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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

We Need That Five Sense Experience

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Terminal tips to do make tricky things easy, an Apple Pencil alternative, Robots to clean your home and your pool, and a hidden pinball game are just the first few things you’ll hear from John, Pete, and Dave in this week’s Mac Geek Gab episode. Plus, with answers to important questions like, “How do I unmute my husband?” you’re guaranteed to learn at least five new things! Press play and join your three favorite geeks for all this and more!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 959 for Monday, December 12, 2022

Tom-Assign Nicknames to Use When Calling with Siri
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!


00:05:27 Pairing a Bluetooth Keyboard to a Non-Logged-In Mac

Replacing the ML2032 Battery Logitech Solar Keyboard


Cool Stuff Found

00:13:40 Scott-CSF-Google App’s Hidden Pinball Game
00:15:24 Mark-CSF Magnetic Wireless Charging Benks Pen
00:18:06 Lawyer Jeff-CSF-Awesome macOS Terminal Commands
00:19:24 CSF-Roborock Q5+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum
00:25:33 CSF-Aiper Seagull SE Pool Robot


Sponsors

00:27:55 SPONSOR: LinkedIn Jobs. Go to LinkedIn.com/MGG and post your first job for free!
00:29:29 SPONSOR: BBEdit, the power tool for text from Bare Bones Software; now with integrated Notebooks and extended language support.
00:31:01 SPONSOR: Kolide – Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today at Kolide.com/MGG


More Cool Stuff Found

00:32:35 AlexS-CSF-Howard Oakley’s Spotlight Article
00:35:19 Andrew The 8764th-CSF-USB-C to Lightning Adapter Cables (for cases)

Rubber Retainers for your cables and adapters


00:37:29 Allison-CSF-Eufy Security SmartTrack Link (aka AirTag clone…kinda)
00:38:58 CSF-eufy Smart Scale P2 Pro
00:42:02 Ben-CSF-SlingStudio for Multi-Cam Live Streaming
00:44:21 CSF-EZQuest “Ultimate Plus” Dual HDMI USB-C 12-Port Hub with 100W PD

Or direct from EZQ.com
Bartesian




Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:48:03 Ericka-How Do I Unmute My Husband?
01:02:12 Ben-

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt Geek Cab and listener Tom brings us our quick tip of the week with

0:07.0

Instead of using people's real names to make calls you can assign a related name and use it. For example, I use

0:14.5

Siri, call mom or Siri call wife. The way to do this is to go into your phone's

0:20.2

contacts and edit. There's a section where you can edit the contact that says

0:24.4

add related name this lets you pick a common name or add your own and then assign

0:29.7

them to people for instance if you have two friends named Dave, you can have, hey, call

0:36.7

Dave of the Mac Geek Gap and it'll call the right person. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on

0:44.9

Mac Geek Cab 959 959 for Monday December 12th, 2022. 22. Greetings folks and welcome to a mak geek up the show where you send in your tips like that one your questions and your cool stuff

1:14.5

found we take them all we string them together into an agenda that has one

1:20.6

guiding purpose our prime directive, if you will, and that is that every single

1:27.2

one of us, that means those of us that host the show, along with all of you, we're all together

1:31.6

in this, that each and every one of us learns at least

1:35.4

five new things every single week when we get together. Sponsors for this episode include Collide at Ko-lide dot com slash m-g-g-e-e-a-e-e-to-g-a-e-a-e-e-a-e-e-e-a-e-e-a-e-a-e-a-e-tose, it's like Matt G-e-cickea for your device security at your company it's amazing because your users will learn five new things.

1:54.0

Bee be at it from bare-bones software. I've got a few things I'll teach you when we talk

1:58.8

about that a little later and LinkedIn.com slash MGG where you can go and post your first job for free.

2:05.0

Like I said, we'll talk more in depth about each of those in a little bit for now.

2:08.0

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

2:12.0

And here in peripheral Connecticut, this is John F. Broad.

2:16.0

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

2:20.0

Good to be back, guys.

2:21.0

That's good to be, it is good to be back. I your your quick tip the opening quick

2:26.4

tip you shared Pete I have I use the nickname field to accomplish the same thing and like and what's cool about that is in like in like in my phone or in my contacts I should say I have you as Pilot Pete.

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