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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
But that’s just the warm-up. This week’s geek-fueled highlight? Custom Focus Modes. Listeners share brilliant ways to reclaim their attention—like silencing politics, syncing modes to time and place, and creating modes for everything from church to live sports. You’ll also get answers to smart questions about iMessage quirks, 5G Standalone, and whether your IoT network is friend or foe. Stay ahead of the curve with a peek into visionOS 26 and the next Podcasts app update—and remember, Don’t Get Caught.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1094 for Monday, June 16th, 2025
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 BoyMax-QT-Hold your finger down after drawing a circle with MarkUp, and it will make it a perfect oval/circle
00:08:11 Bill-QT-Use Apple Mail to Quickly Reduce Photos
Squash (for Mac)
ImageOptim
Permute
00:13:44 Joe-QT-Hide Distracting Items to read (some) paywalled content in Safari
00:18:05 QT-Night Stand Mode Clock on UTC – Fix to Local
00:22:24 Shannon-QT-1092-OnyX can delete Snapshots en masse
00:25:34 Jenn-QT-Space Lens is BACK in Clean My Mac
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Your Custom Focus Modes
00:30:01 Randy-Custom Focus Mode: Church
00:31:05 Derek-Custom Focus Mode: No Politics!
00:32:43 Brian-1092-Triggering work focus mode by time and location
00:34:06 Harvey-1092-Use Focus Modes with the Action button…and when watching Live Sports
00:36:17 Steve-1092-Using Focus Modes to manage notifications and let me know what mode I’m in
00:39:04 Henry-1092-Focus modes for night vision, inspiration, sleep, and more
00:41:44 Adam’s Audio Issues…Continue
00:44:51 Darrin-Custom Focus Modes: Morning, Daytime, Evening, Sleep
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac geekab and boy Max shares a thing actually that I found on Reddit. |
| 0:08.7 | A great little quick tip. |
| 0:09.9 | When you draw a circle on a screenshot using the markup feature on your devices, if you hold your finger down once you finish your version of a circle, |
| 0:22.7 | your phone will correct it so that it's a either perfect circle or a nice tight oval |
| 0:28.4 | or something that actually looks professional as opposed to something we just sort of scribbled out |
| 0:35.4 | with our finger. |
| 0:36.5 | I had forgotten about this one. |
| 0:37.8 | So thank you, Boymax, for reminding us more tips like this, plus your questions answered. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, I'm at KeeKep 1094 for Monday, June 16th. |
| 0:48.6 | Take your cat to work day, 2025. |
| 0:52.2 | Thank you. work day 2025. |
| 1:16.4 | Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show where you send in your quick tips like that, your cool stuff found, your questions. |
| 1:17.5 | We share all of it. |
| 1:19.6 | We provide context where we can. |
| 1:21.6 | We answer the questions we're able. |
| 1:24.1 | We talk through the troubleshooting process. |
| 1:30.7 | Really, the goal is for each and every one of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:33.2 | Our sponsors for this episode are BB Edit from Bearbones at Bearbones. |
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| 1:46.2 | yoink from eternal storms that little temporary shelf app that i love and fireflies dot a i slash |
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