July 19, 2021

Cutting The Coax

1 hour 18 minutes

Cool Stuff Found starts the day here, with things for printing webpages, controlling your trackpad/mouse, and organizing your life. Need a VPN at home? Your two favorite geeks have got you covered! Plus, the cable companies have priced it such that cutting the cord isn't enough. Listen as Dave tells John — and all of you — what he's learned. Press play and learn five new things!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 881 for Monday, July 19, 2021

Cool Stuff Found

00:01:30 Ajax-CSF-SteerMouse for Tweaking Mouse and Trackpad functionality

KensingtonWorks

00:03:21 Micha-CSM-Document Finder to search your documents

00:05:34 Neal-CSF-Regex101.com to build and verify regular expressions

00:08:03 Kelly-CSF-Sofa – Lists for books, movies, and more

TMO’s Daily Observations Podcast

00:08:49 Donna-CSF-879-Free Warp 1.1.1.1 VPN

00:11:36 Tim-CSF-Ultimate Ears Fits

00:13:38 CSF-Symfonisk Speaker/Picture Frame from Sonos and Ikea – $199

00:15:25 Tony-CSF-880-Print Friendly & PDF for Web Pages

00:17:39 Allison-880-Printing Webpages to PDFs on iOS

00:18:42 CSF-Earthworks ICON Pro ($499)

Earthworks ICON USB ($349)

Gig Gab Podcast

00:21:44 Cognex BarCode Scanners – Read Data Matrix Bar Codes on your iPhone

Data Matrix Barcode Generator

Cutting The Coax or Cord?

00:24:28 JP-Thoughts on Moving to YouTube TV

00:29:26 John-YouTube TV Pays Twice!

Fubo TV

00:33:29 Mark-YouTubeTV Feedback Entertainment+ Package

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Your Questions and Tips…Answered and Shared!

00:38:24 Andrew-Erasing SSDs

iStat Menus

Enable TRIM with trimforce

00:47:04 Ralph-M1 Macs and More Than Two Screens

DisplayLink Software

00:50:11 David-Running 32-Bit Apps on Recent macOS

00:54:48 Bill-Best VPN setup for home users

Tunnelblick (OpenVPN client for macOS)

01:00:20 Zerotier

01:05:57 Dom-HomePod Failed Update Solution

01:08:03 Bob-Thoughts on Vilo Mesh Wi-Fi for $60

Keep The Harmony Alive

01:12:11 Replace Logitech Harmony with… Logitech Harmony

Harmony Companion at Amazon

Harmony 665 at Best Buy

01:17:30 MGG 881 Outtro

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