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Power Usage and iPhone Terminal

2021/9/6
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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Today is full of Cool Stuff Found, tips, and questions, with focuses on your charging and power usage as well as seeing behind the scenes of your iPhone. Of course, there's always more with your two favorite geeks, including third-party AirTags, migrating email, and maintaining your Mac! Press play and join John and Dave in learning at least five new things!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 888) for Monday, September 6, 2021

00:01:26 Driving by Google

00:02:45 Some love for MacEdge’s) Help with the Studio iMac (new motherboard means re-authenticating everything!)

Quick Tips

00:08:58 QT-Reminder to use your iPad as a second screen when traveling with SideCar)

00:11:42 Mr. X-QT-Do a DNS Leaktest) to See If Your VPN is Leaking

00:13:02 Brian-QT-RAID Likes to Stay Awake (starting at FINALLY)

Cool Stuff Found

00:15:02 CSF-Chipolo ONE Spo)t

Replace AirTag Battery)

00:19:58 Karl-Do AirTags in Luggage Interfere With Airplanes?

Why can’t we use our cell phones on planes?)

00:25:20 Mark-CSF-Big Mean Folder Machine) for moving files around

00:26:50 CSF-a-Shell for running Terminal commands on iPhone and iPad)

00:28:01 Todd-CSF-Use TLDR) to explain Terminal Commands

00:30:20 CSF-Oculus Quest 2) on Airplane

00:34:12 Martyn-CSF-887-Use AltaMail) to see email headers on iOS

00:35:36 Steve-CSF-MimeStream) native Gmail Client for macOS

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Follow-ups

00:41:48 Dan-886-Assign Contact relationships with Siri

Bill-886-Store relationships in My Contact Card

00:44:56 Jonathan-Device Charger Power Usage

Seek Thermal Cameras)

Seek Thermal Compact) Series is what John has

00:54:44 Matt-Xi Charging Feedback

00:58:34 David-Qi Charger Lifetime?

01:02:03 Alan567-iMazing) Lets You Wirelessly View iPhone Console

Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

01:02:54 Jon-How to migrate email from one provider to another?

01:07:13 A.D.D. Todd-Best Advice for Regular Mac Maintenance?

Reboot at least every 10 days

Onyx) Every Six Months (on laptops, especially)

01:11:53 MGG 888) Outtro

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