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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Polka On a Flatbed

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

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Polka On a Flatbed — Mac Geek Gab 1113 episode image

This week, you roll right into another round of Quick Tips, laughs, and lessons learned with Dave, Pilot Pete, and Adam! From macOS Tahoe’s alphabetized Settings to Spotlight searching everything—including those hidden menus—you’ll uncover new tricks that keep your Mac life humming. The crew digs into Apple and Google Maps’ smart intersection awareness, shares shortcuts to open Terminal right where you are in Finder, and explores accessibility superpowers like controlling your screen with your eyes and using full voice control across macOS and iOS.

Of course, there’s time for listener questions, from fixing calendar syncs and Mail zoom quirks to selecting inverse text the geeky way. You’ll even get their latest Gear Picks, like the Scosche ScoVac mini vac, Sifely smart door lock, and Matias Tactile Pro keyboard—all topped off with a detour into absurdity: Polka on a Flatbed. Stay sharp, have fun, and as always—Don’t Get Caught!

 

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0:00.0

It's time for the Mac Geet gab and listener Bill writes in with our quick tip of the week.

0:07.5

If you're like me and frustrated with a seemingly arbitrary order of items in Mac's system

0:13.0

settings, plus the inadequacy of system settings search function, and you missed the old feature

0:19.4

that listed each setting in alphabetical order. Hey, how easy was

0:22.9

that, right? Well, you still can't change the order, but you can use the view menu where you will

0:29.5

see most of the items in alphabetical order. There are some strange omissions. General is not listed,

0:35.9

but most of the items listed under General are there.

0:38.7

The exception is auto fill and passwords.

0:41.1

I haven't been through all of the list to see what else is missing, but I think it's a good

0:44.8

bet that if you can't find it with search, it might be listed under view.

0:49.8

I still despair of the findability of some items, for example, how would you find extensions,

0:56.2

unless you knew it was paired with log-in items? And underneath general, it won't show in search.

1:02.8

Still, this is a useful tip for those times when you simply can't find a setting. And boy, do I have those.

1:08.8

All the best, Bill Shep and uh screwed that up but it's

1:16.5

uh mac geekab 1113 for monday october 27th 2025 it was written right in front of me hidden

1:23.3

in plain sight

1:24.2

woohoo and we're off i almost was in plain sight. Woo-hoo!

1:27.9

And we're off.

1:30.4

I almost was.

1:40.9

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekup, the show where we share tips like that.

1:46.1

We share cool stuff found.

1:48.2

We share some of our gift guide recommendations.

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