That Sweet 2.4GHz Gold
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Your two favorite geeks also navigate the ins and outs of Apple’s watchOS 10 user experience and compare live TV options, breaking down costs and features of major providers. Wrapping things up with a “Cool Stuff Found” segment, they highlight the multifunctional Flighty app and a new eSIM compatibility tool. Press play, enjoy, and Don’t Get Caught!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 997 for Monday, August 28th, 2023
00:03:05 Podcast Movement Denver 2023
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Ben-QT-See Tapbacks in Mac Messages with a Single Click
00:06:37 Rico-QT-Check Your iPhone’s Storage, Especially if Apps are Forgetting their Place
00:07:53 Bradley-QT-Set Weather App Location Privacy Settings to Allow Widgets
00:11:35 Dan-QT-Use Option+Command to Solo Specific Calendars
00:13:51 Ben-QT-996-Change Mouse Pointer Color and Fill in Accessibility
00:16:10 Mark M-QT-Buy Your Next iPhone with Rewards
Chase Unlimited Card
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:19:23 Larry-Best way to clean up my Photos library?
PowerPhotos
00:27:16 Andrew Siri Search History
00:31:01 Shazam Origin Story
00:38:20 Paul – Getting & Running Prev. ver of Pages on a New Apple ID Account
Downloading an old version of Pages and other iWork apps
00:42:37 GBurlile-Limiting Wi-Fi Data Usage When Tethering?
TripMode
00:45:45 Sean-Which Apple Watch Should I Buy?
00:50:09 New UX with Apple watchOS. 10
00:52:15 Comparing Options for Live TV (with DVR)
With Local Channels
YouTube TV ($73)
DirecTV Stream ($100)
Fubo ($75)
Hulu + Live TV ($70)
Without Local Channels
Sling TV ($55)
Philo ($25)
Cool Stuff Found
01:02:35 Chris – Daisy Disk Non-App Store ver. Scan as Admin
01:04:13 CSF-Flighty app has fantastic Apple integrations
FlightAware
TripIt
FlightRadar24
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Ben brings us our quick tip of the week with |
| 0:04.9 | something he just discovered another efficiency when interacting with tapbacks |
| 0:10.0 | in the messages app on both Mac and iPhone and of course iPad to see who has |
| 0:16.6 | reacted to a message via tap back you know if you especially if you're in a group |
| 0:21.1 | right and you see you know the little thumbs up or the thumbs down |
| 0:24.8 | or the heart sign or whatever, |
| 0:26.2 | but you don't, it doesn't show you which person. |
| 0:28.9 | It just shows you that there are reactions. |
| 0:31.4 | You tap or click, if on the Mac the tap backs stacked in the |
| 0:35.8 | corner of the message. You don't need to click and hold you don't need to long |
| 0:38.7 | press you don't need to double tap the message itself just tap once on or click once on the actual |
| 0:46.8 | little reaction in the upper left corner of the message and it will expand the |
| 0:52.2 | tap backs themselves and show you what which person |
| 0:57.0 | responded in which way which is awesome I've I've been driving myself crazy to do this |
| 1:02.1 | for a long time so I really appreciate this tip. |
| 1:05.2 | More quick tips like this plus. |
| 1:08.0 | Your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 997 for Monday, August 28th, 2023. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Mac Geeky up the show where you send in your |
| 1:38.0 | tips your cool stuff found your questions and we share your tips like we just did we will share your |
| 1:44.7 | cool stuff found I don't know if we'll have time for that today but you know we |
| 1:47.5 | always try to squeeze a couple in and then we answer your questions |
| 1:52.0 | sometimes we even have questions of our own which we answer together. |
| 1:55.0 | The goal being that each of us learns at least five new things. |
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