Put That In Your Tinfoil Hat and Smoke It
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
That’s right, on this week’s Mac Geek Gab, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton also explore tools for enhancing your online security with DNS over HTTPS, utility gems like Particulars for macOS system information, and the Vasco Translator V4, ensuring you’re always understood, no matter where your adventures take you. The discussion shifts to smart home management with HomeLog for HomeKit, offering insights into your HomeKit activity that will make you want to put that in your tinfoil hat and smoke it. They didn’t forget about the online shoppers, highlighting the CNET Shopping Extension for snagging the best deals and the indispensable AirBuddy app for keeping tabs on your AirPods’ battery life, all while ensuring your tech gear is always on point with the latest gadgets like the Targus Cypress backpack and HyperPack Pro with FindMy.
The episode isn’t just about discoveries; it’s packed with quick tips to enhance your digital life, from using a shared note for those midnight musings to a shortcut that extends your Apple Watch’s battery life. They tackle listener questions head-on, solving mysteries from sudden watch battery drain to podcast volume drift potentially caused by an accidental Apple Watch crown spin, and even the best practices for merging Apple iCloud services into a family plan.
This episode is a masterclass in making the most of your Apple ecosystem, spiced up with show business insights and listener contributions that underscore the community’s vibrant engagement. Remember, in the ever-evolving tech landscape, stay informed, stay ahead, and “Don’t Get Caught” unprepared.
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1028 for Monday, March 11th, 2024
March 11: National No-Code day
Cool Stuff Found
00:00:01 Patrick-CSF-SDXL Lightning – FAST AI Image Generator
We Might Live In Wall-E World or You’d Be a Cat
00:05:22 MyFaceIsTooBig-CSF-Particulars, a macOS System Information Utility
Pi-Hole DNS
1.1.1.1
DNS over HTTPS
00:11:23 TLatkins-CSF-HomeLog for HomeKit logs all HomeKit activity – MGG 1022
Put That in Your Tinfoil Hat and Smoke It
00:15:02 JG-CSF-Headway (like Blinkist, and on Setapp)
SetApp comes to EU iPhones
00:17:52 DaddyJapan-CSF-Karabiner-Elements for Customizing your Mac’s Keyboard
Sponsors
00:20:27 SPONSOR: BBEdit, the power tool for text from Bare Bones Software; now with integrated Notebooks and extended language support.
00:21:55 SPONSOR: Hims is changing men’s healthcare by providing convenient,
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for the Mac Geek Gab and listener Patrick brings us our first cool stuff out of the week with |
| 0:07.0 | Fast SDXL lightning. So this is a crazy fast image generator. |
| 0:13.0 | If you've played with Dolly or anything like that, you put in your prompt and you wait about 30 seconds to a minute and you get your image. |
| 0:18.8 | This thing does it on the fly, I'm telling you, as you're typing red car a red car is coming up and then you say |
| 0:26.0 | floating in the river and the river materializes it before you finish |
| 0:30.0 | typing it sometimes it's absolutely. Go try it at fast |
| 0:34.5 | S.DexL dot AI. Cool stuff found. More cool stuff found like this plus your |
| 0:39.8 | questions answered today on Mac Geek, gap 1028, |
| 0:43.3 | for Monday, March 11, 2024. Greetings folks and welcome to Matt Geekab the show where you send in cool stuff |
| 1:06.8 | found like that you send in quick tips you send in questions we answer your |
| 1:10.5 | questions we share your cool stuff found we share share your quick tips, and we do it |
| 1:13.9 | loosely organized into an agenda such that it is hopefully conducive to meeting our |
| 1:20.5 | goal of each of us learning at least five new things every single time we get |
| 1:26.4 | together sponsors for this episode include hymns.com slash mjg where you can |
| 1:32.2 | start your free online visit 100% online for men's health care, |
| 1:38.5 | convenient quality care, we'll talk more about that in the episode and we'll also talk about our sponsor BB edit the power text tool from bare bones. |
| 1:47.5 | It now has chat geepty integration. We'll talk more about all of it. |
| 1:51.5 | For now here in Durham, New Hampshire, at least when we recorded this, I'm Dave |
| 1:56.5 | Hamilton. And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here, yeah, when we recorded this in Lee, New Hampshire is Pilot Pete. |
| 2:06.4 | By the time you hear it, I'm somewhere in Europe, I'm sure of it. |
| 2:09.2 | I'm sure. |
| 2:10.2 | Great to see you guys. |
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