It's time for Mac geek gab and listener Joe brings us our quick tip of the week by saying, uh, Hey Dave, I was cleaning up my iPhone in preparation for transferring data. And I saw in my Venmo app, it indicated that I had a message. I opened it up and saw a bunch of transactions on the social feature of the app. And I saw several of your transactions where you were getting paid for gigs and things like that, which surprised me.
So, So I thought I'd write you on the off chance that you weren't aware that you had the app set to post your transactions. Yes, indeed, I did. And I was not aware of this. You can go into your Venmo settings and tell it to default to one of three privacy settings, public to the world, only to friends or only to you. So I went and set my Venmo settings to be only to me. And that way it doesn't matter what someone on the other end chooses.
Is it makes the transaction private no matter what. So thank you for that, Joe. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekUp 1056 for Monday, September 23rd, Education Technology Day 2024. Music. Greetings, folks, and yes, indeed, welcome to Matt Keekeb, the show where we share tips like that. We answer the questions that you send in. Hopefully we at least share the questions.
We try to answer them. We share some cool stuff found. We tie it all together into an agenda that hopefully, usually, quite often, in fact, allows us each to learn at least five new things every time we get together. Our sponsor, thank you, Pete. Our sponsor for this episode is 1Password Extended Access Management, which solves all the traditional problems of IAMs and MDMs that they can't touch. You can learn more at 1password.com.
We'll talk more about that later. And I did not pre-record the ads this week, so you get to hear live me and you find out what crazy things ChatGPT is going to make me say, here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete. Show 1056, the 10 code for 1056 is intoxicated pedestrian. I'm not drunk yet, folks. So, you know, stand by. There's still time.
There's still time. Exactly. Right. And thank you. Let me say up front, thank you to everybody who wrote nice. I tried to respond to all of them. If I missed any, I apologize. Thank you for all the condolence notes I got this week. That was very kind of you.
I appreciate it. yeah very sorry man yeah yeah thank you love to you and your family yeah yeah thank you uh education technology day i should have broken out my emate 300 oh yes yeah education technology day yeah it's uh celebrates and appreciates the technology that helps students to learn better and teachers to teach better so there you go yeah good stuff i like prometheus board word that's yeah yeah education technology yeah i forget i forget who posted it that i somebody i follow
on one of the social medias friend or acquaintance posted like so i was i was helping my my kid with their english and uh and i told him hey you gotta you gotta you know you gotta learn this stuff and knowing full well that like when i was a kid i was doing math and i was like i'm not going to need to know this i told my dad you know i'm not when he was helping me about i'm not going to need to know this i uh we we have calculators you know like we why do we need this and he said so when
he told his son that his dad we've got chat gpt yeah i I don't need to know this stuff. That's right. Oh, man. And I was told when I was a child that you'll never get anywhere. You can't get a job sitting there and just looking out the window. Is that so, Pete? It's a beautiful thing. Yeah, for sure. Hold my beer. Watch this. Watch this. All right. Let's get some more quick tips. All right. All right. Uh, Porthos John brings us our next quick tip.
He, uh, he says, uh, and there's, and there's a link for this that we will put into the show notes, but he says, uh. A quick tip for searching the Mac keyboard symbols on the emoji keyboard activated by the menu function key on MacBooks and Magic keyboards or command control space on other keyboards. And there are all kinds of things that these things are named. So the command key is named place of interest.
The shift key is upwards white arrow. So you can search for these things if you want to have it. And I'm talking about the icons for these keys. So if you want to type the command keys icon and you can't remember what the shortcut is for it, you can do command control space and search for place of interest and you will get the command key upwards.
Keyboard's white arrow is shift key of course these things aren't named after what their keys are which would make life a whole lot simpler but there's all this hit the key yeah no and you can't right wouldn't that be great if you could hit the key like do something to hit the key a third party could make a an extension that let you do that for sure uh better touch tool could probably be reassigned right yeah keyboard maestro any of these could yeah could do it
um and he he shares You can also do the old method of turning on the Unicode keyboard in Keyboard Preferences and then selecting it in the Input Sources menu. But then you need to know and remember all the Unicode codes for the symbols you want. And some added info, just because Porthos John is the curious type.
You're in good company, my friend. When developing the Mac in the early 80s, Steve Jobs felt that the current open Apple closed Apple key that existed on the Apple two series cheapened the Apple logo by using it everywhere. So he set the Apple design team to find something else. The command key symbol that we all know and love was found by Susan Kerr, the chief UI designer for the Mac in the international symbol directory.
The original use was on road signs in Scandinavia, mostly Sweden, to denote places of interest, hence the strange-looking phrase for the icon in the emoji keyboard. Thank you for that. I love the little history lesson. I love the trivia. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. And an extra piece of quick tip along that line is when you want to find the emoji, how do you do it? I used to scroll and scroll and scroll.
I can't find it. Oh, this is driving me nuts. There's a little search window up it if you pull up the emoji keyboard. Yeah on either iOS or Mac OS There's a little search window in iOS. It says search emoji if you say type donkey It'll bring you to the donkey emoji or so whatever you're looking for clown. It'll bring up the clown emoji so donkey and clown I put together often but, figure that out I knew where you were going. Before I I didn't even know I was going there until I got there.
Yeah, I was like, I don't think he knows what he's doing here. And I appreciate that. That's great. I don't know what you did. I have no idea. I have no idea. I have a quick question. So on iOS, right, you have that cool feature where if you type a phrase and it matches an emoji, it pops that up with like the suggested, you know, sort of type head thing. Yeah. And I just tried it on the Mac. The Mac doesn't have that, right? No. Or have I turned something off? No.
I'm trying to think. Does Messages have it? I don't think so. Maybe Messages does, but I just tried it in Notes and it didn't work. Oh, interesting. Because I'm right here, even in, I've got Chrome at the front right now. And if I hit that little globe to call up the emoji keyboard, it comes right up. No, no, no. I mean, it auto-suggests. So it's like the type of head suggestions that you get on, on iOS will do emojis.
So if, or, and I think it even like highlights the word and it's like, this word has an emoji associated with it, but yeah, it was just interesting. There is, I thought it was on the Mac and there is sort of the Mac sort of does this. So if you like, if I go into the, the chat, you know, for like a Mac key cap live stream at, at, uh, Mac key cap.com slash live.
