Swiping Left (or Right!), Suspicious Packages, and Cool Stuff Found — Mac Geek Gab 874

Show Notes

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 874 for Monday, June 7, 2021

• Quick Tips

  • 00:02:00 QT-Hey, Siri, Text Myself*
  • 00:03:38 Patrick-QT-Adjust Mail's Font Sizes*
  • 00:04:48 QT-Change iOS Default Email Flag Color*
  • Swipe Left (or right, depending upon your settings) > … > Flag

• Cool Stuff Found

  • 00:07:56 Brother J-CSF-Suspicious Package to inspect macOS Installer Packages*
  • 00:09:18 UncleP-CSF-File Juicer and Site Sucker
  • 00:12:32 Stephan-CSF-SplashID Password Manager*
    • BitWarden
  • 00:15:44 Michael-CSF-Quick and Dirty NAS on the Cheap*
    • VLC Apps
    • Infuse
  • 00:19:07 Mitchell-CSF-PocketTube Browser Extension*
    • Mac Geek Gab YouTube Channel
  • 00:20:47 Jeremy-CSF-Motion Sonic hand-control music effects
  • 00:22:30 Jeff Gamet-CSF-What is Amazon Sidewalk and how to disable it?*
    • Amazon Sidewalk Details
  • 00:31:52 Scott-CSF-BLEUnlock to Lock and Unlock Your Mac based upon device proximity*
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• Your Questions and Tips...Answered and Shared!

  • 00:39:22 Dave-Apple TV Remote Telling TV to Shut Up*
  • 00:42:51 Jonathan-873-Make sure you have the right battery cable*
  • 00:48:42 John-macOS Recovery Disk
    • OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0
    • About macOS Recovery
    • Cloning Apple’s Recovery HD Partition with CCC
    • How to create a bootable installer for macOS
  • 00:51:51 Dennis-Deleting "In Use" Files*
    • lsof | grep "Installer"
  • 00:56:17 Bill-Target Disk Mode Among Various Macs*
    • Transfer files between a Mac with Apple silicon and another Mac
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• More Questions Answered

  • 01:03:14 Dominic-873-Safari's Generic Browser Identifier
  • 01:06 :03 Brian-Baffling Auto Complete Error
    • How to remove words from iPhone predictive text

• Backup Follow-up

  • 01:08:50 Steve-872-Sync vs. Backup vs. Ransomware
  • 01:09:28 Dan-873-Sync isn't always like Backup
  • 01:12:19 Glen-872-Backing up multiple computers with Backblaze
  • 01:13:29 James-872-Don't forget about backing up your external drives
  • 01:15:19 Cory-872-Use Minio on Synology for S3-style backup smarts*

• 01:18:57 MGG 874 Outtro

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