Episodes

Quick Tips for keyboard shortcuts, viewing messages, and speed tests are just the first segment of this week’s episode. Listen as John, Dave, and Pilot Pete navigate you through understanding managing the Finder sidebar, tweaking your batteries, choosing storage, and ensuring your DNS will let you connect to hotel Wi-Fi. Then your three favorite geeks wrap up with some fantastic (and timely!) Cool Stuff Found, including some travel tips. Press play and enjoy learning five Read more…

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus joins your two favorite geeks this week to talk Apple’s Self Service repairs, Keyboard Shortcuts, Screen Layout, and Twinkly lights! Of course, John and Dave make sure to keep things on the rails with your favorite Quick Tips and Cool Stuff Found, as well. Press play and enjoy learning three new things! Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned: 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 926 for Monday, May 2, 2022 The MGG Discord Server is Live! The Read more…

Jeff Gamet joins John and Dave today to share all kinds of Cool Stuff Found with you. Categories range from MagSafe car mounts to mechanical keyboards, to USB adapters and more. Listen to your three favorite geeks have their minds blown by a listener submission about Remote Access, and then there are all the tangents, which you’re simply going to love. Press play and enjoy learning no-less-than five new things (and probably a LOT more). Also, Read more…

Google email is no longer free, Preview has Zoom, iPadOS has Low Power Mode, and you can use Spotlight and Screenshots for notes. Also learn the best ways to remote access into your Mac from your iPhone while you’re on the road.

It’s true, we “cloud” things now. It’s a thing. On top of that, iCloud Private Relay is also a thing, and it’s not necessarily a good one yet. But it’s in beta, so give it time. Plex’s new Discovery Watchlist is also in beta, with similar results. No worries, your three favorite geeks talk you through all of this and more. Listen as Pilot Pete, John F. Braun, and Dave Hamilton share your quick tips, some Cool Stuff Found, and mostly answer your questions to ensure we all learn five new things from this week’s episode. Press play and enjoy!

Allison Sheridan joins Dave and John this week to help you learn at least five new things! Quick Tips include seeing Mac App Store progress, uses for Tab Groups, configuring printer defaults, and more. Then it’s on to answering your questions about choosing the right Mac Studio, resolving “The file can’t be found” errors, configuring Universal Control, and much more. Press play and enjoy! Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned: 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 922 for Monday, April 4, Read more…

Quick Tips rule the day here, with Pete, John, and Dave sharing how to stop Facebook from disabling your audio, finding menu items in macOS, connecting two sets of AirPods to your Apple TV and much more. Your questions are answered, too, about blocking websites, parental controls, Disabling 5G and more. But it’s the Rabbit Hole Tangents that your three favorite geeks dive down which make things fun, isn’t it? Press play and learn five new things…including learning where this episode really goes!

John, Dave, and Pilot Pete get together from not just three different time zones, but two different countries! They talk about macOS 12.3, the best upgrade migration path, SXSW 2022, and more. Quick Tips include a new Force Quit shortcut, putting iCloud Drive on your Desktop, and much more. Press play and enjoy learning five new things with your three favorite geeks!

Learn about a portable screen for your laptop, how to reset your Apple mouse, how to resolve Safari errors and more with Pilot Pete, John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton this week. Of course, there are lots of (fun?) tangents your three favorite geeks take you on, as well, PLUS the first “Strange Things Found” inclusion in seventeen years. All this and more, just press play and enjoy!

Dave, John, and Pilot Pete come together hot on the heels of Apple’s Peek Performance Event to share their hot-takes with you. Listen as your three favorite geeks’ thoughts about the new hardware evolve before your very ears…what do they think about the new Mac Studio, Studio Display, M1 Ultra, and more? Press play and enjoy learning at least five new things!