I think that's one of the URLs. else and i type the word pumpkin and then uh and then i hit command control space or as porthos john says the function key uh then it brings up the emoji picker but only shows me the pumpkin and i have to hit the emoji picker thing again the command control space again to get the full list so it's sort of there that's no that's great that yeah that's a great tip i just did not know that so if your cursor is right at the end of the
word hit the emoji shortcut and like i type flower and it's showing the three flower the three flowers yeah and then if you wanted something else just hit the shortcut again and you get the full picker yep okay awesome and here's a thought you think pop culture hasn't affected all this just searching emojis type go and you get various grimace faces. D-O-H. Nice. I like that. Why don't you get the pink donut? Oh. You probably could if you type donut.
No, no, but do. For do. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because Homer likes his donuts, man. Do. Yeah. All right. Donuts. This combined, that is actually a copyrighted sound. Sound that don't is it from homer is a copyrighted sound there are very very few sounds the nbc logo being one of them um or the the nbc audio logo right the bong stanza right yeah exactly um.
There are very few and that is one of them the so between that and and our um we may get kicked off our rogue for that our rogue efforts with the pre-show music we we might get kicked off of youtube today that's right good luck finding that there folks youtube scanners go get them oh i think they'll i think they'll find it like it's yeah yeah not the adult but the other thing yeah sorry memory bias because i thought apple's uh donut emoji was the
pink frosted but it's actually chocolate frosted so guy got that wrong chocolate all right you know what Perry wrote in okay he says look yeah he said I've always missed viewing the details behind the songs that the liner notes used to provide for those of us who grew up with physical record albums but here's a quick tip I'm not sure if this has been mentioned but I just discovered that one can view song credits its performers producers etc in Apple Music here's how
there are three dots to the right of each song title in your playlist click on those and you will get the option to view credits there you can see all those who helped create the song that you're enjoying I'm sure this feature has been there and I just didn't know about it and it's fun to go back and see the details behind the great music enjoy Perry but wait there's more. I wrote back to Paris, look, I'm not an Apple Music guy because my daughter
got to Spotify first. So we're on the Spotify family plan. And I often open Shazam and I noticed that it often refers to Apple Music. And so I tapped on a song that I'd recently played in or Shazammed, I guess. Is that a verb? It is now. And the option came up to play it in Apple Music or Spotify. So I tried it. And lo and behold, the same three dots appear to the Vue credits and Vue album.
And view artist and all those options and more appeared to give me that background information so perry you didn't know it but you sent a quick tip for both apple music and spotify and you can get there via shazam if you want to so thank you for that huh i like it that's cool remember when apple tried to fix that problem in itunes when they had that album thing that they were doing where they would they virtualized like basically
along with your album you got a pd it was essentially a pdf and itunes and it was like album cover and the images and the cover art and yeah.
I i i mean i i appreciate that they tried to solve that problem i i miss the liner notes and i realized you know like that's just because i experienced it for my kids ah they kind of they are aware of them but they don't have the same relationship to them that i that i do or that because they couldn't like their favorite artists didn't release stuff that way it's just yeah but I miss it like I you know that experience,
yeah I had it it was a good idea yeah they had a lot of ideas around music where they know like cover flow and all kinds of stuff that just never went anywhere yeah it never took off. JMM has a quick tip for anyone who needs their Mac to lock automatically when moving away from it. Right.
A few weeks ago on the show here, we were talking about that utility called BLE unlock, which locks one's Mac when moving away from it through monitoring the presence of your iPhone or Apple Watch via Bluetooth low energy. The problem is that JMM follows up is I only need this to work when I'm not at home.
Home after some research i found that better touch tool also has a bluetooth trigger and when it triggers it can run a shortcut and that shortcut checks my location and local network because it can get the wi-fi name right and if it's not the home network it locks the screen it works like a charm and he says i set it up within two minutes shout out to better touch tool my guess is keyboard maestro maybe i don't know if it's got bluetooth triggers that would be interesting to
check out either way better touch tools there he says p.s there are many bluetooth le triggers and one can set the distance at which the triggers fire very useful i am gonna do this with my laptop yeah i like this it's good yeah yeah yeah all right i love that i got one from todd goal unless we have some additional stuff there so todd wrote in and he says, I was helping out a good but not so Mac-savvy friend remotely.
I wanted him to share his MacBook screen, but he had no idea what his Apple ID was, nor had he set up the Messages app. It hit me that when you go to System Settings and click on the uppermost left Apple ID button, your name is top right with your Apple ID below it.
Thanks to pete's tip a ways back i remembered the screen sharing app in the application folder utilities folder i opened the screen sharing app clicked the plus button on the upper right he read off his apple id i entered it and he was sharing his screen in no time, so that's pretty cool quick way to share your screen i like it yeah that's handy yeah yeah yeah Yeah, that would help. Somebody who maybe doesn't know how. Yeah. Right. Yeah, exactly. Huh.
I like that. And for those of you that just have iPhones but Windows computers, when we do guests on our show, it's so much easier to help them when they have a Mac. So now go out and buy yourself a Mac so people can help you with it. Yeah. You're welcome, Apple. I'll expect the check this week. I mean, these days, if it's a non-Mac person, or even with Mac people, I almost default fall back to zoom.
Same oh yeah the only issue with that is you have to they they have to go through the authorized zoom relaunch zoom to do the screen share and now with mac os 15 i know we're going to talk about all this but like these notifications that say do you want to allow this app is trying to do something that like operates a little bit outside the realm of what is allowed by the normal permission so do you want to allow it for 30 days you guys seeing
that too saw that yeah yep no i want to let it go forever i'll tell you i'm not running yet no mac os 15 is out.
Yeah mac os 15 came out this week as a csnr is out that's right it's yeah i haven't upgraded yet okay so there's i'm doing a play dave i know oh right yeah adam adam is uh is knee deep in tech or rehearsals you're not even in tech week yet yeah that's right i i i i understand and appreciate this so yeah mac os 15 has this thing where it it does this like it asks for default folder i think it asks for zoom it asks for a lot of screen sharing things and and and and it's
like you know do you want to allow this for 30 days and it's like i see that and my first thought is this is going, I've seen this on windows before and I watched it. Like I did a ton of consulting on windows, removing viruses from people's computers. And I can't tell you how many times I sat down with somebody and you know, they would call me and say, Dave, my computer's not where, okay, great. So I come out, I sit with them.
