

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
Get answers to your Apple tech questions every week! Dave Hamilton, Adam Christianson, and Pilot Pete share tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice for your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more — all delivered in a fun, friendly way that helps geeks and everyday users alike. Don’t Get Caught without your tech working right!
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Jan 19, 2016 • 0sec
MGG 588: ¡No Te Dejes Atrapar!
Dave's back from Mexico and he and John are back at it. Some fantastic quick tips today, including some that your two favorite geeks didn't know about both the Mac and the iPhone. New Mac buying advice is on your minds this week, so that topic is covered too, plus some travel tips from Dave round out the show!
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Stuff mentioned:
Mobile Passport App (4:04)
Secure Driver’s Licenses (6:14)
AT&T Mexico Roaming Bonus (7:51)
Verizon TravelPass (8:53)
Speedify Keeps Your iPhone from Getting Stuck on Access-less Wi-Fi Networks (10:57)
SEIDIO OBEX WATERPROOF (17:20)
Google Translate (19:08)
Word Lens
Chupacabra
DHARMA Hatch
‘The X-Files’: How Fox Revived Mulder and Scully’s Search for the Truth
TiVo BOLT (30:38)
TiVo Outlet (may include Roamio)
LG 42LF5600 1080p LED TV (32:19)
720p vs. 1080p: Can You Tell The Difference…
Confirmation Bias
D-Link Unified Home Wi-Fi Network Kit with adaptive roaming technology (DKT-891) (36:24)
Apple’s 802.11 k/v/r technote
Mac keyboard shortcuts (43:06)
Messages (El Capitan): Share your screen (45:12)
How to take a screenshot on your Mac (46:48)
About the screens you see when your Mac starts up (49:21)
How to multitask fast with 3D Touch on your iPhone 6s (51:33)
Rebuild LaunchServices to Fix Duplicate Entries in OS X’s ‘Open With’ Menu (53:40)
Search for open files on a volume: sudo lsof | grep [some piece of the drive name] (55:10)
Why Does My iPhone Turn Off When I Still Have Battery Life Remaining? Here’s The Real Fix! (1:01:05)
iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program
System Activity Monitor
Use Field Test Mode to See True iPhone Signal Strength as Numbers Instead of Bars
MacRumors’ Buyers Guide (1:14:52)
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Jan 10, 2016 • 0sec
MGG 587: Twas the Twenth of January
Fresh back from CES, John and Dave share their thoughts and trends about the show. Then it's on to answering your questions with topics including sharing Contacts with iCloud, solving erroneous Safari suggestions, the efficacy of smart chargers, the future of AirPlay and more! Download today, press play and enjoy (all while learning!).
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Stuff mentioned:
Bradley International Airport (BDL)
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) (3:07)
HTG Explains: What is Beamforming on a Wireless Router?
NETGEAR R8500
TP-LINK Unveils World’s First 802.11ad Router (via TP-LINK)
TP-Link unveils world’s first 802.11ad WiGig router (via Ars Technica)
HomeKit
IRIS by Lowe's
Change the Browser User Agent in Chrome, Safari, & Firefox (20:35)
What's My User Agent
Responsive Web Design
How to Clear History But Not Website Data in Safari for OS X Yosemite (30:48)
OS X El Capitan: Set up Family Sharing (34:07)
OnyX (38:21)
Frontier Airlines (42:58)
Spirit Airlines
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
UsBidi (51:20)
Powerslayer Blu
USB-C (56:22)
Ventev
Griffin BreakSafe USB-C Connector
AirPlay (1:01:47)
Audioengine A5
Homebridge (1:11:08)
Homebridge Plugin for Indigo
Indigo
Indigo-Homebridge Plugin
Dockerizing Homebridge for Synology
TenFourFox (1:18:35)
How to Replace the OS X El Capitan Login Screen Wallpaper (1:19:45)
DIMMYS (1:20:23)
Stop Apple Photos from Auto Launching in OS X with One Command (1:21:47)
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Jan 4, 2016 • 0sec
MGG 586: What Happens in Vegas… is The Pentium Episode
John and Dave are in Las Vegas together for CES and … for the first time in a long time … recorded Mac Geek Gab together in the same room. See just how well that works while they answer your questions, share advice and share some fantastic quick tips. Definitely one for the record books, folks. See what happens in Vegas!
