Episode 851
Long Term Storage, Photos, & Cool Stuff Found
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
January 4, 20211h 24m
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Show Notes
This week, John and Dave come together to answer your questions about long-term storage, Photos Libraries, Migrating to a new Mac and much, much more. Listen as your two favorite geeks drop the knowledge — and your Quick Tips and Cool Stuff Found — so that everyone can listen and learn at least five new things together! Join us and start the new year right!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 851 for Monday, January 4, 2021
- Quick Tips
- 00:01:53 Mark-QT-Flash Is Dead. Time to Uninstall Flash
- 00:04:16 Tanel-Siri Usage Examples
- 00:05:27 Zoom Audio
- Questions
- 00:07:16 Bill-Moving Photos to an External Drive
- 00:11:19 Zoom -> Settings -> Audio -> Show in-meeting option to “Enable Original Sound” from microphone.
- 00:12:28 Craig-Good Travel Router?
- 00:16:20 Robert-Reader View Oddness
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- MOAR Questions
- 00:23:42 Dennis-Which types of Disk Images for Cold Storage Archives?
- 00:29:24 Mark-SSD versus HDD for Long Term Storage
- 00:34:30 Ed-Back Tap Live Listen?
- 00:38:49 Harvey-Post-Catalina Time Machine Weirdness
- diskutil list
- Q: Time Machine error with Catalina
- 00:42:37 John-QT-Force a Time Machine Backup to Specific Destination
- 00:43:39 Mike-Best Migration path from Air to iMac?
- 00:47:51 Robert-MacBook Pro 16″ RAM, Battery and AirDrop
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- Cool Stuff Found
- 01:00:08 CSF-Silicon Info
- 01:01:27 JP-Cleaning up Music/iTunes Duplicates – TunesMechanic to the Rescue
- 01:03:07 Ben-CSF-CardHop, a Contacts App Alternative
- 01:04:23 CSF-Netgear Orbi 6
- 01:08:34 Dave-CSF-Manage LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons with Launchd.info and LaunchControl (US$18)
- 01:13:03 CSF-Eufy wired video doorbell HDR 2k
- 01:16:54 CSF-Coherence X and Unite for creating apps from websites
- 01:18:44 CSF-Microsoft Edge — A Better Chromium Browser for macOS
- 01:21:47 MGG 851 Outtro