November 02, 2015

MGG 577: Never Mind the Squirrel

1 hour 27 minutes

Surviving Halloween yet again, your two favorite chocolate-fueled geeks set off on yet another episode of helping you solve your problems and learn new stuff! Deleting El Capitan's SystemMigration folder is covered, as is fixing its Wi-Fi. Mystery disk usage is solved, duplicate apps are crushed and Dave is finally able to share his full thoughts on the brand new Sonos PLAY:5. All of this and more!

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Stuff mentioned:

Día de los Muertos

Trick-or-Treat on Safety Street Oct. 30

FAQs about moving from the Dropcam app to the Nest app (3:49)

Mom Takes Candy From Kids – Halloween 2015

Nest Cam

D-link HD Wi-Fi Camera DCS-935L (Dave’s Wi-Fi Camera)

Surveillance Station

Dropcam and Surveillance Station

OS X 10.11 El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review – System Integrity Protection (9:00)

Edit your Bash profile with Text Edit (or or nano). (12:23)

Fixing Wi-Fi Issues in OS X El Capitan (21:06)

Fix Wi-Fi Problems in OS X Yosemite

TP-LINK AC1900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (Archer C9)

Mac Geek Gab Facebook Post Regarding Editing AirPort Configuration File

Solution for apps showing up twice in Notification Center (25:32)

Onyx

mdfind man page. As a tip and example, enter kind:application in the spotlight window to search for apps or mdfind kind:application form the terminal to search for all apps

TextWrangler Command-Line Tools Installer, use “edit” command to open and save text files.

Run OmniDiskSweeper as root (to find all the files taking up space) (30:18)

Find and delete the MobileBackups.trash folder

Movember

Sonos PLAY:5 Review (47:24)

Audioengine A5

Find a service point nearest you, Apple Store or Apple Authorised Service Provider (1:03:32)

Facebook discussion: Replacing an SSD on 2009 iMac (1:10:23)

Macs Fan Control

HDD Fan Control

Firmware update enables 6Gbps in 2011 iMacs

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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By Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

4.8

835835 ratings