Moving Photos, Fixing Mail, Securing Your Network & More – Mac Geek Gab 639

Back from CES, your two favorite geeks have some fun stuff to report about and all of your questions to answer. The latter include things like fixing Mail.app's CPU-hogging, which hibernatemode to use for your MacBook, and much, much more. Press play and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 639 for January 9, 2017
• 00:01:38 CES Follow-up
• 00:02:16 Energous
• 00:05:00 Aura
• 00:06:32 Linksys Velop
• 00:09:47 Homekit
• 00:15:33 Seagate’s VR Plank Experience
• 00:21:38 Travel Tips
  • Lyft
  • Tado
• 00:25:22 TripIt Pro
• 00:27:00 Vector Cup Holder
  • SuperShuttle
• 00:29:43 TSA Pre-Check
• 00:30:53 SPONSOR: Blue Apron – 3 Meals Free with MGG
• 00:34:40 SPONSOR: GoDaddy – 30% off with MGG30
• 00:36:58 Norv-Excessive Mail.app Loading
  • Rebuild the Mailbox & Reindex Messages to Fix Common Problems in Mail App for Mac OS X
  • MailPluginManager
• 00:46:22 Andy-Which hibernatemode to use?
  • ‘sudo pmset hibernatemode 0’
• 00:54:16 David-Wireless Mouse Issues, Damaged Disk Drive
  • Logitech Unifying Receiver
  • Hardware Growler
  • Potential sources of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interference
• 01:05:11 Patrick-Stop background video and audio
• 01:06:01 Eddie-Battery Charging Rate/Speed Formula
• 01:07:30 Paul-Safe Mode to the rescue… maybe!
• 01:11:27 Steve-638-Protecting Torrent Traffic with VPN
  • Transmission Interface Binder
• 01:13:31 John-638-Note Syncing Workaround
• 01:16:13 Mike-Backups of Clones
  • Synology Replication
  • BTRFS
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