Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Third party DNS risks, Yosemite email issues, Comcast's hotspot concerns and managing large Dropboxes on systems with smaller SSDs are just the tip of this week's Mac Geek Gab iceberg. Download, press play, and enjoy! Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Sponsor: iMazing: iMazing is the ultimate iPhone manager, it lets you take control of your music, apps, backups, contacts and more. Manage Your iPhone Simply, Get iMazing. Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: TiVo Kickstart Codes and Information (1:27) USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapter MFSLiVe (tool to backup and copy older TiVo HDs) XFINITY on the X1 Entertainment Operating System About Siri (including dictation tips) (9:48) iCloud: About email aliases (12:21) iCloud: Mail server settings for email clients SuperSync to keep iTunes libraries in sync (27:42) How to use Synology NAS as my iTunes Library How to enjoy multimedia contents stored on Synology NAS with DLNA/UPnP-compliant DMAs Denon Heos (passing mention) Data Backup 3 Mac Synology (36:15) Drobo QNAP Disk Utility 12.x: RAID pane (43:07) SoftRAID OWC Express Portable USB Enclosures NewerTech AdaptaDrive 2.5″ to 3.5″ Drive Converter Bracket Movember Aperture (59:18) Import iPhoto to Lightroom Lightroom: start your 30-day free trial Domain Name System (DNS) (1:03:34) OpenDNS DNS Spoofing DNS Security Extensions XFINITY Wi-Fi Hotspot FAQ (including Home Hotspot) (1:09:53) The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

Dave's back from MacTech, the studio iMac has a new power supply, and he and John are rocking and rolling at full strength! Topics covered include learning how to manually upload to iCloud Photo Library, cleaning up your SMTP Servers in Mail, sorting out where all those “remembered” wireless networks come from and more (LOTS more!). Download and enjoy!  Sponsor: Gazelle is the fast and easy way to get cash for your used iPhone, iPad, and more.  Sell your used Apple products at Gazelle.com and make it easier to trade up to the latest devices! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: YickYak – Voice Your Alternative Perspective YikYak: Get a live feed of what people are saying around you. iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ (2:21) Upload Photos to iCloud Photo Library with iCloud Beta Engine iCloud Beta Site Mac computers: About startup tones (6:53) iMac Intel 24″ EMC 2111 PRAM Battery Replacement MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory MacBook Pro 15″ Core 2 Duo Models A1226 and A1260 PRAM Battery Replacement OS X Yosemite: Choose preferred wireless networks (31:03) Time Machine Editor Mail (Yosemite): Verify an account’s outgoing mail server (41:38) MacTech Conference (47:28) Kansas Fest (49:00) Synology Video Station (52:50) Infuse media player (53:30) Sena Heritage Wallet Book (57:20) Swift Class at MacTech (59:50) Simon Allardice at Lynda (1:01:52) Amazon Cloud Drive for iOS (1:02:40) Dropbox : How do I use Camera Upload? BitCasa's Zero-Knowledge Encryption Migration (1:03:15) BitTorrent Sync (1:06:00) Synology DSM 5.1 Adds Note Station (1:07:00) QNAP Notes Station (1:07:50) Yojimbo (1:08:15) SimpleNote (1:08:30) Evernote (1:08:45) CrashPlan (1:09:57) The Mac Geek Gab app – Now for iPad, too! (1:10:10) PhotoPlus Expo Engadget Expand NY 2014″>Engadget Expand NY 2014 CES Unveiled New York Wine, Dine and Demo 2014 Mac Geek Gab Stream now Live 24/7! (1:10:50) Feedly (1:13:25) Starry Skies (1:13:50) SkySafari – formerly from Southern Stars (1:14:30) Digg Reader (1:15:10) Mac Geek Gab Google+ Community – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

