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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Treat Your TV Like a Monitor

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 December 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Treat Your TV Like a Monitor — Mac Geek Gab 1118 episode image

You kick off this episode with a rapid-fire blast of Quick Tips that sharpen how you use your Mac, iPhone, and apps every day. You learn how to tame iOS typing quirks, get the most out of dictation in ChatGPT’s Mac app, clean up Safari’s sidebar, and jump straight into System Settings with an alphabetical view. Then you dive into the spam-text battlefield, where forwarding to 7726, filtering, and blocking help you stay ahead. And because it’s Mac Geek Gab, you’re reminded: Don’t Get Caught letting your smart TV monitor more than you expect.

From there, you get practical answers to real listener questions: backing up external Photos Libraries, deciding whether you trust Tailscale (and your relatives!), keeping network drives mounted in macOS 26, and dealing with the fact that Messages aren’t included in your Apple Data Archive. You round things out with a strong Cool Stuff Found segment covering tools to clean your menu bar, manage your watch history, secure your Mac, replace Bento, and more. It’s a full week of tips that tighten your workflow and expand what your Apple gear can do for you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.6

you can set an auto buy on Amazon.

0:09.7

I find it's easiest in the Amazon app.

0:12.2

You go to the page for the item and then tap on Rufus.

0:15.0

That's the Ask a Question bot.

0:17.3

Then type in Auto Buy.

0:19.9

Then you can set up what price you're willing to pay, like set the lowest price in the last 30 days.

0:26.6

And it will auto buy the item for you without you having to keep going back and check on the price.

0:33.4

Yeah.

0:34.2

More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1118 for Monday, December 1st, 2025.

0:44.5

Huh. I don't know why the music's not playing. Let me see if I try that again. Here it is.

0:49.9

Woo-hoo!

0:53.3

Love that tip, though. Yeah. Woo-hoo!

1:10.8

Welcome to Matt Keeke of the show where we we share tips like that from you, from us.

1:12.8

We share cool stuff found from you from us.

1:29.0

We share questions from you, yes, from us, hopefully sharing some answers or at least some directionally accurate troubleshooting to get us all down that path of learning at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:36.3

Our sponsors include Shopify.com slash MG, where you can sign up for your $1 per month trial period, or aframes.com where you can use promo code MG and get $45 off their Carver mat frame.

1:47.0

And yes, now the link works.

1:48.8

You can actually click Add to Cart.

1:50.9

So this is good.

1:52.3

If it didn't work for you last week, please try again.

1:55.3

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