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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

This Will All Be On The Test

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

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This Will All Be On The Test — Mac Geek Gab 1125 episode image

You start with Quick Tips that tighten up your daily Apple workflow fast. You learn how CarPlay scrubbing actually works while driving, how Siri can jump forward or back in precise time chunks, and why Apple’s vision for Siri, Gemini, and personal intelligence matters more than the hype suggests. You unlock practical wins like copying Voice Memos transcripts, using Continuity for clipboard magic across devices, mastering iPhone copy and paste gestures, and understanding when dragging photos quietly converts them to JPEGs. Along the way, you revisit Apple Newton roots, discover why tools like Yoink still matter, and pick up slick tricks for prepping images in Messages and pausing voice recordings mid-thought.

Then you move into real-world problem solving. You figure out how to record a selfie video on iPhone while reading a script without breaking your flow, why Sign in With Apple is still worth using, and how to monitor drive health without guessing. You finally get clarity on weird Trash behavior, stop your mouse from waking your Mac, and understand why green bubble RCS and SMS sometimes fail on macOS. The episode wraps with a discussion about Apple Creator Studio tools like Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Compressor, MainStage, and premium content across Apple’s productivity apps. Listen to sharpen your instincts so when it counts, you Don’t Get Caught.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Chris brings us our quick tip of the week with a quick tip I discovered by accident one day while driving.

0:10.6

I was listening to a podcast while driving and I wanted to skip an ad.

0:14.5

This means it definitely wasn't Mac Geekab I was listening to.

0:17.3

And instead of tapping the plus 30 second button, I rested my finger down while

0:23.1

keeping my eyes on the road. To my surprise and delight, the audio scrubbed forward first at an

0:29.7

understandable speed and then after a moment at an unintelligible, faster speed.

0:43.8

I can't tell if the scrubbing speed is affected by the playback speed, but it works for rewinding as well. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on Mac

0:49.3

Geekab 1125 for Monday, January 19th, 2026.

0:55.9

Huh.

0:57.0

There it is.

1:00.1

Whether we needed to sound or not.

1:03.4

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where you send in tips just like that one, and we share them.

1:19.7

You send in cool stuff found, and we share that.

1:22.8

You send in questions, and we share them, answer them, discuss them them find a troubleshooting path that seems reasonable

1:30.6

and the goal for all of this is that we each learn at least five new things every single time

1:37.6

we get together our sponsors for this episode include tempo meals.com slash m g where you get 60% off your first box,

1:47.2

stamps.com slash MG where code MG gets you 60 days risk free to try it out. And then also

1:57.3

clean my Mac at CLNMY.com slash Mac Geek, where MacGeek is all caps, but it doesn't matter. It's always in the show notes. You can always click these links in the show notes where you can try, clean my Mac for seven days free and then get 20% off with Code Mac Geek. But again, it's all in the show notes. And we'll talk about it a little bit later. For now, back here, finally, in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton. And still here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here also in Chile, New Hampshire, in the 50s this week, not this morning, in the teams. Yeah. It's Pilot Pete. Good to be back with you guys. Happy New Year. Yes. Happy New Year again. I mean, technically it's our third episode that we've released this year. But it is. But you never know it. It's the first time the three of us have recorded an episode since the New Year. I think we squeezed the last one in about 12 hours ahead of the of the of the of the of the new year so yeah right

2:53.0

hey dave i did say 2026 at the top you did and and it is it is January 19th is brew a potion day

3:00.4

so pick your favorite potion and brew it i chose throat coat tea but you know there you go there you

3:05.9

go did you mention the giveaway?

3:09.1

I did not. Our MacieCab Monthly giveaway is a, for January is a couple of our CES 2026 sponsors are participating in ensuring that you have a chance to even win a copy of their software.

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