Tea Time with Your Favorite Geeks
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
As usual, Adam, Dave, and Pete dive into a variety of topics, ensuring you learn at least five new things. From the intricacies of using QuickLook in open/save dialog boxes to managing your home screen apps with ease, there’s something for every Mac enthusiast. Plus, discover how to make the most of your Apple Watch’s new features and the hidden potential of your iPhone’s action button.
Don’t miss the “Don’t Get Caught” segment, where listeners share their experiences to help you avoid common tech pitfalls. This week, learn about the quirks of Face ID and Spotlight search, and why you should be cautious with email bounce messages.
Ready to level up your tech game? Click and listen to Mac Geek Gab Episode 1063 now, and remember, “Don’t Get Caught!”
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1063 for Monday, November 11th, 2024
November 11th: Veterans Days (ok, and also Metal Day… because this one goes to eleven!)
Police Code 10-63 – Subject positive / Prepare to copy
00:03:48 MGG Monthly Giveaway – OWC Express 1M2 SSD Enclosure for November, 2024
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Tony-QT-Change the ‘Modified’ date of a Folder in Finder
00:05:12 Dangerous Aliases
00:09:30 Patrick-QT-Re-Establish AirPods as Primary Device with one touch
00:12:42 Patrick-QT-Use QuickLook in Open & Save Dialogs
Default Folder X (in Setapp)
00:17:28 Henry-QT-Add duplicate App icons to your home screens
00:20:21 Hiding apps in iOS 18
00:24:42 Paul-QT-Drag Finder Folders into Open and Save Dialogs for location
00:26:34 Todd-QT-Swipe Up or Scroll Down with the Crown to open Apple Watch Smart Stack
00:30:58 Steve-QT-Select the Calendar with Click-and-hold
00:31:43 DocRock-Screenshot Instagram (or YouTube) to get a clickable link
00:33:22 iOS 18.2 (currently beta) press-and-hold on camera button for Image Intelligence
00:39:30 Control Center now has 4 screens – custom (or your favs), Currently Playing, Home, Network (Swipe to select)
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Don’t Get Caught
00:43:36 Jeff-DGC-Unlock an App for Spotlight to Index – Then re-lock it!
00:46:23 Kent-DGC-Be cautious when classifying bounce messages as spam
Show Business
00:50:52 MGG Reviews 2024-Nov-7
00:53:31 The Debut Film Podcast – Adam’s new show!
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:55:46 Bruce-Q-How to make a window full height.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for the back geek gab. |
| 0:04.3 | And listener Tony brings us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:08.2 | Anyone using the list views sorted by dates will be vexed by how the finder doesn't change the modified date of an aliased folder. |
| 0:17.9 | When items within that folder are actually changed at it or deleted, you can easily change the modified date of that alias folder. When items within that folder are actually changed at it or deleted, you can easily |
| 0:22.5 | change the modified date of that alias folder using terminal. Just open the terminal window and |
| 0:29.0 | type touch. That's the word touch, T-O-U-C-H, add a space, and then drag that aliased file, |
| 0:36.4 | or I'm sorry, aliased folder into into the terminal window that's given it the path |
| 0:40.7 | now the alias date is changed to today I use keyboard maestro to create a shortcut to bring up a terminal |
| 0:48.3 | window and type the touch command but it shouldn't be too hard for someone with a lot more skills |
| 0:52.3 | than me to create a shortcut, |
| 0:57.6 | Automator script or AppleScript, to do this for you. |
| 1:05.7 | More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab number 1063 for Monday, November 11th. |
| 1:08.2 | Veteran stay, Armistice Day. |
| 1:10.3 | Metal Day. Yeah? |
| 1:48.4 | Greetings, folks, and indeed, welcome to Mac Geekab number 1063, the show where you send in your quick tips, you send in your cool stuff found, you send in your questions, we share them, we answer them, we discuss them, we use them to ensure that each of us learns at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:54.4 | Sponsors for today's episode include glean.com slash MG. |
| 2:05.7 | Their powerful AI connects and understands all your company's data and pulls in like Slack and all kinds of other things so that you just have this smart thing that just sees everything that you want it to see. And also, BB edit at barebones.com. My favorite text editor, it's running all the time |
| 2:12.9 | on my Mac. I use it to manage the show notes. I use it to do all kinds of things. We'll talk more |
| 2:16.8 | about all that in a little bit. And as many of you know, I use it to manage the show notes. I use it to do all kinds of things. We'll talk more about all that in a little bit. |
| 2:18.6 | And as many of you know, I have chat GPT, write me the ad scripts, and I tell it to put |
| 2:25.6 | something a little Easter egg in each time that we can all listen for. |
| 2:29.5 | And a lot of times, you're hearing me read it cold for the first time. |
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