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

Oh…Snap! – Mac Geek Gab 663

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

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Proper use of a catchall address, external MacBook and MacBook Pro batteries, granular controls on the volume slider, GPS in Airplane mode, and making an old trackball with with Sierra are just the way this show begins. Listen in for much, much more… and feel free to send your questions in, too!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Cab episode number 663 for Sunday June 25th 2017

0:16.0

Dave Hamilton and John Ethron They are the geeks that turn us on.

0:18.0

They are the geeks that turn us on.

0:51.2

Talking Mac. that turn us on talking Mac in IOS and Pilot Pete might be the guest. They often speak in terminal. They make it cool if you don't know. Just stick around you'll understand. Just how to enter those commands.

0:56.0

Dave Hamilton and John have long.

0:59.0

Don't get caught.

1:05.1

Greetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geekab, the show where you send in your questions tips and cool stuff found so that we can share with

1:08.8

everybody answer your questions and get everybody on their way having learned at least four new things each and every time we get together.

1:20.0

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:23.0

Here in Liverpool, Connecticut, John F. Ron.

1:27.0

Good morning, Mr. John F. Braun. Good day to all of you.

1:31.0

How you doing, man?

1:32.0

Good day. We're not in Canada, we're just close to Canada. That's right. But you know, that's okay. All right, let's get things rolling with Petter here, because Petter has a great little tip for us.

1:46.8

He says, whenever I sign up to some web service, I do as every web user should, and I give it a unique and strong password with my

1:55.4

password manager. But I have also purchased a domain name with my own name

2:00.0

where I have the email activated.

2:03.0

It's a simple catch-all set up where everything sent to anything at my domain

2:09.0

just forwards to my personal email address.

2:13.8

When I set up web services, I use the name of the service

2:16.7

before my domain in the username email field.

2:19.4

If I sign up for Facebook, for example,

2:21.1

I'll write Facebook at my domain.

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