Episode Details

Happy Birthday to us all! It’s true… 17 years ago today (to the day!) John and Dave released the first Mac Geek Gab episode (called “TMO To Go”) and Pilot Pete joined not to long afterwards. It’s been 17 years of answering your questions, sharing Cool Stuff Found, learning Quick Tips, discussing Macs and iPhones and Routers and Mesh Wi-Fi and Synology DiskStations and… yeah… all of it. Wanna know a secret? They’re not going to stop any time soon! Wanna know another secret? Press play and join your three favorite geeks in learning that secret plus five new things!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 932 for Monday, June 13, 2022
• 00:01:41 Happy 17th Birthday!
  • Don McMillan’s Boolean Proof as to Why Your Wife is Always Right
  • The MGG Merch Store is Live!
• Quick Tips
  • 00:05:01 QT-Command-Drag a Window to keep its background position
  • 00:06:05 QT-Command Click on Mailboxes in Mail’s sidebar to have customized views
  • 00:08:02 Bob-QT-Use iPhone Measure app to calculate a human’s height
  • 00:10:44 Brad-QT-See Snapshots over SMB by adding /~snapshot to SMB URL
  • 00:12:22 BarryK-QT-Use Option-Space to put a “hard space” in text
  • 00:13:30 Craig-QT-Use an NFC tag to cover the light on your bedside charger…and trigger shortcuts! Available here on Amazon
  • 00:17:06 Cory-QT-Run Homebridge on DSM7 instead of HOOBS – Good idea!
    • The MGG Discord Server is Live!
  • 00:20:32 Brad-QT-use killall -3 to generate