Safari Swipes, Finder Drags, and Pings Galore

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The Finder can be a drag…the good kind! And swiping right in Safari might not have the effect you think. Press play and listen to John F. Braun, Pilot Pete, and Dave Hamilton share these Quick Tips and SO many more. Plus, your three favorite geeks answer your questions and share your Cool Stuff Found, too. You’re guaranteed to learn at least five new things!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 973 for Monday, March 20th, 2023

RichardA-QT-Drag onto Finder’s Back Arrow or Path Bar to drop files
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:04:18 MarkM-Click The Safari Tab Audio Button to Mute
00:05:46 PCUnix-QT-Clear iPhone Safari History by Time (and on the Mac! History > Clear History…)
00:07:29 Ed-QT Safari Swipe on Address Bar, Photo Lift

Lift a Subject from Photo Background on iPhone

00:10:30 Robert-QT-Accessing Alternate Keyboard Entries on iPadOS

If your iPad keyboard is small or split in half

00:12:50 QT-iMessages Badge shows a number but no new messages? “Hey Siri, read my unread messages!” Poof

HitEmUp

00:19:25 QT-Control macOS Ventura’s Access to USB and Thunderbolt Accessories
00:21:37 JamCycler-QT-971–Keep Folders On Top in Finder

Sponsors

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SXSW & Charging Interruptions

00:26:48 Using the Quick Tips!
00:27:26 Two Apple TV+ Movies at SXSW: Still and Tetris
00:36:26 I Know What Happened To My Power/Mic In MGG972
00:44:05 Flashlight with 18650 Battery and Charger

VICTAGEN Intelligent Charger 18650 Battery

Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:47:46 Dennis-Mounted Disk Not Visible in Finder
00:52:12 Craig-T-Mobile Acquires Mint Mobile…What’s that mean?

Verizon 5G Home Internet for $25

Cool Stuff Found

01:02:24 CSF-Have I Been Pwned?
01:02:59 CSF-Synology DS423+ Has a CPU with a GPU for Transcoding!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it is time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Richard A from our discord
0:07.2	brings us our opening quick tip where he says most people know about spring-loaded folders in finder where you can drag a file or a folder over a folder in a finder window or in the sidebar and then if you wait a second that folder opens up for you to drop the
0:24.7	file or even navigate further and do it again. But he says what you may not know is that
0:30.5	you can also drag files over the back arrow in the finder window and
0:35.6	wait to move the file into the folder that you were previously in as a bonus tip.
0:41.8	I know twice two tips right here in the intro maybe even three if you didn't know that you could drag onto a file or folder
0:47.8	The bonus tip if you have the path bar showing at the bottom of finder windows, which you would do with view show path bar in the finder.
0:57.2	You can drag files into the folders listed in the path hierarchy there,
1:02.2	although they don't seem to do the spring-loaded
1:04.6	opening of the folders in that case. Richard, you have you have hit the
1:09.6	trifecta, my friend. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 973 for Monday,
1:20.0	March 20th, 2023. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geekup the show where we share quick tips like that.
1:45.6	We share cool stuff found.
1:47.0	We share your questions.
1:48.1	We try to share answers to your questions.
1:50.2	How do you get all this stuff to us?
1:51.6	Feedback at hopefully has some flow to it such that each and every one of us will learn at least
2:07.6	five new things today and every episode. Sponsors for this episode include
2:13.8	LinkedIn.com slash MGG where you can go and post your first job for free
2:19.0	BB edit from barebones at barebones.com one of my favorite apps as listeners know and
2:25.1	collide we're at k-o-lide.com slash m-g-g- you can sign up you can get a free demo of
2:31.8	this fantastic device security solution.
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