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MGG 530: Chasing Those Pesky Incrementing Hostnames

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Eliminating Yosemite's Incrementing computer names, the real skinny on Yosemite and third-party SSDs, which codecs to use for creating your own streamable movies, advice on clean-installing and much, much more keep your geeks busy throughout this week's Mac Geek Gab episode. Download, press play and enjoy!

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Stuff mentioned:

  • John’s Yosemite Wi-Fi Drop Fix 0.2 (7:25)
  • Toggle WiFi.applescript at Github
  • How to Use DHCP Reservations for Greater Control of Your AirPort Network (15:50)
  • About Wake on Demand and Bonjour Sleep Proxy
  • Bugs and Fixes: What’s with Yosemite renaming shared computers?
  • Flame for OS X (iOS version no longer available)
  • Rip Blu-Ray Disks on your Mac (34:50)
  • Don Melton’s Handbrake Scripts
  • Vector 22 Podcast with Don Melton
  • Flip Player (free option) (43:43)
  • Flip4Mac Player: Why is Telestream charging for Flip4Mac Player?
  • Perian
  • VLC Media Player
  • Time Machine: How to transfer backups from the current backup drive to a new backup drive (46:42)
  • DiskMakerX (56:20)
  • Move your data to a new Mac
  • AppCleaner (1:00:45)
  • FAQ and support for using Trim Enabler in OS X Yosemite (1:10:50)
  • Use San Francisco Font on Yosemite (1:15:30)
  • Synk (1:17:33)
  • The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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  • BackBeat Media Podcast Network
  • MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.

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