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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 540: A Blizzard Between Two Geeks

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Yet another New England snowstorm, and yet another Mac Geek Gab. John and Dave brave the snow (though most of it fell between them) to bring you answers to all your geeky questions. Wanna know why the Finder is showing up in every space? Want to know why drives don't appear in the Finder's sidebar? Fusion Drive - should you or shouldn't you? And what about Mavericks on those new Mac Pros? All of these answers and more in today's episode. You don't want to get caught missing this one!

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0:00.0

The Mac GeekUpers' Geek App, Episode 540, for Sunday, February 15, 2015. Oh, Thanks folks and welcome to the MAC observers MAC Geek Cab, the show where you send in the questions, the tips, the cool stuff found, we answer the questions, we share the tips, we discuss the cool stuff found, which is what we did last week. I don't think we have any cool stuff found this week. And the goal is to learn a lot every single time

0:46.2

we come together here and have some fun while we're doing it.

0:49.3

Our first sponsor for this episode is Linda at LY N D.

0:53.6

Com slash MGG.

0:55.0

That's the URL you visit to get a full 10 day free trial

0:59.6

of Linda's entire offering.

1:02.1

So you got to check that out. We'll talk more about that in the show also sponsor for this episode

1:05.8

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1:10.8

software like BB edit like yo Jimboe. We'll talk a little bit more about those later in the show too.

1:17.0

Here in no longer snowing Durham, New Hampshire, at least for the moment. I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:24.0

And here in chilly, windy, very windy, fearful, Connecticut, says John F. Brown.

1:31.0

Yeah, it's bitter cold out there.

1:33.0

Actually, it's not that bitter.

1:35.0

I mean, I say that, John.

1:37.0

When I woke up this morning or when I got downstairs this morning,

1:40.0

it was 18 degrees, which is quite a bit warmer than the single digit and

1:44.6

negative single digit Fahrenheit temperatures that we saw. Yeah, 18

1:47.9

degrees Fahrenheit, but we were seeing temperatures right around zero within

1:52.3

five degrees on either side all week long in the morning.

1:57.0

So, 18 degrees in the morning is not a bad thing, I guess we're going in the right direction.

2:04.0

But I have to figure out how to solve my ice dams, John.

2:06.0

I've never had them before, and it's not good.

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