MGG 621: Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting Outside The Box
Tips, and lots of them, start today’s show. Audiobooks, Finder tweaks, securing your Mac and more! Then it’s time to talk about how your accounts can disappear and reappear, why your printer driver might want to listen to the network, how to view 35mm slides on your Mac and how your iPad keypad might change names! All this and much more on today’s Mac Geek Gab.
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Show Notes
Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Stuff mentioned:- How to Show the User Library Folder in OS X Mavericks (2:42)
- SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter (4:24)
- SwiftOnSecurity Tweet Regarding Bitflip and Windows Registry Damage
- Cosmic Rays Impacting Hard Drives? (7:00)
- The Physics of Silent SSD Errors
- Tower Optical (8:35)
- Bonjour Sleep Proxy (10:32)
- Flame for macOS
- Flame for iOS (many find it to crash)
- Macroplant Adapter (14:56)
- Calibre
- Audiobook Builder (16:44)
- Bookmobile (17:34)
- CardStar (22:00)
- KeyRing
- SSH keypair (passwordless) login for macOS (28:37)
- Todd - Accounts Disappeared! (45:23)
- Mike - Canon Drivers want to listen to the network (49:23)
- Screens
- Epson Perfection V550 Scanner (1:05:40)
- Audioengine D1 and wireless D2
- Sabrent AirPlay Receiver
- Audioquest Dragonfly
- AirFoil (1:13:21)
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