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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 413: What Goes Up To The Cloud Must Come Down

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2012

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

With their mailbag overflowing (well, virtually so... with bits spilling everywhere!) Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun come to you again this week to answer as many of your questions and share as many of your tips as is possible in this (overstuffed) hour-long show. Covering general topics like backups and Windows switchers, there is certainly something here for everyone. Plus, you know how your two favorite geeks are - they'll take something that seems like it’s very specific to one listener and turn it into a learning opportunity for everyone. Tune in, download, and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek

0:02.0

Geek app number 413 for Sunday August 19th 2012. I'm going to Greetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab.

0:29.0

The show where you send in some questions, you send in your tips, you send in cool stuff found, we try to provide

0:35.1

some answers for you, we share in the tips, and together we all try to learn many

0:40.1

many new things, mostly about the Mac and other Apple products. Here in Durham, New

0:45.2

Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in Imperialville, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

0:51.2

And the old pilot, pilot Pete's not joining us today. He is flying somewhere. I do want to give a shout

0:57.8

out to all of the folks joining us tonight in the chatroom at Mac Geek Cab.com slash stream. It is always a blast and if you have the opportunity

1:07.5

Come on and join us. It's a it's a fun thing

1:10.9

Every Sunday night at about 9 o'clock Eastern is when that happens.

1:15.0

So.

1:17.0

Ready to dive right in, John, or do you have anything very specific to mention before we,

1:25.0

like,

1:27.0

No, not really.

1:29.0

All right.

1:30.0

No, ready to dive.

1:31.0

All right.

1:32.0

Kenny writes, Dave and John, I have a lot of devices, a work slash Windows PC running

1:38.5

Outlook, a Macbook pro, and Mac Pro, an iPad, an Android phone, and the newest addition to the family, a Nexus 7 tablet.

1:46.9

My address book was on the work machine in Outlook.

1:50.3

Believe it or not, I managed to keep all the address books in sync, the work PC, Android, Nexus tablet, and iPad all connected to my active sync at work, so there was no problem there.

2:00.4

I used Plaxo to sync the work PC address book with my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro, a little confusing

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