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Dave and John are back for this second Mac Geek Gab Premium episode for February. Lots of juicy stuff today, including POP vs IMAP, Annotating PDFs, Startup Chimes, Safari toolbars, and a quick refresher on SSDs. Subscribe today and enjoy! Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: StartupSound.prefPane Code to silence the startup chime on Intel-powered Macs (with useful discussion) Mac OS X 10.6 Help : Shortcuts for starting up Topic : Copy and paste from PDF Read more

The mailbag is overflowing, and John and Dave do their best to get through as much of your feedback as possible. A common theme this week is prepping your Mac for sale or service, and your two favorite geeks talk through that as well as sharing some listener tips on the subject. Restoring from backups, what to do with .do files, iCal to Google Calendar syncing, and even a winning answer for our Geek Challenge Read more

John and Dave took the Main Stage last Thursday just as the show floor opened at Macworld Expo and recorded Mac Geek Gab 243 to a packed house. The two shared their thoughts on some of their show-floor picks, then went on to take questions from the audience which, to the geeks' surprise, mostly seemed to center around Apple's Mail.app. Definitely a fun show, and definitely something you don't want to miss! Note: Shownotes are Read more

John and Dave are back from Macworld Expo, ready to roll. They share their thoughts on the show, answer your iTunes questions and share your iTunes tips (including something close to the Holy Grail…), then off to discuss routers, BlueTooth issues, and more! Sponsor: Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS X. It will change your life, without changing the way you work. Sponsor: GoToAssist® Express: Instantly view and control customer computers with Read more

Dave and John are back for a second time this week, talking about Keychain passwords, the pros and cons of admin accounts, personal finance software options, comparing VirtualBox with others, and more! Don’t miss it, download today! Sponsor: Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS X. It will change your life, without changing the way you work. Sponsor: GoToAssist® Express: Instantly view and control customer computers with secure, easy-to-use GoToAssist® Express. Try it Read more

Dave and John dig into the mailbag and discuss a few issues of sleepless Macs, managing system preferences, defragmentation and then a great Cool Stuff Found segment. Don’t miss it – download today! Sponsor: PDFpen from Smile On My Mac: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add text, images and signatures, combine and split PDFs, reorder and remove PDF pages, and fill out and save PDF forms.  Check out the “scribbles” feature for correcting papers and more. Read more

John and Dave share your questions and tips regarding all this Mac and, of course, can’t help but spend a little time talking about the recently-announced iPad from Apple. Plus, John gets into not one but TWO great rants (you’ll never think of “bumper cars” the same after hearing this!). All this and more in this Premium episode of Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe and join the fun today! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: iPad Read more

This week John and Dave turn it over to you, the listeners, to share all the tips, thoughts, follow-ups and responses you’ve had to recent shows. There were so many good tidbits in the mailbag over the past week or so that it made sense to devote a whole show to sharing all this juicy info. Download today, kick back, and increase your Mac knowledge with your two favorite geeks. Sponsor: Mac Geek Gab Premium: Read more

As has become tradition, once per year Macworld Expo’s Paul Kent comes on the Mac Geek Gab to give us his info, perspective and most importantly his vision of the show this year. Tune in and spend some time with Paul as he tells us what they’ve cooked up and what he sees as the important aspects of this year’s annual Mac market gathering! Stuff mentioned: Macworld Expo 2010 TMO’s Great Hotel Deal for Macworld Read more

In today’s episode of The Mac Geek Gab, John and Dave answer questions relating to Gmail issues, discuss the benefits of IMAP mail servers, network drive usage, RAID storage, extending an ethernet network, connecting your Mac to a projector and more! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Help Haiti earthquake victims – Donate on iTunes Want to See What’s on Your TCP/IP Network?  Check out IP Scanner! PlugINCool The WebKit Open Source Project Gecko (layout Read more