Mr. MacSpeedy – Mac Geek Gab 791

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Sometimes speed is what it's all about. Many of this week's topics focus around making sure your Mac is running as fast as possible. That's not all, though. Learn how to test your network from your iPhone, manage Mail plugins effectively, and recapture all those songs you added to Apple Music before they were removed. Of course, any tangents are bonus gifts from John and Dave. Press play and enjoy learning five new things!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 791 for Monday, December 2, 2019
  • 00:03:06 Graham-QT-New Catalina Window Zoom Functionality
    • Hover over green dot to get [Enter Full Screen | Window to Left of Screen | Tile Window to Right of Screen]
    • Hover over green dot and Option to get [Zoom | Move Window to Left Side of Screen | Move Window to Right Side of Screen]
  • 00:04:52 Tony-QT-Use Memoji from the Mac
    • Paste Memoji in shared app (such as Notes) on iOS, then copy and paste from Notes on macOS
  • 00:06:48 Eric-QTR-Long-press iOS Spacebar to get Trackpad
  • 00:08:03 QT-If an SMS activation code doesn’t auto-fill when received in Messages, hold down on it to Copy Code then paste
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  • 00:13:06 SPONSOR: PDFPen 11 from Smile – PDFpen 11 is the ultimate tool for editing PDFs on the Mac, and it now includes split view mode for comparing pages, a font bar, Continuity Camera, and More.
  • 00:14:53 Ben-CSF-Coros LINX and OMNI Bone-Conduction Bike Helments
  • 00:17:25 Chris-CSF-History Hound
  • 00:18:41 Mike-CSF-Sabrent Rocket External SSD
  • 00:20:47 CSF-LaCie Mobile SSD USB-C
  • 00:23:29 Bill-CSF-790-Fing and Scany
  • 00:26:44 Lewis-CSF-Nice Trace & Ping NU
  • 00:28:18 CSF-Tracking the Trackers
  • 00:30:22 CSF-Ghostery
  • 00:30:54 CSF-Kap Screen Capture
  • 00:31:41 Chris-790-EnGenius ENH500 for Wi-Fi Bridging
  • 00:34:06 Reinstall the Mac Geek Gab App
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  • 00:40:19 JFB-No Plug-Ins Listed in General | Manage Plug-ins
  • 00:47:20 Luc-Screens Connect can use SSH securely
  • 00:51:32 Raj-Matched tracks removed by Artist need to be re-uploaded to iCloud Music Library
  • 00:55:47 One or two shows per week
  • 00:58:22 Louis-Inconsistent Energy Saver Scheduling
  • log show –style syslog | fgrep “powerd” > powerd.txt
  • 01:07:18 Jürgen-Managing a small internal drive
  • 01:14:10 A.D.D. Todd-Accessing SSD Utilities on Mac
    • Running a Windows SSD utility like SanDisk SSD Dashboard in a VM only seems to work if SSD is external
  • 01:19:49 Brian-Making that Mojave Virtual Machine

 

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Dave Hamilton

Dave Hamilton is a podcaster, a publisher, and a nerd who has spent the past three decades of his career educating thousands of computer users. In addition to Mac Geek Gab podcast (now in its 19th year!), Dave is co-host of Business Brain and Gig Gab, two other shows to check out! Dave is also the co-founder and CEO of BackBeat Media, a boutique network of podcasts and websites that represents fiercely-independent publishers, of which Dave considers himself one. He has been involved in online publishing since 1998, when he co-founded The Mac Observer, a popular Apple news site which was acquired in 2021. Technology isn't the only thing Dave's a nerd about: he's also a drummer, playing in Bitter Pill, Fling, and various other projects in and around the New Hampshire seacoast where he and his wife, Lisa, live and raised their two children. Dave's reachable for a limited amount of paid consulting at DaveTheNerd.com and you can find to him on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, too!

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