A Cerebral Sunday Morning: HomePod, macOS Server, Novice NAS, and Your Questions Answered – Mac Geek Gab Podcast 694
John and Dave return to answer your questions and share your tips… and theirs! Addressing The Novice NAS Conundrum, the question often comes up: does it make sense for NAS manufacturers to target the novice market? But that’s not all, your geeks get heady talking about HomePod and macOS Server, too. Plus we’ve got questions (and answers) about java, USB drives, and much more. Download… and enjoy!
Show Notes
Note: Shownotes are complete!Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 694 for Sunday, January 28, 2018 <https://macgeekgab.com/>
- 00:02:48 Drew-693-M4VGear Not Compatible with High Sierra
- 00:03:38 Waren-693-Import Photos to find Corrupted ones
- 00:05:01 Pixelmator and VectorMator
- 00:08:11 Neal-693-Adapting Between Thunderbolt Versions
- 00:11:13 Marcus-692-Fix Text Message Forwarding
- 00:13:03 Brett-Considerate Screen Dimming... Enhanced!
- 00:18:43 QT-Neverssl.com for captive portal Wi-Fi in hotels
- 00:22:29 Leon and Abbi-Use Cloud Station or Expandrive to replace all syncing services
- 00:27:29 This week’s MGG Premium Subscribers:
- Jim L., Nick S., Micah P., David M., Tom H., Michael D., Dionicio Y., Dan B., Mike D., Ralph M., Tim M., Joseph K
- 00:29:15 Graham-The Changes to macOS Server
- 00:36:53 Todd-The Novice NAS Conundrum
- 00:49:42 Leslie-What is HomePod
- 01:00:28 Kenny-Price-drop Trackers
- 01:02:42 Jim-Unable to Enable FileVault in High Sierra
- FileVault 2: Enabling & Disabling Additional Authorized Users
sudo fdesetup add -usertoadd username
- 01:10:42 Royce-Java Installation?
- Download Java 9 (either JDK or JRE)
- 01:20:39 David-Block Writing to Removable Media on Mac
- 01:23:03 MGG Outtro
- The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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There are two good Illustrator alternatives available:
Graphic at https://graphic.com and
Affinity Designer at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
I have both and use them both. Affinity Designer has the better GUI for me but still has some bugs that affect what I do – I work with SVG and PDF files I produce from a Java app. Designer is Mac only.
Graphic has really come a long way from it earlier days as iDraw. It was bought by AutoDesk and became better, but now appears to be owned by a company called Picta. As far as I can tell it does SVG Import/Export and PDF perfectly. The GUI seems to have improved also. A main advantage of Graphic is that apps are available for MacOS and iOS.
I used Inkscape quite a while ago, but then the GUI wasn’t very good. I imagine it has improved, however I’m happy with Graphic and Designer now.