Episodes

Dave’s back from vacation and boy howdy do he and John have a ton of great tips to share, questions to answer, and more! Dave checked out not one, not two, not three, but four different personal WiFi hotspot options on his trip and lives to tell the tale. Then he and John dive into the mailbag and answer your questions, including some about importing pictures into Aperture, malfunctioning hot corners, powering your Time Capsule, Read more…

Dave and John answer listener questions about iTunes syncing and moving libraries, docking your MacBook, fixing an iSight, resolving MobileMe issues, traveling with an iPad, DHCP lease advice, and more. Subscribe today, support your two favorite geeks (it’s just US$25 for 6 months) and enjoy! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: iTunes 9.2 adds checkbox for automatic sync of new apps iTunes Library Updater iTunes 10, at Last, Auto-repairs Broken Links About iTunes Store authorization Read more…

John and Dave are busy again this week, answering your questions about Time Machine drives, Safari’s Activity window, a wonky screen saver, and why several listeners’ Macs might be freezing. A comment from a listener about Apple upgrading a MacBook Pro to 6GB when 4GB is the officially supported configuration is included, as well as a host of other topics. Download (it’s free!) and enjoy! Sponsor: Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS Read more…

The mailbag was overflowing and John and Dave have done their best to pour through it all for you. Your two favorite geeks answer questions about capturing web video, how to force-restart your Mac from the Terminal, Network Storage and Time Machine, RAM installation, PDF creation and more. This is a great one, folks. Download and enjoy! Sponsor: PDFpen from Smile: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add text, images and signatures, combine and split PDFs, reorder Read more…

John and Dave are back from Macworld Expo and come out of the gate strong with this, the first Premium episode for February. They discuss using the Time Capsule as a shared network disk, capturing audio in various ways, your Mac’s Stealth Mode, resetting and preventing duplicates with MobileMe and Time Travel sickness. Yep, that’s right, you’ll get all this – and more – in this week’s Premium episode of Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe today Read more…

John and Dave took the stage and closed out Macworld Expo on Saturday, and they have the sound — and video! — to prove it! Download the audio or watch the video right here live. It took a lot of work from a lot of people at both Macworld.com and MacworldExpo to get this video (and audio!) to you this quickly, and we’d like to thank them all for their near-heroic efforts in making it Read more…

Dave and John have put together a fantastic show for you today, discussing solving some pesky Address Book MobileMe sync issues, what to do when your power light flashes, IMAP and Trash behavior, ripping Blu-ray discs on your Mac, and more. Subscribe, support your two favorite geeks, download and enjoy! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: MobileMe: How to reset sync data MobileMe: Troubleshooting syncing from Mac OS X Intel-based Mac Power On Self Test Read more…

Dave and John have some great answers to your questions, including how to open all browser links in new windows, sharing hotel internet, wired vs. wireless network extensions, removing [Gmail] from Mail.app’s IMAP display, and more. Plus, they share with you some listener tips about ejecting disks and software updates from the command line, how periodic scripts work (and don’t work), and a quick listener review of the Seagate Momentus harddrive. All this plus  a Read more…

The queue was overstuffed, which can only mean one thing: it’s time to get the stuff out with another Cool Stuff Found show! Too much to mention here in the description, just trust us that you’ll want to listen to this show! Download today, listen… and then go check out all the cool stuff for yourself! Sponsor: Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS X. It will change your life, without changing the Read more…

John and Dave both finally took the plunge and migrated to the new MobileMe Calendars, then moved some shared calendars from Google over to MobileMe and tested that out, too. Hear them tell their tales and explain the differences during the show. Then it’s on to answering your questions and sharing your tips, this time including booting from a thumbdrive, repairing harddrives, sending mail, and more. Subscribe today, support your two most favorite Mac geeks, Read more…