October 11, 2021

Monterey On The Horizon

1 hour 18 minutes

Your macOS Monterey questions are starting to trickle in, and your two favorite geeks have your answers. That's not all, though! This episode's got Quick Tips about webpage screenshots, Safari 15 tabs, Internet Recovery, and making your music sound better for YOUR ears. Plus, John and Dave answer your questions about all kinds of things…and they share your recommendations for new keyboards, too! Press play and enjoy learning at least five new things.

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 894 for Monday, October 11, 2021

00:01:55 Dave’s Napping Shortcut

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Quick Tips

00:04:06 Lucas-QT-Use Firefox’s Take Screenshot Command to Capture a Full Web Page

00:07:39 Stephen-QT-Use Terminal to Reset Bluetooth in Monterey

sudo pkill bluetoothd

00:10:17 Gruber-QT-Hold down Command to delete tabs in Safari 15

00:12:35 Laura-QT-893-Use Option-Command-R for Internet Recovery to Latest Version of macOS

00:13:16 Donna-893-You can cancel AppleCare+ and Sell to Private Party

00:14:20 DaveWiskus-Create and Upload an AudioGram to Make Music Sound Better

Mimi Hearing Test for iOS

00:19:16 Bill-QT-iOS 15 Wallet Adds “Expired Passes” (#4)

Parkwhiz

Cool Stuff Found

00:24:38 Which are your favorite MagSafe accessories?

00:25:31 Lee-CSF-TrippLite USB Wall Chargers

00:27:11 Richie-CSF-Apple’s USB-C to Headphone Adapter

00:28:54 Andrew-CSF-RØDE NT Mini USB Microphone

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Keyboard Time!

00:37:59 Jeremy-CSF-Das Keyboard Mechanical Keyboards

00:39:30 Scott-CSF-892-Logitech MX Keys and MX Ergo Keyboard and Trackball

00:42:38 Logitech Solar Keyboard

00:43:49 John-CSF-Logitech MX Keys Advanced Illuminated Wireless Keyboard for Mac

00:44:32 Tim-CSF-892-Open Source Launch Keyboard by System76

00:45:45 CSF-Matias Keyboards, including Tactile Pro (and Dvorak!)

00:46:39 Elle-QT-Pro Tips for using a Touch ID Keyboard

All one line to root’s crontab (via sudo crontab -e):

@reboot if [[ `grep tid /etc/pam.d/sudo` ]]; then echo "TouchID already enabled"; else echo "# sudo: auth account password sessionn auth sufficient pam_smartcard.sonauth sufficient pam_tid.sonauth required pam_opendirectory.sonaccount required pam_permit.sonpassword required pam_deny.sonsession required pam_permit.so" > /etc/pam.d/sudo; echo "Enabling TouchID for sudo"; fi

00:50:19 Bill-Keyboard Adding Spaces Unnecessarily

Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:55:34 Tom-Upgrading an Unsupported Mac to Monterey

01:03:42 Mark-How to Prevent Excel from Auto-Formatting Input

01:06:55 Todd-892-AirTag Cases

Hard Shell Mount for AirTags by Moment

TagVault: Keychain

TagVault: Pet

iFixit AirTag Teardown

01:11:20 Allison-893-Fixing Apple Watch Battery Drain – another way

01:14:09 Ben-Don’t Forget Apple Watch SE

01:16:13 MGG 894 Outtro

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