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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

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Mac Geek Gab podcast, dive into a trove of quick tips and tech tricks to streamline your Apple experience. Jim kicks things off by showing you how to drag images or hyperlinks into a new browser tab for efficiency. Mark M. follows up with a tip on rotating images in Preview using the Option key, while Daoud demonstrates how to quickly switch iPhone apps with the Home Bar. Dave, Adam, and Pete discuss the intuitiveness of macOS and iOS, and share a light-hearted story about babies prank-calling Steve Wozniak.
PCUnix reminds you to check the tip of your Apple Pencil if it stops working, and Grumpy shares how to properly enable Wi-Fi when connected via Ethernet to keep your Mac running smoothly with Continuity features. Bob’s tip on normalizing tab switching with BetterTouchTool and James’s advice on dragging items between Spaces round out this section with practical gestures and app recommendations like Yoink and Pastebot.
The episode continues with your questions answered. Felix learns how to stop Spotlight from indexing too frequently with tools like OnyX and CleanMyMac X. Doug tackles interference issues during presentations using Keynote, while David gets advice on teaching his iPhone new spellings. For reliable screen sharing amongst two Mac users, your three favorite geeks recommend tools like Splashtop and Zoom. Finally, Mark Fowler discusses the best ways to receive texts and calls while traveling abroad, highlighting services like SkypeIn and Google Voice. Remember, Don’t Get Caught without these handy tips and tricks to enhance your Apple ecosystem.

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1039 for Monday, May 27th, 2024

May 27: Memorial Day (also National Sunscreen Day)
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:00:01 Jim-QT-Drag an Image or Hyperlink to a New Browser Tab

State Lines & Porpoises

00:04:09 Mark M-QT-Option Click Preview’s Rotation Button to Rotate to the Right

Three Lefts DO Make a Right
You Can Bluetooth a Keyboard to Your iPhone

00:08:16 Daoud-QT-Quickly Switch iPhone Apps with Home Bar
00:12:03 The intuitiveness of macOS and iOS
00:14:34 Babies were prank calling Woz
00:17:03 PCUnix-QT-If Your Apple Pencil Isn’t Working…Check The Tip

New Tips – Cheaper on Amazon

00:19:17 Grumpy-QT-When Ethernet-connected, enable Wi-Fi but don’t connect to any network
00:22:43 Bob-QT-Normalize tab switching with BetterTouchTool (or something like it)

Gesture Triggers from Keyboard Maestro

00:28:08 James-QT-Drag items between Spaces

Paste Clipboard Manager
Yoink
Pastebot

00:35:21 QT-Add Tracks to Spotify Playlist By Simply Pasting In Links

Gig Gab Podcast

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Jim brings us our quick tip of the week.
0:05.0	In any browser you can drag an image from a website over the new tab button to load that image in a new tab. This works with hyperlinks too.
0:17.0	This approach is helpful when a web page takes over the contextual menu to prevent the browser's open image in new tab from showing.
0:25.8	For hyperlinks, you can also shift click to open in a new tab or command click to open in a new background tab.
0:35.0	Lots of quick tips sort of baked into one.
0:38.0	More like this, plus your questions answered today
0:42.0	on Matt Geek Cab 1039 for Monday, May 27th, National Sunscreen
0:47.4	Day, also Memorial Day here in the United States, 2024. It's 2024! Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geekab the show where you send in quick tips, just like that one.
1:15.0	You send your, easy for me to say, you send in your questions.
1:20.1	We try to answer them.
1:21.2	We try to even speak while we're doing that. And you send in cool stuff found. We provide some cool stuff found too.
1:27.0	We do this. A, because we love it. We love it. We know you love it. That's why we're all here and be so that hopefully every time we get together we can each learn at least five new things.
1:41.0	Sponsors for this episode include eCam. Live. We're using promo code
1:47.5	Mac Geek Cab at checkout gets you one month free and fastmail.com slash MGG where you can go to get you get it free for 30 days and then
2:00.0	10% off your first year of the email provider that I use for my main inbox.
2:07.2	So we'll talk more about both of those in a little bit.
2:09.8	And for now here in Durham, New Hampshire, where it finally has started to feel like summer.
2:14.4	I think we skipped spring.
2:15.9	I'm Dave Hamilton.
2:17.8	And here on the winds swept Plains of South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
2:22.4	It's windy. Oh, there are you. In South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
2:22.5	It's windy.
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