Episodes

Dave’s back from vacation and he and John dive right back in, answering questions about Photo Stream, iCloud, IMAP mail, FTP Servers on Lion, forcing iTunes to backup locally and much, much more. Download today and enjoy! Sponsor: Disc Label: Stretch your holiday budget with a little of your own creativity.  Custom CDs and DVDs of music and photos, with great-looking labels and cases, make wonderful gifts. Sponsor: RunRev Game Academy: Learn to Create Mobile Games Read more…

John and Dave are back, and ready to answer, inform, and cogitate all right in front of your … ears! Topics covered today include printing from Mail.app, safely deleting junk mail, backing up your calendar, and continuing to troubleshoot Lion’s oddities. Also included is Dave’s explanation of how he’s running Quicken on Lion (thanks to VMWare 4.1) and more. Download today, press play, and enjoy and learn with your two favorite geeks! Sponsor: Audio Engine: Read more…

Dave starts by telling everyone how he and his son built an iOS app in less than 10 minutes, then he and John dive in (sometimes to the deep end!) to teach you all about rebuilding mailboxes in Mail, how to configure your Mac and router firewalls, how to find out exactly what Spotlight is indexing (and how to stop it!), and more. Plus, Dave got a Kindle Fire and he’s got some initial thoughts Read more…

Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun are two of the leading experts on all things Mac (and beyond), and listeners from around the world listen to — and rely on — them to help solve their tech problems. Take a listen to today’s Mac Geek Gab to understand exactly why — these guys are true experts who know how to translate their knowledge into easy-to-understand terms just for you. Download the show to your iPod Read more…

John and Dave have some fantastic tips and tricks in store for you in this, their first Premium episode of November. Today’s geeky goodness includes learning more about Spotlight, copying your synced photos back from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, LOTS of help with Time Machine (well, LOTS of you asked for it!), and soon to be a new favorite, a terminal trick that teaches you exactly what your Mac’s pesky error messages Read more…

Dave and John are back in action, all systems go! Today they cover your questions on backups, FileVault, iCloud, Migration and more. Download today, listen, participate, and enjoy! Sponsor: PDFpen from Smile: 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. Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Mac 101: Time Machine (includes deletion and exclusion tips) Data Rescue MacKeeper Read more…

Dave’s traveling at MacTech and BlogWorld Expo this week while John is manning the fort back at TMO Towers East, but that doesn’t stop the two of them from giving you some excellent tips & tricks about solving your Mac problems. Today even includes a special segment on how to save potentially hundreds of dollars on your next Mac purchase, too.  Sponsor: Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and A2 — Real speakers designed for portable audio Read more…

John and Dave round up this month’s second Premium episode with a vengeance. This one might break a record, with your two favorite geeks diving through more Mac and iOS tips and questions than ever before. Buckle up, subscribe (of course!), download and enjoy! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: MacWise Keyboard Maestro Ukelele iTerm 2 Resetting your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM Mac OS X: What’s stored in PRAM Skype : Can I see how Read more…

John and Dave dive in to the mailbag, digging out comments and questions about iCloud, iOS 5, Automator, MacBook Pro fans, thumb drive performance, port mapping on your router and much, much more. Download today (it’s free!). Sponsor: Gazelle is THE place to get cash for your used gadgets. Visit gazelle.com and just have some fun figuring out what your old stuff is worth!   Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Onyx USB Flash Drive Read more…

Dave and John kick off the week with another show filled with answering your questions and helping you solve your problems. Your two favorite geeks discuss various topics include how best to migrate iTunes data from one Mac to another in order to preserve the sync states of your various iDevices, the current state of virus protection, problems ejecting disks, how to get iTunes to work happily with your firewall, and much, much more. Cool Read more…