My MO when I consult is you sit down, sit down, show me the problem, because sometimes the way the path I would take might avoid the problem, right? So I have them sit down. They show me the problem. I can't tell you how many times somebody would wake their computer up or whatever and click through eight security notices to just dismiss them. And I would like stop them like, whoa, whoa, I want to read those. Like, oh, no, this come up all the time. We just blow through those.
I'm like, yeah, right. But it's possible maybe one of those might, you know, I'd have to politely tell them. Yeah, but that's where the valuable data is going to be for us to fix this issue. You know, and and you get alert blindness and just blast through all this stuff. And I'm really concerned that Sayonara Mac OS 15 is going to cause that same thing. Because in addition to that, nearly every app I have launched on my Mac has asked me for local network access. QuickBooks asked this.
Thunderbird, my email client, asked it when I went to print. And that i think it's asking for local network access when an app says it wants to print things. And i like that's not that that's not the app asking for local network access like the app's not talking to my printer the the os is like i don't know man because i don't want to give.
An app that wants to print doesn't need local network access so again this alert alert blindness alert fatigue some i missed who said it but somebody called it a little dan dan yeah alert fatigue is a real thing yeah it's uh it's not the way to solve this security problem no it reminds me of that uh remember the apple windows uh mac windows commercial about 15 years ago you know you want to do this allow or deny you know you're coming to a sad realization allow or deny yes yes,
and uh yeah that was uh that was the poking fun at windows vista right so it was which was yeah 2007 which is why i am a mac user to this day thank you windows maybe not anymore if this continues yeah that's right where's that vista program who's talking we're not going there we're going we're going to linux oh yeah i wonder if i registered linux geek gab i think i did and there's a lot of geek gab domains that i own yeah
huh yeah so i don't know i don't know i was planning on getting into that in our segment about all the new apple os's that we'll do a little bit later in the show but here we are with it so yeah i'm just not i'm not i'm not sure i don't i don't it's an It's an odd choice for Apple to make. So. So anyway, Greg has a quick tip for us about math notes on the iPad with iPad OS 18.
He says, it's cool. And I found a cool little tip inside of math notes, which is the thing where you can draw your math equation and have the device, your iPad start to solve it. But what's really cool is once you have an equation built, you can tap on a number in it and you get a little slider widget above the number that lets you slide the the number greater or less than it is. You know, it'll notch it up. He put the number 511 and he said it notched in integers.
So it went, you know, 510 or 512 and so on. And depending on the direction and uh the whole rest of the equation changes to follow what the right i mean you're changing one of the inputs sure yeah yep and so the whole thing changes it updates dynamically that's cool i had played a little bit with math notes and i did not uh realize that i could do that so that's the yeah well here's why that's cool to me you're looking You're looking for a number to get the, you know what the answer you want is,
and you can slide it until, oh, that's what I need to input to get the answer I want. I like this. Oh, love that. That is brilliant. Yep. Nice. Yep, I like it. Yep. Why do I need to learn math again? Right? We got calculators, man. Like you, Adam. I knew. Yep.
I i bet like chat gpt can probably solve math problems too just oh sure you're you're all gonna this is this is a chat gpt tip actually i got two chat gpt tips the first one i know you've shared this pete but it never really hit me until i did it enabling chat gpt's voice mode When you said it to me, Pete, I thought you were talking about just using Apple's speech to text and sending inputs to chat GPT. That is not what you meant at all. I use this. I use this in the car now.
There is a voice mode where it doesn't show you text on the screen. It just shows you like a moving blob. It's going. It is what we will eventually get when the full Siri integration is there, too. There is no car play for it but I use it in the car I just put it into voice mode. When I'm driving home from gigs late at night and I need to make sure I stay awake, I literally have a conversation about something. I pick a topic that I want to learn about and I tell ChatGPT, teach me about this.
We probably in the next few months, we're going to be buying a car. I love the whole negotiation process. I know I'm a weird person, you know, but I like to understand it. And I was like, wait a minute. I know there are things I don't know about the car, the way the car business works. Like I don't unknowns. Yeah. What, what don't I know? Like how does an unknown unknowns, right? Yeah. What, how does the, yeah, I know there's invoice pricing, but I also know that that's irrelevant.
And sometimes dealerships get free cars. How does that work? I don't understand it. Cause I've never been in that business. And so it told me a bunch of things. And then I asked some clarifying questions. And at one point it misunderstood a clarifying question. I stopped it in the mic. No, wait. And it was like, I'm sorry. Then I restated my question. I had a conversation with it. And I mean, it kept me perfectly awake for the ride home. It was amazing. Yeah. Yeah.
So that's idiocracy. Go ahead, Adam. I was just going to say, don't finish up. Oh, I think we're, I have another tip. Go ahead. Oh, I was just going to say that, you know, idiocracy was not just a film, it's a prophecy. Yes. And we will all worship at the Church of Mike Judge soon. I already worship at the Church of Mike Judge, so it's okay. There you go. I actually had, I was going to say, I used it for, recently for an audio book that was relatively poorly recorded.
You know, complete works of William Shakespeare, and it's kind of acted, so it's like, well, who's talking, who's not, all that kind of stuff. So I asked it to give me a summary of, I think it was A Midsummer Night's Dream. And it did, and then I was able to better follow along as the audible book read.
Okay now i know who's yeah it just it helped along those lines too but yeah you can and as i said before on my original tip i had it hey tell me how to do this and stop at each step and wait till i tell you to move on so it walked me through how to i forget what it was now but it was oh it was getting my sonos speakers back on the network because they wouldn't play nice amazing yeah Yeah. And now I get it. I completely I didn't understand.
And so that's why I wanted to sort of reiterate this. I know there were other hopefully I wasn't the only one that missed it. I probably not. The other thing I did with chat GPT the other day and a lot of you are going to not want to do this. And I totally understand. I use chat GPT is transparent or temporary mode where it says it doesn't store anything.
