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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2014

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Yep, another one of Dave's iMacs is having boot problems. It's mayhem! That's OK, he and John talk through possible resolution and also when not to assume you know the answer (hint: always!). Then it's on to maintaining your iTunes accounts, finding (and removing) any adware, and an unpublished solution to Yosemite's incrementing hostname issue. All this and more. Download today and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek 14. Thanks, folks, folks, and welcome to the Mac Observers, Mac Geek at the show.

0:32.2

You send in questions, tips, cool stuff show. Or you send in questions.

0:33.0

Tips, cool stuff found.

0:34.0

We talk about your questions, answer your tips,

0:36.0

and share cool stuff found, sometimes not in that order,

0:38.0

or even with those assignments.

0:41.0

And the goal being, of course, for all of us to learn new stuff when we get together here

0:45.2

this episode is sponsored by barebones software at barebones.com the makers of the great

0:52.1

BB edit software now at BB edit 11,

0:55.5

sponsored by Gazelle at gazelle.com, you can sell off all your old IOS stuff and you can also buy refurbished I.

1:05.0

Or Apple devices, iPhones, iPads, that sort of thing from Gazelle at

1:11.0

Gazelle.

1:12.0

And also Drobo!

1:13.0

Drobo Stored.com, the coupon code holiday geek gets you 90 bucks off a

1:17.4

Gen 3 Drobo, a Drobo 5D or a Drobo 5N. So check that out too. We'll talk more about all of those during the show here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:27.0

And here, in very dark, dark, Connecticut.

1:34.0

This is John F. Braun.

1:36.0

It is Sunday evening, which is, it's not an unfamiliar time for us,

1:41.0

but one that we have not visited lately due to all kinds of

1:44.4

crazy scheduling and it almost seemed like today we weren't going to make it

1:47.4

here and yet here we are so that's a good thing. But it's also a special day

1:50.4

Dave is that today happens to be for those of us in this part of the world,

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