No One Has “Mouse”
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
And it’s not just Quick Tips that your three favorite geeks feature this week, there’s a TON of Cool Stuff Found. John, Dave, and Pete take you through travel monitors, clipboard managers, app installers, charging stations, and more.
Press play and you’re guaranteed to learn at least five new things or your money back!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 966 for Monday, January 30, 2023
QT-Ventura Battery Menu > Charge to Full Now
System Settings > Control Center > Battery > Show in Menu Bar
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:06:41 AppleCare Repair Battery Surprise
FruitJuice has been discontinued
00:09:19 Joe-QT-Quick Multi-User System Login
00:10:06 Ben-QT-Use Cmd-Plus to Expand/Contract Save Dialog
Default Folder
00:11:45 QT-Use Conversation Mode in Apple and Google Translate apps (also, Safari’s “Translate to English” mode)
00:15:51 Keith-QT-Screen Recording with Voice Overs
00:19:04 Scott-QT-Use Crown to Dismiss Apple Watch Timer
00:19:56 QT-The x-man-page://[cmd] URL can link directly to the Terminal for man pages
Man the man page
00:21:36 Harvey-QT-Multiple Siri (Apple Watch and Otherwise) Timers
00:25:32 Bill-QT-Pairing AirPods Pro with Older Apple Devices
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Cool Stuff Found
00:29:40 CSF-ViewSonic VP16-OLED portable 15.6” OLED Screen
Business Brain episode about Traveling Productively
00:33:41 Steve (and Christopher)-CSF-ClipTools-Gary Rosenzweig’s Clipboard Manager
00:37:03 CSF-YeeLight Motion Sensing Closet Light
00:39:48 Zack-CSF-MightyText for Syncing SMS (and more) Between Android and Your Mac
00:41:02 CSF-WhatsApp for macOS now in Beta
00:44:48 CSF-Use the Mobile Passport Control App when Returning to The ...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and our opening quick tip comes from me. |
| 0:05.0 | Last week while I was traveling I was using my laptop a bunch and of course I'm |
| 0:09.2 | running Ventura on my laptop and because fruit juice has been end of life I had gone into |
| 0:16.5 | system settings control center and added the batteries show in menu bar there |
| 0:22.2 | and as we were getting ready to so that might be a |
| 0:26.2 | quick tip in and of itself as we were getting ready you know as our trip was |
| 0:29.6 | wrapping up I wanted to make sure my laptop was you know fully charged before we got on a |
| 0:34.4 | plane and did all that stuff and so on Friday night before we flew out I looked and |
| 0:39.8 | I saw my laptop was sitting at like 80% charged and it was not charging. And so I looked in the |
| 0:46.7 | battery menu and there was an option in there that said, well first at the top it said the power source was from the power |
| 0:53.8 | adapter and it will be charged by 11 a.m. I knew we were going to be leaving by |
| 0:57.8 | about nine a.m. and right below that was an option that said charge to full now. I selected that from the |
| 1:05.8 | little battery menu and then boom it started charging and of course it was all |
| 1:10.1 | fully charged up by the time it was time to go. |
| 1:14.0 | More tips like this plus your questions answered and really plus cool stuff found today |
| 1:19.7 | on Mac Geek of 966 for, January 30th, 2023. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to or welcome back to |
| 1:44.3 | Matt Kake of the show where we take your quick tips like the one that we just |
| 1:48.6 | shared your questions sometimes but we probably won't get to questions today |
| 1:52.2 | because we also take your cool stuff |
| 1:54.3 | down and we have tons of that. |
| 1:56.3 | We share it all, we mash it all together into an agenda that makes some sort of sense to us |
| 2:01.6 | at least when we start out. The goal being that each of us |
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