Schrödinger's Ringtone
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
As you listen on, they address listener questions, guiding you through choices like the optimal external SSD for a Mac mini Boot Drive, shedding light on the complexities of Bluetooth versions, and demystifying notifications like “Diagnostics are In Flight”.
Wrapping up the episode, your two favorite geeks help you discover cool tools and hacks, spotlighting gems like OnyX for macOS Sonoma and Tresorit for encrypted large file transfers. And always remember, as you navigate the tech landscape with Mac Geek Gab’s insights, “Don’t Get Caught” off guard!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1003 for Monday, October 9th, 2023
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The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Rod L-QT-Enable iPhone Camera’s “Spirit Level” and Grid features in iOS 17 *
00:04:55 Keith-QT-Find My shows the route that the lost device is taking
00:09:01 rnDoug-QT-PSA-Adjust Stage Manager’s Wallpaper Settings in Sonoma
00:10:12 Scott-QT-PSA-Editing Ringtones on iOS 17 Will Lose Them
00:12:32 Stephen-QTR-Hold Space Bar on your iPhone Keyboard to Act Like a Trackpad
00:14:31 Martin-QT-Beware Tags Hiding Notes from Older Versions of macOS
00:16:30 Robb-QT-Enable Voice Isolation for Phone
00:18:34 QT-AirPods Pro Transparency is affected when you start speaking (not during phone calls)
00:20:01 Gavin-QT-Flip Your iPhone to Clean an Always-Off Screen
00:25:24 DanThurston-QT-Two-Finger Tap on Mac Dock Icon brings up that App’s windows
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:26:15 GBurlie-Which External SSD for Mac Mini Boot Drive?
OWC Envoy Pro FX
Samsung T7 SSD
00:31:00 Dick-Do I Need a New USB Cable for my SSD?
What’s the Difference Between USB4 vs. Thunderbolt (3/4) Cables? (segment starts about 47-minute mark)
00:35:24 Gray-Bluetooth Keyboard and Trackpad No Longer Pairing
TP-Link Bluetooth 5.0 USB Adapter
00:42:50 Differences between Bluetooth versions
00:46:09 Gary-How do I choose which fields NameDrop shares?
00:48:31 Richard-What is “Diagnostics are In Flight”?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mac Geek Cab and our quick tip of the week comes from listener Rod L in our |
| 0:08.8 | discord who shares that iOS 17 adds a new composition setting in the camera setting. |
| 0:17.0 | So if you go in to the settings app, go to the camera section, scroll down to the composition section therein. |
| 0:25.0 | There is a new level or as photographers seem to like to call it a spirit level setting |
| 0:32.1 | and if you turn that on what it will do is put a little white |
| 0:38.8 | line or a little line in the middle of a thin white line in the center of your picture and as you |
| 0:45.8 | are tilting your phone it will it will go yellow when the phone is perfectly level and that way and this will happen in both I believe both portrait and landscape mode and this way you know that your phone is shooting a level picture. |
| 1:03.3 | You can also turn on grid here, which is really helpful for aligning things and other composition |
| 1:07.3 | options. |
| 1:08.3 | More quick tips like this, plus your questions answered and maybe even some cool stuff found today on my, ah, easy for me to say, |
| 1:17.0 | on Mac Geek Ev 1,003 for Monday, October 9th, 2023. Thanks, folks, and indeed, welcome to Mac Geek of the show where you send in quick tips like that. |
| 1:45.6 | Questions, your cool stuff found, we share your quick tips as we've done, we share cool stuff found, |
| 1:51.4 | we share your questions, and we also try to answer them. |
| 1:53.6 | Sometimes we even have questions of our own. |
| 1:55.9 | We string it all together into an agenda that kind of makes sense |
| 1:59.8 | and really is engineered to keep us all engaged so that we each learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
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| 2:38.9 | And here in Lee, New Hampshire. It's Pilot Pete, and listeners I want to tell you something. |
| 2:46.0 | That spirit level on the iPhone, I've known about it for weeks, months, however, I have no idea. |
| 2:52.1 | You have things like that that you know about too and it just doesn't even occur to you to share them with us. |
| 2:56.5 | You know what you should do? |
| 2:57.5 | Share them with us. |
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