MGG 474: Tech, Travel and Shopping Tips, Limiting Your Data Usage & More

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2013

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Dave and John sync up today, first talking about some cool things your two favorite geeks have been using, enhancing your traveling and shopping life - two important things this time of year! Then it's on to your questions with topics including Mavericks and Flash, iPhone battery usage, hard drives that won't mount, and more. Your geeks (and fellow listeners) also share few tips, including a way to use Little Snitch to limit your surprise data usage when traveling, too. Then the tables are turned with a few geek challenges to see if you can help out your fellow MGG listeners. A great show, just download, press play, and enjoy.

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0:00.0	The Mac Geek Cabot, episode 474 for Monday, November 11, 2013. and Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Matt Geekab the show where you
0:31.1	sending questions tips and cool stuff found.
0:33.6	We pile it all together, we put in our answers, we share our own tips, and together we all come
0:38.2	here to learn several new things about the Mac and Apple products each and every week here in Durham, New Hampshire.
0:45.4	I'm Dave Hamilton.
0:46.4	And here in Fair Connecticut for the time being, I've been all over the place lately Dave. Yeah, this is John F Braun. How you doing John F. Braun and I'll send a shout out to all of the veterans there today is the day that we call Veterans Day here in the US and
1:06.2	celebrate Veterans Day.
1:07.5	So thank you to anyone who has served, you all have my thanks.
1:13.4	Yes, I believe it was used to be armist this day,
1:17.0	which I guess 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th day
1:19.1	of the 11th, yeah, 11, 11, and all that. Yeah, that's right. So that's right. I and yeah, I'm with you on that. I wish it we didn't have to have veterans, but
1:30.0	Those that have done that sort of thing. Thanks. Yeah, absolutely so all right. John we as you mentioned we've both been traveling a lot
1:40.8	And there's a couple things I've been doing that have helped me in my travels, or at least made my travel somewhat more interesting.
1:50.0	And then they all, but these things tend to also fall into the concept of things you might be interested in either getting for yourself or for someone else so you know we're starting in with potentially some gift guide stuff here.
2:06.5	The first thing I wanted to mention, I've been staying in hotels a lot,
2:10.2	you know, and traveling on airplanes and that sort of thing.
2:12.4	In fact, I just finished my third
2:13.9	trip in six weeks or something and I'm done now I don't believe I'm traveling
2:18.6	again until January and I probably by saying that now I have jinxed myself and will be traveling again much sooner.
2:26.0	But you know going I've done let's see the four flights or four sets of flights that I did recently, I did 100% of them with Passbook on my
2:39.1	iPhone, right?
2:40.1	I did not print paper boarding passes.
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