This is Where You Cut Me Off – Mac Geek Gab 788
Cleaning up your Photos libraries, Protecting against ransomware, remapping keyboard shortcuts, and Catalina’s USB drive crashes are just a few of the important questions your two favorite geeks hit in this week’s show. There’s more, including some Cool Stuff Found and some Quick Tips that will blow your mind. Listen as John and Dave share each of these, helping you learn at least five new things this week!
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Show Notes
Note: Shownotes are complete!Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 788 for Monday, November 11, 2019
- 00:01:47 QT-Command-Plus or Minus in Finder List View (to make icons larger or smaller)
- 00:05:08 Paul-QT-Apple Watch Unlocks even More with Catalina
- System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Use your Apple Watch to unlock apps and your Mac
- 00:07:07 Richard-Google Maps iOS 13 Improvements
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Google's voice commands in their Maps app will control the iPhone just like Siri
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- 00:09:31 QT-Saving Offline Maps in Google Maps
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Google Maps > Hamburger Menu in Upper Left > Offline Maps
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- 00:10:35 QT-Calendar app show Location in Maps and “Look Around”
- 00:12:11 Keith-787-Catalina iCloud Authentication Loop
- 00:14:54 Joe-Apple's Trade-In Program
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- 00:19:19 CSF-DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
- 00:22:20 Brave Browser
- 00:24:14 CSF-UniFi Dream Machine
- 00:31:04 Martin-CSF-Blackhole Virtual Audio Driver. Soundflower Replacement.
- 00:37:56 Todd-CSF-MixPre-3 II Field Recorder
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- 00:43:20 John-Disabling Annoying 32-bit Warning in Mojave
- How to suppress alert 'this app is not optimized for your Mac
- defaults write -g CSUIDisable32BitWarning -boolean TRUE
- 00:46:07 John-Protecting from Ransomware
- 00:55:37 Ewan-Printer won't print from one Mac
- 01:01:32 Michael-Cleaning up and consolidating Photos Libraries
- 01:06:11 Photos Won’t sync
- 01:12:32 SPONSOR: BBEdit from Bare Bones Software is now back in the Mac App Store or Online at BareBones.com
- 01:15:39 Drive being wonky
- 01:25:23 MGG 788 Outtro
