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It's time for my kee club and listened. Dennis brings us our quick tip of the weakest is my wife and I share a calendar where I can see when he is working. IT happens quite often that I get twenty new notifications in the calendar inbox.

I've learned that instead of accepting them one by one, I recently just held the OK button down on a notification, and then a little menu popped up and asked if that OK should apply to everything. Yes, please, that saved in is nineteen different, except tabs. I love this tip and I had no idea. More tips like this, plus your questions. Answer today on map ten sixty one for monday, october twenty eighth, international animation day twenty twenty four.

Creating spokesman, welcome to magic. Get the show where you send in tips just like that, and we share them, you send in coff found we share, you send in questions and we share those and hopefully can provide some answers or at least marches down the trouble shooting path each and every time we get together.

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and here in alto, ca i'm adam Christian sa .

and we are missing pete today. He is off a flying the airplane but ah so I I guess are police code for today for ten ten sixty one police code at least on the list that I looked up says it's either a personal invicta or not wanted will pete, you are certainly not wanted. So this is personal, not in the vicinity. Maybe if we combine the two.

I was so hoping I was missing person.

I know, yeah, yeah, that would be good. We will fly in the missing man formation. None the last, none the less. Our giveaway for this month is eternal storms.

If you got to make quick up that come size, give away eternal storms is giving away five copies of your ink and screen float here in october. Y, you ve got a few more days to get on that before IT tips over to november. And we have a new giveaway coming.

You can always look once it's the first of the month. Usually this is still a manual thing that we have to replace into position on the first of the month, but maybe we automate that too. Seems IT seems like something that could be automated doesn't not.

Um maybe yeah I mean, it's you it's wordpress should be able to anyway, we'll figure that out at some point. But for november, i'm pretty sure it's still gonna something manual. But once we get that in place, you'll see and them of course, we will talk about them and next week show too. So yeah, that's what I got. Anything else before we get into the rest of the quick tips here?

No, no, no, I don't learn something.

Listener dug in the calendar realm continues. This is I spend most of everyday driving between appointments with clients, had long bond, the lack of to do type apps for car play so I can remember who to call or message while i'm driving. Don't worry, he says, I never touch or look at my phone while driving, so I really don't even look at car play in less and stationary.

Anyway, i've solved the to do list problem by adding a stack of appointments to my calendar of around fifteen minutes in length to the end of my day. These remain visible in the calendar APP on car play throughout the day. And those that don't get dealt with simply get moved to the next day.

And as a bonus, if I add a phone number in the location field, then I can simply tap the screen in car play to make an outgoing call for that event. I was prompted to send this because of the comment about reminders in calendars. Quite nize feature since I can mark, this is done from the car place screen. But unfortunately, IT doesn't give me the ability to tap a phone number that i've added as a reminder, what a miss for apple adding all of that and then not having the phone number b of a data detectors kind of thing. So yeah yeah can um .

I mean s they can do quite a few number of things with to do this right can add and check off and her to let you know what's on your to do this and stuff like that right? I haven't played without too much, but I think there's a lot of to do list functionality or commands I don't use. I know you can like specifically add things to specific list with the right. Yes, because i've done that with a grocery list and that's great in the car. You know you like, oh yeah.

I need to go do that. Yeah, I do that all the time. I just I I just tell the s let you know, remind me. I find because I don't use updated to do in my workflow and I won't see them in my workflow, I have to remember to say, hey s lady, remind me today or remind me tomorrow and then I will put a dated to do in and then it's fine.

I even have, because of this sort of hole in my workflow, I have a once weekly recurring to do that reminds me to go into reminders and check for updated ones that accidentally got added that way. But yet that's a that's a handy, handy thing for sure. But yeah.

this calendar trick for car play, i've never even I didn't even know. I don't even think I knew there was IT calendar APP in car play. But yes, I mean, I miss mostly on the music for music and maps, to be honest.

Yeah, I am. There is a calendar up their husband for a while and it's handy to be able to go and like sea events in calendar, the data detectors in IT are mostly good, but occasionally like it'll show me the address of an event and not let me tap IT to go to the map. Most of the time I can tap in to go to the map, but sometimes it's just like, yeah, look at this these fancy words and numbers you have here. cool. thanks.

So jim has been trying to sort things in the finder, he says in this, he says, perhaps rubbly, it's a sign of old age. But recently I found my stuff myself rather stuck, trying to arrange the sort order from a sending to d sending file name in a column of files in finder. I was in column, which is my standard, and just couldn't get IT done.

A quick google through search LED me to an answer I probably knew, but forgot. You can only change the sort order from ascending to descending, or vice vera. If you are in the list view, simply click on the column that you want to change the sort order in.

For me, IT was date added. I also was reminded that the way to add a column in list view is to right click on the column had her name, and click the column you want to add. So that sounds like.

And then he provided a couple of links, which will provide in the show. Now he says, familiar skills I have forgotten. So perhaps helpful to others.

Yeah and I I we confirmed with jim that once you change the sort order in list view when you go back to call lumb you that persists which that .

was gonna my immediate question, which wasn't part of this tip so i'm glad you yeah glad you added yeah yeah I was like.

well, this is great if you're in this for you but what like does IT stay in his leg? Of course yeah, sticks this like, that's why I was sent the tip and like.

I thought so just wanted to that's so weird that they wouldn't just let you do IT in column. But I guess maybe the i'd be confusion over which column I mean, but you could right click in the column and I would just affect that column. I would think, you know, yeah, so I would do that.

I know yeah, I find column view very limiting for me. I live in this view. What's is IT really?

Oh yeah, really yeah. Because i'm constantly moving things left to right, and I don't like having to jump up and down the tree.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like I can move quicker up and down the tree and column. View them list view.

right. So I have another tip for column while we're here, you know when you're in columbus, which I where I spend very little at my time, there's a little handle at the bottom right corner of the current you know right most calling that you see or actually of any color I suppose yeah of any colum that's got a continent in IT. And you can drag the little of handle there.

IT looks like IT looks like a pause button, really. But you can drag the little handle to change the wife of that particular column. You can also hold down option key when you're dragon that handle and all columns will adjust there with at the same time. So that's .

to the same size.

right to the same size. Yes, yes, yes, yes. sorry. Thank you for the clarification.

Um there's another one where if you just double click on the line, IT will expand to this size of the longest thing in that column.

