The Finest Green Bubble Potatoes
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The episode also delves into hardware recommendations, discussing the best 27″ monitors for retina-spoiled eyes, including LG Ultrafine, ViewSonic, and Philips Creator Series. In the ‘Cool Stuff Found’ segment, uncover the brilliance of the Viewsonic VX1655-4K-OLED screen and the efficiency of TextSniper for grabbing text. Learn about affordable offsite backup solutions like iDrive E2 for Synology HyperBackups and Arq Backup.
Remember, in the world of tech, it’s crucial to stay informed and innovative, so “Don’t Get Caught” unprepared!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1010 for Monday, November 20th, 2023
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Welcoming Adam Christianson to the Show! (starting in December)
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Joe-QT-1008-Paste without formatting with Command-Shift-V
00:08:22 Mark-QT-Click on the desktop to clear your windows and reveal your Sonoma Desktop Widgets
00:11:17 Jeepster-QT-Click The Date in a Note to See Created vs. Edited Dates
00:12:57 Neal-QT-Link to set up Touch ID -v- Password for sudo Command!
Hardly Never
00:16:11 RCS Messaging comes to iPhone in 2024 (but it’s not end-to-end-encrypted)
Finest of All Green Bubble Potatoes
00:25:22 Ben-QT-Edit Distribution Lists in macOS Contacts to set primary email, phone, and address
Sponsors
00:27:54 SPONSOR: LinkedIn Jobs. Go to LinkedIn.com/MGG and post your first job for free!
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:29:30 Larry-Hub -v- USB-C Port. Which Is Faster?
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
00:37:11 Mark-Can I View Photos in my Photos Library Without Copying Them In?
00:43:20 Dan-Can I Do AppleID Family Sharing A cross Int’l Borders?
VPN into Canadia
00:47:06 JOakley-How do I put my Mac into Mirrored Display mode with a keyboard shortcut?
00:49:43 Tony-Is There a USB Volume Control Knob? – 3 + StreamDeck
YMOO S04 MultiMedia Control Knob
Vaydeer USB Volume Knob Multimedia Controller
DROK Lossless Computer Controller Adjuster
00:54:25 Rich W-What’s the best 27″ monitor for my Retina-spoiled eyes?
LG Ultrafine 27” ...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Matt Geek Cab and listener Joe brings us our quick tip of the week with a follow-up from |
| 0:06.4 | last week in episode one thousand nine where we were talking about a cool stuff found |
| 0:11.1 | and some other methods of pasting text without formatting. |
| 0:15.2 | Joe says you can also accomplish this natively in Mac OS by using command shift |
| 0:21.2 | V which gives you paste without formatting from the edit menu. |
| 0:27.0 | Other listeners suggested this as well. You're right Joe, this is a great way to do it and it works in my experience about 99% of the time and that's probably why those other tools and utilities exist to do it when it doesn't. |
| 0:42.0 | More quick tips like this plus your questions answered today on |
| 0:46.0 | Mac Geekab, 10-10 for Monday, November 20th, 2023. 23. Thanks folks and welcome to Mac Geek- |
| 1:09.0 | you have the show where you send in quick tips like that you send in |
| 1:12.2 | cool stuff out and like we mentioned you even send in your questions |
| 1:15.3 | which we do our level best to answer and we stitch it all together into an agenda |
| 1:22.0 | loosely organized maybe by topic or theme such that it makes it easy |
| 1:27.3 | for each and every one of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:34.8 | Sometimes we even play that sound when we learn something especially |
| 1:38.0 | notable for us. Sponsors for this episode include LinkedIn.com slash M.G. |
| 1:45.0 | where you can go and post your first job for free. |
| 1:47.8 | We'll talk more about that in a little bit. |
| 1:50.5 | For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 1:54.0 | And here in South Haven, Mississippi, showing some love down there. |
| 1:59.0 | Pilot Pete, good to be here, Dave. |
| 2:02.0 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 2:03.0 | I mean, it's thanks for coming back. |
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