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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Translate Anything, Tame Your Desktop, and Dodge the Plex Price Hike

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

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Translate Anything, Tame Your Desktop, and Dodge the Plex Price Hike – Mac Geek Gab 1144 episode image

This week you’ll learn to lean on Apple Intelligence to translate almost any text on the fly, lock down and hide sensitive apps on iOS, and finally tame your Desktop by remembering it’s just part of the Finder: flip on Stacks and/or let Hazel do the sorting for you. You’ll dig into why a 4K monitor looks different on your Mac than it does on Windows or Linux, hear how a BenQ display stacks up against a beloved LG, and grab Mirror Mode and BetterDisplay tricks for when you power down an external screen. Cracked your MacBook screen? Hook up an external display to rescue your data, or give that machine new life as a headless server. You’ll also get Siri reminding you the moment you arrive somewhere, and discover why your robot vacuum deserves an annual reset.

Then it’s your questions: whether you actually need a Plex Pass, and how to not get caught off guard when the lifetime price leaps to $749.99 on July 1st! Plus how to wrangle your @mac.com, @me.com, and @icloud.com addresses and confirm a cable is truly PD-qualified before you trust it.

Cool Stuff Found rounds things out with a color-screen USB cable tester, single-purpose apps that nail one job, agentic coding adventures, a Logitech Combo Touch case for your iPad Pro, and Mole’s brand-new macOS app. And when your Mac finally screams that it’s out of space? You’ll know exactly what to do. Don’t Get Caught missing it.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Cliff sends us our quick tip of the week on iOS,

0:07.9

or one iOS feature, but this is on iOS too, is that he says he has found very useful

0:14.9

lately, is to use the translate menu that is now in the context bar when you select text in iOS.

0:22.2

Instead of having to copy text and paste it into a translate app, just hitting the

0:27.2

translate menu pops up a separate window with a very good translation to English.

0:33.5

He says, I find this very helpful and use it in many different apps.

0:39.5

More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1144 for Monday, June 1st, Flip a Coin Day, 2026.

0:50.8

Mm-hmm. 26.

1:13.4

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

1:16.3

You send in your cool stuff found.

1:17.3

You send in your questions.

1:18.5

We share all of it. We try to provide context and answers and troubleshooting advice, all in the interest of every single one of us learning at least five new things every single time

1:29.5

we get together.

1:31.3

Our sponsors today are Car Guru's new guru feature where you can actually search just by

1:39.2

typing into a prompt.

1:41.6

And Nordlayer browser at Nordlayer.com slash browser, which is the business browser

1:47.6

built for today's work environments with all those SaaS apps and everything to keep you

1:52.9

secure from fishing. We'll talk about those in a little bit and we'll also talk about a quick

1:57.4

little announcement from our friends at Barebones that happened just after we recorded last week's episode.

2:06.7

For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

2:10.3

And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.

2:13.1

And here also in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete.

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