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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 365: Building Mac & iOS Apps, Cleaning Mail, Taming Spotlight

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2011

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dave starts by telling everyone how he and his son built an iOS app in less than 10 minutes, then he and John dive in (sometimes to the deep end!) to teach you all about rebuilding mailboxes in Mail, how to configure your Mac and router firewalls, how to find out exactly what Spotlight is indexing (and how to stop it!), and more. Plus, Dave got a Kindle Fire and he’s got some initial thoughts about that. All this and more in today’s Premium Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe today, download, and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Webber number 365 premium for Thursday, November 17th, 2011. God ratings. Good readings folks and welcome to this the second premium show of the month of

0:29.3

November the year 2011. There's a lot of new listeners that we'd like to,

0:35.0

new premium members that we'd like to say welcome to.

0:37.0

A lot of old members who just renewed that we would like to say welcome to.

0:41.0

And everyone else who's just in the middle of their subscription. We'd like to say welcome to. So welcome everyone.

0:47.0

Here from Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And welcome to my good friend John Brown.

0:52.0

Here, in Fearful, Connecticut. That's John F John Brown. Here, in fearful, Connecticut.

0:54.0

That's John F. Braun to the rest of you.

0:56.0

Correct.

0:58.0

So I've got, it's been an interesting week for me, John.

1:05.0

While I was out, I'll start this story by saying that, what's today, Thursday, yesterday

1:10.2

morning, between the time that my son woke up and the time that we had to get up and

1:16.0

go get breakfast for him before he got off to school, we wrote together our first iPhone

1:20.8

app and deployed it, well, almost deployed it to an iPhone. and deployed it, well almost deployed it to an iPhone.

1:24.2

We deployed it in about 10 minutes once you get home from school.

1:29.6

And you may be wondering how in the world did you do that in such a short period of time and

1:35.1

the wasn't with X code was it it sure wasn't well you have to use X code at some

1:40.5

part of the process and and that's actually why we couldn't deploy it until he got home from school but I'll tell the story and it'll fill in these gaps.

1:49.0

So while I was out at Mac Tech, I had the opportunity to see Kevin Miller, the CEO of a company called

1:55.2

RunReV at runReV.com, demo live code, which is an app that they've had since like 1997 and recently in the last year I think they

2:08.8

added the ability to build iOS apps with RunReV, live code.

2:15.9

And this app is awesome.

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