I know it stores everything. It's fine. I got there was an issue with my LabCorp account where I couldn't like log in and see my new test results I could only see the old ones, And I had some test results ahead of a physical, just normal stuff. Everything's fine. And but there was one number we wanted to check and make sure. And so but they did a whole thing.
And so LabCorp was great. They're like, we need to send it to our IT department to like merge two accounts because it seems you have two here. But here's the PDF of your results. But the PDF was not like their website where it tells you what the range of these things should be. It was just, here's all the numbers. And it was like, I don't know all this stuff. And there's like my doctor, you know, ordered like 50 different tests or something. I'm like, oh crap.
Like, I just want to know, uh, is this one number, you know, are my liver numbers? It was what it was. Is, is it in the right range? And so I was like, well, wait a minute. I went to chat GPT. I opened up temporary mode. A lot of you are cringing right now. Yes, I did it.
I asked, can I upload this PDF and just have you tell me if any numbers in here are out of the acceptable ranges for a you know person like you know i described who i was and it was like of course and so i sent it the pdf and within five seconds it was like all of your numbers are perfect you're you're great and then it went through and explained why each one was perfect so it was it was yeah i mean super helpful i realized that now the world has my test result numbers but
you know whatever it's fine they did already they had them anyway yeah they were email gpt is practicing medicine without a license so you know right how did they send you that pdf i was i was shocked that lab corp just emailed me the pdf without having to go through a secure interface correct it was already out in the wild yes that's right yeah it's so google google read credit uh right well my email is gmail no my email's with fast mail so but but i don't know what their email
provider like who knows where it hopped through in the middle right so at least the fbi has it absolutely yeah good news stored in a server out in utah yep they know i'm still a good human resource to use because i'm healthy and everything checks out so. So, yeah, here we are. Yeah. You want to take us to Rick, our final quick tip, Pete? I am going to make it so. Yeah, Rick wrote in. Well, before I read what Rick has to say, Dave, you know the gent who creates Downcast, right? Yeah.
From Jamacana? Yeah. Or is it Overcast? I know Marco who makes Overcast, yes. Overcast. So Overcast is the one I'm having problems with. It just keeps stopping. I've rebooted. I've turned off every other program on my iPhone and all that. So if you're listening, Marco, I don't know what's wrong, but Overcast with iOS 17. Oh, you haven't upgraded to 18 yet. Oh, okay. No, I've been trying to, and I can't find it. It's not coming up yet. So, um, yeah, I've been looking all week.
Hey, where is it? Where is it? No, you're on the latest 17.4 or whatever. I'm like, okay, I'll deal with it Friday. So after the show, I'm going to mess with it. Okay. Uh, but, uh, but I digress. So yeah, overcast is, uh, it just is, it'll stop in the middle of a show and sometimes frequently I'll get like three sentences and it'll stop again. Like cut it out.
But, uh, I mentioned this back on 1052 and Rick wrote in, Hey, look in show 1052, you mentioned a frustration with playing your podcast in a particular order, oldest to newest. I've struggled with the same problem for years on Apple podcasts app. And I subscribed to a new show, uh, or I subscribed to a new show and I want to listen to the oldest to the newest, but not all the way back to the beginning.
It never worked. Right. I mean, you know, you do want to go back I could listen to Mac geek gab one, but that's going to take you a long time to get through all of us. He says, anyway, I recently noticed that, uh, something has been working, something that's been working for me. You go to your library and select a show, not channels, not saved, not downloaded and not up next.
So select the show, show all episodes, pick the show, where you want to begin, or I should say the episode where you want to begin and hit play, then change the display to show all unplayed it now plays from your starting show episode and jumps to the next newer show just like you wanted in the show settings it needs to be set to the sort order newest to oldest. That seems backwards. Seems to me you want oldest to newest, but I could be wrong.
Anyway, this has been working for me. Should not be this hard. You're right. It shouldn't be, Rick. Hope this helps. Give it a try. Great show with you and the guys, Rick. And I played with this a little bit last night, and it seems to work.
But I don't remember. remember I just commented there seems like it should be sort order new oldest to newest not new yeah that's what you want I have to go look so no you have it right yeah you want it old because I have mine sorted that way I've I've used this I did this a long time ago for my podcast for this exact same reason okay huh so I mean you can have it however you want if you want newest oldest you can do it that way yeah you prefer oldest to newest
which I prefer because that's generally only the order that I don't want to hear. And they will frequently, there's a, like an hour, like there's one show I listened to. He does two hours a day, but he breaks it up each hour. And I get the second hour first. Yeah. And I don't want that. I want the first hour first. And so that's why I wanted that sort of order.
But, uh, but Apple podcasts, I've been now using for about a week and a half because I can't get, to stop stopping you submit a uh a bug report to to marco for that yeah yeah okay or join there's an overcast uh slack channel i want to say i think it's slack i've been getting slack and discord confused all day so don't trust me on that i'm also and you go ahead never mind i was just saying you may have been remembering i i kind of knew the downcast developers the original and Seth McFarland,
I think he sold the app to somebody else. And for a long time when it was under him, MacCast was in the artwork on the app store for a long, long time. Okay. Those are tough names to remember. Is it Downcast? Is it Overcast? It's Podcast. Pocket Casts.
The problem is now a lot of them all have in-app purchases and that kind of stuff shouldn't be that way well i'm grateful that it's free yeah and if you know you know what actually i think overcast may be a 2 or 99 or 390 or something but no no no no no no overcast is free you you can okay you can choose to support it and get some other features out of it of course okay but overcast is free yeah yeah marco okay i mean he He makes money from it because there's ads.
You can buy ads in it to promote your podcast. Gotcha. You know, things like that. Oh, okay. Well, I need to go look at that then. You just remind me of something real quick before. So I listen to like long YouTube things, especially at night when I'm going to bed, like streams, their bod of streams. So two, three hour things. I've noticed that YouTube now puts, there's people putting their podcasts in as YouTube ads. So like literally it will be a 30 to an hour long ad. So just an idea for us.
I wonder if the cost on that, well, I mean, immediately I start thinking about, do they get to count that as a listen, you know, a view, a listen to their podcast, and therefore sell advertising based on those increased numbers that they have paid for?
