Tech, Travel, AI, & Audio Cool Stuff Found

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

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week on Mac Geek Gab, hosts Pilot Pete and Dave Hamilton delve into a plethora of Cool Stuff Found. There are too many to list, but they include a new listener find, YouGetSignal, an open port check tool crucial for maintaining seamless connectivity by revealing blocked and open ports in user networks. The discussion then transitions to the controversial tool, watermarkremover.io, which removes watermarks from photos. Despite its impressiveness, it elicits ethical questions about intellectual property theft. Drawing parallels with Napster’s decline and Apple Music’s affordable, legal alternative, they underline the importance of accessible legal choices over morally questionable methods. With the show’s ethos in mind, “Don’t Get Caught” using such tools without considering their implications.
The conversation later veers towards technicalities and challenges in the digital age. They clarify a detail about the Eve weather device, explaining its connection via matter and thread instead of Wi-Fi, and express their plan to further explore this topic in future episodes. They also introduce SMTP2go.com, a free service acting as an SMTP server, ideal for sending emails from custom domains. A lighthearted discussion ensues about the comical possibility of massive email volumes due to increasing listener counts.
As they wrap up, your two favorite geeks emphasize nurturing the geek culture, fostering a community bound by common interests. Pilot Pete exemplifies this by blossoming into a geek, courtesy of the show, reminding listeners of the transformative power of shared knowledge.
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 992 for Monday, July 24th, 2023

The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:00:01 Bob-990-Use macOS’s Built-in Wi-Diagnostics
00:03:55 Tony-QT-Reply to Messages with Voice on Apple Watch

Eats Shoots and Leaves

00:06:21 QT-Rename an SD Card that’s locked
00:07:52 QT-Allow for Urinal Inspiration

Business Brain Podcast

00:11:31 Ben-QT-Quit the Dock to Empty Trash Again
00:12:56 Bob-QT-990-Ideas for Remembering Ideas
00:15:58 QT-Invoke Emergency Call and Medical ID

Sponsors

00:17:31 SPONSOR: Hello Fresh. Skip trips to the grocery store and count on HelloFresh to make home cooking easy, fun, and affordable. Visit HelloFresh.com/MGG50 and use code MGG50 for 50% off plus free shipping.
00:19:21 SPONSOR: Notion Projects includes new, powerful ways to manage projects and leverage the power of their built-in AI features, too. For a limited time, try Notion Projects for free when by visiting Notion.com/MacGeekGab.
00:20:42 SPONSOR: 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.

Cool Stuff Found

00:21:37 David-CSF-988-There IS a Qi Mouse: Corsair Dark Core

JoinHoney.com/MGG

00:24:40 Matt-CSF-Espanso, a free, github-hosted Text Expansion tool
00:26:22 Donna-CSF-A...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Bob brings us our quick tip of the week by
0:06.0	reminding us that Apple put into Mac OS the Wi-Fi or Wireless Diagnostics, you option click on the Wi-Fi icon in the menu
0:19.2	bar and choose Open Wireless Diagnostics and then from that you select window and scan to find
0:27.0	all the Wi-Fi access points around your Mac and that'll include the network name
0:31.6	the signal strength the the noise, the channel, the band, the channel width,
0:36.0	and you can then we go to wireless diagnostics window performance and get a real-time graph of your Wi-Fi connections with transfer rate and all the
0:44.8	other stuffs you can walk around with your Mac and watch the signal change and all
0:49.8	of that stuff check out wireless diagnostics window and see all the entries
0:54.7	there and there's some cool stuff. More quick tips like this and cool stuff found
1:00.0	today on Matt Geek Yep 992 for Monday, July 24th, 2022, 2023. Oh, I'm not. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geeka 992 in 2023. I don't know what blew me off about that.
1:34.0	A year or any year, don't tell me what it is.
1:35.4	Yeah, I don't know, it doesn't matter.
1:37.6	This is the show where you send in, regardless of the year,
1:41.1	you send in your questions, tips your cool stuff found we usually
1:45.2	answer your questions but today we're really focusing on a few quick tips that are
1:49.5	key and some cool stuff found that we've been piling up for a while.
1:55.0	The goal is regardless of how we organize the agenda
1:59.0	that each of us, me, P, you, all of us together, we each learn at least five new things every time we get
2:07.9	together, which is usually weekly. Sponsors for this episode include Hello Fresh.com slash
2:15.0	MGG 50 where code MGG 50 gets you
2:18.5	guess what 50% off plus free shipping and notionion.com slash Mac Geekab
2:25.0	where you can go for a limited time to try Notion projects for free.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.