Oh, that is life changing. Oh, this might make me hate column view less yeah because IT seemed like I always you know I I use the analogy of physics and typing with mittens on go to column, want to see the file names and I also want to, yeah I want to sort by, you know, date editor, whatever. There's no other all you can so they see you can write.

click in the colum and changed that .

and change the sort view yeah ah I just write, click and IT looks I could .

change as all columns.

but yes, where are you .

clicking to defined? I just clicking in the middle of the empire, the column I have a sort .

by I do not this is weird. Oh, I have to click. You're right in an empty area. But if you've got a like below, if you've got a full column, finding that little empty area is is requires a little bit more for ness. But you're right, you also can do IT by going to the view menu and choosing sort by date modified and then boom there because but you're right that changes everything .

all columns. I wonder if um the tip we just did only does the column that hear in I don't know yeah .

that's the that's a good question um yeah heard to say hard to say only because I the color I was in was not a good one to test that.

You can also, if you want to be totally visual, you can add this sort by little. If I don't know, it's up there by default to you know the customized toolbar at the top.

Oh, it's up there for me. I don't know if that was by default or some action I took over the years.

I mean, a handy one that isn't a default. One more on this subject that some people like is the path. So there's. A little path to a Better because you can put that up there. And then when you click IT, it's a little drop down and IT shows you the full path to where you are.

wait. Oh, I thought you were going to talk about the a view show path bar, which shows the path of the file .

at the bottle at the bottom I I use. But there's actually in the toolbar because we were going to talking about the toobad. So you know right at the top, you can write, look and you can say customer toolbar. Then IT comes you little icons that you can drag up there. And one of those that is the path bar.

What and if I that is just and then you can navigate through the path, it's interaction, I can go up the chain.

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of more for visual mouth of people. I think.

Yeah, that's true because I would Normally be doing this with the keyboard. You're right. But still all I want to have that there. Oh, okay.

what did I just do know?

I don't know. I don't know the answer.

I okay, I mean, this is be a new, this is a new O S thing. But I was holding down the option key when I drugged my window and it's doing the new menus window. Think nowhere IT locks into like half the screen or what .

yet one must be aware and careful of that.

Yeah, I did IT accidentally. It's like, cool. I was trying to actually what I was trying to do is figure out if I could drag, I could hold command key and drag that I can't out of my .

um my toolbar and I could so so in our live chat here in discard porthos, john says group by is also useful. And that is another a widget that you can add to the tall bar there are. So you have group by file type and get sort within. Groups are group by, you know, you can group by day, you can group by one of the other things kind, yeah, that sarch things. I like that great.

And then he says that one drives me a little bit nuts.

But ah the same IT breaks IT out too far for me. It's hard to hard to look at IT, but I can see if you're looking for that. Show me all the P, D, F sitter here.

That might be a helpful thing to see. And in port, this, john says one that he learned from M, G, G, years ago and have used ever since his command. Click on the file name and you get the path upward.

Two, this must only be in columbus. Is that no command? Click on a file name. I'm not getting that. I'm i'm not i'm missing what the instruction is on that because when I try IT here, oh, the folder name at the top of the window, yes, right.

If you commit, if you float over the name of the folder in any view in the finder at the top of the window and click IT. IT will show you that same path, the basically the same thing that's in the path. Drop down, right? Yes, very nice.

thanks.

That's so stuff. Lots of good stuff.

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Go check out god G O G show. And thanks for doing this swap with this guys. Shall we go to some follow up? Uh, we we hit a lot of of reaction to last week show and and and only a small amount of IT was the creepy Jacob uh image which reminds me the super circle song which was creepy jacket o eye. But anyway.

shall we do something for? absolutely. And this one is kind of relevant. I have something to add to IT, right? So here we go um this is from T V, says just listens to episode at ten sixty.

And I heard the question about connecting a new iphone sixteen to an older mac. I'm in the same situation. I just got an iphone sixteen and I have a twenty seventeen map of pro with then sua.

Yes, I know i'm overdue for an updated mac anyway you know you're not. I have A A twenty thousand and I think we're fine. Anyway, I digress and he says, anyway, I wanted to connect my phone to to answer some music and the included USB c USB c cable did not work.

That is corrective, will probably explain me a little bit why a few minutes of searching lend me to a solution. I used a USB c 的 USB a table with an adapter to USB c not sure if that matters， which side goes into which port, but I put the adapter side on my mac. IT worked totally. I totally agree. He says, also, by the way, I2MADHCP reservation spreadsheet enthusiast heard his words.

not mine he said, these are words of endearment at.

I always thought I was the only one. Keep up the great work, Steve.

So this is interesting to me because we're doing USB c on one side, right? And it's a USB c on the other. So it's what's happening in the middle that matters.

And I don't think IT has I don't think IT is dependent on going c to a to c in the middle, right? Like that's okay. okay. No.

it's your cable. That's the problem. And the fact that apple only includes a charging U, S, B, C able in the box is criminal.

I think that's the problem. I I think that's IT is that these cables that not capable of data transfer but but yet the one that he went from c to a to c is capable of data .

transfer yeah that was probably all like, uh, iphone cable. You know, when we look back in the S, B, A to know whatever days.

yes, yeah. So I think that's .

probably an iphone cable, but he was a cable that that so here's here's where my time comes in a place. You know how you avoid this. You get your U S B C cables from O W C as they have high quality ones that do the full band with everything that cost you more.

But yeah, yeah, I use only O W C U S B C cables for this reason. Otherwise you have to do you a little of your research. I mean, I do. I have bought cables from, and i'm going to blame on the name of that cheap cable place that I always used to use.

You don't come to me, but you know, you can buy cheaper cables, but you have to pay attention to watch you're getting because there are literally ones that just do charging right, uh, and don't have the data transfer. There are also ones that go at different data transformer eds. So if you want you know full thunder for you know transfer speed, you have to get the right U S B C 的 U S B C cable。 So this is another thing to be aware of when you're like looking for that stuff. So and it's super confusing and IT all comes down to the USB back and how the cables made and what pins are turned on or not on. And IT sucks.

I did a deep dive. I don't we've probably talked about this item um and I I dissected IT on the show here. But after that there was a video years ago, a couple of years ago, not that long ago, where the the how IT work guys, I think, dug into like a hundred and forty dollar thunder boat cable with a cat scan machine or something.

And instead of comparing IT to, say, O W C, the underworld cable that has the same specks to see, like, is there a difference? They compared IT to a nine dollar cable on amazon. IT was like charging only or something.

So IT was not an apples to apples comparison. And I mean that in both ways, right? And so that I gave the idea is like, okay, but I don't have a cats game machine, but I do have a lot of gear here. And I can test functionally whether the inexpensive cables at amazon.

Work the same as the expensive cables from, like you know, certified cables as well to say, from apple? Or do you see your cable matters or any those? And so I did, and I found that the IT, also, this was catalist ed, by the fact that I went on a trip once and grabs some USB c cables and found that, well, I had the cables that I had with me always pass data, and of course, I would charge, none of them would work with my external screen.

And IT was like, well, this is a bomber. I want to be able to use my external screen. So that's when I dug in, and I found a couple of interesting things.

