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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 379: Trackpads, RAM Upgrades, AirPort Utility & More!

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2012

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode has John and Dave talking through flaky trackpads, upgrading laptop RAM, the new AirPort Utility, and emptying the trash. They also discuss tricks that might cause your MacBook’s trackpad to stop working, how to reconfigure your network with multiple routers, and diagnosing shutdown issues related to Lion’s resume functionality. Then, of course, come some tips as well as a fantastic list of Cool Stuff Found. Download today and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Greetings folks! Goodings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers,

0:27.0

Mac Geek of the show where you send in your questions, you send in your

0:30.6

tips, we bring some tips of our own to the table. We try to answer your questions. And together, we all try to learn a little something new each time. Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:41.0

Here, in my room, in my office, I called my office.

0:46.0

In Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

0:48.0

That's the difference between when we were boys and now that we're adults,

0:52.0

that we went from having rooms to having offices.

0:54.0

Yeah I corrected myself. That's awesome.

0:57.0

Yeah, it's basically where all my computer junk and piles of garbage are. Like I said,

1:02.0

piles of papers. We keep our toys in our rooms and we keep our computers

1:06.7

in our offices. It's the same thing. All right. Hey, did you watch bowling?

1:13.7

That's right, yeah.

1:15.7

Yeah, it was excellent bowling.

1:17.6

Yeah, nice game.

1:18.4

Yeah, except the pets.

1:20.3

Choked at the end.

1:22.0

Ruined it for us here.

1:24.0

Really?

1:26.0

Yeah, yeah, there were four balls in a row.

1:28.0

They could have caught it about the four or five minute left mark

1:30.0

and that would have done it.

1:32.0

I wish they made that Hail Mary at the end. Oh, that would have done it. Oh, I wish they made that Hail Mary at the end.

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