Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Managing Photos, Fixing Your Apple Watch & Resolving Network Issues – Mac Geek Gab 640

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Migrating Photos to a new Mac, managing and syncing your family's photos, speeding up iOS Spotlight searches, fixing an unresponsive Digital Crown on your Apple Watch and resolving website loading delays are just some of the things you'll learn from your two favorite geeks in this week's show! Listen as Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun answer your questions and solve your problems.Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 640 for Tuesday, January 17, 2017
  • 00:02:04 John takes Dave’s advice (Optimum Online Tiers including John’s new Ultra 100)
  • 00:05:20 Manage Your QoS
  • 00:07:55 Greg-QT-Speed up iOS Spotlight Search 
  • 00:10:46 Ken-Fixing unresponsive Apple Watch Digital Crown
  • 00:12:05 Jim-Apple Watch not charging? Could be the Charger
  • 00:15:37 Right-angle charging cables
  • 00:18:04 SPONSOR: Bare Bones – BBEdit 30-day free trial … can be extended forever!
  • 00:21:23 SPONSOR: Blue Apron – 3 Meals Free with MGG
  • 00:24:20 Daniel-Migrating Photos Library to new Mac
    • OS X: Manually migrating data from another Mac
    • 00:32:55 David-Managing and Syncing Family Photos
    • 00:39:41 Kirit-Delays when loading websites
    • 00:46:44 Paul-Most secure routers
    • 00:52:27 Todd-Measuring (Mesh) Wi-Fi Performance
      • Testing with iperf
      • 01:05:55 Charles-Adding a wireless access point
        • NETGEAR EX7300 Wireless Extender
        • 01:13:34 Terry-Show App’s Keyboard Shorcuts
          • CheatSheet
          • 01:16:00 Tanel-Heat issues in closed-display/clamshell Mode?
            • Use your Mac notebook computer in closed-display mode with an external display
            • The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
            • You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network
            • BackBeat Media Podcast Network
            • MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.
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