Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 589: You Cannot Defeat Physics


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Cool Stuff Found dominates the start here, including some travel tips, some iOS support tips, sorting out how iOS chooses its WiFi network, headphones for your eyes and one of your geeks' favorite utilities that is now available for El Capitan. Then it's onto diagnosing Safari CPU usage, Mail inconsistencies and more. Don't worry, Dave's headcold only makes him loopy in a good way for this episode. You'll love it and learn from it!

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Stuff mentioned:

  • Huff Duffer (5:50)
  • Trash It (6:48)
  • Bash It (7:31)
  • TeamViewer QuickSupport for iOS (9:00)
  • How iOS decides which wireless network to auto-join (12:17)
  • Downdetector for iOS (14:37)
  • Signed SAT-SMART Driver (thanks DriveDx) (15:59)
  • Speak & Translate (19:00)
  • HooToo HT-TM05 TripMate Versatile Wireless N Travel Router (21:56)
  • HooToo HT-TM05 TripMate Versatile Wireless N Travel Router (Amazon)
  • Wi-Fi Powered by The Cloud (23:42)
  • City Maps 2Go Pro » Offline Map and Travel Guide (24:27)
  • Avegant Glyph (25:08)
  • Airfoil (27:31)
  • UploadCam (30:25)
  • MailButler (31:26)
  • Default Folder X 5 (32:48)/a>
  • Safari (39:45)
  • Workarounds for Safari Not Opening t.co Short Links from Twitter
  • Mail (El Capitan): Rebuild mailboxes (49:10)
  • Download your past purchases (54:30)
  • The TSA actually allows 3.4oz
  • Time Machine: How to transfer backups from a current backup drive to a new backup drive (1:05:03)
  • HiDef Radio (1:13:10)
  • TuneIn
  • VLC
  • 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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