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MGG 577: Never Mind the Squirrel

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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
  • 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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    Mac Geek GabBy Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson