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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Something Somewhere Is FUBAR

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Answers to your questions about USB (including USB 4!), apps not launching in Ventura, the longevity of M1 Macs, formatting external drives, and filtering Mail are all here, courtesy of your three favorite geeks.
John, Pete, and Dave also take you through a slew of Quick Tips about Notes, Contacts, VPNs, and playing Atmos Apple Music in your living room.
Press play and you’re guaranteed to learn at least five new things or your money back!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 964 for Monday, January 16, 2023

Martin-QT-Tap an Apple Note’s Time to Toggle Between Edited and Created Time
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!


Quick Tips

00:02:56 Wayne-QT-Drag from Contacts to Numbers to Create a Columned Sheet of Contacts
00:05:01 Terry-QT-Favorite Apple Watch Timers in Order to Delete Them
00:07:20 Scott-QT-Apple Support Says: Send Apple Feedback about Ventura’s Wonkiness

macOS 13 Ventura ‘Background Items Added’ notification still troubles some, workaround inside


00:10:44 Steven-QT-Disable ExpressVPN’s Network Protection to Re-enable CarPlay and AirPlay
00:12:12 QT-Use Apple TV to Play Apple Music on Sonos Arc


Sponsors

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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:18:53 USB 4 Clarifications
00:24:17 Richard-Extending USB on iMac 2017

Anker USB 3.0 7-port Hub
OWC Thunderbolt Dock
OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock


00:35:41 946Reset security settings for all apps with `sudo tccutil reset All` and deleting the TCC.db file in Recovery Mode Terminal
00:41:01 Ventura is FUBAR?
00:42:53 Randy-How Much Longevity does the M1 Have with Apple?
00:51:40 Extending AppleCare
00:57:43 Podcast: This Week In Tech: Every week, This Week in Tech gives you a no-holds-barred, deep dive into how big tech influences our culture and our lives.
00:58:20 Jeff-Should I use APFS on External SSDs?

* Time Machine Editor


01:06:03 Joe-Best Way to Always Filter Mail Messages?

Schedule your Mac to turn on or off in Terminal


01:15:20 FileVault or not?


01:17:25 Mac Geek Gab 964 Outtro

Pilot Pete’s New Aviation Podcast:

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mac Geek Cab. Our opening quick tip comes from Martin, who says Apple Notes defaults to showing the last edited time of the note. but sometimes you want to know when the note was

0:15.3

created. On the Mac, on iOS, and on iPad OS, tap the edited time at the top of the open note, and it changes to show the creation. the More tips like this plus your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 964 for Monday, January 16th, 2023. and Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where you send in

1:00.8

tips like that you send in your questions you send in your cool

1:04.2

stuff found we share it all we try to answer your questions sometimes we have

1:09.5

questions of our own sometimes we have tips and cool stuff found of our own. The goal is we put it all together

1:16.2

so that we can each learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include

1:25.0

private internet access at PIA VPN.com

1:29.0

slash MGG where you can go to save 82% off your

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VPN service plus for free months.

1:35.0

We'll talk about those details in a minute and

1:37.6

LinkedIn jobs at LinkedIn.com slash MGG where you can go and post your first job for free.

1:44.0

We'll talk more about all of that in a few minutes for now,

1:48.0

here in Durham, New Hampshire,

1:50.0

with the tree guys grinding things up outside.

1:53.2

I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:56.2

And here in Fairfield, Connecticut,

1:59.2

where they're still doing construction

2:00.8

across the street from me.

2:02.2

They're out to get us, man.

2:03.0

Love it.

2:04.0

Yep, making that noise.

2:07.0

In Fairville, Connecticut, this is John F. Braun.

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