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Regurgitate, Reiterate, and Recurse

2021/9/13
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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Starting with some of the best Quick Tips we've ever shared, your two favorite geeks roar through topics including measuring current, USB-C Flash Drives, solving Mail issues on iPhone, dissecting local storage usage, and much more. Press play and learn five new things with Dave and John.

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 889) for Monday, September 13, 2021

00:02:23 Help us…and help yourself! MGG Listener Survey)!

00:04:30 Tuesday’s California Streaming Event and Reactions)

Quick Tips

00:06:07 Donna-QT-Type Numbers on iPhone without leaving ABC Keyboard

00:10:38 Todd-QT-Two QuickTips for Apple Watch Nightstand Mode

00:12:26 Ian-QT-Be sure to manage your Contacts!

Cool Stuff Found

00:14:13 CSF-Kingston DataTraveler Max) Flash Drives (900 Read, 800 Writes) 256GB – $91.00, 512GB – $153.00, 1TB – $262.00

00:16:32 No PhotoPlus Expo) in Person… Will October’s Pepcom) Happen in Person?

00:19:03 Christopher-CSF-Gary’s MacMost YouTube Channel)

00:20:23 CSFR-RapidX MyCharging Station)

We’ve Got The Power (Information)

00:23:13 Adam-CSF-888-Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor)

00:24:09 Jeremy-Better Way to Measure AC Current)

Sense Whole-Home Power Meter) using Amp Clamps

00:27:13 Jim-888-How Much Power Do Chargers Use?)

00:28:41 Chip-888-Power consumed by unused chargers

Poniie PN2000 Electricity Meter)

FLIR One)

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00:34:52 SPONSOR: BBEdit), the power tool for text from Bare Bones Software) is now ready for Big Sur and M1-powered Macs!

Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:37:03 Brett-Window Randomly Moves to Cursor

Mouse Keys on macOS)

Stay by Cordless Dog)

00:44:20 Brian-iPhone Won’t Use Third-Party Mail Client as Default

00:47:10 Stelios-GC-Weather Radar on CarPlay App

00:50:17 Craig-Non-Apple Devices in my Device List

TiVo Stream 4K)

00:54:21 Andrew-What’s Taking Up all My Local iCloud Storage?

du -sh ~/Library/Mobile Documents/* | sort -rn | less

^^ Thanks to listener Tony for the update here!

00:59:19 Kirit-Use Synology to Sync to Dropbox, Box, and more

01:05:13 Niall-External Drive Formatting Recognition Disparity

Install HomeBrew)

brew install tldr

01:11:21 Andrew-Can you run Windows on an M1 Mac?

Wine 6.0 for M1 Exists!)

01:13:25 MGG 889) Outtro

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