USB four cables work as thunder, able cables there. There is no functional difference. Now, is there a technological difference? possibly? Is there a tolerance difference? Most likely, but also there's a certification difference.

And on a thunderous four cable, you've got to pay the thunder able for consortium, good stopper, whatever is to certify your cable and IT costs you money. And so if you're not paying for that, then you wind up with the same functionality, at least as far as I can tell again. And mine was all real world testing.

There was no, like, i'm going to test the electrical resistance on this pennino. I just plug the me does IT work and did IT work for a day that that was my test and I was, I guess so you can buy um cables that are certified as U. S, B and even cables that are not certified but called U. S. Before all seem to work for me.

Now I will add a huge astro that in my like workflow here in the studio, for example, I don't have any of those non certified cables because, right, I don't want to have to ask that question when I have some weird audio issue like, oh, is IT related to that crome cable where I save twenty four dollars instead of by in the auto U C. One like I have like, and they're all O, C or all fully certified cables here. Well, the ovc ones are also certified.

So I have all fully certified cables in my workflow simply to rule out future trouble, shooting questions. But 快点， 乖， i think that's what we do here. The direction .

is part of IT. Yes, yeah yeah. I mean, I didn't again like it's just so confusing like I mean even us before cable, I just like did some googling and speeds can range from forty gig O A bits per second to eighty gig of its per second, depending pon if you have used one point or use be for version two points.

That's true.

That's true. It's like, yep.

yep.

the label that would spend my only complaint with the USB across the board. I mean, this has been, once you to be three U. S, B. Two, there are all these different flavorings, all these different versions, all these different specks. And you had to know what you were getting, whether, I mean, the nice thing about thunderbird was thunder boat was thunderball.

If version one, thero, version one and IT worked all the same at first, thunder able version one, version two version, you know what? If so you, I digress. Yes, he is.

Oh, and and sorry, that the place where you can get, I don't want to come cheap, you can get inexpensive, pretty good quality cables, quality cables that i've had good luck with this money model Prices in the name of the company. I ordered cables from them for years and they have all kinds of cables um and pretty good deals. So um my other supplier for cables, of course, the anger oh yeah .

there you go yeah yeah.

yeah we've talked about .

them in the past two yeah I I really like um mono Prices cables. I use some of them of my computers, but they are the place that I buy audio cables from to use both in the studio here. In fact, well, this once a right angle cable and mono Price, the last time I thought did not sell right angle cable, so I probably don't have a right angle cable on this microphone, but otherwise every other cable that I have in here is mono Price.

And every cable that I bring with me to gigs, that isn't the right angle cable, because I also like write angle cables when i'm playing my drums. So that are not hiding the cable with the stick 啊 at all of them are mono Price and they are super heavy duty and reliable and all of the things and way and expensive like they are really good stuff。 You .

are.

yes, yes. I mean, compared to other places with equal or equal quality, right? Like create because I need the stuff, the stuff in the studio.

I could go with cheap cables here because things aren't moving around at gigs, man. Like I am not kind those things. Well, you've got to setting up fast. And then at the end of night, it's one of the morning. It's like I wanna like G, T, F, O, like this role and go like, you know, Young well and put them in a bag and forget about him until the next day so yeah.

yeah. I just replaced my so you know, the apple vision pro comes with a hank, a six foot for for the charging. And i'm like, I want somewhere I can actually, like, move away from the the world charter a little bit.

So, O, K, I ended up getting one of those. I mean, we don't have access to much services in this town. And I needed IT fast.

And so, you know, I went to wall mart and I got whatever that their wall mart brand, as I forget, it's called shot someone in the shadow probably put IT in their pit. I bought that thing. That thing lasted like, and I wasn't even abused.

Like IT had the same place for not very long and last like three months and like turn to plug IT in and music for my iphone to charge. And it's like going out in my eyes like why is this things not charging? It's like they are that's crappy cable. I replace that with an anchor one. good.

Yeah, the anchor cables are good. I'm not going to put a link to the walmart cables. Are you talking about R V PS.

That their house brand? No, they have a house brand. It's colly.

You know go .

where I can remember it's their electronics brand. It's it's sort of like what because .

they also sell anchor, at least line or would ever. But yeah, yeah.

that's because they have the amazon model .

online and sell through them. Yes, right, right, right, right. Fb, w fulfilled by walmart. Yes, yes. I'll figure out what .

IT is an people in before the end of the show.

Hey aheads up and we're recording the sun friday the twenty fifth that comes out on the twenty eighth of course but por ths john points out that um the I O S eighteen point two beta so you got to be on I believe right now the developer beta um allows chat, full chat. Well i'll say I don't want to say full allows ChatGPT immigration and allows you to log in to your paid account if you have one.

I am stoked about this at least and I went down to boston last night on the way back, as often happens in the car we were using on different things. And I wonder about that. How about this? And so I keep trigger ing ChatGPT, and I use the voice mode, but and I have the voice mode of ChatGPT tied to my action button, my iphone sixteen, so that I can easily get there.

Well, i'm in the car, but IT still requires the phone to get itself unlocked. And then you know you to hold the action button and it's not the best experience. And even last night least IT was like I can't wait until apple just integrates this with with the slight and it's like IT seems like today is a day so um yeah so um we'll see if I i've requested IT on mine but will see .

if IT comes in hopefully. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fun on with two. The mart is on its OK.

right?

What I mean, if you want a cheap you know TV, they have A I don't know who actually manufacturer their stuff.

but there's a phrase that I didn't expect you to be good. There's a phrase that I love. I can't take credit for in or do I want to, but I was used frequently by neither period of late.

Drummer of the band rush in all of his prose books. He like to stay at kromm y motels in between stops on the road. He, he would ride his motorcycle around, and he loved like a motels.

And so he would often write in his travel journal if the hotel was especially creamy, cheap and worth IT you. So IT IT is a phrase that is stuck with me, alright? Uh, sf has the next follow up from episode ten sixty, says todd was talking about shutting off and display well in a focus mode with a shortcut.

He says, he says you can do this directly in the focus. Most settings under focus filters, there is a filter that will shut off the display well in that focus mode. So I like this good.

I will that so there, go here, hopefully that that helps time. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't know. I was not aware that, but you there is. And .

IT is very.

very .

angry. James. James has a little bit follow up. He says, I am enjoying your show over an evening coffee wow.

And listening to issues with apple on notes and its database, more specifically, someone wanting to extract pieces. Some years back, I came upon no books by atlans schmidt of fuels. Er that name ring and i've stuck with IT.

The key feature for me is that IT does not create a proprietary database to deal with. Rather, IT uses a folder on your drive as its container. Within that, our books, folders and pages documents.