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Stuff mentioned:
Yamaha AG06 Mixer
Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB
Future Sonics Atrio Earphones
Future Sonics FS1
Future Sonics Custom Fit Ear Monitors
Intel Pentium Processor
iOS 8: New Mailbox Options (5:41)
How to back up your devices using iCloud or iTunes (7:28)
RasPlex (11:51)
How to use QuickTime Player (Edit | Add Clip to End to Join) (15:24)
Chronosync (18:41)
What Would Make TWO Macs Go Black Screen? (19:33)
Carbon Copy Cloner – How to verify or test your backup (22:00)
How to View & Clear the Mac NVRAM Contents from Terminal in OS X (22:46)
Slow Down That Window Minimize Animation In Mavericks [OS X Tips] (25:06)
Mac Basics: The Dock holds your favorite apps, documents, and more (25:41)
3D Touch. The next generation of Multi‑Touch. (26:25)
How to Enable and Use Reachability with the iPhone 6
The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto (32:06)
How to start up your Mac in single-user or verbose mode (35:50)
Use AirDrop to send content from your Mac (38:40)
Share content with AirDrop from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Enable AirDrop Over Ethernet & AirDrop On Unsupported Macs Running OS X
OS X El Capitan: Choose preferred wireless networks (43:39)
Preview (El Capitan): Fill out and sign PDF forms (54:31)
Terra Tech Podcast (From Victor Cajiao)
CamTwist
Boot argument options in OS X (59:19)
Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac (1:03:54)
DD-WRT Firmware (1:09:37)
OS X Server
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Dec 27, 2015 • 0sec
MGG 585: It’s Better to be Lucky Than Good
A failed hard drive can teach us some lessons and listener Jon helps us with a few of those. Some tips about printer drivers and the iOS-related lockdown folder follow and then it's time to talk TiVo BOLT. Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun have been long-time TiVo users and TiVo's latest offerings add some new features as well as some confusion your two favorite geeks talk through. Then it's onto Cool Stuff Found for some post-holiday bliss. Add a Geek Challenge to the mix and you've got yourself a fully-stocked episode!
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Stuff mentioned:
Synology DSM Help – Add a Hard Drive to Expand Storage Capacity (2:03)
Seagate Date Code Lookup
Synology Multimedia (including Video Station/DSVideo) (5:55)
Plex for Apple TV
HP Customer Support – Software and Driver Downloads (7:33)
Gutenprint
Carbon Copy Cloner (14:52)
SoftRAID
SMARTReporter
DeltaWalker for Mac – Compare and Merge Files, Synchronize Folders
Use Carbon Copy Cloner’s “Find and replace corrupted files” option to verify
Reset the Lockdown folder in iTunes (26:58)
Archive your Gmail messages (30:30)
TiVo BOLT (39:22)
cTiVo (download from TiVo)
pyTivoX (upload to TiVo)
OS X: How to quickly hide the desktop icons (1:00:40)
Inateck Wireless 2.4 GHz USB Presenter Pen (1:03:49)
Inateck Wireless 2.4 GHz USB Presenter Pen (Amazon)
Pi Hole (1:05:11)
MonitorMate (1:06:34)
Onyx (1:08:57)
Banks that will pay for your broken iPhone (1:12:02)
American Express Extended Warranty
Stop pop-up ads and adware in Safari (1:14:35)
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
DIRECTV Broadband DECA Ethernet to Coax Adapter (Amazon) (1:17:59)
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Dec 19, 2015 • 0sec
MGG 584: It’s Saturday and I’m Still Looking For My Stapler
Today's show includes a new segment: Quick Tips! Those simple things that we all do without thinking about it can really help others do the same, so we've started sharing. In addition to that, today's discussion includes Keychain First Aid in 10.11.2, a fix for Office365 locking up Mail.app, upgrade advice, backup solutions and some geeky tips. Definitely enough here to get you through the holidays!
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Stuff mentioned:
Office Space – Working Tomorrow
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Official)
Sariah Gallego Joins the Dark Side (Star Wars)
Star Trek Beyond – Trailer (2016) – Paramount Pictures
How to Capture Screenshots to the Clipboard in OS X (4:13)
Mac OS X: Changing the Default Screenshot Format
OS X El Capitan: Login Options pane of Users & Groups preferences (6:46)
Graham Quick Tips Galore (7:51)
OAuth (10:56)
Resetting your keychain in Mac OS X (or, Apple still refers to Keychain First Aid, though we can't find it in OS X 10.11.2) (13:51)
Use POP or IMAP to connect to Office 365 for business or Microsoft Exchange accounts (23:27)
Storing your iPhone Backups on an Alternate Location (31:33)
@SwiftonSecurity Twitter account
OS X El Capitan: Share your files with other Mac users (42:18)
What’s new in OS X El Capitan (44:30)
OS X Hot File Clustering
SMARTReporter (57:00)
smartmontools
Rip Blu-Rays with Handbrake (and MakeMKV) (1:07:14)
Epartsdom USB 2.0 Slim USB External Blu-Ray Player External USB DVD RW Laptop Burner Drive White (Amazon)
JTAG
OS X cat man page (1:14:45)
Connecting to VirtualBox Through Remote Desktop Connection (1:18:48)
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1
ExifTool (1:23:19)
Docker Crashplan for Synology (1:24:53)
Dave’s Synology Package Sources
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Dec 13, 2015 • 0sec
MGG 583: Curiosity is Awesome… Unless You’re the Cat
Searching in iPhone Mail, managing Gmail's unable-to-connect errors, DNS configuration, setting up a computer to ignore the Internet (it happens!), virtualization software and audio discussions (including Bluetooth headphone lag on the Mac). Download today and enjoy!
