April 19, 2021

Not-So-Silent Ringing

1 hour 16 minutes

Sometimes your iPhone's silent, and sometime it's not. But what about when it decides what to do, not you? That's when you call John and Dave! Or you can email them. Or you can text them. Or you can post in the forums. Either way, they'll answer your questions and try to help solve your problems. Listen to all your questions answered, Cool Stuff Found and Quick Tips shared, and you're guaranteed to learn at least five new things hanging out with your two favorite geeks!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 866 for Monday, April 19, 2021

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Quick Tips

00:01:34 Greg-QT-Use Cmd-Shift-5 for Screen Recordings instead of QuickTime Player*

00:03:52 Ralph-QT-Blow Out the Lint!*

Cool Stuff Found

00:06:10 CSF-Plugable USB-C Volt and Amp meter*

00:08:34 Greg-CSF-SnagIt for Clipboards, too

Keyboard Maestro

Golden Chaos BTT

00:10:22 David-CSF-Anker PowerConf C300 Webcam*

00:11:36 Tim-CSF-Podswap to refresh your AirPods batteries*

00:13:50 CSF-PAX now connects to iPhone (again)

00:15:46 R-CSF-VaccineSpotter

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Your Questions…Answered!

00:25:29 Roy-Third-Party Fingerprint Scanner*

YubiKey 5 NFC

Getting a biometric security key right

Unlox 3

00:30:32 Gary-GC-Phone still rings when silent

00:35:45 Chip-iMac SSD Corruption

Carbon Copy Cloner’s “Find and replace Corrupted Files”

iMac Intel 21.5″ Retina 4K Display (2017) Hard Drive Replacement

00:41:54 Mike-863-Family Backups?

CIFS / SMB

00:47:20 Scott-Text Editor for iPadOS?*

BBEdit for iPad?

Parallels Access

00:51:04 Gary-Duplicate Contacts

Cleanup Duplicate Contacts!

00:54:11 Migrating to M1 Mac*

00:59:42 AppleCare Tip*

01:02:08 Ari-Troubleshooting Slow Browser lookups

Fing Desktop DNS Benchmark

Enable/Disable DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome

01:09:56 Sean-2019 iMac Won’t Upgrade to Big Sur

01:12:39 MGG 866 Outtro

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