Yosemite is a new OS, and with that comes oddities. Thankfully your two favorite geeks are here to help. Mail issues are plaguing many listeners and John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton talk you through how to keep things running as clean as possible, even cleaning up Mail behind the scenes. Then it's on to custom FaceTime ringtones, how to manage the battery on a spare iPhone and much, much more. Download today and enjoy! Sponsor: Meet the PDFpen family: powerful PDF tools for Mac and iOS. Edit, sign, scan, and OCR at your Mac or on the go. Sponsor: Harry's provides guys a great shaving experience for a fraction of the price. High quality blades, shave cream and accessories shipped to your door on your schedule. Visit Harrys.com and use coupon code MGG to save $5 off your first purchase! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Screens (3:00) Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) How to replace iMac PSU iFixit iMac PSU Replacement My iMac will not turn on – iFixit Guide BearExtender Turbo Target Disk Mode iMac Intel 24″ EMC 2134 and 2211 Diagnostic LED's Mac Apps Support – Mail (21:07) How to install OS X Yosemite on your Mac (includes system requirements) (25:41)   Adding custom ringtones to FaceTime (33:13) Maximizing battery performance (37:10) Aperture 3 – Working with Photo Stream (51:00) RC Default App (1:03:20) The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

Yet another crazy week for Apple users. Apple Pay launched, iOS 8.1 was released, all kinds of new stuff came out. John and Dave talk through all of this as well as answering your questions about managing text, restoring documents to the FInder, seeing details about Time Machine and more. Download today and enjoy! Sponsor: Go to Squarespace.com/mgg and click “enter an offer code” under the pricing and put in the code MGG for 10% off your first order. Also Tweet your SquareSpace-created site to @MacGeekGab with the hashtag of #squarespaceshoutout and we'll retweet it to everyone we know! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Apple Pay (1:56) CurrentC CVS Says it Can’t Take Apple Pay, Evaluating Options Shut Up and Take My Money (13:45) Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity (16:18) Enable Yosemite handoff on Older Macs Continuity Activation Tool Enable SMS Relay Verizon Edge FAQ iCloud Photo Library MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) – Technical Specifications (30:29) Apple – Support – Welcome To My Support Profile defaults write com.apple.networkbrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES (possible Terminal fix for Yosemite Wi-Fi issue) FAQ and support for using Trim Enabler in OS X Yosemite Kext Drop Batch Rename in Yosemite (53:19) OS X Mavericks: General preferences (59:00) Fix Safari’s Address Bar (1:01:06) Enable/Disable Swap on Mac (1:06:30) OS X: About OS X Recovery (1:11:22) OS X Mavericks: Change your startup disk Yosemite OS 10.10 Mail Memory Leak (1:15:33) ClamXav Antivirus (1:21:13) Non-App Store Version of ClamXav (allows background processing) The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

John and Dave have been attending all sorts of press events lately, collecting and researching for Cool Stuff Found. That combined with everything sent in by you and fellow listeners makes for a pretty fun list! Plus, Yosemite went live this week and your geeks are here to get you started down the path, too! Sponsor: Lynda.com is the place to learn software, creative, and business skills from in-depth and easy-to-follow video tutorials taught by industry experts. And get a 7-day free trial through our special MGG deal by visiting lynda.com/mgg. Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Connecticut Fall Foliage Report Apple Special Event. October 16, 2014 (6:21) OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review Create a bootable Yosemite Installer iCloud Drive iCloud Photo Library How to Reduce Transparency Effects in OS X Yosemite Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity (32:05) Ecobee Smart WiFi Thermostat (35:35) GigSky is Apple SIM for everyone else (37:07) Staples Connect (39:08) ChargerLeash (40:57) Lumsing 10400mAh Portable Power Bank Dual USB External Battery Charger (44:20) Beat Buddy (45:14) VelvetWire PowerSlayer Blue (48:04) Lapse It (51:03) (and a great time-lapse video of a special flight) IRC Commands (53:53) Auto-accept FaceTime Calls (55:41) Piper (57:37) Rachio (59:50) VSN Mobile V.360° (1:03:50) Gnome Partition Editor (1:06:19) NimbleTV (1:07:53) iOS: About Guided Access (1:11:40) Can't Touch This ecoATM (1:15:20) NOYB App (1:16:53) Stage Ninja Scorpion Clamps (1:18:59) The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

