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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 401: Spills Aren’t Always Deadly

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 June 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s Premium Mac Geek Gab, Dave and John advise listeners on how to deal with AppleCare when you have a liquid spill, they discuss the differences between Smart and regular (i.e. non-Smart) mailboxes in Mail.app, and they answer the mystery of the strange [Imap] tag that gets prepended to some labels on Gmail. Drobo comes up again, and then listener tips help round out the show. Learn about iCloud Mail rules, why Keynote packages are really zipped, and does Lion manage RAM differently when you have an SSD? Your two favorite geeks discuss all this and more! Subscribe today for just US$25 and enjoy this Premium episode and all Premium episodes for 6 months! Plus you get to support your two favorite geeks!

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek

0:02.8

Geek Gap Number 401. Premium for Thursday, June 7, 2012. Oh, Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab Premium show and

0:30.0

presumably those of you that are listening to Premium know what we're all about here,

0:34.0

but just in case, we're the show, where you send in your questions.

0:39.0

We try to answer those questions.

0:41.0

You send in your tips. We share your tips, we share some of our own.

0:44.8

Sometimes we talk about stuff that's happening, but the goal here is to learn at

0:50.8

least a few things new each time we all get together.

0:54.0

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:57.0

And here in Fearfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

0:59.0

Hi John F. Braun, how you doing today?

1:01.0

Fantastic.

1:02.0

Fantastic. Landastic. Every time you say

1:05.2

Fantastic I think of Landastic. Do you ever use Land Tastic back in the day? Oh gosh I think I did didn't yeah like you we talked about this before

1:16.2

link to computers right yeah exactly too much yeah over motor them typically

1:21.0

right oh I always used it with cables. Oh, there must have

1:26.5

been something else I was using that you do remote a roll over the modem. Yeah.

1:30.4

Yeah. Anyway. All right, so should we dive right into Jeff here and and see if we can get back into the swing of things after we after we had a little

1:45.0

departure on our 400th show there.

1:46.6

Why not? All right.

1:47.2

Well, there would be the one reason why not

1:48.7

is if you don't actually have the question

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