February 20, 2015

MGG 541: Two Geeks Joined by Chris Breen

1 hour 25 minutes

Christopher Breen, happily unemployed, joins John and Dave today to do his darndest to help your two favorite geeks solve the world's problems (by way of answering your Mac and iOS-related questions). Yes, they get geeky, and they also reminisce in the way that only these three long-time geeks (and long-time friends) can. Definitely one you won't want to miss.

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Stuff mentioned:

Hoth

Hair-Breened Ideas: Time to do something else… (1:55)

Macworld All-Star Band

Macworld/iWorld on hiatus, no show in 2015

2015 Midwest MacBBQ

Chuck Joiner interviews Chris Breen

Craig Federighi

How to use iCloud Drive (21:45)

Manage your iCloud storage

Audio Hijack 3 – Record any audio, with Audio Hijack!

iStat Menus 5 – An advanced Mac system monitor for your menubar (29:05)

Memory Clean

How to use Activity Monitor

Free Up Inactive Memory in Mac OS X with Purge Command

Dave's Snow Picture

Apple Lithium-ion Batteries (40:40)

NuPower Battery for MacBook Pro 15″ Non-Unibody

FruitJuice – FruitJuice calculates the optimal minimum time you should be running on battery power each day based on the way you actually use your laptop.

Other World Computing

OS X: Manually migrating data from another Mac (53:20)

How to move your iTunes library to a new computer

iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder

Organize and play your media from a NAS, by Christopher Breen

Plex: Your media on all your devices

Synology Video Station

OS X: About FileVault 2 (1:07:45)

Nikon D750 (Chris Breen’s Cool Stuff Found)

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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