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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

We Are Not The Mickey Mice!

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

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We Are Not The Mickey Mice! — Mac Geek Gab 1132 episode image

You start this episode by supercharging your daily Apple workflow with rapid-fire Quick Tips: speaking the time from your wrist, taming screenshot previews, unzooming a stuck iPhone screen, batch‑moving iOS apps, and sharpening Live Text and document photos so you can capture, control, and share exactly what you want without friction. You also learn how to keep Chrome from quietly hijacking your mic levels before Zoom calls, plus clever ways to organize appliance manuals using NotebookLM and Apple’s Books app so that the answers you need are always a quick search away—Don’t Get Caught hunting for docs or fighting your own settings again.

From there, you dive into Mac Developer Gab with the MGG iOS app as a living example of how AI‑assisted coding becomes a collaborative partner instead of a replacement, including practical use of Claude Code’s Plan Mode to map changes before writing a line of code.

Then you pivot into Apple’s newly “affordable‑first” lineup—MacBook Neo, Air, and Pro, the new Studio Displays, iPhone 17e, and iPad Air M4—breaking down which model actually fits your real‑world use and budget, before wrapping with fixes for flaky AirDrop using the NFC “boop” trick and remote‑controlling Apple TV via hubs so your gear does what you want, when you want it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt Keecab and listener Dave C brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:06.2

He says, on my lazy mornings, I want to keep my eyes closed, but still know what time it is.

0:11.5

One of my favorite solutions for this is to put two fingers on my Apple Watch and then, like magic, the S-Lady announces the time.

0:21.6

It's a nice little trick to keep the eyes closed longer.

0:25.2

We will talk about what happens if this doesn't work for you a little bit later in the episode because it didn't work for me at first.

0:33.6

But here, today, more quick tips like this, plus your questions answered on Mac Geekab 1132 for Monday, March 9th National Banana Cream Pie Day, 2026.

0:48.3

Oh, that's the wrong theme song.

0:51.6

It's still 2026, but this is the right theme song.

1:15.7

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab. You're right. This is not business brain. It is Mac Geekab, and that's why we played the right theme song, the show where we share quick tips

1:19.7

like that. We share cool stuff found. We share your questions. We answer your questions, where we do

1:26.0

our level best to walk all of us down the troubleshooting process, such that every time we get together, we each learn at least five new things.

1:35.8

Our sponsors for this episode include Stamps.com, where code MG gets you 60 days risk free.

1:46.0

I've used stamps.com.

1:46.8

I love it.

1:47.1

I've also used Shopify.com slash MG where you can sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today.

1:53.6

And I've used and still use, in fact, I've used and still use all three of these things.

1:59.2

Clean by Mac where you can go to their special URL, which is just simpler to click from

2:03.4

in the show notes than try and explain to you.

2:06.0

But code Mac Geek lets you try, clean my Mac free for seven days, and then Code

2:11.7

Mac Geek gets you 20% off.

2:13.8

So we'll talk more about all of those in the episode here.

2:19.3

For now, here in Durham,

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