Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

The Great Backup Debate — Mac Geek Gab 818

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Do you backup or clone? Which is more important? What do you do first? Ok, let's battle. Well, not really.

Lots of Cool Stuff Found in this episode, including a way to turn your iPhone into a webcam for your Mac. Internet upgrade options are popular among the questions that came in this week, so your two favorite geeks have answers.

Listen along with John and Dave as they share, answer, postulate, and everyone learns (at least!) five new things.Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 818 for Monday, June 8, 2020
  • 00:01:38 Peter-CSF-EpocCam turns your iPhone into a Webcam
  • 00:03:39 Ben-CSF-817-Downie’s Safari Extension
    • Setapp
    • 00:04:59 CSF-Permute
    • 00:06:41 Bruce-CSF-ClipGrab for downloading videos
    • 00:07:37 Lonnie-CSF-gSwitch, New Graphics Card Status App
    • 00:12:43 Michael-CSF-816-Unlox for Unlocking with more 2FA
    • 00:14:28 Bob-CSF-816-Diagrams.net (aka Draw.io)
      • Diagrams.net Overview
      • ScreenCastsOnline Diagrams.net Tutorial
      • 00:15:51 Macklin-CSF-816-Intaglio Drawing App
      • 00:16:28 This Week’s MGG Premium Contributors
      • 00:18:30 Barry-Solving the Backup Debate
      • 00:26:34 Jim-Carbon Copy Cloner, Disk Images, and the System Volume
      • 00:30:21 Jonathan-Windows Won’t Come Forward
        • killall Dock
        • 00:34:21 Brian-817-How to decipher router and Wi-Fi speeds?
        • 00:42:19 David-817-Options for Upgrading Internet
          • Arris SB8200
          • Motorola MB8600
          • Netgear CM1200
          • 00:51:26 Mark-What to do with an empty Time Capsule?
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          • 00:59:40 Roger-Gluing Apple Watch, Mac, and iPhone together
            • Hardware Growler
            • 01:05:32 GC-How to AirPlay from iPhone to Mac?
              • Gig Gab Podcast
              • 01:13:46 Robert-Delete Apple Music Cache to Reclaim Space
              • 01:15:36 Scott-814-Use lsbom to read .bom files from Terminal
                • lsbom [filename].bom | less
                • 01:17:10 Matt-Re-evaluate your Syncing
                • 01:21:40 MGG 818 Outtro
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