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
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 favorite geeks, and enjoy! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: TUAW Tip: Get your podcasts out of iTunes Mac OS X: Changing How Apple Mail Read more
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 (connected) trip without a laptop, then they move on to answering questions about iTunes, Firewalls, Time Machine, App purchases (on your Mac & iOS devices), Read more
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 Machine backups, re-routing audio, Hackintosh computers, iSight cameras and more. Take the time to download, press play, and enjoy! Sponsor: Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information Read 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 — and more… much, much more — answer and discuss them on the show. Also included in this episode are some replies to the SSD Read more