November 12, 2018

Bridge Mode, APFS, and Tips from MacTech – Mac Geek Gab 735

1 hour 25 minutes

Dave's back from MacTech and boy is his brain tired from absorbing as much knowledge as he could. He and John talk through a bunch of that, including some important new APFS knowledge, Cool Stuff Found, and a plethora of Quick Tips. Plus, of course, your two favorite geeks answer your questions. All this and more… press play and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 735 for Monday, November 12, 2018

00:01:58 SSD Dashboard by way of Parallels

00:03:19 VMware vCenter Converter Standalone (creates a .vmdk file you can import into other virtualization environments)

00:04:26 MacTech is SO worth it

00:08:03 APFS Lessons from MacTech

00:14:17 CSF-KnockKnock

00:16:17 CSF-Sloth

00:17:40 CSF-LockRattler

00:19:03 Contact Mac Geek Gab

00:19:41 QT-defaults read [file].plist works!

00:21:30 QT-launchctl list

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00:27:01 QT-Hit Command-T in your favorite apps

00:27:56 Bill-Force Mac App Store to show missing Updates

App Store | Store | Reload Page

00:29:36 Bill-734-Dark Mode toggle for Maps

Maps | View | Use Dark Map

00:30:19 Shazoom-CSF-Dark Mode for Firefox

00:32:13 Bill-734-MacBook Air TouchID not Touch Bar

00:34:52 Rob-734-Logging in two accounts at once

Launch VMWare virtual machine with macOS to log in second user

00:28:51 Neal-734-Use CGSession to login a second user

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession - switchToUserID `id -u `

00:41:33 Dave-Soft Keyboards with Hard Keyboards on iPads

00:43:25 Kraig-iOS 12.1 eSIM bug

Remove and reinsert SIM

00:45:43 MGGF-Graham-Manually configuring iCloud mail

Mail server settings for iCloud email clients

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00:51:14 Cindy-Install a Printer That Doesn’t Exist?

00:56:53 Dave-Cable Modem in Bridge Mode

01:04:09 Chuck-Mojave thoughts

01:09:45 Gary-Finding Photos

01:14:56 MGGF-Garry-Naming exported Photos folders

01:16:15 Jeff-Photos Backup

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Acronis True Image

BackBlaze

01:22:29 MGG 735 Outtro

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