You Just Hit a Bump
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
When the topic of travel woes comes up, from the inability to check Siri for AirTag Battery Level to the absurdity of struggling with hotel Wi-Fi in Times Square in 2023, they dish out as many tips as they can, including how to dry out a Lightning Port and using services like ParkWhiz to save on parking in major cities.
In the “Your Questions Answered” segment, Christopher’s concern about protecting his family from scams leads to a valuable discussion on cybersecurity. Dave and Pilot Pete also answer Adam’s query about using a dock on a desktop Mac, troubleshoot Arthur’s problem of deleted mail accounts reappearing, and provide guidance on how to remove someone else’s photos from one’s library.
With plenty of insights about Macs and beyond, we’re reminded: “Don’t Get Caught” unprepared in the digital world. The show even manages to incorporate a clever solution using ChatGPT, making it a must-listen for every Apple enthusiast.
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 994 for Monday, August 7th, 2023
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 QT-Press Spacebar after Command-Shift-4 for Screenshots to Get Entire Window
00:05:06 Donna-QT-Test Long-Pressing on Frequently-Used Apps to Find Shortcuts
00:06:43 Chicago Tom-QT-Use Spotlight Instead of System Settings – But wait! There’s more!
00:11:08 ChatGPT Saves the Show
MacGPT
Midas M32
00:17:41 Greg-QT-Messages Won’t Let you Re-order the Photos and App Store icons
00:18:55 Gary-QT-Keyboard Battery Alert Feature in CleanMyMac X
00:20:19 PSA: You Lose your ability to check AirTag batteries – CR2032
00:22:37 Allison-QT-Turning on Maximize Compatibility Tethering turns on 2.4Ghz
00:25:35 Todd-QT- Using Facetime Video Camera as a “back up” camera
00:27:32 MyFaceIsTooBig-QT-Use Command-Key Shortcuts to rock the Finder
Command-Plus&Minus in Finder List view expands/contracts the height of entries
00:31:44 Glenn-QT-Shake your Mac’s mouse cursor to enlarge (and find) it!
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Travel Tips, Woes, and Fist-Shakes!
00:37:14 No Siri for AirTag Battery Level
00:38:44 Drying Out a Lightning Port
00:44:29 Macstock VII
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Gavin. I will bring us our quick tip of the week. When you are doing a |
| 0:06.4 | screenshot you can use command shift three, but if you use command shift four, command |
| 0:11.8 | shift three gets you the whole screen, command shift three gets you the whole screen command shift five gets you the whole new interface |
| 0:15.5 | that was brought to us recently but command shift three still works so does command shift |
| 0:19.7 | four what's cool about command shift four is it brings up the crosshairs where you can draw on the screen and pick an area and that that's the area that will be screenshot. |
| 0:29.0 | However, if you do Command Shift 4 before you start drawing drawing hit the space bar that will change it from crosshairs into a camera and that camera as you float your mouse over different windows will let you pick an entire window from which you want to grab a screenshot, |
| 0:47.5 | click it, boom, you've got your screenshot of that window isolated from the rest of the system with a little bit of a drop shadow is perfect. |
| 0:56.1 | More tips like this plus your questions answered today on Matt Geek Cab 994 for Monday, August 7th, 2023. Thanks folks and welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where we take quick tips like that |
| 1:28.0 | from us and from you we also take the questions you send into feedback at |
| 1:32.0 | Mac Geek Cab.com plus some cool stuff found. |
| 1:34.7 | We try to answer your questions, |
| 1:35.9 | we share the quick tips and the cool stuff found. |
| 1:38.4 | The goal is we put them together into an agenda |
| 1:42.3 | such that we each have the best opportunity to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:51.6 | Sponsors for this episode include PIA VPN.com |
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| 2:01.0 | and ZocDoc.com slash MGG where you can sign up for free and |
| 2:06.2 | find and book a great doctor today. We'll talk more in depth about each of those. |
| 2:12.2 | For now, here, back here, finally, in Durham, New Hampshire, |
| 2:16.2 | I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:17.2 | And here in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete. Good to be back. Trying to get into the rhythm of things again after a couple weeks off? |
| 2:26.2 | I think this is the longest, I know we did an, we released an episode last week, of course it was the one that we recorded at MaxDock and and I'm glad that we had |
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