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Don’t Fear The Wi-Fi – Mac Geek Gab 645

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Inexpensive quasi-mesh Wi-Fi, cloud management for your videos, changing your Finder icons and upgrading your Mac's Wi-Fi to the latest standards are just how this show starts out! From there it's on to answering your questions about monitoring iOS data usage, looking at PDF data – all of it! – and then your geeks dive into the Wi-Fi danger conspiracy! We promise you'll learn at least four new things!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 645 for Sunday, February 19, 2017 <https://macgeekgab.com/>
  • 00:02:00 Harvey-CSF-642-Google Keep for Shopping List
  • 00:03:47 Mike-CSF-Inexpensive Wi-Fi Quasi Mesh
    • eBay Search to Greenwave G1100 Routers
    • 00:07:00 AmpliFi Standalone Mesh Points
    • 00:09:37 Pioneer Rayz
      • The Nest XL USB Cable, Earbud, AirPods, and Phone Charger Case
      • 00:21:03 Leon-CSF-Channels for HDHomeRun
      • 00:22:11 Follow-up on Battery Percentage from MGG 644
      • 00:24:39 David-643-Plex Cloud
      • 00:25:29 Eliot-644-Change icons with LiteIcon (Alex, too)
      • 00:26:29 Robin-SwitchResX and SIP
      • 00:27:38 John-644-Memory Pressure
      • 00:30:15 Facebook Messenger Phishing Hack
      • 00:32:18 The security of using a forwarded email address
      • 00:34:14 Finding Apple Music Repeat Controls
      • 00:36:50 SPONSOR: Blue Apron – Get 3 Meals Free
      • 00:39:21 SPONSOR: Other World Computing
      • 00:41:05 SPONSOR: Bare Bones’ BBEdit
      • 00:43:40 Mike-Monitor iOS Data Usage
        • DataMan Next
        • 00:47:44 Can you feel Wi-Fi? More importantly, does it matter?
          • Maximum Wi-Fi Transmission Rates Per Country
          • 00:57:22 Jeff-Should you just turn your Mac off?
          • 01:02:34 Does uptime matter?
          • 01:05:55 Unlimited Wi-Fi Data Plan Comparison
          • 01:07:09 Andrew-Mac Wi-Fi replacement/upgrade
            • $19 – 802.11ac USB Wi-Fi Adapter
            • QuickerTek uCard
            • QuickerTek qCard 2 and 3
            • QuickerTek mCard
            • BearExtender Turbo
            • TP-Link Wi-Fi USB Adapters
            • 01:15:07 Patrick-Some PDF data doesn’t appear
              • Acrobat Reader
              • 01:20:01 NEW MGG PREMIUM
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