Network issues nipped the tail end of last week's show, but your geeks made it through regardless. This week John and Dave go through running iPhoto from a flash drive, sharing a clipboard between iOS and OS X, Wi-Fi Calling with your new iPhone, Updating expired podcasts and resolving a failed (but recurring!) iPhoto import. Download and enjoy! Sponsor: Gazelle is the fast and easy way to get cash for your used iPhone, iPad, and more.  Sell your used Apple products at Gazelle.com and make it easier to trade up to the latest devices! Sponsor: Casper makes an obsessively-engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Latex foam and memory foam come together to make for better nights and brighter days. Visit www.casper.com/mgg and get $50 towards any mattress purchase! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (8:11) Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac Carbon Copy Cloner 4 iOS 8 Family Sharing (16:22) iMazing Update Expired Podcasts (23:45) Amped Wireless PLA2 PowerLine (29:43) Link Aggregation Unimported photos found in library alerts when opening iPhoto (39:06) iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library iCloud: About subscribed calendars (42:29) US Holiday Calendar Apple Enables iCloud 2-Factor Verification, How to Set it Up (52:31) What clipboard sharing app do you use? (57:17) Pastebot Command-C DeskConnect About Wireless Diagnostics (1:01:31) The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

John and Dave start by helping answer your questions about iOS 8 Cookies, Bubbbles, Newsttand and Stocks. Then it's on to answering your questions about using your Mac to translate audio into text, migrating your Mac to a new drive and handling Apple's Customer Relations department. All this and more in this weeks episode. Download today and enjoy! Sponsor: TextExpander touch 3 from Smile: Now featuring a custom iOS 8 keyboard for expansion inside any app. Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: IMDb Apps Safari Web Settings for iOS (9:11) Safari 7 (Mavericks): Manage cookies and other website data Show in App Switcher (17:51) Newsstand Apps Failing in iOS 8 (20:02) iOS 8: How to Enable Notification Center Widgets (22:53) iPhone 6 (26:08) Android – Supporting Multiple Screens tech21 iPhone Cases Google’s Inactive Account Manager Help (38:15) Google Inactive Account Manager Handoff in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite: Explained Mavericks Dictation vs. Dragon Dictate: How good is OS X's built-in tool? (48:33) SoundFlower Dragon Dictate Shellshock, bash patch for OS X Mavericks (55:39) Shellshock test website Angry IP Scanner (1:05:52) SpotMaps Wireshark PacketPeeper Debookee The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

Dave's got both an iPhone 6 and an iPhone 6 Plus, so he and John discuss that, but then it moves quickly on to your questions. Topics include: iOS 8 Family Sharing, syncing photos without PhotoStream, granting read-only access to files on your Mac, how to interpret crash reports, a discussion on Shellshock and more! Download today and enjoy! Sponsor: Go to Squarespace.com/mgg and click “enter an offer code” under the pricing and put in the code MGG for 10% off your first order. Also Tweet your SquareSpace-created site to @MacGeekGab with the hashtag of #squarespaceshoutout and we'll retweet it to everyone we know! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Pepcom’s Holiday Spectacular 2014 iOS 8 Family Sharing (2:49) How To Use iOS 8 Family Sharing With a Separate iTunes Store Account How to Use PayPal with iOS 8 Family Sharing iCloud: My Photo Stream FAQ (10:44) BitTorrent Sync Dropbox Transporter BitCasa Flickr iOS 8 Messages (18:24) Apple: iOS 8.0.1 Fix Coming in the Next Few Days (22:44) Shellshocker (29:31) Apple: Only Nine People Have Complained about Bent iPhones (41:53) Dave’s Initial Thoughts on the iPhone 6 Plus (51:21) OS X Mavericks: Set permissions (1:00:26) How to read Crash Reports (1:06:30) OS X Mavericks: Report problems to Apple ilreportwindow from Alf Watt iTunes – Music – Apple Support (1:15:30) iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Bookmarks and Reading List (1:18:21) iOS Accessibility (1:20:30) The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

