November 11, 2019

This is Where You Cut Me Off – Mac Geek Gab 788

1 hour 27 minutes

Cleaning up your Photos libraries, Protecting against ransomware, remapping keyboard shortcuts, and Catalina’s USB drive crashes are just a few of the important questions your two favorite geeks hit in this week’s show. There’s more, including some Cool Stuff Found and some Quick Tips that will blow your mind. Listen as John and Dave share each of these, helping you learn at least five new things this week!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 788 for Monday, November 11, 2019

00:01:47 QT-Command-Plus or Minus in Finder List View (to make icons larger or smaller)

00:05:08 Paul-QT-Apple Watch Unlocks even More with Catalina

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Use your Apple Watch to unlock apps and your Mac

00:07:07 Richard-Google Maps iOS 13 Improvements

Google’s voice commands in their Maps app will control the iPhone just like Siri

00:09:31 QT-Saving Offline Maps in Google Maps

Google Maps > Hamburger Menu in Upper Left > Offline Maps

00:10:35 QT-Calendar app show Location in Maps and “Look Around”

BusyCal

00:12:11 Keith-787-Catalina iCloud Authentication Loop

00:14:54 Joe-Apple’s Trade-In Program

Decluttr

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00:19:19 CSF-DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

00:22:20 Brave Browser

00:24:14 CSF-UniFi Dream Machine

00:31:04 Martin-CSF-Blackhole Virtual Audio Driver. Soundflower Replacement.

00:37:56 Todd-CSF-MixPre-3 II Field Recorder

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00:43:20 John-Disabling Annoying 32-bit Warning in Mojave

How to suppress alert ‘this app is not optimized for your Mac

defaults write -g CSUIDisable32BitWarning -boolean TRUE

00:46:07 John-Protecting from Ransomware

Acronis True Image 2020

Backblaze

Arq

00:55:37 Ewan-Printer won’t print from one Mac

Gutenprint

01:01:32 Michael-Cleaning up and consolidating Photos Libraries

PowerPhotos

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01:06:11 Photos Won’t sync

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01:15:39 Drive being wonky

Carbon Copy Cloner

T2M2 for Time Machine repairs

DiskWarrior APFS

01:25:23 MGG 788 Outtro

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