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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Must-Know AirPods, Screen Sharing & Smart Home Wins for Apple Users

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

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Must-Know AirPods, Screen Sharing & Smart Home Wins for Apple Users – Mac Geek Gab 1142 episode image

You’ll sharpen your daily tech game this week: add names directly to Mail recipient fields, kill those sneaky iOS nickname pop-ups before they embarrass you, and stay alert to Low Power Mode. Long-press your steering wheel button to summon Siri faster, welcome ChatGPT and Perplexity to CarPlay, untangle Apple’s App Entitlements, and stream HLS video right inside the updated MGG iOS app. Don’t Get Caught treating your LLM like a glorified search bar—re-task it as a brainstorming partner, let agents check each other’s work, troubleshoot stubborn email issues, and have it build its own skills using Claude Code and CoWork.

Your questions and tips drive the back half: disconnect AirPods from your Mac in one tap with ToothFairy or Control Center, dial in rock-solid remote screen sharing using Jump Desktop, Zoom, and Tailscale, stop your iPhone ringer from accidentally flipping, and plan your escape from Comcast email by grabbing a real domain through Cloudflare, Namecheap, or GoDaddy. Then it’s Cool Stuff Found season—Bartender 6 reclaims your menu bar, the Syntech case protects your Apple Vision Pro, and the Mila Air3 and Honeywell HEPA purifiers clean up your air. Plus a heap of love for Eufy lawnmowers, vacuums, and doorbells, all wired together with Homebridge and Home Assistant.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt Kee Cab and Ben brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:04.5

He says, I find it more pleasant and personal to receive email address to my name rather than just to my email address.

0:11.3

However, when composing a message in mail to someone who isn't in my contacts or previous recipients, such as by clicking an email link in another email or on a website, I likely

0:22.5

end up with only the address in the two field. Thus, if I know the person or company's name,

0:28.5

I'm likely to edit it so that they get the pleasant experience of receiving an email to their name,

0:33.5

too. To do this, in Mail on the Mac, I have smart addresses enabled in mail settings

0:38.4

viewing. And in the past, I'd right click or click on the pop-up menu on the recipient tile

0:43.5

and choose edit address. Then I'd place the cursor at the beginning, type their name, a space,

0:49.1

and then the left angle bracket to enclose the email address, move the cursor to the end of the email address,

0:55.4

and type a right angle bracket to close the email to fully form this name, space, bracket, email,

1:02.5

bracket, and then press return. And he says, I just discovered a slightly easier approach. When

1:07.5

composing in mail on Maco is 26, I says it could be that it works in prior OS's.

1:13.9

I don't know. I found I can skip the closing angle bracket. Instead, I just type the name, the space,

1:19.6

an opening angle bracket, and press return. Mail figures out the rest. The same works when

1:25.0

adding a recipient. No need to type a closing angle bracket after typing the rest.

1:30.6

Notably, while it's possible to type name and address in this form from scratch in an email on iOS,

1:36.4

there's no way to edit an existing address that he has found to insert or change the attached name.

1:43.5

More quick tips like this.

1:45.2

Plus, your questions answered today on MacGeeCab, 1142 for Monday, May 18th, send an electronic greeting card day, 2026.

1:56.5

Mm-hmm. 26.

2:30.9

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Kekap, the show where you send in tips like that, and we share them, you send in questions and we try to answer them, you send in cool stuff found, we share those to the goal being that each and every one of us gets to learn at least five new things every single time we get together.

2:35.8

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