August 13, 2018

Cure The Beachball – Mac Geek Gab Podcast 722

1 hour 29 minutes

The spinning beachball sucks. It sucks time away, and it sucks the life out of your computing experience. So let's talk about at least one way to solve it. And let's learn at least four other things along the way. Sound good? Great. Press play and you're on the train.Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 722 for Monday, August 13, 2018 <https://macgeekgab.com/>

00:02:03 Matt-719-Delete the logs, cure the beachball

Onyx | Maintenance | Cleaning | Logs (also check Options… button)

00:05:11 Streamline The System Preferences Window

00:06:55 Dominic-721-Don’t Forget Migration Assistant

How to move your content to a new Mac

00:08:01 Elliot-720-AirPods Replacement Process

Replacement will only replace one part, not both. Once you receive replacement, Replace an AirPod or charging case

00:08:52 Dan-QT-Examine your iPhone

iPhone Battery & Power Repair

A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

00:11:13 SPONSOR: Jamf Now – Signup at jamf.com/mgg and Get your First 3 Devices Free For Life! You need to manage multiple Apple devices, and Jamf Now is the easy way to do it!

00:12:38 QT-QuickBooks-Don’t Forget to use QuickBooks Classes

The Small Business Show

00:15:07 Jeff-CSF-macOS Grab Utility

The Folder of Forgotten Utilities, or What’s Up with /Applications/Utilities

00:18:14 BrianMonroe-CSF-NetTool.io

00:19:30 Greg-CSF-721-Metapho for Getting Video Sizes

00:21:31 Greg-CSF-721-BASEQI microSD Adapter and Samsung 256GB MicroSDXC

00:23:18 SPONSOR: Ring – Go to Ring.com/MGG to learn how you can get whole home security for only $10 month.

00:25:06 Alex-Is iCloud Data Encrypted?

iCloud security overview

00:28:32 Joe-Importing old Mailboxes

Mail for macOS Sierra: Import or export mailboxes

00:33:36 David-Custom DNS on Mobile Data

00:36:16 This week’s MGG Premium Contributors:

Josh O., Louis-Michel, Paulo B., Margaret M., Eliot G., Working Smarter for Mac Users, Ryan M., Neal L., Scott F., Abdullah B., John G., Frank A., James C., Jay C., Joe S., Barry F., Ari L., Michael P., Bob L., John B.

00:38:22 Devon-Older (2010) and Newer (2012) Mac Drive Woes

00:46:06 Mike-What’s Accessing My Hard Drive?

iStat Menus

00:50:56 SPONSOR: BBEdit from Bare Bones Software

00:53:22 Les-Is AppleCare+ Worth It on a MacBook Pro?

00:59:08 Mark-Cable Modem brings down entire network

01:05:44 Apple’s new DMARC Policy and GMail

01:10:21 Damian-Future of Mac Scripting

Keyboard Maestro

HyperCard

01:14:28 Eddie-External Display Wake-From-Sleep and Handshake Issues

HDCP Errors

01:19:15 Kaz-Migrating Application Data/Settings to a new Mac (mainly just #4)

AppCleaner

Hazel

01:26:33 MGG 722 Outtro

The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app

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