It's been iPhone week. It's been server migration week. It's been tech week (in more ways than one!), and your two geeks are here, ready to roll and with a very special guest, no less! FIrst they'll talk through some of their favorite iOS 8 tips and tricks. Then it's on to a slew of your questions, including revisiting the age old question of Drobo or Synology (hint: there's no hard and fast answer here!) plus resolving John's own tech issue! Download and enjoy. Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Sponsor: ShareFile: Sends your attachments as secure links so you can send files of almost any size with the highest degree of security and receive notifications to know who is downloading your files and when. Visit ShareFile.com, click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter MACGEEK for 30-days free! Note: Shownotes are in progress… Stuff mentioned: iOS 8 (4:30) iOS 8: How to-Enable Safari Extensions Last Pass for iOS 8 1Password View Source How to Install and Activate Third-Party Keyboards in iOS 8 (16:30) MyScript Stack Kiwi for iOS 8 Keymoji Wdgts for Notification Center iOS 8 Health (29:10) Strava PSA: Skip iCloud Drive if You Sync iCloud Data to Mac or iOS 7 (42:10) iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Specs (1:02:50) Synology DS412+ Synology Video Station (note this is a two year old article and VS has more features than it did back then. Still awesome, though!) Synology DS213j (1:16:25) Mac OS X: About file system journaling Startup Manager: How to select a startup volume Use Ditto to copy Mac files (1:29:00) The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

Dave's fresh back from Cupertino (and fresh from ordering a new iPhone), and he and John talk through the events of the week plus answer your questions. Want to know the size delta for watching movies on the iPhone 6 Plus vs. an iPad mini? Dave did some crazy Pythagorean-theorum-based math for you! He also did some more standard math to figure out if an AT&T Next Plan is right, too. Then it's on to question. Want to know how to copy files from a drive that's corrupted? Want to disable your iPhone number from iMessage? Want to create a $35 Time Capsule? All these questions and more will be answered this week on Mac Geek Gab. Sponsor: Gazelle is the fast and easy way to get cash for your used iPhone, iPad, and more.  Sell your used Apple products at Gazelle.com and make it easier to trade up to the latest devices! Sponsor: Drobo: Terabytes of storage and disk failure protection. Use coupon code MGG50 to get $50 off any Drobo at DroboStore.com. That means the brand-new, gen3, 4-bay Drobo is just $299 for you! Sponsor: ShareFile: Sends your attachments as secure links so you can send files of almost any size with the highest degree of security and receive notifications to know who is downloading your files and when. Visit ShareFile.com, click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter MACGEEK for 30-days free! Note: Shownotes are in progress… Stuff mentioned: Simon Fredsted’s writeup on Apple’s Keynote Streaming Issues Apple September 2014 Event (8:02) Simon Fredsted’s writeup on Apple’s Keynote Streaming Issues iPhone 6 Chicken Head Tracking – Smarter Every Day Pythagorean theorem (22:15) AT&T Next Verizon Edge (30:08) Apple Watch (WATCH) (37:27) Phantom vibration syndrome (48:23) Apple Pay (Pay) (57:33) Near Field Communication MasterCard PayPass Chip and PIN vs. Chip and Sign Copy all good files and skip the ones that are damaged (1:08:31) Pathfinder iOS: Understanding notifications (1:13:13) Use Do Not Disturb on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch Build a $35 Time Capsule (1:17:26) Uses for the USB port of AirPort Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express (1:18:26) Can’t receive text messages on a non-Apple phone (1:21:59) How to remove a phone number from iMessage The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.