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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

My Lizard Brain Knows It

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Did you know you could change your iPhone’s Wi-Fi network during the setup process? How about the Terminal’s ability to show you a list of remote connection options?
These are just the first two Quick Tips this week, and it continues from there, folks! Listen as John and Dave take you on a tour (tear?) through tons of great Quick Tips, Questions, and more, hitting on the iPhone, the Mac, and the Apple Watch.
Then your two favorite geeks dive into Cool Stuff Found land, telling you all about the latest software and gadgets you’re just going to need to try out.
Press play and enjoy learning at least five new things!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 956 for Monday, November 21, 2022

Clive-QT-Double-Click Right Button during iPhone Setup to Change Wi-Fi Network
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!


Quick Tips

00:04:12 AlexS-QT-Remote Connection Via Terminal
00:07:02 Andrew-QT-Command-drag a Picture-in-Picture window to put it anywhere you want! (via Snell)
00:08:41 Jessi-QT-Fine-tune Stage Manager Behavior with Spaces’ Settings
00:11:37 Jim-QT-Make LaunchBar work with Ventura by Using Spotlight
00:13:21 Apple Watch Check-in with Mr. John F. Braun

Difference between ECG and EKC (thanks, @mmoran!)


00:16:21 David-QT-Use Apple Watch crown to adjust iPhone volume
00:17:23 MrJeffWilson-QT-953-You Can Zoom the Camera with Watch’s Digital Crown, too
00:20:38 Henry-QT-iOS 16 (finally) Lets You Manage Contacts Lists


00:22:43 SPONSOR: Private Internet Access VPN – Save 82% off your VPN service PLUS four free months with a two-year plan at PIAVPN.com/mgg.
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:24:42 pmconaway-How to set custom keyboard shortcuts?

Keyboard Maestro


00:29:23 Barbara-Good Loyalty Card App?

Stocard App


00:32:59 Todd-Edit Email Headers to create new Rules in Mac Mail

Check out: X-Delivered-To


00:38:04 Steve-Using Stage Manager and Multiple Monitors to Focus on Tasks
00:41:59 Andrew-The Price of Connectivity in Australia…and around the world?

Silicon Dust HDHomeRun
GoNetSpeed Fiber




00:54:21 SPONSOR: MasterClass – Imagine learning new recipes from Gordon Ramsay, or photography from Annie Leibovitz. Now you can. Visit MasterClass.com/MGG for unlimited access to MasterClass.
00:55:53 SPONSOR: Kolide – Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today at Kolide.com/MGG
Cool Stuff Found

00:57:05 Terry-CSF-955OpenIn for Browser Picking
01:02:18 Jedd-CSF-

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mac Geek Cab.

0:04.0

Clive has our opening quick tip for us.

0:07.0

He said he was setting up his new iPhone 14 Pro Max and notice the transfer of apps and data was going very

0:14.3

slowly was forecasting hours and hours. So he thought to do something that amazes me

0:21.6

he double-click the right side button and voila a menu came up

0:27.8

offering him several actions the most interesting one was change Wi-Fi network or something similar. He selected that and discovered

0:36.1

he was connected to the wrong Wi-Fi network connecting to the right one, fixed it.

0:40.9

An amazing quick tip. Double click the right side button on the phone during the

0:46.6

setup process. I don't know how he thought to think of that, but I'm glad he did

0:51.4

and I'm especially glad you shared it with us Clive more tips like this plus your questions answered today on

0:59.4

Mac Geek Gab 956 from Monday, November 21st, 2022. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geekab the show where you send in your tips like

1:28.8

Clives your questions your cool stuff found.

1:32.8

We take all of those, we mash them together into an agenda,

1:37.0

we string them together into an agenda,

1:39.6

with the goal being that every single one of us learns at least five new things. Every single time we get together, sponsors for this episode include collide at K-O-L-I-D-E-K slash M-G-G- great device security for your organization that uses

1:58.6

Slack to educate your users. It's awesome. We'll talk more about that in a minute.

2:05.0

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2:10.3

access to Masterclass learning new recipes from Gordon Ramsey, photography from

2:14.9

Andy Leibovitz.

2:16.1

It's great stuff and a new sponsor but not a new company to us here.

2:21.8

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2:29.2

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