Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Moving Photos, Fixing Mail, Securing Your Network & More – Mac Geek Gab 639

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Back from CES, your two favorite geeks have some fun stuff to report about and all of your questions to answer. The latter include things like fixing Mail.app's CPU-hogging, which hibernatemode to use for your MacBook, and much, much more. Press play and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 639 for January 9, 2017
  • 00:01:38 CES Follow-up
  • 00:02:16 Energous
  • 00:05:00 Aura
  • 00:06:32 Linksys Velop
  • 00:09:47 Homekit
  • 00:15:33 Seagate’s VR Plank Experience
  • 00:21:38 Travel Tips
    • Lyft
    • Tado
    • 00:25:22 TripIt Pro
    • 00:27:00 Vector Cup Holder
      • SuperShuttle
      • 00:29:43 TSA Pre-Check
      • 00:30:53 SPONSOR: Blue Apron – 3 Meals Free with MGG
      • 00:34:40 SPONSOR: GoDaddy – 30% off with MGG30
      • 00:36:58 Norv-Excessive Mail.app Loading
        • Rebuild the Mailbox & Reindex Messages to Fix Common Problems in Mail App for Mac OS X
        • MailPluginManager
        • 00:46:22 Andy-Which hibernatemode to use?
          • ‘sudo pmset hibernatemode 0’
          • 00:54:16 David-Wireless Mouse Issues, Damaged Disk Drive
            • Logitech Unifying Receiver
            • Hardware Growler
            • Potential sources of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interference
            • 01:05:11 Patrick-Stop background video and audio
            • 01:06:01 Eddie-Battery Charging Rate/Speed Formula
            • 01:07:30 Paul-Safe Mode to the rescue… maybe!
            • 01:11:27 Steve-638-Protecting Torrent Traffic with VPN
              • Transmission Interface Binder
              • 01:13:31 John-638-Note Syncing Workaround
              • 01:16:13 Mike-Backups of Clones
                • Synology Replication
                • BTRFS
                • 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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