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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

World Brain Day Special: Backup Tips and Freezer Hacks

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

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

World Brain Day Special: Backup Tips and Freezer Hacks – Mac Geek Gab 1047 episode image

Get ready for Mac Geek Gab 1047 with Dave, Pilot Pete, and Adam Christianson, dropping knowledge on World Brain Day! Kick off with quick tips: forgetful moments? Use ChatGPT. It also helps summarize Zoom meeting notes. Pilot Pete then shows us how to manually select backup drives for Time Machine. Discover clever uses for your Apple Watch and streamline your clipboard with the Paste app. Get the lowdown on remote Bluetooth temp sensors for your fridge and freezers. Remember, “Don’t Get Caught” without these handy tricks!

Tackle your tech questions head-on: Larry finds the best way to add album artwork to Apple Music, and your three favorite geeks help Mark master file syncing between home and work with Resilio Sync. Adam shares his experience migrating to a new Synology DS423+ and handling Plex. Jeffrey has his Apple Watch music woes solved, while Rand gets tips on managing email overload by using SaneBox. Don’t miss Cool Stuff Found, from de-reverb plugins to disposable email addresses, and DEVONthink’s email archive tools. Stay savvy and never get caught unprepared!

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt Geek Cab and I will bring us our quick tip of the week. I was driving in my car and trying to remember a word that I had forgotten and then I realized wait. I can't do this right now because Siri can't help me with this, but

0:16.7

ChatGPT could. I got home, I launched the ChatGPT app, and I told it hey what's the word that means this and you know gave it like enough

0:27.4

context and boom there it was it gave me the word that I forgot and thinking about using chat geepte in these

0:34.9

ways I know we can use Google to like find the song that we couldn't remember by

0:38.7

humming the melody but chat geepee can help you find words or ideas or things like that.

0:44.7

More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 1047 for Monday, July 22nd, 2024. Greetings folks and indeed, welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where we take your tips and our tips

1:18.8

and we share them, we take your cool stuff found, and our cool stuff found, and we share them, we we take your questions and sometimes even our

1:24.6

questions and we try to answer them all with the goal of each of us learning at

1:30.8

least five new things every single time we get together.

1:34.4

Sponsors for this episode include a new one from a brand we know and love,

1:40.3

one password, extended Management, to protect all your devices at work, and

1:47.1

ZocDoc.com slash MGG, where you can go sign up for free and download the app today.

1:53.7

We'll talk more about each of those in a minute.

1:56.4

But here on World Brain Day in Durham, New Hampshire,

2:00.2

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

2:06.0

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

2:16.1

And here back also in New Hampshire, it's pilot Pete, Dave, related to that opening tip getting Chatchi P.T to give you words. I can't call that up right now. Maybe one of you two can tell me what is another word for

2:20.6

the source?

2:21.6

Oh man. Asking for a man. Why did we let him?

2:24.0

After this past weekend we should have known.

2:28.0

The dad jokes are strong with this one.

2:32.0

Yes.

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