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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

MGG 626: Lightning Struck my Switches

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Quick Tips start this episode, including topics like macOS Sierra’s picture-in-picture videos, auto-logout, Sierra upgrade hints, macerror, cleaning up your Keychain, printing to PDF on any iOS 10 device, Apple Watch battery life and more. Then it’s on to questions about macOS Sierra’s network login changes, running a mixed macOS and OS X household and, finally, a discussion about lightning strikes and how to recover. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Cab episode number 626 for Sunday, October 9, 2016. Oh, Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab.

0:30.0

The show where you send in tips, questions, cool stuff found, all kinds of fun things for us to learn.

0:37.0

And that's the goal for all of us to learn at least four new things each and every time we get together here in Durham,

0:46.0

New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:48.0

And here, in rather wet, we need the water.field, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

0:55.2

How you doing today, John F. Braun?

0:57.2

Good.

0:58.2

Good.

0:59.2

As I mentioned, it's, well, I think it's wet and dreary up where you are as well.

1:03.0

Yeah, it's the same New England.

1:05.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's that, you know, we've had, it's fall, right?

1:08.5

So we get like nice cool weather and then it gets warm again and then it, get the rain and you know it's it's how it works it's like summer like making its exit known

1:18.4

sort of how that how that goes but the leaves especially yesterday man it's gorgeous here, a really, really picturesque.

1:26.0

So that's just how it works.

1:28.5

And if we don't get too much heavy rain, the leaves will stick around for a while which is fun.

1:33.0

All right we have more quick tips queued up than I can shake a stick at so let's see if we can

1:39.4

at least shake a show at them and see what happens. So we'll start with

1:43.0

alley. Alley says a quick tip regarding picture in picture on Mac OS

1:48.1

Sierra. Normally when using this feature you can only place the video in the four corners of the screen

1:54.0

but if you hold the command key and then drag the video you can place the video

1:58.6

anywhere you like which is really really handy. I will also point out that the

2:06.7

screenshots that Apple showed us when they introduce picture and picture show

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