And is the is are the economics of it such that they could make more selling ads than they can for like that's the only reason i could see somebody oh yeah all i know is i'll wake up and it'll be some podcast and i'm like what the heck is this and sometimes it's like even like a religious one or a very political one or like just like it's like jammed in there i wonder if If rates are cheaper, like in the middle of the night for YouTube ads,
like, is this like the television where there's prime time? And I get, I don't know. I haven't bought those kinds of YouTube ads. This is fascinating to me. It really, really catches fish. Yeah, that's right. Just like a scene on YouTube. So that was a good opportunity. Yeah, that's interesting. Huh? All right. Sorry. I digress. No, it's okay. In the digression thing, we talked about listening back to Matt Kikeb since episode one.
And since we were just talking about uploading a file to chat gpt and having it analyze it i took our rss feed and uploaded it to chat gpt and asked it to look at the itunes duration tag and some sum them all up and tell me how many hours days whatever of mac geek out now it says. It's uh the duration of all the podcasts from episode one is 11 days uh 11 and a half days Is that right? Would it only take 11 and a half days to play?
You know, I need to, I need to spot check this, but I'm having trouble doing the math in my head. What episode number is this? This is 1056. So 1055. That can't be right because that's only 276 hours. Yeah. Okay. So it didn't look at the whole thing. 11 and a half times 24 is 276. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, at an average of an hour, and we know they're longer than that, it would be 63,360 hours. Okay.
So it either, and I don't know, it either didn't look at the whole file or we don't have iTunes duration tags going back to the beginning, which is also a possibility.
I i made an assumption that might be very wrong so yeah because this is show 10 56 if every show was exactly one hour it would take 44 days to get through that makes more sense yeah okay yeah so i have to look at the feed uh i will look at the feed uh at some point and figure out whether chat gpt got this wrong or if i asked it to do the wrong thing uh what's that i don't know pete's making noise over there pete you're making noise i uh want to tell everybody about our
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Yeah. It was great. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Fun stuff. Perfect. All right. So have either of you, we already know some of the answer to this question. Adam, you haven't updated to Mac OS 15. Have you updated to iOS 18? Yes, on my iPhone. On your iPhone. Okay. And Pete, you haven't updated to iOS 18 because your phone's telling you it's not available. Yep. Have you updated to macOS 15 yet?
I have. Okay. And I noticed that 30-day warning, amongst other things, and it added several new panels, and I forget what they were. But it took me – the nice thing is when you hit yes, it takes you to the system settings panel you need to authorize it for that 30 days.
But um i don't know that it does so that's the question i've had because you get two options on that little panel one is authorized for 30 days and the other is go to system, settings and when it brings me there there's no authorized for 30 days option the app is already checked to be authorized for whatever the base version of the feature is yeah so i Now that you mention it, that was the case. So I didn't notice any 30-day tag on there either.
I wonder if it would set a timer and turn them off in 30 days. I know not because I didn't check that. Because it was already on. So now is it going to turn it off in 30 days? Oh, if that's the case, then at least I get to choose. Is it 30 days or is it lifetime? Right. Is that what it's trying to ask me? Let's hope that's the case. I agree. Well, we'll see. Because I did choose 30 days for quite a few apps. So when they come back up for renewal, I will not renew them and instead open
system settings to see if it has turned it off. Wait a minute. So on October 21st, everything will be broken. No, sooner than that, because it came out September 15th. But yeah, October by then, certainly. But wait a minute. Remember how we have given the tip on this show over time that you need to go into full disk access, accessibility, and like the screen sharing one, because some things just wind up being off that should be on.
Do you think that when you say yes in the dialogue on Mac OS 14, it's only enabling it for 30 days and now it's telling us that that's what it's doing? Like, because it was unexplainable why these things were off. And it was like, yeah, I just got to remember to go and turn them on. It would have been nice to get some update notes like that with, you know, like when it comes out with a new. Yeah. Well, maybe that's what they're doing. It says, hey, this is what's going on. For instance.
Go ahead, Adam. I was going to say that, you know, Steve and A wrote this week, bartender updated something. And one of the things that said it fixed an issue where some images would load correctly. Yes, I saw that. You know, I think they meant to say would not load correctly. Of course. But, you know, but a note like that going, hey, this is what we're doing. Be aware. Yep.
Adam. Don't you have to just click the little, the little. So when you bring up software update and it says we want to update you to this, it usually has some text under that. And then there is usually a link that says like, click here for more info or something like that. Right. And doesn't that go to the Apple page, the like full detailed release notes, and you can scroll through that massive thing. If you really feel like it, it is there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is there.
But I wonder if that 30 day thing has always been there and now they're just being more articulate about it. It would check out. We'll find out. We'll find out. out and if somebody knows feedback at macgeekgab.com um wait wait where feedback at macgeekgab.com, yes feedback at macgeekgab.com while we are while we are on mac os 15 uh there's a couple of things i wanted to share a couple of tips i've noticed um if you are a homebrew user.
Your ability to install apps is broken when you install a new operating system. No, Adam's giving me the thumbs down. It's only because the new OS does not, by default, install the new version of the command line tools that Brew runs on. So one tip, go to the terminal and run brew doctor. And that will give you instruction. It will check to make sure everything's OK. And if it's not, it will give you specific instructions of the two commands to run to get everything back in business.
And, uh, and it's, it, you know, it's fairly trivial once you know to do it, but, um, you can get ahead of that. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Run brew doctor. Um, don't mess with my terminal stuff. Right. Read the operating system. Right. Yeah, exactly. No, no, I know they have to, they're doing again, all this security stuff.
Yeah it's ultimately good but that's my biggest frustration when i do upgrades nowadays it's not like the os stuff is fine like that all usually goes very very well for me but all my developer stuff and command line my lamp stack and like everything i have to like rebuild like usually yeah which is annoying right right yeah yeah yeah um also with mac os 15 uh some things have moved around in system settings one of them is if you go to system settings login items and extensions
and scroll all the way down you will see quick look extensions there and these are things that apps can add and you can turn on or off so that you get quick looks of more and more stuff which is nice to see uh full disk access at first i thought they had taken away my ability to to control it but no it just moved it's no longer in the sec that it's in the you know it's still in the privacy and and security um pain of system settings
but it's not in the section of it where like accessibility and screen sharing is it's in the section above that and it otherwise it all works the same but i was like wait where is it and i was actually literally there looking at it but I had to search to find it and I wasn't proud of that, but you know, it's okay. We can't all see everything all the time.
