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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

That’s Not Multitasking, That’s Cheating

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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You drop into an iMessage quick tip and quickly branch into a whole toolkit for running your Apple life smarter. You learn faster ways to edit messages, how Slack’s up-arrow muscle memory carries over, and why platforms limit your edit window. From there, the show rolls into clever NFC and QR workflows for appliance manuals, Time Machine fixes over SMB on Synology, and a deep dive on spam and email hygiene: Fastmail’s undelete safety net, SaneBox’s smart filtering, Apple Mail’s categories, plus when to reach for SpamSieve or even your own chatbot to watch junk folders so you Don’t Get Caught losing important mail.

The crew also compares real‑world email providers, DNS setups (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9), and router‑level changes that stabilize your network. You get a reality check on legacy cruft—Trip Mode, MacFUSE, ancient launch agents—still loading after years of Migration Assistant, and how tools like Lingon and CleanMyMac help you audit what’s secretly running. On the fun-and-productivity side, you hear honest impressions of Apple Vision Pro: tabletop-style multiplayer games like Demeo, surprisingly usable virtual desktops, the importance of dual straps and decent cases, and when to skip hotel Wi‑Fi in favor of hotspots or a UniFi travel router so your Macs, iPads, and headsets all “think” they’re at home.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab, and listener Fernando brings us our quick tip of the week with

0:06.5

when using the messages app on MacOS. If you use the keyboard shortcut, Command E, you can

0:13.9

quickly edit the last message you sent. Not sure if everyone already knew this, but I just learned

0:18.8

this today and wanted to share with the group.

0:21.4

More quick tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGe cool stuff found from you and from us.

0:56.1

We share your questions.

0:57.9

We try to provide answers.

0:59.4

Or at least head us down the troubleshooting path together.

1:03.7

We organize it all, it organize it.

1:06.9

Easy for me to say, all into an agenda that allows each of us to learn at least five new things

1:12.8

every single time we get together our sponsors for this episode are barebones.com with BB edit

1:20.6

a text editor that I use for all kinds of different things and gusto.com slash MG where you can get

1:26.3

three months of free

1:27.7

when you run your first payroll over there.

1:30.2

So we will talk more about both of those in a little bit.

1:34.5

For now, here on National Banana Cream Pie Day in Durham, New Hampshire.

1:39.6

I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:41.3

And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.

1:47.3

Hi. Hi.

1:48.6

Pilot Pete here.

1:51.8

Pilot Pete. There you go.

1:54.1

There you go. Coming up on pie day soon.

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