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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

The eSIM Showdown, Sync Mysteries, and Must-Know Mac Tricks

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

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The eSIM Showdown, Sync Mysteries, and Must-Know Mac Tricks – Mac Geek Gab 1141

Buckle up, geeks! This week’s Quick Tips have you refreshing the App Store like a pro, turning Finder’s Quick Actions into a PDF-combining powerhouse, swiping that iOS cut/copy/paste bar like a power user, and finally taming horizontal scrolling on your non-Apple mouse.

Then it’s tales from the road: Adam wrestles eSIMs into submission with a Starlink cameo, Linda accidentally invents her own ISP, Mint Mobile’s tablet plan steps into the spotlight, and Dave shares what he learned from TP-Link about the FCC saga you’ll want in your ears before your next router purchase.

Your questions get the full treatment, too. VaShaun learns how to keep his SSID intact when switching providers (including travel router magic!), Jim battles a stubborn Trash with rm, lsof, and fuser so you Don’t Get Caught staring at undeletable files, and GW finally gets a straight answer on why sync is so hard.

Cool Stuff Found rounds it out with WhiteScreen.Online turning your devices into panel lights, Zenringer landing at half price, the Basic Bookmark Checker tidying your digital life, the Flipper Zero cloning whatever’s clonable, and the OBDEleven gen 3 unlocking your car’s hidden settings. Hit play and geek out.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.7

Mac Geekab 1140 mentioned a great quick tip about long pressing the App Store app for updates.

0:13.4

It might be good to add this QT quick tip to remember to pull down to refresh.

0:18.7

I often go there and it shows one or two apps that I need to update.

0:23.0

And when I pull down refresh, there's many more. My list of updates today went from three to

0:27.7

27 when I refreshed. So don't forget to do that. More quick tips like this. Plus, your

0:34.4

questions answered today for Matt Geekab 1141 for Monday, May 11th,

0:40.0

20206 National Technology Day.

1:05.1

Music Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where you send in quick tips like that.

1:06.4

We share them.

1:07.7

You send in cool stuff found.

1:08.3

We share it.

1:09.6

You send in questions.

1:10.2

We share them.

1:14.6

We answer them, or at least we talk through kind of the way we might go about answering them. Because the goal is for each and every one of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:23.4

Our sponsors for this episode include Car Guru's Discover, which lets you type in what you want,

1:30.0

and you don't have to use search filters at Carguoros.com.

1:33.0

Nordlayer browser at Nordlayer.com slash browser, which is a business browser built for

1:38.2

like how work actually happens that came out this year, not like 10 years ago, you know,

1:43.5

and clean my Mac, which you can try

1:46.0

for seven days and then use our code Mac Geek for 20% off at CLNMY.com slash MacGeek. Or you

1:53.3

could just go to the show notes at Mackeekup.com and click all the links. You don't have to remember

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