Uh right yeah i think that's i think that's my stuff on on mac os 15 it's it's been fairly smooth audio people that i have not upgraded the studio machine to mac os 15 um audio people that have have said that some audio devices that they would have not expected to work with a new os upgrade in the past have just worked so it's possible that core audio didn't change as much as it has in the past i i'm just that's a that's
a guess so okay yeah well i did have to update both loopback and audio hijack and they both came up seamlessly once i did so yeah that's good yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was nice. Well, we're still talking about- Safari on Mac OS 15 is causing me an issue with every WordPress site that I have. And it's when editing an article, creating a new blog post or editing an existing blog post, the body of the post is on the left and then every other widget is in the right column.
They're all shoved over there. And I can't figure out, I got to go to, and I did actually, I have one WordPress site that's just like vanilla WordPress and I don't know. And it's broken there too. So I'm trying to figure out what the, what the issue is. I've looked online. I haven't seen people complaining about it, but it's happening on both of my Mac OS 15 Macs with Safari.
Oddly, not happening on my Mac OS 14.7 Mac, which always only running Safari 7, 17, 6. I thought Safari had been updated up here in the studio. It has not. So it's a Safari 18 thing. So if you know anything about Safari 18 and WordPress. Feedback at mackeycap.com you're any chance it could be an extension that you have in safari.
Um it could that's fair i don't think i have any that are modifying things but you're you're right that's a good place to check i will yeah i will take a look at that right because extensions are are synced between multiple versions of safari so yes uh okay all right i will dig into that I'll report back, my friend. IOS 18? You're running iOS 18, Adam? Yeah? Yep. To be honest, I haven't... I don't think I've noticed much. Probably the most prominent thing I noticed is the new...
You know, you can use any emoji as a tap back on a message.
Um trying to think of anything else that has popped up i i know there's things that have popped up but i think none of them were really like oh i really needed that in my life sort of features yep yep yeah i agree i um uh i have been eager to get rcs speaking of messaging rcs support in messages in iOS 18 I've been running the betas since I could and and the 18.1 beta specifically which has been the AI stuff that's the as I said that's the reason I bought more than one phone this time around
because I want the whole family to have all the AI stuff. Um, RCS support. I am a mint mobile customer as many of you know, and the carrier has to enable support for RCS on their end. Now, many carriers, the big three carriers already had because Android uses RCS. A lot of the, uh, MVNO carriers, the mobile, the virtual carriers, uh, did not implement RCS on their systems.
Instead they they just tell you well run google's messaging app which does rcs via google servers and not via the carriers servers and so some of those carriers have already implemented it like visible has it uh metro has it of course at&t verizon t-mobile have it but mint does not and And their CEO posted on their sort of semi-official Reddit thread that they are working on it. He says, I'm with you. I want it too. But it will take a few months before we see it.
I will say, though, that since running the iOS 18 betas, the group chats that I have with Android users have been far more functional than the group chats that I had with iOS 17 and prior. I can do all the replies. It feels like a rich text experience. I can do the tap backs and I can see tap backs that other people have done.
I can do replies images that come through are not being mangled so something is happening to make it at least seem like a better experience even though if it's not like apple's done something i'm not sure exactly i'm not sure how to describe what they've done but they've done something but i am eagerly awaiting rcs hopefully by the end of the year um so uh we all know what i'm waiting for which is scheduling texts well did you send that to apple.com feedback different feedback
engine pete yeah no but they uh ostensibly it's in there yeah they added it right uh well sort of but your phone still needs to be online it's not being sent from the system but yes you are correct like it is it is something that you can do correct yes. I guess the other thing, two other things I noticed that I just thought of are, I immediately noticed the sort of redesigned, redone control center as being more colorful.
It's got like colored icons for like the volume slider and the brightness slider and all that fun stuff. So it seemed more colorful. I think it has some new organization and new functionality as well.
But um and then i also immediately noticed the changes to photos and i'm not sure how i feel about those yet give it give it two weeks i think you'll like it i felt the same way yeah yeah no i think my immediate reaction is i think i kind of like this i already talked i think on the last episode about not being able to find my favorites for a while so that was a little frustrating but But like once I figured it out, I'm fine.
But yeah, I kind of like the new kind of single everything in one place organization to it. I know it still has, you know, like sections and stuff like that. But like overall, everything is just kind of front and center. Yeah. Right. Oh, yeah. You don't have the icons along the bottom anymore, do you? No, no. Yeah. No. So it's just like more of a vertical scrolling kind of thing. But we'll see. Yeah. Yeah. So far, I think I like it. It's fine.
But I already know that, like I said, my wife is change-averse. And when she sees that, I'm not going to have a good day. She has not updated her phone yet? Oh, no. She hasn't updated her phone in forever. I wouldn't be surprised if she's on 13 or 12. Oh, wow. All right. Interesting. Interesting. We've mentioned on here, I don't make her upgrade. Oh, of course. Because we talked about the security thing and all that, but it's just like, it's not worth it.
Yeah. Yeah. I have to go through. Yeah, I know. I get it. I love my wife and she's great. Of course. For the record. Of course. Of course. I don't hear any tone of complaint here. You've acknowledged a scenario and you've gone with it.
Um speaking of the control center jg uh sent us a note pointing out says i was contrast customizing control center after updating to ios 18 and found the option uh that allows any app to be added to control center for quick access so you have your dock and then you have control center where you can add you know shortcuts and apps and all all of the other things of course too he says i have a couple of apps and this is perfect uh so it's definitely a cool thing and i I wanted to
share it as a quick tip. So yeah, thank you for that, JJ. That that's, um, that's fantastic. I noticed that iOS 18 now lets you choose a preferred HomeKit hub, whereas previously. Uh, and, and I, it's not just iOS 18, all of your TV OS devices on your HomeKit network, like everything needs to be updated to 18 before you will even see this interface.
