Tech, Travel, AI, & Audio Cool Stuff Found — Mac Geek Gab 992

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This week on Mac Geek Gab, hosts Pilot Pete and Dave Hamilton delve into a plethora of Cool Stuff Found. There are too many to list, but they include a new listener find, YouGetSignal, an open port check tool crucial for maintaining seamless connectivity by revealing blocked and open ports in user networks. The discussion then transitions to the controversial tool, watermarkremover.io, which removes watermarks from photos. Despite its impressiveness, it elicits ethical questions about intellectual property theft. Drawing parallels with Napster’s decline and Apple Music’s affordable, legal alternative, they underline the importance of accessible legal choices over morally questionable methods. With the show’s ethos in mind, “Don’t Get Caught” using such tools without considering their implications.

The conversation later veers towards technicalities and challenges in the digital age. They clarify a detail about the Eve weather device, explaining its connection via matter and thread instead of Wi-Fi, and express their plan to further explore this topic in future episodes. They also introduce SMTP2go.com, a free service acting as an SMTP server, ideal for sending emails from custom domains. A lighthearted discussion ensues about the comical possibility of massive email volumes due to increasing listener counts.

As they wrap up, your two favorite geeks emphasize nurturing the geek culture, fostering a community bound by common interests. Pilot Pete exemplifies this by blossoming into a geek, courtesy of the show, reminding listeners of the transformative power of shared knowledge.

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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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