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Contacts Are the Root of All Evil – Mac Geek Gab 741

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Do you notice your Mac slowing down a lot? How many Contacts do you have? More and more listeners have been writing in with Contacts-related problems and solutions… are you one of them? Listen to John and Dave discuss this and so many other things this Christmas Eve. Press play and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 741 for Monday, December 24, 2018
  • 00:02:00 Tension Tamer tea after Festivus
  • 00:02:42 Contacts are the root of all evil
  • 00:10:41 Sandy-Disabling Gmail fixed iOS Contact Syncing
  • 00:12:07 A Duh Moment with the clock
  • 00:15:57 Larry-iMazing Bug with Offloaded Apps
    • Settings | General | iPhone Storage | Offload Unused Apps
    • 00:17:43 Brian-740-Items in your /cores directory may be part of huge System category in About This Mac | Storage
    • 00:22:56 EvTheNerd-740-Stop Mojave Notifications
    • 00:23:53 Thomas-738-Supervised Mode, Snapshots, and Terminal Launch
      • tmutil snapshot
      • 00:27:19 Keith-Clean WhatsApp Cache
      • 00:29:09 David-CSF-Plex Perks
      • 00:30:13 New Dates for MacTech Conference – Week of October 14th, 2019
      • 00:31:13 20 Years of TMO on 12/28/2018
      • 00:34:40 Filter only Unread Messages in iOS Mail
        • Mail | Mailboxes | Edit | Unread
        • 00:37:10 SPONSOR: Opsgenie, now from Atlassian! Opsgenie empowers Dev & Ops teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents. Visit Opsgenie.com to get a free company account for up to 5 team members, forever.
        • 00:40:19 David-When is it time to upgrade my Wi-Fi?
        • 00:48:43 Doug-Synology and eero and Routing, Oh My
          • Don’t have two routers on your network or you’ll have double NAT and devices won’t be able to see each other, put one router in bridge mode
          • 00:54:08 Kaz-Tech Thoughts for a New Home
          • 01:01:22 Ralph-On the longevity of Macs
          • 01:09:17 Harvey-MacBook Pro Mid-2012 Battery Replacement
            • MacBook Pro 15″ Unibody (Early 2011-Mid 2012) Replacement Battery (iFixit)
            • NewerTech NuPower Battery- For MacBook Pro 15″ Unibody Early & Late 2011, Mid-2012 (OWC)
            • 01:13:58 Paul-Wi-Fi Calling Limits
            • 01:16:46 Jim-The Benefits of H.265
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