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Stuff mentioned:
Use Search on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (3:06)
imap.gmail.com versus imap.googlemail.com (5:24)
Sync Gmail, Calendar and Contacts on your iPhone and iPad
Gmail iOS App
RiparaCapo (11:07)
Permissions Repair in El Capitan Returned by Onyx
www.whatsmyip.org (14:05)
Domain Name System (DNS) (18:00)
Namebench (find your fastest DNS server, may NOT be your ISP)
OpenDNS
What is a Subnet Mask? (27:41)
How-to: Set time limits on your Wi-Fi network using AirPort Utility
Little Snitch (36:58)
Ghostery
How to install Windows using Boot Camp (41:28)
Parallels
VMWare Fusion
VirtualBox
Parallels Access
Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac (48:08)
OS X El Capitan: Remove a backed-up item from your backup disk
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer (1:02:03)
Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) (1:06:41)
ABXTester
Do NAS devices affect sound quality?
SoundBot SB221 Bluetooth Headphone Wireless Headset (1:15:54)
Soundbot SB221 (Amazon)
NETGEAR R8500 Router (1:21:31)
Lantronix xPrintServer
Archt One Speaker (1:30:26)
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Dec 7, 2015 • 0sec
MGG 582: Time Capsule, Thunderbolt, Troubleshooting & Things Beginning with T
Some notes from Apple techs about iPhone Flat Rate repair and Finder default window positions are shared, then it's on to a quick discussion about why it's good El Capitan doesn't allow you to repair permissions… and when you would need to anyway! Thunderbolt, USB3, Network troubleshooting, external drive backups and Cool Stuff Found round out this week's show!
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Stuff mentioned:
Apple Refurbished and Clearance Products (2:55)
Refurb Tracker
Mac Basics: The Finder organizes all of your files (8:30)
OS X El Capitan: Open an app from an unidentified developer (10:52)
How to Verify & Repair Permissions in OS X El Capitan (12:13)
Kanex Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet + USB 3.0 adapter (24:59)
Kanex KTU20 Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Plus USB 3.0 Adapter (Amazon)
Thunderbolt
Where to find OS X Crash Logs (28:07)
Mail crashes when sending (28:07)
BT Home Hub 3 (34:31)
Spanning Tree Protocol
CrashPlan (49:52)
Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
Carbon Copy Cloner
OS X El Capitan: If you see a message that you must create a new backup (54:44)
Nomad Strap for Apple Watch (59:50)
MalwareBytes (1:00:55)
Backup your online life to your Mac (1:02:11)
Great wget commands (1:04:24)
Bob Vila’s iPhone picks (1:06:36)
Infuse (1:08:19)
How to share iPhone voicemails (1:09:58)
Silicone Protective Cover Case For Apple TV 4th Generation Remote Controller For Apple TV 4 Siri Remote Case Ergonomico Design (1:13:33)
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Nov 30, 2015 • 0sec
MGG 581: Hints and Allegations for Cyber Monday
Restoring lost contacts, signing onto websites with Facebook, cloning drives, troubleshooting external enclosures and learning about the behind-the-scenes of junk mail filtering are just some of the topics discussed by your two favorite geeks today. Download and enjoy!
