Where Has All My Free Space Gone?
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Join Dave and Adam as they dive into listener tips, questions, and the occasional tech rabbit hole. From the nuances of using ellipses on your Mac to the mysteries of disappearing free space, they cover it all. Plus, get insights into the latest Apple announcements, including the new M4 Mac Mini and iMac.
In this episode’s Cool Stuff Found, explore a 3-in-1 portable charging station and a revolutionary ear-cleaning tool. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or just looking for practical advice, there’s something here for everyone.
Don’t miss out on these valuable insights and tech tips. Click play and make sure you Don’t Get Caught without the latest knowledge from Mac Geek Gab!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1062 for Monday, November 4th, 2024
00:02:00 November 4th: Use Your Common Sense Day
00:03:15 Police Code 10-62 = Subject possibly wanted
00:04:25 MGG Monthly Giveaway – OWC Express 1M2 SSD Enclosure for November, 2024
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Joe-QT-You can always paste a phone number in on the iPhone…but it’s hidden
00:05:22 Todd-1060-Ellipses (sometimes) happen automatically (bonus: Option-Semicolon)
00:08:20 Lawyer Jeff-QT-Reset Launch Services to clear-up Mac App Store updates list
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain user
00:10:12 Web apps and links in macOS 15
00:17:35 Alex-QT-354-Don’t forget about Pages and Numbers Versioning
00:21:40 Jose-QT-Drag and Drop Text into Reminders or Notes on iPhone
Yoink (also in Setapp)
00:27:00 Fixed vs. Rotating Private Wi-Fi Addresses in iOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia, etc
00:31:00 John-QT-Set camera button to activate on double-press to avoid accidents
Settings > Camera > Camera Control
Halide Camera
Sponsor
00:33:33 SPONSOR: Coda, the one Doc to rule them all. Bring your text and tables together! Sign up at Coda.io/mgg for FREE.
Show Business
00:42:37 MGG Premium Listener Contribution Appreciation Moment
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:35:19 Adam’s Ember Mug, Apple Login
00:45:17 Apple’s Week of Releases
00:46:49 Joe-New Mac mini M4 coming…start fresh or Migration Assistant?
How about pre-migration cleanup?
CleanMyMac’s Uninstaller and Space Lens
ChronoSync
BackBlaze
Time Machine
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Joe brings us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:06.0 | He says, I found this after being frustrated with not simply being able to paste in a phone number in the iPhone phone app in the keypad part. |
| 0:14.2 | Normally a data detector will detect a phone number and just offer to let me call. |
| 0:19.2 | But that doesn't always work. |
| 0:21.0 | What I found is that you can paste a phone number in, but it's hidden. |
| 0:25.0 | When you have the dial pad screen up, you simply tap and hold above the keypad in that sort |
| 0:33.6 | of white area where the phone number would appear eventually, and you will get a paste option. |
| 0:39.8 | And then tap paste and boom, your number appears and then you can hit the little green button |
| 0:44.9 | to make the call. |
| 0:47.1 | More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1062 for Monday, November 4th. Use Your Common Sense Day, 2024. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt KeeKab, the show where you send in tips like that. |
| 1:21.8 | We share them. |
| 1:22.4 | You send in cool stuff found. |
| 1:23.6 | We share that. |
| 1:24.1 | You send in questions. |
| 1:25.1 | We share them. |
| 1:25.8 | And we even try to answer them uh and |
| 1:29.1 | and sometimes that becomes a conversation that lasts for multiple shows because we have a great |
| 1:33.6 | family here and all of that good stuff the goal with pulling all of these together for you is |
| 1:40.4 | to ensure that each of us learns at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:46.1 | Our sponsors for this episode include coda.io slash m gg, one doc to rule them all. |
| 1:54.8 | You can bring all your text and tables together and you can sign up at coda.io slash m gg for free. |
| 2:00.7 | We'll talk more about that in a little bit for now back here in |
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