June 29, 2015

MGG 559: Connecting Networks Together, Photos on NAS & Upgrade Snapshots

1 hour 21 minutes

A simple network is simple, but what happens when you need to do a little more? What are the potential pitfalls of storing Photos and iTunes libraries on your network drive? Want to make snapshots before you upgrade? All of this and more on today's Mac Geek Gab with Dave Hamilton, John F. Braun and Pilot Pete!

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Stuff mentioned:

Evernote

Asus VS248H-P LCD Monitor (2:49)

Amazon Warehouse Deals on LCD Monitors

OS X Yosemite: Set your display’s color profile

OS X Yosemite: Color pane of Displays preferences

Apple Support Communities : I can't delete color profiles

OS X: About OS X Recovery (11:22)

OS X: Creating a software deployment image with a recovery partition

Caffeine (keep your Mac awake)

pmset Man Page

caffeinate Man Page

OS X Server: How to prevent sleep – This will work on OS X client as well.

How to offload your iTunes library to a NAS (16:42)

SuperSync

Connecting to legacy AFP services – might relate to NAS and AFP discussion

About Siri (24:53)

OS X Yosemite: Bridge virtual network interfaces (34:17)

OS X Yosemite: Change the priority of your network connections

OS X Yosemite: Set advanced Thunderbolt options

AirPort Utility 6.x: Set DHCP options for your base station or your AirPort Time Capsule (39:44)

Ubiquity NanoStation M (46:20)

If Mail on your Mac keeps asking for your password (50:15)

Use Mail Connection Doctor

Repair Home Directory Permission (1:00:45)

Try safe mode if your Mac doesn't finish starting up

Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue (1:06:15)

OnyX (repairs home folder permissions, among MANY other things)

Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode

The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app

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By Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

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