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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 396: Two Mac Geeks with Your Mac Fix(es)

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2012

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It’s the first Monday in May and you know what that means: yep, just like (most!) every other Monday a new Mac Geek Gab is up for your listening pleasure! This week, John and Dave solve your questions about those pesky Firewall “incoming connection” warnings, how to choose an iPad (old versus new), Data Detectors in Mail, monitoring Time Machine a little more closely, and more. Additionally, some new tips about getting even better Apple Genius Bar support, blocking Flashback with OpenDNS, resetting your printing system and managing your Mac life with anti-virus software are included as well. Cool Stuff Found is in there, too, but you’ll have to listen to see what that is all about. What are you waiting for? It’s free! Just download and enjoy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Oh, I Thanks, questions. We answer some questions. You send in your tips. We provide some tips and

0:34.2

together we all add some cool stuff found to the mix. We call it the Mac Geekab and

0:38.0

we all try to learn a little something new each time around. Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:44.0

Here in Fearville, Connecticut,

0:48.0

it's John F. Braun.

0:49.0

Outstanding, how you doing today, John?

0:51.0

Excellent.

0:53.0

Oh, I had a nice bike ride this morning.

0:55.0

No, that's good.

0:56.0

Experimented with a gadget, which of course we're going to talk about and cool stuff found, but not now.

1:01.0

No, no, talk about it now.

1:02.0

Go. Oh, here we go. I, no, talk about it now. Go!

1:03.0

Well, here we go.

1:04.0

I'm going to talk about it now.

1:05.0

Yeah, mix things up here.

1:06.0

So, you know, you and I constantly get, you know,

1:09.0

bombarded with all these toys that, you know, people want us to...

1:12.0

Not toys, I'm sorry, technology, that people would like us to not toys I'm sorry technology that people

1:13.4

would like this it's toys job yes but you know we have to be professional here

1:18.3

right professional no but it's technology so this is something that actually I had

1:22.1

seen last year and had one sent to me, but then

1:26.4

Then unfortunately it got kind of cold here, but it's from I-Bike. So I-Bike is a company that makes these little bicycle computers and the particular

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