IT accepts all kinds of documents such as P, D, S, htm, images, text files, I can create sketches, text files, format dogs and markdown dogs all well all, as well as rather photos, videos and videos with camera access internally extern external hyperlinks work doc ddp ped into the folders automatically shop in the new book. A bit of a clue are multiple new books, which are accomplished by pointing IT at a different hard drive folder. Multiple copies of no books signed up by pointing them to the same shared folder. The offers phone, ipad, mac and windows versions very cool recently with improvements to apple as notes, I have brought them closer, but I generally use my notes as throw away scraps of notes. Oh, no, books is my permanent book that I Carry and use everywhere .

like a pretty cool APP IT.

Sure does.

I love the idea of flat file storage as opposed to see a light database storage.

I mean, this is why I use markdown for everything and I use illicit for notes, like I don't use the notes APP for this exact reason in glacis sinks. and. Everything is just no files and folders ultimately. But no, I can easily get things in and out. And i'm also not tie and I use markdown um because i'm not tied to preparatory formats. And I knew at the end of the day, it's always just a text file, right? So you don't fall pray to the issue of, you know I have IT in some proprietary format that and then that APP dies and now I can't get that out of whatever prior Harry document .

form at its in yeah um yeah okay I need to rethink my world here because I I went all in on apple notes. I use your jumbo is probably the first note taking up that I used in from bear bones. And then I moved to ever note that was there for a while and then moved to apple notes early because of how we do things for this show.

And up notes has some level of script ability, which is what went away with the overnight updates in recent years. So I can use shortcuts or or apple script to control things in a notes. And that's proven very helpful for us for shop rup.

However, the storage of things is not the best. So yeah and this notebooks up, I looked IT does think because you can just store IT in in like your dropbox or even apple eyes cloud drive because it's flat holders. And so anything that can read those folders, which includes your iphone in your ipad can and they have an iphone and ipad APP s as well as a makeup for this.

So they just all work. They do say that you can import from ever note, apple notes, circus ponies, notebook or your goole bomb pilot, which is also interesting. I, uh, so i'm curious, I need, I need to think about this salt.

I I wonder if there is any script ability. I know that this notebook s APP does support mark down. So that's good shortcuts.

Is there automation? That's the thing i'm looking for, not finding IT on their future page, but that doesn't mean IT doesn't exist. That just means they didn't surface IT on their future page here. So all right.

But I mean, if they're just text files, I mean, you should have some native scribbling, right, like going to a folder and read text out of my text .

file or something as well. But like right now, I am about to take this note from our M G G current show folder and archival in the m gg archive folder. And I have a keystroke that makes that magic happen.

I don't need to drag with my mEdison answer the questions. I just hit the magic button and it's done and that's done, I believe, with apple script. I can't remember if it's apple script or shortcuts.

It's trigger keyboard, my store for for the keyboard part of IT, but it's either one of the other, right? And that script ability for this purpose is great. But like there's a world that we could use notes just for this show and then I could move to something a little more portable for the rest of my life, you know. Yes, yeah.

i'll tell you the other thing about I mean, the other thing that's really handy for me with everything being in markdown is just the ability to then use a tool. I mean, their stuff built into ellis, I use bread turbo as marked, okay, which is part of set APP, by the way, which allows you to kind of have a live preview of a formative version and you can look at IT in different styles, stuff like that.

And not only that, he does all the conversions. So I can take my mark file, and then if I do want to send IT to somebody as a word duck, I just converted to a word duck bor, A P, D, F, or a rich text file, you know, and it's the same source content. But I can put IT in whatever form I want and send IT off to somebody if they don't want to deal with. Mark and I do this at work all the time. I start all my documents in markdown and then typically share them at the office, obviously, well, maybe not, obviously, but share them in a word format because what shows people the officers are used to working with.

right?

That's great.

This is great. yeah. So I will I will alert all of the information ed developers to this discussion. I'm curious of notebooks or illness supports some kind of automation, either you know apple script or shortcuts .

or both and pretty sure you this is does yes, some shortcuts, remember.

would have been my guess yeah. So this is interesting. And of course, notes current ability to be able to sink a specific notebook amongst people like we do here is also a good thing.

So i'm not i'm not eager our workloads seems to work for now. But I as we've been having these discussions about notes, i've been getting less and less comfortable with this data that I rely on being. I know it's a sequel like database.

And at the end of the day, I could like, find or right away to get stuff out of a hat. Chat, chat, B, T, assist me and writing the commands. They turn this into R, T, F, T files.

But and maybe I should do that and like, give IT to the world if I can make a work because that would be a nice thing to be able to get your notes out as R T F T files but still um I don't know. I don't I don't like being trapped in inside notes. There's no good way to export. So .

yeah.

all right, Scott helps us with that though. Ohh, well, that was weird, like my sound cut up for a second. Maybe maybe I do have a crappy USB cable in here, summer Scott says.

In episode ten sixty, there was a lively discussion about backing up notes. IT took me while to figure out how to do this. But IT is actually quite simple. I using up APP called sink time to selectively back up specific folders.

Okay, uh, I do this with my notes data, my calendar data and my context, although I also run an apple script via keyboard, my story every week that exports all of the contracts are all the contacts as separate vee guards. Very handy. That is very handy. Uh, he says I have the destination on a separate ackoff drive, which for notes backs up the source folder is your user folder, user library group, containers group that conduct apple that notes and I will put that in in the shown notes so that we all kind of have IT there.

However, um I will point out that what this folder has is simply all of the files in theory required for the equal light database um and you could in theory just pop this into the same folder on a new mac and then launch notes and IT would pull IT back in. I asked god if he has tried this restore Operation and he hasn't yet. I agree with him that IT seems like this would work, but where my head kind of flashes A A light is, but notes also sinks with eyes.

Cloud drive. So I know that there's a cash of that somewhere else. And then there's the whole thinking engine that happens that we aren't touching. And I think apple years ago had a knowledge base article that says as if a swarm of bees avoid this, you know this whole simper.

So um and I believe them because they don't say things like that terribly often, but they are not proud to hyperbole so I don't like I clock that this would in the end you could make this work like I guarantee IT right it's a secret I database IT has your notes in the you might have to go through some some steps like turn off apple script, thinking of nodes, restart your computer, quit notes, put this in their, you make, make a let IT sit for an hour, let make some changes so that the data like is updated. Then try turning on thinking against what happens possible. It's Better than not having this folder back up like your data is there.

I believe that I just don't know how how difficult or easy the restoration process might be, and I think that would be different for a lot of different circumstances. But thank you. So I so yeah don't get quite well. Yeah okay what do we have here? Um let's let's we had more reviews come in.

