Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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MGG 374: Cool Stuff Found at CES, Questions Answered & More Jan 11, 2012

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Dave’s out at CES and he talks about the cool stuff found on the show floor (and elsewhere!) there. Then he and John are off to the races, answering your questions about controlling a Mac with your iPad or iPhone, manually decrypting a FileVault 2 partition, troubleshooting a slowing Handbrake, organizing content on a dual drive system, and much, much more. Download today (it’s free) and enjoy.

MGG 373: Cool Stuff Found, Lion’s Finder, Time Capsule Questions & More! Jan 05, 2012

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This first Premium episode of the year sees Dave and John dig in right out of the gate, answering questions about Lion’s Finder displays, managing energy saver settings automatically, three different questions about the Time Capsule and tons (and tons!) of Cool Stuff Found. All for you, Premium listener. What? You’re not yet a Premium listener? Well, sign up today and change that. Just US$25 for 6 months of extra episodes and full archives, all while supporting your two favorite geeks!

MGG 372: iTunes Match, Safari Fixes, Sending Files, & More Jan 03, 2012

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Dave and John Kick off the new year doing their favorite thing and yours: answering your questions and sharing their tips about the Mac and other Apple products. This show’s full of great stuff, as usual, including a discussion about iTunes Match (and solving some quirky problems therein), fixing Safari when it’s got you down, tips on sending large files and much, much more. Download today (it’s free!) and enjoy.

MGG 371: Managing Your Media, Viruses, Cool Stuff Found Dec 22, 2011

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John and Dave round out 2011 with this fantastic Premium episode of Mac Geek Gab, discussing using Dropbox to sync preferences (and the associated pitfalls), setting ain important, always-synced mailbox on your iOS devices, virus protection strategies for those running Windows apps, centralizing your media libraries and much, much more, including some great Cool Stuff Found. Subscribe today for just US$25, download, and enjoy!

MGG 370: Finder Tips, PDF Tricks, Cool Stuff Found & More! Dec 19, 2011

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Dave and John start today’s show by sharing some very useful tips and tricks that you can use in the Finder. Then it’s off to the mailbag to discuss topics including how to better manipulate PDFs, troubleshooting a pixelated Mac display, Calendar sharing, and even a discussion about DMCA notices received from your ISP. Then it’s Cool Stuff Found including tips for Safari, navigating traffic and and iOS settings. All of this and a LOT more on today’s episode. Download now… it’s free!

MGG 369: Email, WiFi, and Geeks’ Favorite Cases! Dec 12, 2011

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Dave and John have put together a fantastic show today, including some (more!) discussion on email management, tricks for truly conquering iCloud, properly extending your WiFi networks, and then the geeks tell you their favorites of all the cases they’ve tried on all their various iDevices and Macs! All this and more in today’s freely-available Mac Geek Gab podcast. Download, press play, and enjoy!

MGG 368: Calendars & Backup Answers, Cool Stuff Found! Dec 08, 2011

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Dave and John kick off December’s first Premium episode with a fantastic group of questions from all of you fantastic Premium subscribers. They discuss backups (and what you should - and shouldn’t - see), managing the idiosyncracies of iCal and Calendar (on Mac and iOS, respectively), permissions on your Applications folder, Certificates, and more. Then it’s off to Cool Stuff Found, and you’ll like all that, too! Subscribe today, download, and enjoy! You’ll appreciate it, and so will your two favorite geeks!

MGG 367: Photo Stream, Email, FTP, iDevice Backups Dec 05, 2011

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Dave’s back from vacation and he and John dive right back in, answering questions about Photo Stream, iCloud, IMAP mail, FTP Servers on Lion, forcing iTunes to backup locally and much, much more. Download today and enjoy!

MGG 366: Mail Management, iCloud Primer, & More Lion Tips Nov 21, 2011

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John and Dave are back, and ready to answer, inform, and cogitate all right in front of your … ears! Topics covered today include printing from Mail.app, safely deleting junk mail, backing up your calendar, and continuing to troubleshoot Lion’s oddities. Also included is Dave’s explanation of how he’s running Quicken on Lion (thanks to VMWare 4.1) and more. Download today, press play, and enjoy and learn with your two favorite geeks!

MGG 365: Building Mac & iOS Apps, Cleaning Mail, Taming Spotlight Nov 17, 2011

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Dave starts by telling everyone how he and his son built an iOS app in less than 10 minutes, then he and John dive in (sometimes to the deep end!) to teach you all about rebuilding mailboxes in Mail, how to configure your Mac and router firewalls, how to find out exactly what Spotlight is indexing (and how to stop it!), and more. Plus, Dave got a Kindle Fire and he’s got some initial thoughts about that. All this and more in today’s Premium Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe today, download, and enjoy!

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