he is John. |
| 0:59.7 | John Ron, that's right. |
| 1:00.7 | In Fairfield, Connecticut. I like this. You know we've got... What do you like? |
| 1:08.0 | Well the fact that we've got like, you know, three weeks in a row where we're just doing |
| 1:13.1 | podcasts after podcast after podcast it's good we did one last Thursday |
| 1:16.8 | right while I was in LA then we did one Monday and now we're |
| 1:19.6 | doing one today and then we're doing one today and we're doing on Monday |
| 1:21.0 | and then we're doing Thursday and then we're doing one Monday and then we're doing on Monday and then I'm going away. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh, yeah, you're going to be cruising, right? |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, so here's the thing. |
| 1:29.0 | I've got a, I've got a, I've got a related story though. This morning I was asking Lisa I said because you know when we go away |
| 1:37.8 | You're basically unreasonable on a cruise ship right, but there is a way of being reached and it's this you know satellite phone or whatever and it costs like eight bucks a minute |
| 1:48.0 | But I always like to give the number we like to give it to you know like my dad or whatever who's watching the house. |
| 1:54.2 | And then I'll also give it to, you know, Brian and Jeff. |
| 1:58.2 | You know, people that might need to reach me, not that I could do anything on the ship, but you know maybe if there was some big problem they could just tell me. |
| 2:05.3 | Again, I don't know why they would want to call me, but anyway, makes them feel better and it makes me feel better knowing that you know |
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