I I know pete likes to read those, but I I love I love all the reviews so I am going to take a minute and as soon as I can find him, i'm going to read dom because we had, oh no, that's not the reviews. Wait, say pete had this problem last time with the, with the reviews, and he found the wrong ones. And I was about to do the same thing right here.

We got three reviews, uh, the first from virtual stash in the united states, all three year from the united states. One of the best. I have three favorite podcast regarding apple technology.

This is the one I would give up last, consistently. good. The good cheer of the remaining original host.

I think that's me. Never rains in uplifts every monday morning. thanks. Virtual stash. yeah.

M K M C E M D from the united states says, mackie, cab, love the show since twenty twelve. We love you in twenty twelve. That's amazing.

awesome. And casey, what from the united states says, always on point. This podcast has been a staple in my listening luxury for over a decade.

Always useful information and always a weekly listen. Keep up the excEllent work. Well, these are excelling reviews in and they uh they do warm our hearts.

We are happy uh, about them, but also they do kind of help with a variety of things, social proof and you know, all of the the stuff sort of I know apple says IT doesn't help the algorithm. I I don't know every time we've had a wave, I don't buy IT. I don't buy IT. Yeah, I could be wrong.

I be I mean, IT maybe not there, algorithm recall. But I think when people are looking for things to listen to, obviously this matters. And I know that subscription in people listening and especially new listeners a are part of that algorithm. I know one of the tricks to like, if you want your podcast to go up, you can take a two month break and then everybody you will unsubscribe. And when they subscribed .

again and you hope yeah the other, you're right that when people clicks subscribe in apple podcast that does direct. That is perhaps the biggest signal to the algorithm that any that people can do. And so i'm certainly not suggesting this, but i've heard pod casters tell people, please go back in and resubscribe just go click the subscribed button again, even if you ready subscribed and that that work. So i'm certainly not advising you to do that, but i'm just .

telling you whatever that we would never, never like .

things like that. And we proposers, is that right? Shall we actually answer value here and answer .

some good questions? Yeah yes, sir has a question for you. Actually, I got a serious of questions for you, day old boy.

So starting with sera. SHE says, hi, i'm saving photos sent to A G mail address to drive and renaming them. So far, this is a two step process of saving to drive and then finding renny ing.

Do you know of an extension or a act to do this in one step? Little more information. This is for an elementary school year book.

The parents would put categorical data in the subject line, and we would have a google extension that would the photo attachments to the drive with the new file name any help moving forward? We'd like to be changing this system for collecting photos. So just looking for an easy hack to add on or to make this year go faster. Love the show and any all photo related tips. Think, yeah.

okay. So work with me on this here. I don't have. I wish I had. Go download this thing and you're going to go, if that exists, feedback and magic, I can tell us, we'll tell server. So there's that.

K uh, I would generally use hazle or a Better finder rename, probably hazle because of its ability to automate things based on when an item is added to a folder right that hazel delivers on the promise that apple gave us with full directions. And then you can trigger all kinds of things that has some stuff built into IT renaming, being one of them moving in all that stuff. But you can also trigger an apple script and do all kinds of things.

So um that would that's where my brain goes. But that's not going to um be able to do what you want because it's not going to know anything about the subject line of the email. I don't think when you save an image from know gmail that IT adds the meta data of, say, the subject line somewhere to the image.

I like i'm pretty. If IT is, then maybe we can use apple script to extract that all that. So I started thinking about what we do here at am because um we use the cloud ard as part of that like we are automation wouldn't like for this question.

In fact, when before we fire off the reply email, we hit you know select all and copy to the clipboard and then trigger the automation to create the note that adam and I are reading from right now, it's all based on what I put on the clipboard initially. And then, you know, off the automation goes. And at some point in the process that grabs the active clipboard and hopefully hasn't changed in middle, which of course I could, but you probably wouldn't have because it's all happening pretty quickly. So my thought is copy the subject line to the clipboard and then save the file, and then have the automation from hazel re named the file using in part the contents of the clipboard, which in theory is the subject line of the email, because you are ready to copy that there.

I don't know if if we .

can make a Better than that, but that's that's that's where I would that step one bea version, one of this solution.

yeah, I need to get IT and probably do a lot more experimenting with shirt cuts. We are. So I feel like I feel like. Ah there is not I was wondering if there was already something in shortcuts for like getting specific contents of an email and IT doesn't i'm not seeing anything when I just stood a quick search but man, that would be handy, right? Yeah and you would think IT wouldn't be that difficult, right? Like you activate a shortcut, your auto mail us, at least male, know, even if even if he was relegated to just apples built in male.

Yeah, you can.

The b the subject .

attachment, in theory for sure, because i've our current workflow, I tried using apple script in an apple mail in making all of that kind of work yeah and IT where IT has trouble is in creating new messages and and then knowing about then doing things to that new message because male doesn't really give you a file handle for that. But for the existing message that you're on, IT can absolutely grab the subject. fine. So yes, if if you could take the have an apple script that took the subject line from the message and stuffed .

into a temporary very vary and then .

the the attachment written in, and I could even stop there and you like, you could have the apple script at all, but you could put that on the clipboard and let the hazel thing I talked about sort of take over from there maybe but that yeah what .

you might not be able to do is if you're using the web interface for gmail, you might actually have to, like, add the gmail account to your apple male and be parsing your males from the actual application, not just the web interface or whatever. And I know a lot of people that you .

ml just use the web interface yeah so yeah because I don't without apple .

scripts going to let you go into gmail, weather are facing doing that .

stuff yeah like i'm surprised I .

am thinking about because .

male .

wouldn't build the parts parts of an email I can .

oh a apple script in male like that.

Just mean like why there's not defauts shortcuts like copy subject, copy email body.

right?

Copy you know email address us from this email like the so .

I I will put a link .

to this in .

the shown notes, but I came up with a ChatGPT prompt to write this apple script. I need to say I have not tested this apple script. Uh, when you go and test IT folks, you may find that there are bugs in IT. And and then I encourage to use ChatGPT to follow up with that and fix the bug.

But um the prompt that I used was a right and apple scrip to take the first attachment of the selected message in apple email and save IT with the file name being the current date and the subject line of the email just in case there's know people says you know a picture of timmy you you want to have something and maybe I should current date and time stamps so that if there are six pictures of timmy they all kind of get saved with that. But um looking brief leak because I happen to be recording a podcast at the moment. Um looking briefly at the apple script, IT is able to grab uh, the subject of the message IT is part of the thing and the attachment of the message.

And you could we could probably make this far more robust and say, save all of the attachments using incremental number at the end of IT you notes so that there's multiple. Like you could certainly do all that, but I will. This is double with apple script. And the bones of what needs to happen are here. I will put this link in the shown notes to this ChatGPT session for you folks to to experiment with.

Yes, yeah, cool.

