Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Mail Tips & Solving Generic Dock Icons – Mac Geek Gab 634

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Quick tips to start: copying mail (instead of moving it), editing your default Touch Bar, a new way to create pinned tabs in Safari, ejecting an external Blu-ray, and disabling notifications. After that it's time to answer your questions about secure email, SSD upgrades, keychain errors, portable audio recording setups and much more. Press play and enjoy!Note: Show Notes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff Mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 634
  • 00:02:33 Patrick-QT-Copying instead of moving email
  • 00:03:49 Paul-QT-Delete Siri from Touch Bar
    • Use the Touch Bar on your MacBook Pro
    • 00:05:06 Ken-Tips for Apple Watch & TouchID
      • Juuk Design Watchbands
      • 00:07:57 Ken-QT-Create Pinned Tabs in Safari
        • Safari for Mac: Pin frequently visited websites
        • 00:09:12 Michael-QT-Ejecting External Bluray
          • “drutil eject external” to eject external Blu-ray disks
          • External Blu-ray from Amazon
          • 00:11:52 Dave-QT-Disabling Notifications
            • macOS Sierra: Notifications System Preferences
            • 00:14:03 Thomas-632-Firefox System Proxy
            • 00:16:15 Mike-632-Cannot Trash this Folder!
              • Monitor Your Mac with Folder Actions
              • 00:18:00 Sal Soghoian Left, Watch Keyboard Maestro
              • 00:23:28 Allison-Photos vs. All Photos
              • 00:24:59 SPONSOR: Drobo – MGG20 saves 20%!
              • 00:27:24 SPONSOR: Videoblocks – only $149 for 1 year
              • 00:29:23 Joy-Secure Proton email and podcast bookmarks
                • iPGMail for iOS
                • GPGMail still doesn’t work with Sierra
                • Hider
                • Encrypto
                • The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
                • 00:41:44 Ernesto-Best procedure for SSD Upgrade?
                  • Newertech drive adapter
                  • 00:45:38 Brooks-Web pages looking weird
                  • 00:50:25 Brett-Replacing Bluetooth with USB
                    • Bluetooth 4 LE Module for $4 from Amazon
                    • Add Continuity to an Unsupported Mac
                    • Continuity Activation Tool
                    • 00:57:53 SPONSOR: Casper – MGG saves $50
                    • 01:00:14 SPONSOR: eero – MGG gets free expedited shipping
                    • 01:03:44 Bill-Keychain Error when Initiating Time Machine
                      • Keychain Error Codes
                      • 01:06:33 Jason-Portable Audio Recording Setup
                        • Scarlett 18i8
                        • Apple Camera Connection Kit
                        • 01:11:45 Jürgen-Generic Dock icons
                        • 01:14:02 Mike-Comcast XFINITY profile and auto VPN on iOS
                          • TunnelBear
                          • Speedify
                          • OpenVPN
                          • Netgear Nighthawk X8 R8500
                          • The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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