Healthier Than Doomscrolling – Mac Geek Gab 1136
Mac Geek Gab 1136 shares Mac tips, Bluetooth cleanup, display picks, iPad battery help, iPhone cases, and Adobe /etc/hosts privacy so you Don’t Get Caught!
When the Internet Spits You Out – Mac Geek Gab 1135
World Backup Day prep, smarter email, NAS health, VPN tricks, movie playback, and more Mac tips so your tech stays running and you Don’t Get Caught when the internet spits you out.
Siri Power Moves, CarPlay Smarts, and Phil Schiller’s SXSW Stories – Mac Geek Gab 1134
Master Mac and iPhone Quick Tips, fix sync, Mail, and robocalls, and discover Cool Stuff Found from Mac Geek Gab with Adam & Dave.
Geek Therapy – Mac Geek Gab 1133
You get dropped right into geek therapy this week as you bounce from cult-favorite movies to Pixar shorts, then straight into practical Mac and iOS wins. You learn how to use the twenty-minute rule to bail on bad movies guilt-free, long-press your iPhone’s brightness to reveal Dark Mode and other hidden controls, and turn Live Listen into your stealth superpower for staying connected in noisy rooms. You also tighten up your iOS workflow by wrangling Read more
We Are Not The Mickey Mice! — Mac Geek Gab 1132
Supercharge your Apple life with Quick Tips, new MacBook Neo, Air, Pro, and answers so you Don’t Get Caught troubleshooting instead of computing.
That’s Not Multitasking, That’s Cheating — Mac Geek Gab 1131
You drop into an iMessage quick tip and quickly branch into a whole toolkit for running your Apple life smarter. You learn faster ways to edit messages, how Slack’s up-arrow muscle memory carries over, and why platforms limit your edit window. From there, the show rolls into clever NFC and QR workflows for appliance manuals, Time Machine fixes over SMB on Synology, and a deep dive on spam and email hygiene: Fastmail’s undelete safety net, Read more
My Chatbot Ate My Inbox – Mac Geek Gab 1130
You start this episode leveling up your daily workflows with fast, memorable tweaks: styling text in Notes with a long press, dropping today’s date into Google Sheets with a quick shortcut, testing your real-world network speed from the Mac, and turning any clipboard grab into a Preview window so you can annotate or export in a flash. You also learn that canceling an in‑app subscription doesn’t instantly nuke Family Sharing, why Safari’s pinned tabs might Read more
Shaving With Occam’s Razor – Mac Geek Gab 1129
You get a firehose of genuinely useful Apple tips this week, starting with new muscle-memory moves you’ll actually use: cycling app windows with Cmd + `, nodding or shaking to answer AirPods, dragging apps straight from iOS search, and building Focus-specific home screens so the right icons appear at the right time. Edge Light turns your Mac into a cleaner on‑camera rig, Display Buddy tames external monitor brightness, and custom macOS keyboard shortcuts plus Dock Read more
Cool Stuff Found While Surfing with Agentic Browsers — Mac Geek Gab 1128
This week on Mac Geek Gab 1128, you dive into a treasure chest of Cool Stuff Found with Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton. From DockLock Lite keeping your Dock in check to Backdrop 2.0’s animated lock screens and BookMacster’s bookmark magic, you’ll uncover smart Mac tricks you didn’t know you needed. The geeks take a nostalgic tangent into podcasting history before jumping into the now: Agentic browsers like ChatGPT’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet Read more
Newly Effectuated Reduced Functionality – Mac Geek Gab 1127
You move fast in this episode, stacking Quick Tips that shave friction off your day almost immediately. You tell Siri to take notes on command, record audio directly inside Notes with native transcripts, and pull off smarter gestures in CarPlay Maps and iOS 26 Safari that feel hidden in plain sight. You tame the Camera side button, rename files faster from Finder and app toolbars, and generally remind yourself that small muscle-memory tweaks compound into Read more