Yep.

parad fun. So in, yep, needs help with a fAiling macos upgrade. This is not something i've encounter in, so let's dig into this. He says, hi guys, i'm trying to get my neighbors twenty fifteen three point two bigger hurts intel core I five with sustainable memory in one care about fusion drive upgraded to macos ten fourteen or from rather micus ten point .

fourteen two things backwards.

Michael s twelve moderate. That's a downgrade. I'm confused by that. But okay, I ran in the moderate .

maybe the other way around. Maybe .

he's from one. Let's go with that. Yes, because he says, but I know I ran the monitary installer from a mohamad installer. Now i'm questioning .

I just update. So I think we're going from twelve to fourteen, let's assume .

use the numbers. So I am the macos ten point fourteen installed from a USB memory stress stick that has only the installation. Things were going well in the imac went through the usual Operating system install routine with progress bars restarts after more than hours spent on one of these progress bars, IT restarted into recovery mode with a message that i'd never seen before.

Your computer started up in recovery because a failure occurred during installation, an error occurred. Migrating the user data during install. Reinstall macos to resolve the issue. I was trying to install the Operating system again, but as IT directs, as IT directs, but I have no faith IT will do any Better.

The second time, what went wrong with the installed? Do you think that I should start fresh by wiping the internal fusion? Arrive clear, install macos ten point fourteen on a clean drive, and then restore from time machine back up? Or is there some way to find out more about what went wrong with the migrating user data during the install in?

okay. I would follow apple's instruction and try one more time again. right?

Like, let's see if that works because who knows what happened to your point, right? We don't know. Like.

so I have a guess.

Yeah, I right. Well, I want to get to your guess because this this is interesting, but but I would try again, barring that though, yes, you know install on a fresh drive and then let migration IT, let get the O S. On there and then let migration assist in.

Do the second step. I know that's all what's happening behind the scenes here, but at least you're not stuck with a failed install. You just at worst, stuck with a failed migration that you could you can deal within A A different way. But what's your theory?

And well, I would boot that installed, then run dispute, tilly, because my suspicion on a twenty fifteen imac with a fusion drive is that the drive is probably borked like it's probably got issues with IT. That's a really old machine. I mean, that machines been running for nine years on that drive.

So and it's a spinning drive and things happen over time. So even if I was running fine prior to doing the install, when you're doing an install, it's doing a lot of work and it's moving a lot of bits around. And IT probably has bad sectors or there's probably issues.

So what I got to migrating the user data, just literally proud I couldn't copy the stuff. So I hate to say that, but that would be my first suspicion on a machine of that era. You know drives go bad.

They they just do eventually yeah get work out so you could try again and you might look out, you know, I like like theyve said, but I would definitely run disco utility on IT cause baby disco utility can actually fix what might be wrong with IT. Like if there's probably some corruption or something in there. And you know I would try that if you hadn't run IT. I mean, definitely it's worth running, especially on an older machine when you're .

doing the migration like that. Yeah yeah excEllent point. Yeah no, I think you're and now that you said IT, that seems like the most likely a the issue here. So yeah my like IT luckily .

I think I mean, I need go back and look at the tear down for a twenty fifty nine mag. But I mean, you probably could replace the drive in there. And even if you replace that with a real SSD, you could give that imac brand new life well, for sure that might be worth worth doing with the cost of us. I mean, it's probably got a smaller drive of i'm guessing like you could ably get a two fifty successes d and throat in there and they would just be like, boom yeah might .

even be worth .

just doing that upgrade. That's .

interesting. Yeah if that person .

really wants to keep that computer and doesn't want .

to spend on on new back yes, for sure.

Yeah how but I mean, I like IT.

right? Shall we .

do one more for you?

Okay yeah um .

we are going to at last my place in my notes .

it's Michael, Michael, Michael who I have in my notes next yeah so Michael.

I as a wifi router question this once pretty safe for IT. He just says, what wifi seven router do you recommend? I've looked at the neck or nights hock, and they have some for two ninety nine and all the wave to six. Of course the six ninety nine is the one I will not IT has the most features .

in the top speed yeah ah okay, so I need to test more wifi seven rounds and I say that and and it's true. But I could also say I need to test more wifi seven writers like I need to hold in my head but for the sake of the show I do yeah ah but thus far, the only ones that i've really put a test to are the eo max seven, which is five ninety nine for each unit.

And of course, there's sales that can happen in all those things and sometimes the sales are significant like twenty may be thirty percent, but um so the ero max seven and i've also tested unifies u 7 pro max。 Those are two seventy nine eight okay up the unify ones are access points only. So you also need a router, but you can buy the unified cloud gateway max for one ninety nine and the Price still is way less than the euro.

Um i've had good connectivity with both of those are the the ero is a ten stream device so it's two by four by four. Where's the two seven pro max is in eight stream device to by four by tube a with my iphone sixteen testing locally on my network with eye s are not doing speed test so that my internet speeds aren't the limiting factor. And in this case, my internet speeds would definitely be the limiting factor sort of I am routinely able to get wifi speeds of fifteen hundred megabits per second in both directions is like wifi seven actually delivers on the promise of gigabit plus speeds over wifi.

And IT really does work, and IT happens routinely. I have two eos in my house, one sort of IT either end of the house on different floors. And if i'm smacked up in the middle of them, i'm probably getting seven to eight hundred megabit per second.

But if i'm in the room with the with the device, it's and and I also have one year max seven in my office, usually right now unify you seven prom x because I wanted to do some testing. But with the era able to get fifteen hundred, with the unify sometimes fifteen hundred, more likely eleven or twelve hundred. And that checks out with the different streams, I guess, because my iphone sixteen and the sixteen proves the same, has four spac streams two by two.

So but maybe you know IT finds the right ones in the in the stream in the thing that are negotiates the best on encumbers ones and sense data and all that I did say and I said the the u 7 pro max is a the one they also unify， also has the u 7 pro which I believe is six streams。 So uh so that like five, seven works IT IT really, really does what we were promised for IT to do. But I do need to test some others because you should can see there's a asset Price difference between the two that i've tested.

I've and i've moved from my synod gy router, as I mentioned recently, over to the unified clock gateway. Max, I love that thing I have. I moved to IT primarily because the sinologist has one port is faster than gig a bit.

And I don't understand why you would do that because you want to get data in and out of IT, right? It's it's just a router. So you would want a gig a bit of a faster than gig a bit port to your internet provider, and then also a faster than gigg a bit port to the rest of your network, because otherwise don't matter.

So that's the partner in with psychology. You can use IT for one or the other like the port is that could be one to up to the internet, ork land down to your network. But once I put the cloud, gateway magazine has all the same geeky features that I liked with this analogy.

IT has an equally flexible interface that is probably confusing for a first time user. But once you learnt a way around, of course it's fine. You you have to adapt to IT.

