John and Dave dive in to the mailbag, digging out comments and questions about iCloud, iOS 5, Automator, MacBook Pro fans, thumb drive performance, port mapping on your router and much, much more. Download today (it’s free!).

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Dave and John kick off the week with another show filled with answering your questions and helping you solve your problems. Your two favorite geeks discuss various topics include how best to migrate iTunes data from one Mac to another in order to preserve the sync states of your various iDevices, the current state of virus protection, problems ejecting disks, how to get iTunes to work happily with your firewall, and much, much more. Cool Stuff Found has a few notable entries in this episode, too. Download today, tune in and enjoy!

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Dave and John take a departure from their normal course today to share their memories of Steve Jobs and how he impacted their lives, both separately and together. While this is a Premium episode, John and Dave have decided to simply release it to all for anyone who wants to listen and join in.

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John and Dave kick off October with this great show talking about how to set up a dual Time Machine setup, tweaking your junk mail settings, fixing apps that don’t want to run, sleeping an iMac with insomnia, and more! Download today — it’s free — and enjoy!

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Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun come to you in today’s Mac Geek Gab to help solve listeners’ problems, including why files sometimes don’t stay in the Trash Can, confirming you have enough RAM, working with Lion’s full screen mode, and much, much more. Download today (this episode’s available at no charge!), press play, and enjoy.

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John and Dave start today’s show answering listener questions about Lion’s new versioning features and what that means for the way you interact with documents for affected apps. Then it’s off to migration land, helping a few users with their issues doing so. Cool Stuff Found helps to solve the new Spotlight-order issue in Lion for some, and for others helps to migrate from iWeb to WordPress. As always your two favorite geeks do their part by explaining these answers in such a way that translates the overly-technical into far more understandable language. Download today!

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September’s second Mac Geek Gab Premium episode launches right into things with John and Dave helping listeners with questions about Spotlight filtering (including where it does and doesn’t apply), Mail issues (including attachments not auto-saving and rules going inactive), and a listener’s daughter who solved the spinning beachball her dad kept experiencing! All this and more on this very special Premium episode. Join now for just US$25 and get this episode and 2 extra episodes per month for 6 months. Support your two favorite geeks today!

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With time having passed since Lion’s release, John and Dave and the entire Mac Geek Gab community have been pooling their knowledge about the benefits — and pitfalls — associated with the Snow Leopard-to-Lion upgrade process. Dave and John share some of the latest information here today, as well as some tips about tweaking your Lion-upgraded Mac to behave better. Additionally there’s some great Cool Stuff Found included, as well as listener questions answered. Download today and enjoy!

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John and Dave are back after their schedule hiccup last week due to Hurricane Irene, and they’ve got a whirlwind show for you all today! Lots of great questions came in over the past couple of weeks, including controlling Lion’s desktop order, moving from Aperture to iPhoto, diagnosing Apple Mail.app problems, resolving iOS app quirks, and much, much more. Listen today (it’s free!) and enjoy learning from your two favorite geeks.

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Dave and John are back in action after Tropical Storm Irene blew through, and they’ve got a great show to kick off September for you. Premium all the way, your two favorite geeks start by talking about calculating free space properly, Lion tips, and Dave talks about his new experience with Sonos units. Subscribe today for just US$25 and you’ll get this episode and at least two extra episodes per month for 6 months.

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