December 02, 2019

Mr. MacSpeedy – Mac Geek Gab 791

1 hour 32 minutes

Sometimes speed is what it's all about. Many of this week's topics focus around making sure your Mac is running as fast as possible. That's not all, though. Learn how to test your network from your iPhone, manage Mail plugins effectively, and recapture all those songs you added to Apple Music before they were removed. Of course, any tangents are bonus gifts from John and Dave. Press play and enjoy learning five new things!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 791 for Monday, December 2, 2019

00:03:06 Graham-QT-New Catalina Window Zoom Functionality

Hover over green dot to get [Enter Full Screen | Window to Left of Screen | Tile Window to Right of Screen]

Hover over green dot and Option to get [Zoom | Move Window to Left Side of Screen | Move Window to Right Side of Screen]

00:04:52 Tony-QT-Use Memoji from the Mac

Paste Memoji in shared app (such as Notes) on iOS, then copy and paste from Notes on macOS

00:06:48 Eric-QTR-Long-press iOS Spacebar to get Trackpad

00:08:03 QT-If an SMS activation code doesn’t auto-fill when received in Messages, hold down on it to Copy Code then paste

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00:14:53 Ben-CSF-Coros LINX and OMNI Bone-Conduction Bike Helments

00:17:25 Chris-CSF-History Hound

00:18:41 Mike-CSF-Sabrent Rocket External SSD

00:20:47 CSF-LaCie Mobile SSD USB-C

00:23:29 Bill-CSF-790-Fing and Scany

00:26:44 Lewis-CSF-Nice Trace & Ping NU

00:28:18 CSF-Tracking the Trackers

00:30:22 CSF-Ghostery

00:30:54 CSF-Kap Screen Capture

00:31:41 Chris-790-EnGenius ENH500 for Wi-Fi Bridging

00:34:06 Reinstall the Mac Geek Gab App

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00:40:19 JFB-No Plug-Ins Listed in General | Manage Plug-ins

MailSuite 2019

00:47:20 Luc-Screens Connect can use SSH securely

00:51:32 Raj-Matched tracks removed by Artist need to be re-uploaded to iCloud Music Library

00:55:47 One or two shows per week

00:58:22 Louis-Inconsistent Energy Saver Scheduling

Splashtop

log show –style syslog | fgrep “powerd” > powerd.txt

Consolation 3

Reset to SMC

01:07:18 Jürgen-Managing a small internal drive

01:14:10 A.D.D. Todd-Accessing SSD Utilities on Mac

Running a Windows SSD utility like SanDisk SSD Dashboard in a VM only seems to work if SSD is external

01:19:49 Brian-Making that Mojave Virtual Machine

Use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a disk image of your Mojave installation.

Create a brand new VM and install a fresh Mojave into it.

When prompted for Migration Assistant, mount the disk image from step 1 and point it there, slurping in all your data.

01:22:25 Rod-Vintage Mac Speed Boost

MacTracker

01:29:07 MGG 791 Outtro

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