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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!

MGG 390: Tweaking Address Book, Auto-Mounting Disks, QuickTime & More

John and Dave are here with April’s first Premium Mac Geek Gab episode, and it’s one you won’t want to miss. Following up on a previous show, they start by discussing an automated solution for keeping your disks mounted, then share some juicy details about how QuickTime processes plugins on Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsApril 5, 2012 ago

MGG 389: Copying Mail, Shared File Permissions, Tips & More

Dave and John kick off April with a bang! Today’s episode is filled with great answers and tips, with topics including recreating Lion’s recovery partition, copying mail between user accounts, issues with apps launching (and not launching!), and solving that pesky problem that happens when you’re sharing a folder and Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsApril 2, 2012 ago

MGG 388: Backup Strategies & Cool Stuff Found

This week, Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun take you on a deep dive through backup options, meanings, and strategies. Learn what the geeks think about all this stuff, and learn what they use themselves to ensure they won’t get caught (without their data!). All this, plus a healthy dose Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsMarch 26, 2012 ago

MGG 387: iOS Calendar Alerts, Network Bridging, 4G & More

John and Dave do their best to make the geeky stuff understandable, digestable, and enjoying. And now, this week’s Premium episode with even more flavor! Topics include getting more granular calendar alert settings on your iOS devices, bridging networks together and really controlling your devices IP addresses in less-than-optimal situations, Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsMarch 22, 2012 ago

MGG 386: SXSW, iPad 3, Plus Listener Questions Answered

Dave’s back from South by Southwest in Austin and so he shares his thoughts about this year’s conference versus previous years. He’s also got a new iPad 3 that he and John will talk about, but that still leaves time to share some tips and answer a few of the Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsMarch 20, 2012 ago

MGG 385: Clearing up iTunes iCloudiness, Cool Stuff Found, MTUs & More

Dave and John kick off March’s first premium episode by sharing a bunch of tips and Cool Stuff Found. Definitely a show start you don’t want to miss. Then they dig into the Premium mailbag and answer all your questions, including how to fix iBooks PDFs, Safari Autofill, router settings, Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsMarch 8, 2012 ago

MGG 384: Photos, Lion Tips, Speaker Management & More!

Dave’s back from vacation and he, John, and Pilot Pete dig into the mailbag to answer your questions. Topics include finding links to networked files, solving Address Book problems, managing external speakers with iTunes and your Mac, and troubleshooting iPhoto. All this and more on today’s episode. Download now (it’s Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsMarch 5, 2012 ago

MGG 383: Switching Mail Replies, Timed Macros, Hard Drive Fun & More

Dave and John kick off February’s second Premium episode with a few great tips, including one for managing reply and reply-all in Mail.app. Then it’s on to answering questions, starting with some variety and then narrowing down to quite a few hard-drive related questions that listeners sent in. John and Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsFebruary 23, 2012 ago

MGG 382: iOS to Mac Syncing, Geocaching, Lion Finder & More

John and Dave have a fun-filled show today, discussing iPhone photography, iPhone geocaching, Mac syncing, more taming of the Lion Finder, and much much more. Download, press play, and enjoy. It’s free today! Sponsor: Audible: Get a 14-Day FREE Trial of AudibleListener® Gold And 1 Free Download only with this, Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsFebruary 20, 2012 ago

MGG 381: Mac Internet Recovery, HTML on iPad, iDevice Syncing, More!

This week’s Mac Geek Gab episode finds your two favorite geeks, Dave and John, starting off discussing the reasons and how-tos behind Lion’s new Recovery Partition as well as Internet Recovery, then it’s off to figure out how to edit HTML on your iPad, solving iDevice and Mac syncing issues Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 14 yearsFebruary 13, 2012 ago

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