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Stuff mentioned:
Cyber Monday
Add an IP Address and OS Version Display to the OS X Login Page (2:39)
Maintenance (4:06)
OS X: About Gatekeeper
Optimize Your WiFi Network to Stream Music Over AirPlay (10:01)
GIMP (11:59)
Camera Plus Pro (13:34)
Hazel (15:46)
Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF)
iTunes Card Deals
Sonos comes to Apple Music
Mac Basics : The Finder (21:12)
Force an app to close on your Mac
How to Quit & Force Quit Apps from Dock Icons in Mac OS X
Restart the Finder in Mac OS X
Get help using iCloud Contacts (33:05)
Contacts: Export and import your contacts
iMazing to restore from a stuck iPhone
Add Facebook Login to Your App or Website (46:08)
Check your Twitter account’s allowed services
Check your Facebook account’s allowed services
Ghostery
SuperDuper! (56:46)
HardwareGrowler (1:06:47)
OWC’s Voyager
Use Health on your iPhone or iPod touch (1:15:08)
iCloud: Why am I getting junk mail (spam)? (1:17:34)
iCloud: Identifying and filtering junk mail
Sanebox
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Nov 22, 2015 • 0sec
MGG 580: The Magic of Instant On
John and Dave take you through managing your media perfectly for your new – and old – Apple TV, including using a NAS to store it all if you like. Then it's some tips about speeding up Time Machine, speeding up App Store downloads, converting movies and sound issues. Pepper in some additional questions and listener Cool Stuff Found and you've got a full show!
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Stuff mentioned:
Verizon Thanksgetting Promotion (+1 GB Data, More) (2:22)
How to Set Up the iOS Data Meter Widget
DataMan
The Black Friday Mac Bundle (Includes Drive Genius) for $39.99 (4:58)
Zova for the new Apple TV (also iPhone and Apple Watch) (5:57)
Mackup (7:15)
Karabiner (8:15)
Homebrew Cask (10:21)
Outread (12:31)
Apple Retail Store Genius Bar (15:42)
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Out-Of-Warranty Repairs Cost Up to $299/$329 (17:44)
TechRestore
Monoprice 4×1 HDMI Switch with Analog, Digital Coaxial, and Digital Optical Audio Outputs (27:47)
20 TVs tested: Which sets can pass surround sound to a sound bar?
Plex – Frequently Asked Questions – Why is my video stream buffering? (33:26)
Synology VideoStation (41:09)
Which NAS devices run Plex? (43:34)
SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive
Sandisk Connect Wireless Stick
Leef iBridge Mobile Memory
Handbrake
Don Melton’s Video Transcoding Scripts
ColorSync (53:56)
/Library/ColorSync /System/Library/ColorSync ~/Library/ColorSync (Normal ColorSync Profile Locations)
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles (Adobe Profile Locations)
FLING!
DaveTheNerd.com
Jason Kimes
Pixelmator
Acorn
GraphicConverter
GIMP
OS X El Capitan: Start up in safe mode (1:08:29)
NameBench (1:09:41)
Domain Name Speed Benchmark
AliExpress (1:16:02) – The Chinese shopping site Dave mentioned
LaCie Rugged 500 GB SSD
LaCie Rugged RAID 4 TB
Crucial Factor Recertified SSD Program
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Nov 15, 2015 • 0sec
MGG 579: Bluetooth Audio, Calendar Management and Swap Explained
Junk mail management, Bluetooth audio mysteries, calendar searching, portable speaker solutions and some page-in/page-out clarity are just a scant few of the issues discussed by your two favorite geeks today. That, plus some geek-fueled Cool Stuff Found rounds out the episode (next week is your turn, send 'em in!).
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Stuff mentioned:
OS X El Capitan – Technical Specifications (including System Requirements) (2:44)
Roaring Apps El Capitan Compatibility List
Official Gmail Blog – New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls (10:05)
Mail Act-On
Migrate a Time Machine backup (networked) (18:27)
Time Machine: How to transfer backups from a current backup drive to a new backup drive (direct connect)
Use ‘tmutil’ to inherit older backups
OS X El Capitan: If you see a message that you must create a new backup
IOGEAR Bluetooth 4 Adapter (33:37)
Google Cast-supported apps (36:55)
Audioengine B1 Bluetooth Receiver
Antec Smartbean
Antec SmartBean (Amazon)
JBL Synchros S400BT
JBL Syncrhos S400BT (Amazon)
Westone ES2 (custom fits)
Blue MoFi
Blue MoFi (Amazon)
OS X El Capitan: Adjust your computer’s sound output settings (51:28)
Audio MIDI Setup: Your Mac’s Secret Sound Manager
iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting (55:12)
Fantastical for iPhone
Busycal for Mac
Mac Developer Library – About the Virtual Memory System (1:04:03)
Use Activity Monitor on your Mac (Memory)
Page-ins don’t only come from swap
JBL Pulse 2 (1:17:40)
JBL Pulse 2 (Amazon)
JBL Flip 3 (1:20:35)
JBL Flip 3 (Amazon)
JBL Xtreme (1:21:46)
JBL Xtreme (Amazon)
SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick (1:24:03)
SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick (Amazon)
Repartitioning Tool back in Drive Genius (1:28:46)
TYLT Smart Charger (1:29:09)
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