Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

The Charm of the Chime – Mac Geek Gab 709

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You have questions, Dave and John have answers. Today's topics include malfunctioning AirPods, setting Apple Pay addresses, restoring a Recovery Partition, email and iMessage encryption, and much, much more. Download, press play, enjoy, and learn!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 709 for Monday, May 14, 2018
  • 00:04:57 Gary-Setting Apple Pay Addresses
    • General | Settings | Wallet & Apple Pay | [Card] | Billing Address
    • 00:09:01 Andrew-Restore Old Recovery Partition
      • How to create a Mac recovery partition
      • diskutil list
      • Cloning Apple’s Recovery HD partition
      • 00:15:18 Mark-AirPods Malfunctioning and
        • Factory Reset AirPods
        • ScreenFlow
        • 00:20:26 Mark-MS Word Permissions Oddities
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        • 00:30:29 Charles-CSF-LIFX Bulbs
          • Homeseer
          • TP-Link Smart Outlet
          • 00:34:16 Leon-CSF-SwiftDefaultApps
            • RCDefaultApp
            • 00:40:38 QT-Create a Test User Account

              • How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac

              • 00:45:08 DLH-CSFR-AppTamer
                • Renicer
                • Quitter
                • 00:51:00 Scott-CSF-Phaiser BHS-750 Bluetooth Sport Earphones
                  • Plantronics BackBeat Fit
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                    • 00:59:22 John-New Internet Gateway not functioning
                    • 01:04:06 Bill-Sending Files Securely
                      • Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is
                      • Encrypto from MacPaw
                      • ZIP with Encryption (from Terminal, “zip -e [target] [source]”)
                      • WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption
                      • Guardian piece about WhatsApp Encryption
                      • Signal
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