Naked (iPhone) and Not Afraid
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, join Adam Christianson and Dave Hamilton to explore practical solutions for managing your digital life. From optimizing your CarPlay experience with clever calendar hacks to mastering file sorting in Finder, we’ve got you covered. Whether you’re a tech novice or a seasoned pro, these insights will enhance your productivity.
But that’s not all! You’ll find Cool Stuff Found, like Drive DX for monitoring your SSD’s health, and get the latest scoop on WiFi 7 routers. Plus, check out a leather iPhone case that might just change your mind about going caseless.
Don’t Get Caught missing out on these invaluable tips and tricks. Click play and transform your tech experience with Mac Geek Gab!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1061 for Monday, October 28th, 2024
October 28th: International Animation Day
Police Code 10-61 = Personnel in vicinity / Not wanted
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Eternal Storms with Yoink AND Screenfloat for October, 2024
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Dennis-QT-Press-and-hold OK to accept all calendar notifications
00:03:23 Doug-QT-Add events to the calendar so they’re usable with CarPlay
00:06:53 Jim-QT-Re-sorting items in the Finder
How to add a column to a Finder window
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Followups on Notes and Focus
00:18:42 Supersuckers’ Creepy Jackalope Eye Video
00:19:15 Steve-1060-Cable type matters when connecting a new iPhone to an old Mac
Use OWC’s USB-C Cables
Quality inexpensive cables from Monoprice
Anker USB-C cables
00:30:24 iOS 18.2 Beta allows ChatGPT integration and will allow you to login to a paid account if you use one.
Cheap…and worth it!
00:32:35 Seth-1060-You can shut off the display with a Focus Filter
00:33:20 James-CSF-1060–Notebooks stores your notes as flat files
Ulysses
Marked
00:40:53 n-Scott-1060-Backup the Notes data folder to backup all Notes
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Dennis brings us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:06.4 | He says my wife and I share a calendar where I can see when she is working. |
| 0:10.9 | It happens quite often that I get 20 new notifications in the calendar inbox. |
| 0:16.4 | I've learned that instead of accepting them one by one, I recently just held the OK button |
| 0:22.1 | down on a notification and then a little menu popped up and asked if that |
| 0:27.4 | okay should apply to everything. Yes, please that That's saved Dennis, 19 different except tabs. I love this tip and I had no idea. |
| 0:39.7 | More tips like this. Plus, your questions answered today on |
| 0:44.4 | Matt Geekab 1061 for Monday October 28th |
| 0:49.0 | International animation day 2024. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geek of the show where you send in tips just like that and we share them, you send |
| 1:15.2 | in cool stuff found, we share them, you send in questions and we share those and hopefully |
| 1:19.4 | can provide some answers or at least march us down the troubleshooting path each and every time we get |
| 1:26.0 | together. Our sponsors for this episode include a return sponsor. Other World Computing at |
| 1:32.4 | Max Sales.com and their OWC. a return sponsor other world computing at max sales |
| 1:33.1 | dot com and their oWC express 1 m to |
| 1:37.1 | super fast portable drive |
| 1:39.1 | over 3,000 megabytes a second anyway we'll talk about those details |
| 1:42.4 | I know we'll talk about those details in a little bit. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:48.0 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 1:52.0 | And we are missing Pete today he is off flying the airplane |
| 1:55.9 | yep but it so I guess our police code for for today for 10 six the 1061 police code at least on the list that I looked up says it's |
| 2:06.2 | either personnel in vicinity or not wanted. Well Pete you are certainly not |
| 2:11.2 | wanted so this is personnel not in the vicinity maybe if we |
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