IT does not adapt to you, but these are routers that there's a you know time, honor tradition of them being confusing. So it's just how to be. But it's fine. Once you spend a day with IT, you're like I an order to go and you can search and all that that but go with that. That has two two point five gig ports on IT.

My connection from fittin adam is a one gig symmetrical one gigabit ether net max is out at nine hundred forty maa bits per second after all the overhead once I moved to, right. So that that's important for what i'm about to share. Because once I moved my gigabit connection to the two point five gigue ether net ports and could actually send data a over those, because like my max studio here also has what has a ten gig e through net.

But that's enough. I had to move all my switches in the house, in the office over the two point five gig switches, which of course I did because i'm a nerd, uh, even on my feet deum. One gig connection, I get eleven hundred fifty megabit per second inboard direction on a speed test up to the up to a cloud.

So IT is over provisioned. It's faster than when one yeah which does which makes sense. I mean that's that's pretty typical. So um so so I I share all of this because these are the important factors when buying a router that's gona do wifi seven in today's world with faster with gig a bit or faster connections to the internet.

It's not just about the speed of the router or the speed of the wifi you need no in conferences on your connection in the whole thing and like in my office, the inconvenience. The mac mini that's there only has a gig a bit internet port. I didn't buy IT with a ten gig port, so I can't get faster than gigg a bit on that unless I add a thunder able device or U S.

Before device that goes two point five through night night. Actually, I think I have one somewhere in the pile of things that looks like i'm a horse in my office and I eventually will find IT and plug IT in. But I want to .

know what people are doing with all this band with, honestly, this comes up. I mean, when a good this, where this comes up a lot is when my wife and I were talking about, like, different places we went to live and where we might want to go. And especially when you're talking about like more remote areas, right? Yes, for me, IT was always about the upload speed more than the download speed.

But that was because I was a podcasts. I was creating these giant audio files that I want to get up to the internet fast, like I never had a problem. Stuff coming down there was always place, play fast. And like, even though my I know I have gigg a bit and it's great, you know, if I really being honest about our spicious now is the kids have moved out and we're not you all streaming four k video from different devices to different places all the same time, like the amount of dawn stream bandwidth we're probably using between my wife and I. Even with the number advice we have, I I double its relevant saturating much of that gigg a bit if i'm being truly .

honest with myself oh yeah that that is correct and that's the reason that I have no like I no desire to move to two guiche a bit fiber which I I could .

have right .

yeah and even. Even the one gigg a bit fiber. The only reason i've gone with that is because I think IT was five dollars a month more than the five hundred make a bit per second fiber, something that was very clear which one they wanted me to by they were going to I don't think they would provision the line for one gigg, but they were going to carve out one gig per customer in their world.

And by gold, we might well just haven't buy IT like. So that's why I did IT. Now when my one year comes up with video, which will mean that the um there i'm not locked into a contract with them.

They have committed to you my Price of sixty nine thousand thousand a month for one year after that, you're gonna go to ninety. But I could change plans to either a faster speed to a slower speed and paid less than ninety. I think, I think I would pay ten dollars more than I am now.

So that would be eighty for the two get connection, or whatever is fifty for the five hundred. So I will move to one of those. I think we all know which one i'm going to move to.

Obviously, i'm going to move to the two big connection like this. Please just get that out away. But I really don't need IT. And after a year, I will move back to the one gig connection I got .

yeah my gig a that is very expensive, but I made remote right area, not really remote. But I mean, IT is is what IT is. I pay way more than I should be paying, but it's a know market number of people actually buying IT to probably what IT costs.

yes. Like there's not a huge number of people are still to here that are going to pay for IT. So IT gets divided up a little bit less than in other areas where they can spread .

out the cost. yes. So exactly. Yeah so but you know I use my upstream for cloud backup PS, uh, for sure. And then it's also really nice to have faster than forty make a bit per second upstream, which is what I was limited to with comcast when upload the shop files like it's it's nice not to just have to wait forever for that to happen. Although very few destinations on the internet.

Let me upload IT full even for gigabit speed, let alone faster than that when uploading the video of the show to spotify, that goes at about four to five hundred megabits per second. Is the fast as they'll accept that from me, their service throat there, apple, apple servers, when I up the audio to them for the the premium stuff, whatever whatever the heck apple calls IT, hey, that we have to buy for cake premium with IT really IT really shapes me. There's part of me that wishes we had not open that particular thing with with apple subscriptions.

But I digress. Upload that to them, goes a gig a bit speed. So apple service accept IT.

But that you know that where it's nicer, I can tell people, listen, just watch whatever you want on my black server, watch your fork content. I don't care like I have so much headroom here. It's ridiculous. So yeah, please use IT. You know that kind of thing is is part of and then I can tell people and set your plex client not to ask my server to do transcoding right like take the full band with its Better for both of us is so yeah yeah um yeah shall we do a couple of cool stuff found before we call a day here at him?

Think so. Yeah, right.

Romans got one here. And I promise I will test, I will test more five, seven stuff like we need to find. I am now on a quest to find the affordable wifi seven solution that will serve a gigabit ether net connection or and give you some heatherton for something faster that we're going to a find right now.

That solution is and affordable is tough. That I really like the euro, obviously super easy use. But man, like it's expensive, but everything there is expensive.

The unify is is so far the least expensive way i've found to do IT and IT just shocks me to say those words about unify that they were always I in their presumed stuff. They're also enterprise. I just I in my brain, I always expect, expect them to be the most expensive and they're really stuff and quality stuff. Yeah, yeah. So yes, yeah.

good. Yes, yeah. So uh, rayman has something that's a little bit of fall up to conversation we are having on previous Price.

I don't rose last pocket on, but he says listening to your last podcast about life by about lifespan to track your S S D life, I wanted to tell you about a map that I bought a long time ago called drive D X, to track the life of my s, which you can downland for free to try. And the only cost, nineteen ninety nine for one user and thirty nine ninety nine for a family. If you didn't know about this APP, you should take a look.

I didn't know about that that. But yeah, we had been talking about S, D. And the S, S, in the fact that they have a no expected lifespan. And uh, this allow you, I guess, too kind of monitor that track and see .

where you're at yeah I we have mentioned drive D X on this show many times over the years, but it's been a while. In fact, I think they still have most of our missions listed under their mac observer tab. But yes, it's every one of them is macaca macaca mac mac.

So maybe we'll let them replace that logo with the M G G logo so you know yeah it's good um but yeah that's a fun tool and a good geeky tool to remind themselves so you uh I have a cool stuff found to uh, mention here. And IT is I i've I am someone who puts a case on my iphone. I have generally gone for a clear you know plastic or whatever the material is case a and I have one of those.

