December 11, 2018

iOS Mysteries, Choosing Your Server, & Cool Stuff Found – Mac Geek Gab 739

1 hour 24 minutes

iOS is wonderful… and mysterious, especially when it asks you to login, or shows you duplicates of your data. Listen to John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton solve these problems and more for you. Then, should you get a separate Mac as a server, or can you run in the background? And, of course, more Cool Stuff Found just for you. Press play, listen, learn, and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 739 for Monday, December 10, 2018 <https://macgeekgab.com/>

00:02:40 Mike-Unexpected iOS Apple ID Login Requests

Try “Settings | Passwords & Accounts” instead

00:07:15 Sandy-Mystery Contacts on iPhone

Check “Contacts | Groups”

00:15:00 Chuck-Disable Mojave Upgrade Notifications

App Store | Updates | Ctrl-Click | Hide Update

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00:20:57 Andrew-Choosing a simple home router

00:26:30 Music is Math

00:28:29 James-Mac Mini or Background iMac for Server

00:38:11 2018 MacBook Air has Hyper-Threading

Compare 2018 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Dual-Core i5 CPUs

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00:52:21 Steve-Monitors and CPUs and New Computers

Monoprice 27” UHD Display

01:02:08 Chuck-Follow-up on iPhone XR Review

01:09:25 Taran-CSF-Mimeo Photos for Apple Photos Books

Create and order print products in Photos with Project Extensions

01:12:04 Andrew-CSF-Dark Reader

01:14:31 Mike-CSF-iClever Wireless Folding Keyboard

01:15:39 Seth-CSF-Fluor

01:16:48 Brian-CSF-VueScan

01:19:42 MGGF-datafornothinandbitsforfree-CSF-Bonjour Browser

Flame iOS Bonjour Browser or macOS

iStumbler

01:20:38 MGG 739 Outtro

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