You Don’t Have to Beat The Guillotine
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Quick Tips rule the week, with the Finder sidebar getting special attention. Keyboard shortcuts are the runner-up, too, with lots of love there, as well.
Lastly but not leastly: your questions. How do you print envelopes? How do you generate passwords? Your three favorite geeks have answers!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 965 for Monday, January 23, 2023
Lucas-QT-If You need to Scan a QR code from your phone, put it up on your Apple Watch! (screenshots in Photos or Mail)
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
00:06:17 Apple’s M2 Evolution into Mac mini and MacBook Pro
Apple’s M2 Pro and M2 in new Mac mini
Create an Aggregate Device to combine multiple audio devices – not sure the time stamp
Apple’s new M2 Pro and M2 Max in MacBook Pro
Apple’s M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips
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Quick Tips
00:30:35 Tigg-QT-Rearrange Groups in Finder Sidebar
00:33:04 RichardA-QT-Keeping Finder Tags Simple…and Useful
00:34:50 PorthosJon-QT-Disable Finder Icon Previews to Speed Things Up
00:35:47 Lee-QT-Live Captions (Beta) in iOS and macOS
Use Live Captions on Mac
00:39:44 Mark M-QT-Shift-and-Scroll-Wheel to Go Horizontal
00:41:27 PorthosJon-QT-Mass Quit Apps with Cmd-Tab and then Q (with Keyboard Maestro you can “Undo” an oops by Cmd-Q a second time before releasing! P2 )
00:44:53 Ben-QT-961-Learn iPad Keyboard Shortcuts by Holding Command Key
00:45:59 AQ-QT-Touch and Hold CarPlay’s App Grid Button to Activate Siri
00:47:44 TNPapa-QT-Use Cmd-Opt-W to Close all Finder Windows -> Works on MOST programs!
00:49:09 CheatSheet for macOS
00:50:11 Scott-QT-Use Carbon Copy Cloner to Schedule your Mac’s Weekly Restart
00:52:26 Pete’s advice: restart first!
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:55:00 Larry-How do you make envelopes?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's time for Mac Geekab and listener, and also my son Lucas brings us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:08.0 | He pointed out to me, he had something, in fact we were getting ready for our trip to Italy and installing our |
| 0:14.3 | QR codes for our e-Sim plans on our phones and those QR codes for this particular |
| 0:20.0 | plan we chose came in via email and so I did mine on my laptop so that I could |
| 0:25.4 | scan it with my phone because you got to scan it with your phone in order for your |
| 0:28.3 | phone to like start to process and ingest the e- sim and do all of it stuff. He opened up that same email on his watch, his |
| 0:37.4 | Apple watch, and scanned it from his phone's camera on his watch and was able to do it that way. |
| 0:43.4 | So if you need to scan a QR code that you get on a web page or in an email, |
| 0:48.4 | you can do it on your watch. |
| 0:49.4 | Take a screenshot of it if it's on the web page from your phone, |
| 0:52.1 | put it in photos. now your watch can see the |
| 0:54.1 | photo boom you're good to go more tips like this plus your questions answered |
| 1:00.3 | today on Mac Geek have 965 for Monday January 23rd, 2023. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where you send in |
| 1:26.4 | tips like that we share them you send in cool stuff found we share them we share |
| 1:31.0 | some cool stuff found of our own that software and hardware that we find it's like you know |
| 1:35.8 | Cool or that you find that's cool you also send in your questions we share those we try to share answers for your questions too. The goal being we put it all |
| 1:44.6 | together so that every time we get together we each learn at least five new |
| 1:50.7 | things. Sponsors for this episode include collide at KOLIDE.com |
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| 1:59.7 | educate your users. It's cool. It's like your users can learn five new things about the security of your workplace |
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