June 14, 2021

HaaS: Hay as a Service

1 hour 17 minutes

Listen as John and Dave share your Quick Tips about Safari Picture-in-Picture, the caveats of Finder's Drag and Drop, Apple Remotes, and more. Lots of suggestions and ideas about note-taking and idea capturing on-the-go in the episode, many of them from y'all! Then your two favorite geeks even have time to answer a few questions, including a clever workaround for blocking SMS spam. Plus… HaaS folks! It's gonna be big! Or at least amusing. Press play and enjoy learning at least five new things!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 876 for Monday, June 14, 2021

00:01:55 Behold the power of the Find My Network

00:03:28 Happy 16th MGG Anniversary!

Quick Tips

00:05:50 Alex-QT-Command Drag Safari’s Picture-in-Picture*

00:07:01 Jamie-QT-Copy and Paste Files in Finder instead of Drag and Drop*

00:09:23 John-QT-874-Sleep will send IR Commands with Apple Remote*

00:13:32 Greg-874-One Remote To Rule Them All – the 2021 Apple TV

Buy 2021 Apple TV Remote

00:16:39 Jeff-QT-Screenshots + CarPlay = Two Screenshots

00:18:17 Don-Cheap Gas Tips*

GasBuddy

00:25:06 Reginald-QT-874-Hey Siri, Create a Note

00:26:37 Tell Alexa, “Jurassic Bark”

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Cool Stuff Found

00:30:01 Matt-CSF-874-Just Press Record for on-the-go captures

00:31:23 Peter-CSF-874-Use Drafts app with Siri on Apple Watch for on-the-go Note-taking*

00:34:34 CSF-17Track

Deliveries

00:37:44 Michael-874-Use Siri to take notes, Use Microsoft 365 Family for Storage*

00:41:16 Apple’s iCloud Private Relay and Mail’s Privacy Protection Explained*

00:50:39 iCloud+ Adds Personal Email Domains

00:51:48 SPONSOR: BBEdit, the power tool for text from Bare Bones Software is now ready for Big Sur and M1-powered Macs! <https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit13.html>

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More Cool Stuff Found

00:54:44 Rick-CSF-875-MailButler for Delayed Mail Send and More (even on iOS)

00:57:19 Andrew-CSF-Snail, the per-app bandwidth limiter*

Limit outgoing bandwidth on an specific interface

01:01:01 CSF-Poly Studio P15*

Find HectorDByrd on Twitter

01:04:23 Bruce-CSF-Ubiquiti Ethernet Surge Protector*

Your Questions Answered

01:07:32 Jose-Is it safe to use Apple ID for Purchases?*

01:11:10 Patrick-How to Block SMS Spam on the Mac?*

RoboKiller

Text Spam to 7726 on Verizon

01:14:43 MGG 876 Outtro

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