MGG 628: Cool Stuff Found and The DNS Achilles Heel
Cool Stuff Found includes how to keep Safari from opening iTunes automatically, a new USB circuit tester, bluetooth stereo speaker, a better way to backup your iPhone and more. Then it’s on to your questions, including a segment on managing your iPhone from the new Console app in macOS Sierra. Plus, your two favorite geeks talk through this week’s DNS outage and how they got around it. Download today and enjoy!
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Show Notes
Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned:- NoMoreiTunes (1:55)
- Micromat USBee (3:10)
- Classic Mac Sticker Pack (4:08)
- TrackR Bravo (5:20)
- Thinium ReCHARGE+ (7:32)
- Seek Thermal for Otterbox (8:44)
- Anker Premium Stereo Bluetooth Speaker (10:43)
- Anker Premium Stereo Bluetooth 4.0 Speaker (Amazon)
- Gargoyle Router (12:01)
- Solos (13:15)
- MEEM (14:30)
- Seagate IronWolf NAS Drives (16:11)
- iBotta (17:42)
- Checkout51
- BevRAGE
- Nextcloud Box (20:42)
- Mactracker (with info on various combo audio ports) (27:34)
- OS X: Remove Location Info from Pictures (32:15)
- ioSafe (33:03)
- Reset iconservices Cache (57:09)
- Reset LaunchServices Database
- Check your DNS servers with: more /etc/resolv.conf (1:00:21)
- OpenDNS
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