The Charm of the Chime – Mac Geek Gab 709
You have questions, Dave and John have answers. Today’s topics include malfunctioning AirPods, setting Apple Pay addresses, restoring a Recovery Partition, email and iMessage encryption, and much, much more. Download, press play, enjoy, and learn!
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Show Notes
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- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 709 for Monday, May 14, 2018
- 00:04:57 Gary-Setting Apple Pay Addresses
- General | Settings | Wallet & Apple Pay | [Card] | Billing Address
- 00:09:01 Andrew-Restore Old Recovery Partition
- 00:15:18 Mark-AirPods Malfunctioning and
- 00:20:26 Mark-MS Word Permissions Oddities
- 00:24:37 Sponsor: Save up to $150 off a Ring of Security kit at Ring.com/MGG
- 00:26:19 Sponsor: Crossover from Codeweavers – It’s time to try it again! 14-day free trial, then MGG saves you 35%.
- 00:27:57 Sponsor: BBEdit from BareBones – The Legendary Mac Text Editor Celebrating Twenty-Five Years.
- 00:30:29 Charles-CSF-LIFX Bulbs
- 00:34:16 Leon-CSF-SwiftDefaultApps
- 00:40:38 QT-Create a Test User Account
- 00:45:08 DLH-CSFR-AppTamer
- 00:51:00 Scott-CSF-Phaiser BHS-750 Bluetooth Sport Earphones
- 00:57:33 This week’s MGG Premium Subscribers:
- Scott G., Brian W., Brian M., Daniel W., Jim W., Denis M., Art K., Mikael S., Daniel M., Scott F., John G., Frank A., James C., Barry F., Joe S., Paul M., Ari L., Michael P., Bob L., Tim M.
- 00:59:22 John-New Internet Gateway not functioning
- 01:04:06 Bill-Sending Files Securely
- Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is
- Encrypto from MacPaw
- ZIP with Encryption (from Terminal, "zip -e [target] [source]")
- WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption
- Guardian piece about WhatsApp Encryption
- Signal
- 01:20:44 MGG 709
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