MGG 540: A Blizzard Between Two Geeks

Yet another New England snowstorm, and yet another Mac Geek Gab. John and Dave brave the snow (though most of it fell between them) to bring you answers to all your geeky questions. Wanna know why the Finder is showing up in every space? Want to know why drives don't appear in the Finder's sidebar? Fusion Drive – should you or shouldn't you? And what about Mavericks on those new Mac Pros? All of these answers and more in today's episode. You don't want to get caught missing this one!

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Stuff mentioned:

• Ice Dam
• Best rock salts & ice melts reviews
• Introducing Auto-Password Changing with LastPass (7:10)
• Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later): About Fusion Drive (8:40)
• Disk Utility 12.x: Create a RAID set
• MGG Facebook discussion on Fusion drives
• Mac Basics: Use Mission Control to switch between apps or spaces (16:03)
• OS X: How to erase and install (25:00)
• OS X Recovery
• Use the CD or DVD drive from another computer with your Mac (even works cross-platform!)
• Erase an SSD with PartedMagic? (might be secure?)
• How to install OS X Yosemite on your Mac
• OS X Mavericks: System Requirements (33:41)
• Mactracker
• Pro Tools
• Apple Developer Program
• Carbon Copy Cloner
• iperf (41:33)
• jPerf
• Homebrew – The missing package manager for OS X
• Hurricane Electric’s iOS App (48:10)
• Hurricane Electric’s blog post about the latest tools
• How to test your home network with Iperf
• iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists (52:30)
• Synology DSM 5.0 Multimedia
• Plex
• Mail (Mavericks): Use Smart Mailboxes (59:40)
• Use Finder’s Advanced Search to Find Recently Modified Files
• Path Finder 7
• TotalFinder
• Corrupt iCloud Data can cause iOS problems, too
• Do you Wanna Go to Starbucks?
• The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

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