They Dissolve Like You’re Thanos
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Don’t get caught unprepared for the unexpected! Struggling with Wi-Fi interference, managing multiple Apple Homes, or dimming Safari’s display? They tackle it all, even diving into quirky fixes like disabling external monitor signals with BetterDisplay Pro. Plus, Cool Stuff Found features gems like Obsidian for Markdown and Elevation Lab’s 10-Year AirTag Battery Case. Packed with wisdom, laughs, and actionable tips, this episode is your ticket to staying geeky and in control.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1071 for Monday, January 6th, 2025
January 6th: National Take a Poet to Lunch Day
Police Code 10-71 – Advise nature of fire / Shooting
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Win an MGG T-Shirt from our new merch store!
MGG CES 2025 Sponsors
CCC Backup from Bombich
The Omni Group
Private Internet Access
Roborock
eero
Pre-CES Audio-related Cool Stuff Found
00:05:08 Barry-CSF-Three Shower Speakers: Infinity X1, Shower Power Pro, and JBL Clip
00:8:03 CSF-1MORE S70 Open Ear Wireless Earbuds
00:10:59 CSF-Soundcore Sleep A10 Sleep Earbuds
Quick Tips
00:00:01 David-QT-iOS 18.3 adds control for iCloud mail rules
00:13:16 Alex-QT-iOS 18 returns Volume Bar to Lock Screen playback widget
00:15:51 Phil-QT-Site Search JavaScript
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00:18:55 Andrew-QT-Add Apple items, like weather, to your menu bar.
00:20:21 James-QT-1068-Remember you CAN move your Photos library to an external drive
Sponsors
00:24:37 CES 2025 COVERAGE SPONSOR: Private Internet Access VPN – Save 82% off your VPN service PLUS four free months with a two-year plan at PIAVPN.com/mgg.
Don’t Get Caught
00:26:44 David-DGC-Mail stored On My iPhone disappeared!
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:30:00 Emily-how do I see if my photos are all synced to iCloud in iOS 18?
00:36:21 Chris-iMac M1 with wifi issues
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Matt Geekab and listener David brings us our quick tip of the week by saying I was playing around in iOS 18.3 and found that Apple has added the ability to manage, create, edit, ICloud mail rules in iOS. |
| 0:18.7 | Previously, this was only available at ICloud.com, but now is added in iOS, 18.3, perhaps earlier, |
| 0:28.5 | but certainly 18.3 and later would be really nice if there were on-device mail rules that we could |
| 0:36.0 | edit, like with mail. |
| 0:37.3 | But hey, you know, it's a step in the right direction. |
| 0:40.5 | More tips like this. |
| 0:42.3 | Plus, your questions answered today on Mackey Cab 1071 for Monday, January 6th, National Take a Poet to Lunch Day, 2025! Happy New Year! |
| 1:14.7 | Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac geekab. |
| 1:22.7 | Yep, we are the show where we share your quick tips and our quick tips, your cool stuff found, and ours, and your questions and our answers. |
| 1:31.7 | And sometimes our questions and hopefully our answers to this is the beginning of CES week here for us. |
| 1:36.6 | We are, this is coming out sort of let's say before CES begins. |
| 1:40.8 | That's not entirely accurate because there's some press events before Monday. But yeah. |
| 1:42.4 | And our CES coverage sponsors without whom we could not do what we're doing and go to Vegas |
| 1:49.0 | and do all the coverage and sift through everything and then have Sadie in the |
| 1:53.6 | back room, managing all the videos and producing them for us all. |
| 1:58.0 | Couldn't do it without the following five companies. |
| 2:01.7 | ERO at ERO.com. |
| 2:03.8 | Roborock at Roborock.com. |
| 2:06.4 | Private Internet access at P-I-A-V-P-N dot com slash M-G. |
| 2:11.2 | The Omni Group at Omnigroup.com. |
| 2:14.8 | And C-C-C backup from Bombic.com, B-O-M-B- BOMBICH.com. So thanks to each and every one of them. |
| 2:22.8 | You will hear more about each of them later this week with some videos that we're doing. |
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