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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Quick Tips for your Mac and iPhone about Siri, QR codes, Voice Isolation, and Multi-Port USB-C Chargers are just the beginning today. After that, your three favorite geeks provide answers to your questions about configuring your network, properly ejecting disks, waking up your Mac remotely, and much more. Plus, John, Pete, and Dave share some Cool Stuff Found, too! Press play and enjoy learning (at least!) five new things!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 967 for Monday, February 6, 2023

Mike-QT-Right Click on Ventura System Settings Dock Icon for Deep Links
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:03:50 Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit

16C = 61F
28C = 82F
0C = 32F
100C = 212F
-40C = -40F
Raycast

00:07:36 PorthosJon-QT-Ask Siri, What’s My Update?
00:08:35 QT-Sidecar and Continuity Camera

Camo no work on some hotel networks unless USB

00:12:15 Don-QT-965-Long-press QR Codes on your iPhone to Link to them

What is Apple Live Text and how does it work on your photos?

00:15:07 Todd-QT Make a Lock Screen Image QR Code of your Biz-Card

iQR App – Mac App Store $14.99
QR Factory $29.99 (Tunabelly Software)
QR Code Generator (for Wi-Fi)
Eero > Settings > Guest Network > Share QR Code

00:22:24 Adam-QT-macOS Ventura adds Voice Isolation Mic Mode to Control Center
00:27:57 LLMMD-QT-Add Custom Effects in the ~/Library/Sounds folder
00:29:19 PorthosJon-QT/PSA-Be Aware Of Multi-port PD Chargers Resetting When a New Device is Plugged in
00:30:54 Jamie-QT-Use Synology to Securely Share Files with Friends/Family

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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:36:38 Peter-My Mac Won’t Always See My Printer
00:46:17 Jeremy-How do I properly eject my Photos drive?

lsof | grep [DriveName]

00:51:43 Sylvain-Safari Time Travel for Previous or Next Page
00:53:03 Andrew-Create Shortcuts for Push-Button “Radio Stations” via Apple Music

Mac Geek Gab app

00:56:02 Ken-Waking Up Mac with CCC Scheduled Task

pmset -g sched
System Information > Hardware > Power
TailScale Starts On Login

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Matt Geek Cab and listener Mike brings us our quick tip of the week by telling us one thing he noticed with Ventura is that it has some entries for things in the if you right click on the system
0:17.7	settings icon in the dock you right click on that and it pops up a menu just like
0:22.4	system preferences used to.
0:24.4	We noticed, and it's great, you can go and choose like network, which is cool because there is,
0:30.8	you know, you can choose time machine, which gets you a layer deep because General is where
0:35.7	Time Machine lives now, but it shows up in that menu.
0:38.0	General, however, does not show up in that menu.
0:40.8	There are some things that don't appear there, but lots of them do.
0:44.0	So if you want a quick way to get into a specific system settings pain, try right clicking on its
0:51.0	dock icon, and there you go go more tips like this plus your
0:55.4	questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 967 for Monday I was gonna say
1:01.8	Friday was I gonna say Friday for Monday I was going to say Friday. I was going to say Friday.
1:03.0	For Monday, February 6th, 2023. Greetings folks and welcome to or welcome back to
1:25.1	Matt Geekab the show where you send in your tips like that you send in your
1:29.2	questions you send in your cool stuff found we share your tips like we've
1:32.4	already started doing today we share your cool stuff found. We share your tips like we've already started doing today. We share
1:34.6	your cool stuff found. We share and try to answer your questions. Sometimes we bring tips, questions,
1:39.6	and cool stuff found of our own. The goal being that we put it all into an agenda so that we can each
1:45.6	learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode
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1:56.9	your users learn about security so that they can manage their own device as well good stuff and Z Zoc Doc at Zoc Doc.com
2:04.4	slash MGG you can sign up for their free app and download it and pick and find a
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