Swiping Left (or Right!), Suspicious Packages, and Cool Stuff Found
1 tim 22 min•7 juni 2021
Your two favorite geeks answer your questions about Target Disk Mode, using your Apple TV Remote to turn off your TV, removing words from predictive text, and more. On top of that, they share a few Mail-based quick tips and an entire pile (yep, the whole thing!) of Cool Stuff Found. Press play and learn (at least) five new things with John and Dave!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 874 for Monday, June 7, 2021
- Quick Tips
- 00:02:00 QT-Hey, Siri, Text Myself*
- 00:03:38 Patrick-QT-Adjust Mail’s Font Sizes*
- 00:04:48 QT-Change iOS Default Email Flag Color*
- Swipe Left (or right, depending upon your settings) > … > Flag
- Cool Stuff Found
- 00:07:56 Brother J-CSF-Suspicious Package to inspect macOS Installer Packages*
- 00:09:18 UncleP-CSF-File Juicer and Site Sucker
- 00:12:32 Stephan-CSF-SplashID Password Manager*
- 00:15:44 Michael-CSF-Quick and Dirty NAS on the Cheap*
- 00:19:07 Mitchell-CSF-PocketTube Browser Extension*
- 00:20:47 Jeremy-CSF-Motion Sonic hand-control music effects
- 00:22:30 Jeff Gamet-CSF-What is Amazon Sidewalk and how to disable it?*
- 00:31:52 Scott-CSF-BLEUnlock to Lock and Unlock Your Mac based upon device proximity*
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- Your Questions and Tips…Answered and Shared!
- 00:39:22 Dave-Apple TV Remote Telling TV to Shut Up*
- 00:42:51 Jonathan-873-Make sure you have the right battery cable*
- 00:48:42 John-macOS Recovery Disk
- 00:51:51 Dennis-Deleting “In Use” Files*
- lsof | grep "Installer"
- 00:56:17 Bill-Target Disk Mode Among Various Macs*
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- More Questions Answered
- 01:03:14 Dominic-873-Safari’s Generic Browser Identifier
- 01:06 :03 Brian-Baffling Auto Complete Error
- Backup Follow-up
- 01:08:50 Steve-872-Sync vs. Backup vs. Ransomware
- 01:09:28 Dan-873-Sync isn’t always like Backup
- 01:12:19 Glen-872-Backing up multiple computers with Backblaze
- 01:13:29 James-872-Don’t forget about backing up your external drives
- 01:15:19 Cory-872-Use Minio on Synology for S3-style backup smarts*
- 01:18:57 MGG 874 Outtro
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