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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Mac Geek Gab podcast, hosted by Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton, dives into a plethora of handy Quick Tips and user queries, ensuring you stay ahead in the tech game. Discover how to effortlessly name group chats in Messages and manipulate pesky items in your Mac’s Dock with a simple Option-Click trick. Time management gets a boost with travel time zone hacks and a clever workaround using TimeMachineEditor to resolve Time Machine issues in Sonoma. When it comes to managing photos, a quick tap in your iPhone’s library scrolls you to the most recent snapshot.
The episode progresses to tackle your burning questions. Learn about the versatile Lisen 3-in-1 charger for Apple devices, and explore email management techniques in Gmail and Mail.app, including sending mails from different accounts and auto-deleting messages.
The show also sheds light on options for replacing UPS batteries, managing storage space in calendars, and your three favorite geeks discuss their upcoming CES coverage plans. Don’t miss out on cool finds like Unclutter for Mac, ShortcutDetective for keyboard shortcut revelations, and WALTR Pro for file conversions.
And remember, in the world of tech, always stay alert and “Don’t Get Caught” off guard.
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1017 for Monday, January 8th, 2024
- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 Jamie-QT-You can name Group Chats in Messages
- 00:03:14 Travel Time Zone Hacks
- 00:06:56 Ben-QT-Exclude FindMy prefs to make Time Machine work in Sonoma again
- 00:11:17 Jim-QT-Close windows when quitting an application
- 00:15:54 Scott-QT-Option-Click to Move Pesky Items in Mac’s Dock
- 00:22:19 Ben-QT-Tap Library to scroll to most recent Photo on iPhone
- CES Coverage Sponsor
- 00:22:41 SPONSOR: CCC Backup. Looking for something better than Time Machine? Visit CarbonCopyCloner.com/MGG and get 15% off of CCC with code MGGCES24.
- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:24:30 Rich-Travel Charger Questions
- 00:34:35 Mark-Sending Mail as other accounts in Gmail … and auto-deleting messages in Mail.app
- CES Coverage Sponsor
- 00:47:25 SPONSOR: MacUpdater. One of our favorite apps is also one of our favorite sponsors. Download MacUpdater to ensure you’re keeping all your apps up-to-date.
- More Questions Answered!
- 00:48:56 Dan-Replacing a UPS or a Battery?
- 00:57:13 Ron-Calendar says I have insufficient storage space
- CES Coverage Sponsor
- 01:04:28 SPONSOR: Kolide – Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It’s Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta. Book a demo today. Try Kolide Today at Kolide.com/MGG
- Cool Stuff Found
- 01:05:57 CES Coverage Planning
- 01:08:23 Matt-CSF-Unclutter for Mac captures notes easily
- 01:10:13 Pharmacist Foster-CSF-ShortcutDetective to suss out keyboard shortcuts
- 01:12:51 Dom-CSF-1016-Use SwitchBot Bot to control any garage door
- 01:18:20 CSF-WALTR Pro for converting and transferring files to your iPhone
- 01:21:38 Use Hot Corners to Start a Quick Note
- 01:24:03 MGG 1017 Outtro
- Bandwidth Provided by CacheFly
- Follow us on Mastodon
- Adam Christianson on X/Twitter
- Pilot Pete’s Aviation Podcast: So There I Was (for Aviation Enthusiasts)
- Dave’s Business Brain (for Entrepreneurs) and Gig Gab (for Working Musicians) Podcasts
- MGG Merch is Available!
- Mac Geek Gab YouTube Page
- Mac Geek Gab Live Calendar
- This Week’s MGG Premium Contributors
- MGG Apple Podcasts Reviews
- feedback@macgeekgab.com
- 224-888-GEEK
- The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
- Active MGG Sponsors and Coupon Codes List
- BackBeat Media Podcast Network
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Jamie brings us our quick tip of the week by sharing |
| 0:06.0 | that we can name or rename group chats in the messages app. On the iPhone you tap the top of the group chat you'll see a |
| 0:14.6 | contact card for the group where you can change the name you can even assign it a |
| 0:17.9 | picture you can assign it a custom logo or one of Apple's defaults you can also do this on the Mac or the iPad. These |
| 0:26.0 | changes flow through and are seen by all members of the group so it becomes kind of a thing where you can create one for work or you can |
| 0:34.8 | create one for you know your family in different groups of your family and all those things. |
| 0:40.5 | More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on |
| 0:45.0 | Matt Geekkeb, 1017 for Monday, January 8th, 2024. 24. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geek of the show where you send in. |
| 1:11.0 | Tips, |
| 1:12.0 | tips like that and you send in cool stuff found you |
| 1:14.4 | send in your questions. We try to answer your questions. We share your cool |
| 1:18.0 | stuff found and your tips. We share some questions and cool stuff found of |
| 1:21.0 | our own. We mix it all together into an agenda so that each of us has a |
| 1:27.0 | fantastic opportunity to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:35.0 | This is CES week, which means our sponsors for this week are our CES 2024 coverage and travel |
| 1:41.3 | sponsors. That includes Collide at KOLIDE. coverage and |
| 1:47.0 | Collide at KOLID.com slash MGG Mac Updater at core code dot I. |
| 1:50.0 | O slash MGG |
| 1:52.0 | and carbon copy cloner.com slash MGG |
| 1:57.0 | or you can go and get 15% off CCC with code MGG |
| 2:00.9 | CES 24. We will spend a minute for each of them a little bit later in the show |
| 2:07.0 | talking a little bit more in depth to thank them for their sponsorship of the |
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