MGG 575: There’s No Better Time For a Funky Monkey

Today your two favorite geeks share their own, personal Cool Stuff Found plus answer your questions about syncing contacts locally vs. iCloud, how to restore preview in Mission Control, software vs. hardware RAID, Nuking and paving your Fonts (without disrupting the rest of your system!) and much, much more!

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Note: Shownotes are complete!

Stuff mentioned:

• Apple My Support Profile
• Apple Store Trumbull
• About backups in iCloud and iTunes
• About iTunes Encrypted Backups
• How to use Apple’s Support Profile System
• AppleCare+ for iPhone (7:44)
• LA Computer’s AppleCare Deals
• New 21.5” iMacs have soldered RAM
• Logic Pro X (14:11)
• Google 2-Step Verification (15:48)
• OS X: Using Finder’s Get Info & Inspector Windows (16:57)
• Command line completion (18:23)
• Contacts “On My Mac” vs. “iCloud” (25:31)
• iCloud: Organize messages into folders (35:11)
• Font Book (40:32)
• Font Book (El Capitan): Restore standard fonts
• PlugBug World (51:43)
• Apple World Travel Adapter Kit
• Grain Audio In-Ear Headphones (57:24)
• Tile (59:47)
• Replace and Recycle with ReTile
• Anker PowerCore 20100 (battery pack) (1:06:42)
• Anker PowerPort 10 (1:08:22)
• SnapPower Guidelight (1:09:53)
• SnapPower Charger (1:13:17)
• Fuse Chicken Cables (1:16:06)
• MyCharge AmpProng+ (1:18:48)
• Kahoot (1:21:45)
• Seagate Seven
• The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.