Long Term Storage, Photos, & Cool Stuff Found
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This week, John and Dave come together to answer your questions about long-term storage, Photos Libraries, Migrating to a new Mac and much, much more. Listen as your two favorite geeks drop the knowledge — and your Quick Tips and Cool Stuff Found — so that everyone can listen and learn at least five new things together! Join us and start the new year right!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 851 for Monday, January 4, 2021

Quick Tips

00:01:53 Mark-QT-Flash Is Dead. Time to Uninstall Flash)

00:04:16 Tanel-Siri Usage Examples

00:05:27 Zoom Audio

Questions

00:07:16 Bill-Moving Photos to an External Drive

00:11:19 Zoom -> Settings -> Audio -> Show in-meeting option to “Enable Original Sound” from microphone.

00:12:28 Craig-Good Travel Router?

TP-Link TL-WR902AC AC750 Travel Router)

00:16:20 Robert-Reader View Oddness

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MOAR Questions

00:23:42 Dennis-Which types of Disk Images for Cold Storage Archives?

Howard Oakley’s Concerns over Sparse Bundles in APFS)

StuffIt Expander 16)

00:29:24 Mark-SSD versus HDD for Long Term Storage)

DriveDx)

00:34:30 Ed-Back Tap Live Listen?

ISOtunes earbuds)

00:38:49 Harvey-Post-Catalina Time Machine Weirdness

diskutil list

Q: Time Machine error with Catalina)

00:42:37 John-QT-Force a Time Machine Backup to Specific Destination

00:43:39 Mike-Best Migration path from Air to iMac?

00:47:51 Robert-MacBook Pro 16″ RAM, Battery and AirDrop

eul shows your Mac’s Status in Menu Bars)

FruitJuice)

coconutBattery)

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Cool Stuff Found

01:00:08 CSF-Silicon Info)

01:01:27 JP-Cleaning up Music/iTunes Duplicates) – TunesMechanic) to the Rescue

01:03:07 Ben-CSF-CardHop, a Contacts App Alternative)

01:04:23 CSF-Netgear Orbi 6)

01:08:34 Dave-CSF-Manage LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons with Launchd.info) and LaunchControl )(US$18)

01:13:03 CSF-Eufy wired video doorbell HDR 2k)

01:16:54 CSF-Coherence X and Unite) for creating apps from websites

01:18:44 CSF-Microsoft Edge) — A Better Chromium Browser for macOS

01:21:47 MGG 851 Outtro

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