Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting To RAID or Not (to RAID)? – Mac Geek Gab 805
Mar 9, 2020
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Do you close your Terminal sessions correctly? Does iStat Menus work after you migrate? Are you getting Notes to launch as fast as possible? You'll be able to answer "yes" to all three of these things after just the first few minutes of this week's show. Stick around and learn about taming CarPlay, sharing Calendars, using a VPN with your Apple TV and much more. You'll definitely hit your quota of learning at least five new things with John and Dave this week.Note: Shownotes are complete!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 805 for Monday, March 9, 2020
- 00:02:05 Mace-QT-Close a Terminal Session with
Control-D - 00:04:32 Jon-QT-Reinstall iStat Menus after you migrate to new Mac
- 00:08:34 Andrew-QT-Access Notes from the iOS lock screen
- 00:10:29 Peter-To RAID or Not to RAID?
- 00:19:44 Kevin-Which SIM for a Trip to UK?
- 00:26:07 Dan-Sharing iCloud Calendar with Less Than Full Family
- Create new calendar with subset of family. Can also invite others, set read-only or read/write for each user.
- 00:30:37 Brian-Setting the default app for CarPlay
- The 480-Minute Blank Track – Things By Simon | Things By Simon
- Name track AAA so it will always play (silence) first
- 00:36:13 SXSW Canceled
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- 00:49:27 Guido-801-SmartDNS for Pseudo-VPN on Apple TV
- 00:51:06 Andrew-VPN for Apple TV with Unblock-Us.com
- 00:55:43 Bill-Differences between private DNS and VPN Security –
nslookup www.apple.comdig www.apple.com
- 01:00:54 Looking for a MGG Producer
- 01:03:41 This Week’s MGG Premium Contributors:
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- 01:05:47 Andrew-CSF-Irradiated Software Labs
- 01:07:39 Keith-CSF-802-iPerf3 speed test for iOS
- 01:09:09 Barry-CSF-Flighty for Tracking Flights
- 01:11:03 CSF-Eyeque Home Vision Test
- 01:14:17 CSF-OWC Envoy Pro EX
- 1750 MBps writes, 2350 MBps reads. Bus powered, TB3-only
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- 01:19:46 Jim in Alaska-802-Have Comcast Check Speeds after Hours
- 01:21:16 Petter-Setup live.macgeekgab.com, too
- 01:22:29 MacEdge-iCloud Drive slows down spinning drive Macs.
- 01:26:48 MGG 805 Outtro
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