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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Password Hygiene, Custom GPT Hacks, and Your Best Travel Battery

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Password Hygiene, Custom GPT Hacks, and Your Best Travel Battery — Mac Geek Gab 1085 episode image

This week’s Mac Geek Gab is your fast lane to smarter tech moves, featuring Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton steering you through the latest Quick Tips and listener Q&A. You’ll learn how to turn your car’s Source button into a play/pause controller, why stuffing your user manuals into a custom GPT might be your next life hack, and how AI tools like Perplexity are leveling up fast. Plus, the gang workshopped their own MGG-GPT—because the more input you give, the better your tech life gets. Don’t Get Caught underestimating what AI can do for you!

From the wisdom of when to buy a Mac (hint: when you need one) to the best practices for Migration Assistant and password hygiene, this episode is packed with practical advice. Thinking about travel gear? The crew compares their go-to backup batteries—from Pete’s 20k mAh beast to Dave’s slick INIU Qi2 charger. And if you’re mourning Mint, the budgeting app, the guys explore strong replacements like Quicken and Banktivity. It’s a full ride of tips to keep your tech life optimized and your wallet sane.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mackey, Kevin. I will bring us our quick tip of the week. I recently got a new Subaru Outback and upgraded from one that was a 2018. And in my 2018, when I pushed the volume button in during a car play session, it would pause or resume whatever was playing.

0:23.7

It didn't take me long to realize that that button is now a mute button and things keep

0:30.0

playing in the background no matter what. So I was losing my place in podcasts and it was

0:35.9

driving me a little crazy. I found that on the steering

0:39.2

wheel, if you hold the source button, the one that if you just press it, would change between,

0:46.4

you know, AM, FM, whatever other options you might have in the car, simply holding that down,

0:53.0

now acts as a play and pause button.

0:56.0

So if you have a Subaru, and I believe that happened in the last three or four years, that's how you do it.

1:03.4

And other cars may be the same.

1:06.1

So experiment.

1:07.4

Don't be afraid to hold a button down a little bit longer and see what happens.

1:11.8

More tips like this, plus your questions answered today.

1:17.2

I'm MacGeep 1085 for Monday, April 14th National Dolphin Day, 2025.

1:24.2

Thank you. 2025.

1:45.7

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac geek out the show where we share quick tips like that.

1:46.8

We share cool stuff found.

1:54.8

We share questions, hopefully with answers or at least a path to get you on a successful troubleshooting journey.

2:04.7

We assemble it all together into an agenda so that each of us gets to learn at least five new things every time we get together each week.

2:09.5

Pete, your bell sounds sick today, but I think I know why.

2:15.2

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2:21.5

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2:27.9

It's a cool service that uses quick, easy email prompts each week to get stories from your favorite relative and then

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