What Have Brown Outs Done For You? Get a UPS – Mac Geek Gab 681
When the power flickers, are your electronics protected? That’s the first order of business. Then it’s on to some Cool Stuff Found before digging in to prepping for iPhone X, including what to do about AppleCare … and AppleCare+. VPNs, Battery life, and Certificates round out the episode for you. Press play, enjoy, and learn at least four new things!
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Show Notes
Note: Shownotes are complete!Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 681 for Tuesday, October 31, 2017
- 00:02:53 Lightning Lessons from the Ground
- 00:04:21 CSF-ExoMount Touch CD
- 00:06:32 Charles-CSF-Splashtop
- 00:07:50 Everett-CSF-Packet Squirrel
- 00:10:54 Dave & Lee-NeoOffice saves XLSX and DOCX
- 00:13:37 Doug-680-GoodSync
- 00:14:51 Advanced Content Caching Preferences
- 00:18:09 Tracking iPhone X
- 00:21:46 Chris-Migrating to iPhone X
- 00:25:17 Carsten-AppleCare+ for iPhone X
- 00:29:32 Finding your AppleCare Coverage Status
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- 00:42:03 Jeff-Which VPN to use?
- 00:51:11 Barry-Apple Mail Settings Fistshake
- 00:59:24 Christopher-Mysterious Dashboard Advisory Certificate
- 01:05:27 Todd-HTTPS Mixed-Content Warnings on Websites
- 01:12:11 Eolake-iPhone Battery Usage
- 01:17:00 Todd-Procedure for restoring from backup
- 01:23:59 MGG 681 Outtro
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How long is a UPS good for? Is there a rule of thumb, say 3 years or some way to be sure it is still good?
Hello Danbo, sorry for the late reply, but yes, 3 to 5 years is the go to.