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cover of episode Contacts Are the Root of All Evil – Mac Geek Gab 741

Contacts Are the Root of All Evil – Mac Geek Gab 741

2018/12/24
logo of podcast Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

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Do you notice your Mac slowing down a lot? How many Contacts do you have? More and more listeners have been writing in with Contacts-related problems and solutions… are you one of them? Listen to John and Dave discuss this and <em>so</em> many other things this Christmas Eve. Press play and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 741 for Monday, December 24, 2018

  • 00:02:00 Tension Tamer) tea after Festivus

  • 00:02:42 Contacts are the root of all evil)

  • 00:10:41 Sandy-Disabling Gmail fixed iOS Contact Syncing

  • 00:12:07 A Duh Moment with the clock)

  • 00:15:57 Larry-iMazing Bug with Offloaded Apps

  • Settings | General | iPhone Storage | Offload Unused Apps

  • 00:17:43 Brian-740-Items in your /cores directory may be part of huge System category in About This Mac | Storage

  • 00:22:56 EvTheNerd-740-Stop Mojave Notifications)

  • 00:23:53 Thomas-738-Supervised Mode), Snapshots, and Terminal Launch

  • tmutil snapshot

  • 00:27:19 Keith-Clean WhatsApp Cache)

  • 00:29:09 David-CSF-Plex Perks)

  • 00:30:13 New Dates for MacTech Conference) – Week of October 14th, 2019

  • 00:31:13 20 Years of TMO on 12/28/2018

  • 00:34:40 Filter only Unread Messages in iOS Mail

  • Mail | Mailboxes | Edit | Unread

  • 00:37:10 SPONSOR: Opsgenie), now from Atlassian Opsgenie) empowers Dev & Ops teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents. Visit Opsgenie.com) to get a free company account for up to 5 team members, forever.

  • 00:40:19 David-When is it time to upgrade my Wi-Fi?

  • 00:48:43 Doug-Synology and eero and Routing, Oh My

  • Don’t have two routers on your network or you’ll have double NAT and devices won’t be able to see each other, put one router in bridge mode

  • 00:54:08 Kaz-Tech Thoughts for a New Home

  • 01:01:22 Ralph-On the longevity of Macs

  • 01:09:17 Harvey-MacBook Pro Mid-2012 Battery Replacement

  • MacBook Pro 15″ Unibody (Early 2011-Mid 2012) Replacement Battery) (iFixit)

  • NewerTech NuPower Battery- For MacBook Pro 15″ Unibody Early & Late 2011, Mid-2012) (OWC)

  • 01:13:58 Paul-Wi-Fi Calling Limits

  • 01:16:46 Jim-The Benefits of H.265

  • 01:19:20 This Week’s MGG Premium) Supporters:

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  • 01:22:26 MGG 741 Outtro

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