But once they are there you can go into the home app into the home settings and if you've got two apple tvs on your network previously it would just like sort of you know choose on its own which one was going to be the hub and you might have one that's wired and one that's wireless and it keeps choosing the wireless one and you're like please just choose the wired one and now you can tell it please just choose the wired one you can say this is you know set a preferred
hub so it doesn't affect everybody but it for the people that affects it's a it's a really welcome change so i was i was excited about that so and then uh any thoughts about that yeah yeah. Could you use an old iPad as a hub? Yes. Probably not powerful. Yes. Yeah. An iPad, in fact, can be a hub. It needs to obviously be on all the time, but yes. Right. If you're one of those people that has like a kitchen iPad, that's just powered up all the time, that shows the time or recipes or,
you know, whatever it is, that's your home kit hub. Absolutely.
That. Yeah. Well, I was just, you know, mom's iPad is several years old and I didn't know what to to do with it and it may be yep dedicated to that yep but your apple tv can also be a home kit hub so sure and that's that is powered obviously correct yeah my mini's always on i suppose that's more powerful i don't know that a mac mini can a mac i don't think a mac can be a home kit hub strangely enough right yeah it can't right adam yeah yeah i don't think
so yeah doesn't have the power who knows no just it just isn't it just yeah that's a weird just isn't oh.
Walter in the chat is saying he thought we can't use an ipad as a hub anymore so he might be right i don't i don't i i might have to i may have to take that back no he says he is correct confirms it okay so that that feature went away so ipads and macs are not powerful enough to be home kit hubs p it's just the apple tv i realized there you go oddly pie yeah yeah no i'm just kidding no you still can't yeah that's right i wonder though if
someone has written an open source thing that that simulates enough of what you would need to be a home kit hub probably not because there's a lot of security stuff in there so correct yeah yeah probably not, All right. You want to take us to the other two tips that you have about iOS 18 here, Pete? Yeah, let's do it. So, Woka wrote in and mentioned, well, let's read it. He says, hi, chaps, or hey, chaps.
No doubt you're also browsing through all the new goodies that iOS, it said 17, but I think he meant 18, brings us. The one that might not catch your eye immediately is the keyboards. As a Dutch person, I, like many here, often combine Dutch and English intermixed. Sometimes even in the same sentence. Of course, autocorrect has a hard time dealing with that. Now with iOS 18, we can have bilingual keyboards. In Settings, General, Keyboards, you can select and add a second language.
Telegrade and so far improves spell checking. You can best decide whether this is a quick tip or a cool stuff found. I say it's both. Yeah. Greets, Wilco. So, yeah.
That's cool. i am if anybody wants to know my mindset about quick tips versus cool this would be a quick tip i'll explain why yeah cool stuff found is a piece of software or a piece of hardware like a thing and this is just in my brain like it like it can be anything it doesn't matter but my brain is cool stuff found is for a thing so nothing in apple's operating system would be cool stuff found it would be a quick tip it'd be a thing that you didn't know but it's right there and
And it's easy to do and amazing. Right. So that's how, that's how I compartmentalize stuff when I'm throwing the agenda together, just in case anybody cares the sausage. Yep. Yep. Being me. So, so before we get to the next thing, uh, there is an operating system, uh, that I upgraded to that's not on this list. Right.
Go vision vision os 2.0 oh yes and i have been using that and that has some amazing features in it um the convert your like any photo to a spatial photo is unbelievable like it is so good i did not expect it to be as good as it is and i've been going through and converting some of my favorite photos to spatial photos and they just they're incredible they are does it screw them up if you're not using them through the no vision pro
okay all right nice oh yeah that's awesome they're left totally fine so that has been great um the new ability to have the gesture for going to the home home screen and then activating your um control center excellent a really really nice edition. So I didn't think, you know, it'd be that big a deal, but yeah, it's, it's pretty nice.
And we're of course waiting on the, uh, you know, once they released the large screen, the options for screen sizes on the whole, you know, use your Mac screen thing. I'll give that a shot and I, I will see how that goes, but yeah. So some nice things in there. Cool. Cool. It's great. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.
Uh well this next thing is actually uh it's almost back to uh chat gpt but what i did is i got the terms of service when i upgraded to sequoia and i loaded them into chat gpt and i said any areas of concern summarize the changes for me and uh and tell me anything i should be concerned about and there's some regional service provider stuff and some access information and all all that. The one that came out to me the most or stood out to me the most, it listed like six things.
Data privacy. Apple still retains the ability to access, share, or disclose your data to law enforcement if deemed necessary. While privacy is emphasized, consider reviewing how much personal information you're comfortable with storing in iCloud. Good point. Something to, something to think, you know, I kind of don't care. Go for it. You're going to be bored. I want to put FBI agents to sleep, go looking at my iCloud.
Termination risks. Apple can terminate or limit your account in various cases, such as inactivity, violation of terms of service, or it's at its discretion for legal or security reasons. And then backup responsibility. It's still your responsibility to backup all your important data. Apple doesn't guarantee full protection against data loss or corruption. So for those of you using iCloud as your backup, up layers get another layer but but hey you know what.
Tells me that I'm going to use chat GPT for other terms of service to make sure I'm not giving my kids away. You know, my firstborn. Oh, it's all yours. Hey, I thought it was me, but I think and I want to acknowledge it because I think it's in the audio stream. I think one of you has your discord notifications going to a live speaker in your room.
And my guess is it may be me and i've told it i've told the system to send it to my selected output which is my headphones but i think that's it so i just sent a message because i thought it was me and i was like this is weird i thought i turned all that off and now i realize we've been doing this the whole episode and every little message that comes into discord everybody that has is listening gets to hear on time sorry folks i think it's me and i think it is you i went to system settings
and it says selected output which is my headphones so i don't know why it's doing yeah but did you go to discord's audio settings you know like well it wouldn't be the alerts in system settings it would be your what is your selected output like is your selected output in system settings your your ears i guess is it your speaker yeah well no in system settings my selected output is calling it up right now uh uh head external phone port okay.
That's weird and then i just play sound effects through selected sound output device yeah i don't know if discord is like um but i got that other one too but that was something running in parallels that made that noise so somehow it bypassed. Yeah. So. Did that come up? Did you just hear that? Oh, you turned them off. Okay. I was going to say, cause I just did a test and I didn't hear it. Okay, great. Yeah.