And then the folks at mojo, you know, we get a lot of things to review here. The folks at mojo, I think i'm pronouncing IT, right? M, U, J, J, O sent me their full other case for the iphone sixteen, and I put IT on to test IT for a day.

And I haven't been able to bring myself to take IT off yet. Adam, um IT feels good. IT is mag safe? You can see if you're watching the video for this.

You can see actually, I have my gig gab pop socket on there. Now I have a mackie cap on around. Actually my magic cap on is on my wallet, but it's all mag safe.

IT works great on my, you know, mag safe charger next to my bed. And IT feels good in my hand. Uh, IT comes in two colors.

IT is either dark tan or black and it's fifty nine books. And i've had leather cases on my phones, but in the past, and they haven't lasted. Not that the letter hasn't lasted, but they haven't lasted for me.

I just have never found one that I like the feel of. I this one like I trusted in my hand to not fall and IT IT feels good, but IT also doesn't get like cry me, which sometimes for me either does I have where a sensor thing? So I don't know you, but I this was meant to be on here for a day and it's been on here for so well. You know, probably could arrive three days after I got my phone. So.

you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I used to use apple's leather ones OK. Apple had real leather and stopped when they, when they stopped making those sure.

That's interesting to me, although at this point, I don't know that I can go back. I I went all last year without a case in my iphone. My family thought I was crazy and i've continued.

And i'm i'm probably going to continue. I love and I love not having a case on my phone. I feel like apple's glass in the terribly has gone and strong enough.

Now I am pretty good with my phone. Knock on what I do not I don't think I ever dropped my iphone fourteen pro ah. So I was gonna cases .

less when I got to fifteen pro last year. And like it's titanium, i'm good. I'll use mag safe, you know like whatever a pop socket or something to give myself grip.

And maybe that the night that my phone came at IT wasn't twenty four hours old. I had like lunch pants on or whatever had my phone in the pocket. I went out like, I don't know why, but I needed something from the for the studio.

So was like ten o clock at night, my phones in my pocket, i'm running across the driveway and because my pants are not like genes, they're like lunch pants. The phone bounces out, hits IT. And that iphone to this day still has a nick in the corner because of its and unlike you, I rarely dropped my phone but this was like, I don't like it's titanium supposed to be IT.

It's like, was super soft titanium. It's like it's not not good. H, yeah.

And so I put a case back on but like, I envision a world. I always put a temper glass screen protector on my phones. yeah.

And oh.

that man, I my family puts them on their phones to that has saved our bacon many times. I dropped my iphone, whatever was at the time, face down on my friend's driveway. There's a theme here, uh, as I was getting, I was going to his house for band practice. I was getting stuff out. I had no sixteen things to hold in two hands, and my phone, and I felt perfectly flat, face down on his like as fault .

driveway.

And I and I picked up my phone, and IT was spider crack city like. But here IT comes. And then I peeled off that tempered glass screen protector.

And adam IT was totally fine, total fine. So I I have I I continue to put one of those on, and I put one on my phone last year. Two, I there's the cheap ones that you can buy for like nine dollars for three of them.

Those work great. Um I will say I have the the belt one uh as well. It's it's way more expensive than nine dollars per three and IT feels we mentioned in the show earlier cheap and worthy the nine dollars for three cheap and worthy.

But they work. They will protect your phone. They just don't feel as good as the the ones you pay a little bit more money for from someone like belkin. So today .

i'm naked, not afraid.

Well, i'm hesitant to use that as our title for the show, but I feel like we kind of have to I don't know what ChatGPT is going to come up with for a picture on this, but I like like watching a train reck atam. I am eager to see. I won't be able to shield my eyes from IT so we can make that work.

It's probably going to be the thing. Why did you do that? Pete wasn't even here like we could have avoided the old because.

I mean, that's really what i've become. I like I always used to have a case and worrying about these things. And i'd now going to, over a year, almost two years, not worrying about.

yeah, I say that, no, I believe that I thought I was heading down this path and I was steer away immediately. So yeah, yeah, making me think though, maybe I should try this again.

Do I mean, again, the only reason I laughed was because apple decided they did want to do real letter cases. And I love real. Having a real leather case as well is actually pretty good.

Yes, they kind of got cheaper towards the end, which was a little bit frustrating. My early ones seem to last longer. A lot of IT was the cut out and step like that. Oh, and a rock before we out here on on that one. How are they handling the camera?

right? So this is a great, great question. So all of the cases that I have tested thus far just have a cut out for the camera.

It's a giant cut out. I don't have a problem using IT. You do have to like aim your finger kind of right to get down into there and and hit the thing.

But I don't never problem using IT. Lisa has he never uses a camera button because he says to pain the neck. And I said to, alright, so SHE will be our test case.

I'm going to find her a case that has like what apples doing with the camera button, where theyve effectively OK raised IT up, you know, so that you can get all the functionality without IT being deep down in there. Yeah, for me it's not a problem. But I I totally understand that problem. Yeah for sure.

IT might actually be a benefit percent people. I have accidentally pressed ted a few times, just like moving my phone and such positions, which is really the other one that I wish. And I get what I can do this.

But I don't know why. Keep thinking. I'll activated and they be like OK. I want to get out of the camera and I want to press IT again to get .

out of the camera, but obviously take A T I definitely found like we went out to dinner the other night for university and um I took a picture from the table and then put my phone away. But I had my phone with me like at the end of the meal, in the bathroom, whatever. And as I was looking the next day, like that, so I took of the table before we spread the shift table.

And I got this cold, yeah, yeah. And I was looking like, wait, what's this picture? Like, oh, this was randomly taken in the bathroom, but I was up the bathroom ceiling.

And like, I know exactly how that happened, you know, I like grab my phone off the off the like sinker, whatever. After i've washed up and and IT took picture straight up and down of the ceiling, like could have been worse. Yes, not hot dog.

That's right. Not hot dog. That's right. right. How was one of my favorite epsom of of our favorite story lines of silicon valley? So anyway, they are not afraid, not hot talk.

Thanks faring out with us folks. This has been all too much fun. Don't forget a about a month give away, they will persist.

IT is, I am driven to always have one for us. So it's gonna happen. Uh, thanks to cash fly for providing all the band wifi to get the show from us to you.

Make sure to go check out pizz shows. So there I was. I've got two other shows, business brain and gig gab.

I get black drama from a boyster cot coming up on on gig up. He is a fun conversation, really good. Yeah yeah.

cool. Talk to somebody that anyway, thanks for hanging out. Thanks all our premium supporters.

Thanks for listening. Thanks for just being you. It's awesome, adam. What's the what do you want say yeah anything.

My little bit of advice to all of you is go out there and don't get caught.

Thank you again, everybody. Have a good week. See next time .

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