MGG 567: You, Too, Can Be a Computer Consultant

Backing up to multiple destinations, protecting your anti-reflective coating, Photos woes, Family Sharing and more are covered today. Consultants rejoice: this episode includes some stuff for you, too, including how best to protect yourself from getting sued!

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Stuff mentioned:

• Yamaha AG06 Mixing Console (2:00)
• Audio Midi Setup: Set up your audio devices
• OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 Combo Update (8:55)
• /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports (Location of .crash .hang .panic reports)
• Mac keyboard shortcuts (includes Cmd-Opt-Esc for Force Quit menu)
• OS X Yosemite: Allow a remote computer to access your Mac
• Start up Yosemite in Safe Mode
• Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac
• How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac
• OS X: About OS X Recovery (including reinstall of OS X)
• Mountain Lion: Backing Up to Multiple Time Machine Drives (21:53)
• Carbon Copy Cloner
• SuperDuper!
• Data Backup 3 for Mac
• CrashPlan
• Apple Consultants Network (32:10)
• Cleaning your Apple products (50:56)
• iKlear
• Retina MacBook Pro Users Complain of Anti-Reflective Display Coating Wearing Off
• Apple Music (1:05:16)
• Why the Older, Slower 3G Network is Sometimes Better Than 4G (1:11:58)
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