MGG 556: Blowing Dust and Perma-Verbose Mode

Recording hours before the WWDC 2015 keynote, John and Dave answer your questions, as per usual! How do you detect and deal with duplicate files? What about a failing hard drive with some important data? What's the right – and wrong – way to clean dust out of your Mac? And have you ever wanted to enable perma-verbose mode? Find out all this and more on today's Mac Geek Gab!

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Stuff mentioned:

• Little Kids Rock (2:45)
• Mac Roundtable 2015-06-08 #227 WWDC (5:05)
• AltConf
• Apple Tells AltConf No WWDC Keynote or Session Streaming
• TidyUp (16:55)
• Path Finder 7
• TotalFinder
• Locate and organize your iTunes files (22:57)
• Silicon Roller (34:57)
• Onyx
• Boot Arguments in OS X
• Perian
• Flip4Mac
• VLC
• Infuse
• ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ (Location of many iCloud files, Terminal may be required) (48:47)
• Allison Sheridan’s S/MIME EMail Tutorial on Mac and iOS (1:02:41)
• GPGTools
• AppleScripts for Marking Mail Messages as Read (1:14:04)
• The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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