Mac Geek Gab

MGG 506: Nine Years, Two Geeks and Hundreds Of Thousands of Listeners

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This past Friday marks 9 years of Mac Geek Gab, and your two favorite geeks are at it and stronger than ever. Download and/or press “Play” on today's show to hear some great listener-submitted tips about managing Finder settings, installing Yosemite beta, podcast management and more. Then your geeks answer listener questions, including a great segment on managing disk space, both inside iTunes and beyond. Also the great question is answered, “What are the true benefits of private cloud?” Don't miss it!

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Stuff mentioned:

  • Father’s Day
  • Yasu (4:00)
  • Onyx
  • chmod
  • Install OS X Yosemite on Two Partitions (7:40)
  • Remote restart a FileVault 2 Mac with: sudo fdesetup authrestart (10:30)
  • fdesetup
  • Growl (12:30)
  • Prowl
  • Boxcar.io
  • HardwareGrowler
  • iPod Classic has better audio quality than all others (16:05)
  • Audioengine D1
  • On itunes 11.1, can you delete podcast episodes? (24:57)
  • Daisy Disk (28:30)
  • OS X: What is “other” space in About This Mac?
  • OmniDiskSweeper
  • fseventer
  • What Size? (41:45)
  • Battery Doctor
  • Arq
  • How to mount remote folders from another Synology NAS (1:05:44)
  • CIFS/SMB
  • 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 Podcast and Applr.

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    Mac Geek GabBy Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson