This past Friday marks 9 years of Mac Geek Gab, and your two favorite geeks are at it and stronger than ever. Download and/or press “Play” on today's show to hear some great listener-submitted tips about managing Finder settings, installing Yosemite beta, podcast management and more. Then your geeks answer listener questions, including a great segment on managing disk space, both inside iTunes and beyond. Also the great question is answered, “What are the true benefits of private cloud?” Don't miss it!

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Stuff mentioned:

Father’s Day
Yasu (4:00)
Onyx
chmod
Install OS X Yosemite on Two Partitions (7:40)
Remote restart a FileVault 2 Mac with: sudo fdesetup authrestart (10:30)
fdesetup
Growl (12:30)
Prowl
Boxcar.io
HardwareGrowler
iPod Classic has better audio quality than all others (16:05)
Audioengine D1
On itunes 11.1, can you delete podcast episodes? (24:57)
Daisy Disk (28:30)
OS X: What is “other” space in About This Mac?
OmniDiskSweeper
fseventer
What Size? (41:45)
Battery Doctor
Arq
How to mount remote folders from another Synology NAS (1:05:44)
CIFS/SMB
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MGG 506: Nine Years, Two Geeks and Hundreds Of Thousands of Listeners