Um, where are we on time here? Do we have time to do a question or two, or should we, maybe we just call it here. Cause if we get into questions, we're going to want to go long and we're, we're not going to have the time to do that. So I think we, I think maybe, maybe we do a cool stuff founder or three and, and go quick through those. Does that, does that work? I, Adam is, Adam is muted, but I, so I can't tell what your, uh, your, your opinion is on this, Adam.
Uh, anyway, I was saying, I was saying, yes, that sounds good. Let's, let's get through some, some catch up on some CSF. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, Porthos John has another one for us or another entry for this episode, and it is an app. He says, after the demise of Atom, the text editor, A-T-O-M, not your demise, Atom, I am always looking for a quick, light text editor to view readme files and the like. I found one called Zed, Zed, Z-E-D dot dev.
And it's now my default for text files and other quick editing for things I am copy pasting and stuff like that. So thank you for that, Porthos John. Yeah, it's always good to know about little, you know, those little text editors. Love them. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. This is an interesting thing. Alex sent this in. He said, since I started using Windows 11 part time, cringing at the thought, he says, I needed a way to connect to my headless Mac mini.
I chose VNC for this purpose and initially used RealVNC Viewer on my Windows machine. After entering my Mac's username and password, I set it up, but the performance was disappointing, even with a wired network connection. This was surprising because Apple's built-in screen sharing, even in macOS, was super fast. The latency with RealVNC was too much, so I explored other options and found no machine. That's all one word, N-O-M-A-C-H-E-I-N-E. A free alternative.
I installed it on both the PC and the Mac, and the experience was significantly faster with minimal latency right out of the box. After installation, the PC required a restart, but the Mac did not. For those looking to control their computers through screen sharing from another machine running macOS, Windows, or Linux, NoMachine might be a very good and easy to configure option. So thanks for that. I had no idea that NoMachine was even a thing. All one word. So there you go.
Nice. Pete, you want to share what will probably be our last one? Because the other two probably start getting us into different worlds. Yeah. So Rick wrote in. We talked about this on the...
Keynote episode that we did monday night week and a half ago uh he writes pete i was listening to the keynote episode on mgg and heard you talking about the upcoming hearing test feature a couple hours ago i downloaded mimi that's mimi hearing test from the app store it is the same thing audiologists use i have tinnitus not from walkarounds but from the tire noise on my two two-hour commute to the airport.
Anyway, I wear the AirPod Pros 2 while on my bike trainer watching TV and still had a problem hearing the dialogue. I did the Mimi hearing test, and in the end, it creates a profile for your ears and asks if you want to use it. It gives you a before and after, and the difference was amazing. The dialogue popped right out. The price is right Write for a pilot to re take care, Rick. I don't know whether to take that with pride or offense, but I'm going to take it with pride.
What? Cheap airline captain. And I admit it. What's interesting is that this connects, it'll connect to Apple health and they say it's perfect for Apple headphone accommodation. So that profile. Yeah. You can just use it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I did with. I don't know.
I can't remember which app i used i don't know if it was this one or a different one i can check on my health app when i'm not streaming and maybe bring it up on another show but yeah i mean that's what i was saying in that podcast is this feature kind of already existed the difference is is now it's going to be built in and you can take the same test directly through the operating system rather than needing a third-party app so but you can you can employ the results of it right
now if If you use the Mimi test and then you could do a test again when you get the, when, whenever Apple gives us that update. Yeah. They did just get approval, right? FTC approval. FT, not FTC. Oh, did they? It was FDA approval. FDA. Yeah. For the AirPods to be considered an OTC hearing aid, I think so. Yeah. Which is good. Yeah, yeah. So hopefully they'll release that soon then. Yeah, I hope so. Yeah. I'm waiting to buy AirPods Pro 2, but the prices are
pretty good. They're down to less than 200 bucks on Amazon. So maybe the time is now. Yeah, yeah. I overpaid through Apple. Of course. There you go.
Quick question though now. So iOS 18 is out, but it's not until 18.1, which is out in beta now, but not regular, that we start getting the ai features yeah right and what that means to me is because i've been running 18.1 that's the only way i've had the ai features on my 15 pro when i get my iphone 16 which who knows may have arrived even while we were recording i probably will not be able to do the easy migration from my 18.1 15 pro to my 18.0 iPhone 16.
So I'm going to have to set up the iPhone 16 with a bare bones thing, go to the app store up there, go to the beta thing, you know, update it to 18 one, then wipe it, then do the migration. So that that's going to be, that'll be really fun. Really looking forward to it. So that gives me the, you can answer this question then, because that's what I was going to do right after the show. Tell me how to do it. How do I go and force it to give me 18 when I go in and
says, Hey, you're up to date. Well, when are you getting your new phone? Well, I'm going to go pick it up tomorrow. Great. I wouldn't do anything. I would just get your new phone, which is going to have 18 on it. And then it will migrate from 17 to 18. No problem. I would believe it just won't. It'll migrate from older to newer, not newer to older yet.
So I wouldn't mess with it. then then when you're when you're happy that your data's made it over wipe that device and my guess is once you wipe it it will it will you know it will act and yeah well i guess what i'm asking so there's other people out there in my position there's a staggered rollout i'm assuming is what's going on here no no there there is not this is not an apple decided thing this is i mean i would restart the phone
um i would make sure you're not running any weird dns stuff right that i mean i'm just like in general yeah no ebbs these are good things but these are things that i'm i'm pretty clear of so far so keep going don't mess with your etsy host file no just kidding um right.
Touche go yeah go into general software updates i mean you could change the beta updates option around and see if even moving it to the you know public beta and then back to the off and and see if that sort of okay tips the scales but i but don't put the 18.1 beta on your phone today it will it will make you will then have to go through the pain i'm about to have to go through yeah right yeah well so,
David, I mean, 18 is out officially. I'm assuming, like, you could also go back to standard updates, and it would be on 18 or pull down whatever the release version of 18 is, right? Well, that's what I'm saying is just move the setting. Don't actually do the update, but move the setting and then go back. So, yeah, yeah, yep. All right. Hopefully that'll tip the scales. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, folks. Folks, thanks for, we do need to, it's time.
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