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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Speeding Up a Sluggish Mac and Cool Stuff Found – Mac Geek Gab 641

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Cool Stuff Found today contains lots of things you suggested after listening to recent shows, including tools to help your Mac sleep, help you manage your keyboard shortcuts and macros, privately sync your notes, auto-file your Mail, and free backup storage! Then its on to sharing your tips and answering your questions. Want to learn how to factory reset your AirPods, enable band-steering on your router, or have Siri search Google instead of Bing? Let’s go!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac GeekUp Geekap Episode 641 for Sunday, January 22nd, 2017. Oh, Go readings folks and welcome to the Mac Observer's Mac Geek out the show

0:29.7

where you send in your questions your tips your cool stuff found?

0:34.1

We share your questions, we answer your tips, we share your cool stuff found, yes we have some

0:37.6

of that coming up in a moment here.

0:40.1

The goal of course, every time we get together is for each of us to learn at least four new things.

0:48.0

Sponsors for this episode include Max Sales.com, otherworldcom, with their new, they call it the

0:54.6

OWC deck for the Macbook Pro. D.C. we'll talk more about that in a moment and

0:59.2

Fat Cat software with power photos available a 20% off for you at fat cat software

1:07.2

dot com slash MGG. We'll talk more about that in a moment too here in Durham

1:11.7

New Hampshire I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in

1:15.3

River Connecticut, John F. Braun. Good morning, John F. Braun. And I say

1:20.6

morning. That's what you think. Yeah, well it's our first time back on what I would call a normal schedule for us in a while after

1:28.4

holidays and travel and various other schedule interruptions.

1:32.5

We're actually doing this on a Sunday like we,

1:35.2

like I like to say we normally do.

1:36.9

So it is good to do this in the morning.

1:47.4

Anything overly exciting to report John or is it just time to dive right into cool stuff found?

1:59.0

Um, no, there's some, uh, there's some goodies on the way. I've received some. I'm looking at some. So I think you and I will have some things to report. Yeah, I actually, yeah, I have, I have received a couple of great things that I'm in the process of testing not really ready to talk and and kind of levy judgment on yet, but the Google Wi-Fi is here and active

2:14.7

the new Synology RT2600 AC router is here and active and the Lima which is not a

2:19.2

router not to be confused with the Luma but but the Lima, which is the private cloud, I'll call it the

2:26.4

transporter replacement, although it's obviously not from Canner, not obviously,

2:30.4

it is not from connected data, it is a separate product, but it might be able to take the place of the connected data transporter in some of our homes if you really want that simple private cloud. that I actually haven't even cracked the box

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