Reminders That Actually Work, CarPlay Hacks, and Why Siri Hates You

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

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

SXSW is in full swing, and Dave is multitasking like a pro—grabbing his SXXpress passes mid-recording while keeping the geeky goodness rolling. Quick Tips flood in, from clicking your scroll wheel to copy text in Terminal to checking CPU usage per Safari tab in Activity Monitor. Need hands-free Siri? Just activate her from your steering wheel. Speaking of hands-free, snagging a wireless CarPlay screen for just $45 sounds like a no-brainer. Adam even took ChatGPT for a spin, using it to summarize scenes in a play he’s doing. You’ll even find your three favorite geeks diving into smarter ways to manage reminders with tags, projects, Kanbans, and location-based alerts. And don’t forget to test your UPS quarterly—Carsten’s got his EcoFlow power station pulling double duty.
Apple dropped some fresh gear, and Ken Case describes how he’s using his Vision Pro daily. The M4 MacBook Air, new Mac Studio, and M3 iPad Air made waves, but let’s not ignore the everyday wins—like OpenIn giving you control over mailto links and Thunderbird’s (somewhat broken) indexing. Security gets its moment with a deep dive into “Sign In With Apple” and why padding your passwords matters. Oh, and if you’ve ever raged at Siri for not appending text to an existing note, Adam’s got you covered. Whether it’s tech, tricks, or troubleshooting, one thing’s for sure: Don’t Get Caught!

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1080 for Monday, March 10th, 2025

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00:03:26 SXSW This week, and today Dave needs to get SXXpress passes during the MGG recording. Fun!

Eddy Cue & Ben Stiller talk Severance (and more) @ SXSW

Quick Tips

00:00:01 Nick-QT-Click your scroll wheel to copy text in Terminal
00:04:58 Crampy-QT-Activate Siri from your steering wheel
00:06:06 Activity Monitor will show you CPU per Safari webpage usage
00:07:29 Siri Ignores you when she’s face down

CarLinKit Adapter
Wireless Aftermarket CarPlay Screen (only $45 today)

00:11:20 Adam used ChatGPT!
00:15:25 Andrew-QT-Tips to Make Reminders Even More Useful

Previously-used Alternatives: OneNote, Evernote, Trello, ToDoist, Goodlinks
Save Bookmarks
Projects (with

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac geek gab and listener Nick brings us our quick tip of the week.
0:06.3	He says just to piggyback onto the user last week discovered that highlighting text in the terminal will let you copy it to another terminal window with a command right click.
0:16.3	Did you know that if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can just click the scroll wheel,
0:21.9	i.e. the middle button, to copy text. No command key needed. I use it all the time to copy things
0:27.9	like long file paths from one command to another without needing to tab my way down a path tree.
0:35.3	This is typical behavior in Linux terminal apps, just to give you some indication of the Mac OS's
0:41.3	terminal pedigree.
0:42.8	More tips like this plus your questions.
0:46.1	Oh, no, no, no, not yet.
0:48.7	More tips like this plus your questions answered today on MackeyCb 80 for monday march 10th national if pets
0:57.4	had thumsday 2025 i don't think that's right no it's not that's not no
1:06.8	you're gonna have to pick what the day is.
1:22.4	Greetings, folks, and indeed, welcome to Matt Geekab, I think, the show where you send in your quick tips, your cool stuff found, your questions, we share them all, we answer your questions,
1:26.5	the goal being so that
1:28.1	each of us can learn at least five new things every single time we get together macadio.com
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1:53.3	Phil R. Stapler's Day in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton. Hey, Dave, I think you ran a little long on that intro and you were getting played off.
2:03.9	I don't know what happened there, but anyway.
2:06.1	I think that's right.
2:09.2	But here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
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