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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 330: Managing Your Menubar, Memory, Mail, and More!

Your two favorite Mac geeks are back for a second-installment with this week’s Premium episode. Discussing Dropbox security, rearranging Login Items, how to manage your Mac’s menubar, home networking and more, John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton keep you informed and entertained. Subscribe today, support the guys, and learn in Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsMay 12, 2011 ago

MGG 329: Mail Rules, Security, Migration, Malware & More

With all of you listeners keeping their mailboxes full, John and Dave have packed another fantastic show together for you. This one answers questions about two recent security threats, then moves on to helping you and your listening brethren with Mail.app rules, spinning disks, kernel extensions, migration assistant and more. Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsMay 9, 2011 ago

MGG 328: Mac Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Cool Stuff Found

John and Dave join up yet again for you, answering your Mac questions and solving your problems! Topics today include starting up after a power failure, renaming extensions, choosing processors, killing the Dock icon, and more. It’s quite a range of subject matter, but all related to your daily computing Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsMay 3, 2011 ago

MGG 327: Managing Your Menubar, Booting All Macs, Home Networks, More

John and Dave head into this last Premium episode of April talking about managing your Mac’s menubar, why some boot disks can boot all Macs — and why some can’t, changing your default Mail client, playing specific movies with specific apps, and lots, lots more! Subscribe today, support your two Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsApril 28, 2011 ago

MGG 326: Firewalls, iTunes, Home Networks, & Laptop-less Travel

Mac Geek Gab is the show that answers your questions, shares your tips, and helps you learn even more about your Mac and other Apple devices. This week, hosts John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton certainly deliver on that mission! Dave discusses how he used his iPad for his first Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsApril 25, 2011 ago

MGG 325: Helping You Solve Problems and Learn Your Mac

Your two favorite geeks are in top form today! Listen as John and Dave take your Mac questions, solve your problems, share your tips, fill you in on Cool Stuff Found, and more. Topics include sharing apps amongst different iOS devices, managing multiple inboxes from Mail.app, cleaning up your Time Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsApril 11, 2011 ago

MGG 324: Window Positions, Remote Machines, Cool Stuff Found, More

What to do when your Mac forgets its window positions? Migrating iTunes to a new computer? Sending your Mac in for repair? Want to import your data from one Mac to another? Have a question of your own? No fear, your geeks… are here! John and Dave take these questions Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsApril 7, 2011 ago

MGG 323: Modifier Keys, Custom Icons, Spotlight, More

As always, your two favorite geeks are here to start the week! John and Dave dive right in and start helping listeners answer their questions about keyboard modifier keys, custom Finder icons, why Time Machine grows to fast (and how to stop it!) and more. This show’s packed full of Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsApril 4, 2011 ago

MGG 322: Security, Screen Zooming, Data Recovery & More

Dave and John go straight to the mailbag this week, sharing some comments about security (including how to better secure your Facebook account), cleaning scratched CDs, and (finally!) a utility for finding what apps are truly keeping your disk(s) from ejecting! Then it’s question time, and your two favorite geeks Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsMarch 28, 2011 ago

MGG 321: Will My Mac Run Lion? Also SSD, RAM, & More!

Dave and John come together for March’s second Premium show to answer a burning question: Will my Mac run Lion? They also dig through a few (unrelated but coincidental) questions about both SSD and RAM needs, answer a question about ejecting a pesky DVD from your Mac, what it means Read more

By Dave Hamilton, 15 yearsMarch 24, 2011 ago

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