Episodes

Dave starts off today’s show talking about how he’s been using his iPhone more and more for turn-by-turn directions, and discusses his picks for the best apps to get the job done. Then he and John discuss the differences between logging out and restarting, a little more about backing up your iDevices, some quirks with Time Machine, and much, much more. Subscribe, download and listen (it’s free!), and even feel free to submit a question Read more…

Today marks six years since John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton released Mac Geek Gab episode 1, and they’re going stronger than ever! Some talk about Lion, lots of security stuff, resetting screen resolutions, diagnosing erratic iBooks, and a great tip about Dashboard (especially for those of you who do NOT use it!). Check it out, download for free, press play, and enjoy. Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for Read more…

Dave’s at WWDC, John’s back holding down the fort, and your two geeks dive right in answering your questions and solving your problems. Topics include OS X Lion (no more “Mac” in that name!), File Vault 2, dual-booting your Mac, Bluetooth, Time Machine, migration, and more! Subscribe to this (it’s free), download, press play, and enjoy! Sponsor: TextExpander: The customizable typing shortcut utility – if you’re not using it, you’re wasting time. Sponsor: Circus Ponies Read more…

John and Dave (and Pilot Pete) kick off June with this fantastic Premium episode of your Mac Geek Gab. Topics are, as always, all over the place based on the questions that you (and other listeners, of course!) have sent in. Some highlights include learning how to zip folders for Windows users without including those pesky hidden .DS_Store and _MACOSX entries, the nuances between logging out and restarting (and which to do when), converting with Read more…

Your two favorite geeks were simply inundated with feedback from many aspects of Mac Geek Gab 331, so today they are joined by Pilot Pete (making this all threes all around) to address those and dig a little deeper on a few of the issues from that show, including using WiFi in Europe, managing Smart Playlists, backing up photos, safe files, and Automator. Cool Stuff Found makes its return here (your geeks simply MADE time Read more…

It’s time for another Premium edition of Mac Geek Gab. Reserved exclusively for paying members of the Mac Geek Gab community, today John and Dave dig deep into solving problems with startup items (one listener wants to get rid of them, another wants to get them back!), they look at DNS lookups and how to optimize them for your benefit and tracking, dig DEEP into Mail.app and even find the first emails they ever sent Read more…

Like clockwork, indeed, your two favorite geeks are back for this week’s Mac Geek Gab episode. John and Dave help you answer your questions, like restoring missing Finder icons, deleting directly from Smart Playlists in iTunes, managing your photos with just an iPad and a camera (and not your computer!), migrating your data to a new computer without Migration Assistant (and why), slowing disks, and more. This episode’s free today, folks, so subscribe (also free), Read 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 the process! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Dropbox Security Overview Derek Newton – Information Security Insights : Dropbox Backblaze Mozy BackJack Carbonite MenuMeters VirusBarrier Read 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. Some great gems in Cool Stuff Found this week, too. Download and listen today. You’ll enjoy, for sure. Almost six years later and your two Read more…

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 life. Download (it’s free!) and enjoy! Sponsor: PDFpen from Smile: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add text, images and signatures, combine and split PDFs, reorder and Read more…