Sit On Your Hands — Mac Geek Gab 984
In this episode Dave Hamilton and Pilot Pete bring you a treasure trove of quick tips, insights, cool stuff found, troubleshooting mistakes, and expert advice. So, fasten your seatbelts and get ready for a mind-blowing Apple journey. As we always say, "Don't Get Caught" without the latest tech knowledge!
Full chapters with links at https://mgg.fm/984
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
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Barry seeks guidance on auto-deleting iCloud junk mail, and the hosts suggest SmallCubed Mailsuite as a helpful tool.
Mark raises the issue of Mac restarts due to problems and receives advice on using TechTool Pro and resetting NVRAM and SMC.
KYEngineer inquires about porting a landline to an iPhone, and the hosts recommend using a T-Mobile SIM and for a seamless transition to Google Voice if that's your preference.
Rob clarifies the proper use of the "umount" command when removing drives from /Volumes.
Drewski seeks assistance with MDS-related CPU usage, and the hosts shed light on the meaning of MDS (metadata server).
Cool Stuff Found: Additional Discoveries
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Discover how to migrate from Twitter to Mastodon using Fedifinder and explore the benefits of Mona and Ivory as clients. Also, learn how Topiary helps you prune inactive followings.
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Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
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00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 984 for Monday, June 5th, 2023
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Quick Tips
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00:00:01 QT-Disable "Ask Before Running" on Personal Automation Shortcuts
00:02:43 Chicago Tom-QT-Use Shortcuts to Re-engage your iPhone alarm
Mac OS Ken
00:10:29 PorthosJon-983-Use Shortcuts to Replace Leading Spaces before Punctuation
00:14:35 Gary-QT-8 Fixes for unejectable drives on your Mac
00:15:27 CeeDub559-981-Mobile Data Usage Tracking and Resetting
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Quick-Hit Cool Stuff Found
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00:21:51 Zack-CSF-968-Use Infuse to get Plex ATMOS on Apple TV
00:23:47 Pensacola Craig-CSF-Dimensions.com Shows Dimensions of Many Items
00:25:03 stevehammond-CSF-Use Docker-iCloudPD to Download iCloud Photo Library…instructions for Synology
00:27:06 What is Docker?
Here We Are In This Rabbit Hole
00:30:48 Bruce-CSF-983-SystemName for Changing/Managing Your Mac's Network Name
00:31:55 Pete’s New Mac
Mistakes we ALL make: Troubleshooting/Supporting while assuming knowledge
Sit On Your Hands
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
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00:39:31 Barry-Auto-Deleting iCloud Junk Mail
SmallCubed Mailsuite
00:43:42 Mark "Mac Restarts Because of a Problem" - vague but true!
Oraculous
TechTool Pro
Reset NVRAM on Mac
Reset SMC on Mac
00:49:24 KYEngineer-Porting my Landline to iPhone (or elsewhere)
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T-Mobile SIM
Obi200
Maybe no Definitely
00:53:55 Rob-983-umount DOES properly remove from /Volumes
00:55:37 Drewski MDS Gone Wild - Pegging CPU
What does MDS stand for related to spotlight? (metadata server)
Cool Stuff Found
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01:02:39 Using Fedifinder to migrate from Twitter to Mastodon. And Mona and Ivory as Clients! And Topiary to prune inactive followings…
Mac Geek Gab on Mastodon
Dave on Mastodon
Pilot Pete on Mastodon
01:12:32 CSF-Audio Hijack 4.2 adds Speech Denoise, Parametric EQ, and FIR filter… and download free IR files from Waves
Krisp
Auphonic
01:17:25 Mac Geek Gab 984 Outro
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