March 16, 2014

MGG 493: Finder Tips, Display Tips, Syncing Solutions & More!

1 hour 35 minutes

Dave and John blast off on Sunday morning with a few quick tips and answers, including changing the Finder's default search (to what it should be), setting your Mac's default display, correcting drifting time, and more. Then It's a few questions about automating iTunes and dealing with overlapping WiFi channels. Good, geeky fun for you!

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Stuff mentioned:

Synology DSM (Disk Station Manager) 5.0 (2:30)

OpenVPN (3:15)

OpenVPN Connect (4:25)

NAT-PMP

How to set up the Synology NAS as the VPN Server (5:00)

DynDNS (9:55)

OS X Mavericks: Narrow down Spotlight search results (16:23)

Path Finder (23:04)

Total Finder

Logout when going to sleep (28:32)

Lingon

use 'tick.usno.navy.mil' or 'tock.usno.navy.mil' as your alternative time server (33:29)

Mac Basics: Using a scanner (45:56)

iCloud: Resolving duplicate Contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts (49:39)

Contacts Cleaner

One button to merge all duplicate contacts

Simplenote (56:03)

AT&T MobileShare Family Plans (1:10:46)

ARS Technica AT&T MobileShare Family Plan writeup

Doug’s QuickConvert iTunes Script

use 'afconvert' or 'macerror' from Terminal for fun info!

iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Bookmarks and Reading List

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