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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG...Jeopardy Style

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

MGG...Jeopardy Style — Mac Geek Gab 1092 episode image

This week on Mac Geek Gab, you’ll learn how to outsmart your tech before it tries to outsmart you. Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton deliver a barrage of Quick Tips, including reviving dead notifications by force-quitting Notification Center, rethinking your Dock layout for remote desktops, and leveraging iOS’s default translate app setting. You’ll also discover how to scrub orphaned system extensions from your Mac, and how Shortcuts can turn your Apple TV into a photo gallery masterpiece. Of course, you know the drill—Don’t Get Caught skipping the smart stuff.

Got questions? We’ve got answers. Dig into iPhone VPN conflicts with CarPlay, backup reliability with Carbon Copy Cloner, and the surprising value of an AirTag in your car. You’ll learn about com.apple.asr snapshots, decluttering your Lock Screen, choosing the right Focus modes, and comparing Wi-Fi mesh systems like Eero, Deco, and Orbi. We even tackle the Nvidia SHIELD vs. Apple TV Plex showdown, then wrap it up with Cool Stuff Found like the BoostHero flashlight/jump starter, MailMaven, and a solar car battery. It’s everything your inner geek craves—and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for MacGeekab and listener Brad brings us our quick tip of the week with I recently had a couple of instances with users not getting their audio or banner notifications for their messaging apps, WebEx, Microsoft, Teams, etc.

0:17.1

On their Macs. For one case, the solution was turning off focus mode.

0:22.2

For the other case, the user was not in focus mode, and all the settings were correct,

0:27.3

both in the app settings and system settings.

0:29.9

Resetting notifications for the affected app and system settings also had no effect.

0:34.9

The solution was quitting notification center in activity monitor.

0:40.0

More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1092 for Monday, June 2nd, 2025.

0:48.9

Thank you. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where we send, you send in your tips, we share them.

1:12.0

You send in your cool stuff found, we share them.

1:14.2

You send in your questions, we share them and answer them.

1:17.0

Really, we put it all together so that everybody has a fantastic opportunity to learn at least five new things every single episode.

1:28.0

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1:38.3

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1:39.3

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1:40.3

And also square.com slash go slash MG, which is always with like any of the other of our other

1:47.8

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1:51.5

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1:55.3

sign up we will talk more about them in a little bit too too. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire.

2:01.6

I'm Dave Hamilton.

2:04.2

And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.

2:08.0

And here in Vernon, Texas, it's Pilot Pete.

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