MOAR POWER...To Travel?
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to safeguarding your digital life, “Don’t Get Caught” unprepared. The team covers the importance of using your mic’s mute feature wisely, backs up data with Carbon Copy Cloner, and secures your network with the latest and greatest tools. Tips on preventing iCloud sync mishaps with the .nosync option, and a discussion on whether antivirus software is a necessity for Mac users, provide you with the knowledge to protect your devices and personal information. Every minute is filled with insights and tips designed to empower you to get the most out of your Mac and network setup, without getting caught by common pitfalls.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1030 for Monday, March 25th, 2024
March 25: Tolkien Reading Day
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 QT-When parking at the airport, take a pic of your parking location and immediately Favorite it.
00:06:29 Simon-QT-A QuickLook QuickTip by holding the Space Bar
00:08:52 Doug-1028-Remapping Command Key and Automating Zoom Calls
Karabiner-Elements
FileMaker
Better Touch Tool
Keyboard Maestro
Display Menu
Conference Call in Real Life
00:15:09 Using your microphone’s mute switch versus Zoom’s mute switch…the pros and cons.
00:19:00 Bob-QT-MGG 1026 – Backing up family laptops
Carbon Copy Cloner
Tailscale
00:21:42 Martin-QT-1029-Use .nosync to keep folders from syncing to iCloud
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Networking Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:33:16 Kalle-How best to upgrade my network to mesh and add Ethernet?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings folks! It is time for Matt Key, Gavin. I'll bring us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:06.0 | I've been traveling quite a bit lately. I'm traveling again this week and when I park my car at the airport, I take a picture of the parking sign that shows me the level and the location on the level. |
| 0:20.0 | That's part of the tip, but the biggest part is favorite that picture, because if you're traveling, chances are you're about to go take a bunch of pictures and having to scroll back through and figure out where that one picture is can be a real pain in the neck |
| 0:35.3 | when you've just gotten off a long flight. More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on Matt Geek Cab 1030 for Monday, March 25th |
| 0:48.4 | Tolkien Reading Day 2024. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geechab, the show where you send in quick tips like that, or we share |
| 1:15.1 | quick tips like that. You send in questions that we answer, you send in cool stuff found. |
| 1:19.0 | We share all of that. We string it together into an agenda such that we all have the best odds at learning |
| 1:26.4 | at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:30.9 | Sponsors for this episode include ZocDoc. |
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| 1:50.0 | and if you don't know that I've been using chat gpity to write my ad scripts and make them a little bit interesting and even a little quirky, |
| 1:58.0 | I think you'll agree that knowing which three sponsors we have today, you're going to want to listen to what |
| 2:04.4 | chat gp t had me say we'll talk more about those in a little bit for now here in |
| 2:11.0 | Durham New Hampshire I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:13.0 | Here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:16.0 | And also here in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete, |
| 2:20.0 | and it could be back on the States. |
| 2:22.0 | Dave, I've been traveling a little bit lately too, you may know that. |
| 2:26.0 | I did, I figured that out, yeah. |
| 2:29.0 | My trick is because sometimes I will go months at a time without being at my car that I keep in Memphis. |
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