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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, hosts Dave Hamilton, John F. Braun, and Pilot Pete kicked off with listener Dan’s quick tip on how to select groups of photos on iPhone rapidly. Dan discovered that swiping from left to right, starting from the first desired photo and scrolling downwards without lifting your finger, allows you to select multiple photos in subsequent rows. This efficient method helps you add numerous photos to a shared album swiftly.
As always, the hosts continued to share their cool finds and answer listener queries. They emphasized the magic of the ‘Option’ key in Finder that can unfold all ‘Get Info’ details. When you’re looking at the Get Info screen and all the triangles are twisted closed, hold down the Option key while opening one of them; they will all open simultaneously. This also applies when you’re in the Finder itself. Option clicking can either twist them all open or closed at once.
In addition, the Option key can be utilized in several other handy ways. For instance, holding down the option key and clicking the keyboard brightness key opens up the monitor system preference. Similarly, if you option click the volume up or down button on your keyboard, it will open up the sound system preference.
The hosts were particularly impressed by a feature they discovered this week. When using a scroll bar, instead of trying to grab and drag the little handle, you can option click anywhere in that scroll bar, and it will jump the scroll point to that point. This feature can be a game-changer when navigating through long documents or web pages, making scrolling a breeze.
In this episode, Pilot Pete brought an intriguing eSIM tip to the table. One of the listeners, Joao, shared his experience about buying an eSIM in China, which helped him bypass most VPN restrictions. This came handy while traveling, as it solved the Regional Data issue.
Add to this some fantastic discussion about Passkeys as well as your questions answered, and it’s action-packed!
Stay tuned for more insightful tips, tricks, and tech tidbits in the upcoming episodes. Don’t forget to sign up here to get shownotes delivered to your inbox every week. Remember, “Don’t Get Caught” without the latest tech wisdom from your favorite Mac geeks!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 982 for Monday, May 22nd, 2023

The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:00:01 Dan-QT-Quickly Selecting Groups of Photos on iPhone
00:03:37 QT-Use the Option key in Finder to Unfold all Get Info details

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

00:07:29 Joao QT bought eSim in China to get by most VPN restrictions -> Follow Up Regional Data is Cheaper!

eSIMdb
PokeFi

00:09:58 Managing Cellular Data
00:13:10 Apple Human Interface Guidelines Binders
00:14:40 Sacha-QT-980-Tell ChatGPT Which Language to Use
00:16:20 CSF-ChatGPT’s Plugins are now in Beta for many paid users

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for the Mac Geek Cab and listener Dan brings us our quick tip of the week with
0:06.5	When in the all photos section of the photos app even after you hit select at the top
0:11.6	it's tedious to hit each photo individually,
0:14.4	but I accidentally discovered a much better way to select many photos at once.
0:19.0	After you're in selection mode by hitting select at the top. Swipe from left to right
0:23.9	beginning with the first photo you want and without lifting your finger
0:27.2	scroll downwards through the photos. This will let you select all the photos in
0:31.8	subsequent rows as you scroll through until you
0:35.1	lift your finger. This allowed me to insert all those photos that I wanted into a
0:39.0	shared album, Brother Quickly. More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on the
0:45.2	Met Geek ad number 982 for Monday may 22nd 2023. 23. Greetings folks
1:08.0	folks and welcome to Mac Geekab where you send your quick tips in like that one, your cool stuff found, your questions.
1:15.7	We share your quick tips, we share your cool stuff found, we share your questions, we put them together
1:20.5	into an agenda that loosely makes sense and maybe follows a bit of a flow.
1:26.0	The goal being, each and every, it's not even a goal, it's just part of the system.
1:30.5	It's a byproduct of the system that each and every one of us will learn at least five new things
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