It's time for Mac Geek Cab, and listener Val brings us our quick tip of the week. Val says, I just wanted to share something that's been a game changer for me. As someone who preaches often on Sundays, I find that the presenter mode in the Pages app is much easier to see than the standard view. It works on all Apple devices, but it really comes into its own on the iPad. The clean layout and larger text options make delivering sermons far more comfortable.
If anyone needs to read from pages for extended periods or in front of an audience, presenter mode is a great tool to consider. Thanks, Val. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekGab 1055 for Monday, September 16th, National Tattoo Story Day 2024. Music. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geek, the show where you send in quick tips like Val did. You send in cool stuff found. You send in questions.
We share them all, hopefully providing some context for the first two and some answers for the latter. The goal being all of us get to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. And here on National Tattoo Story Day in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here on the windswept plains of South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. I am always, every time I read that, I am reminded of this. Do you have any tattoos, bro? So, you know, I don't know. Do you have any tattoos?
Do you have any tattoos, Brad? From Rocky Horror. I don't, I've never seen the movie. I have never actually even seen the musical, but I've played drums for the musical so many times that I know the story now. So... But I believe that's Tim Curry delivering that line, which wasn't loud enough when I did it the first time. Do you have any tattoos, Brad? Certainly not. There you go. So Brad had no stories to tell.
We have lots of stories to tell here today. Adam, instead of asking you about whether or not you have tattoos and what their stories are, can I ask you, we're recording this on Friday the 13th, right after iPhone pre-orders opened up. Did you spend any money this morning, my friend?
Uh i did i did i spent way too much money this morning probably same more than i wanted to yeah i did i did i did completely pay off my apple card right before i made that purchase so the first thing i did this morning was that's fair pay off my apple card because we got a bunch of travel coming up so i had racked up already quite a bill but uh i just added to it by uh getting a black 256 iPhone 16 Pro. Okay. So I did end up going... You did wind up going back to the Pro. Okay. Yep. Yeah.
I didn't think I could give up the display and then... The always-on display, you mean? Or the... The always-on display, yeah. And I mean, ProMotion's nice too, but it was probably more about the always-on display. I've just gotten used to it, being able to especially like, Like, even just as I'm sitting here working, being able to look down if a notification comes in and just see my phone. I guess it would come on if I got a notification. But just being able to glance
down and see even like the time. It's stupid stuff like that, right? But it's like little conveniences that I thought, you know, I'm going to miss certain things if I don't. I'm used to doing it that way right now. Got it. So, like, I've got accustomed to it. Yes. And then probably the bigger thing, though, was that I thought was worth probably the money was the upgraded wide angle. And I do think I'd miss the telephoto. I would not miss the telephoto because they both have telephoto.
I think the non-pro is a 2X now. Correct. Right? It has zoom. It doesn't have telephoto. It doesn't have a telephoto lens. Right. So I would miss the telephoto and the fact that it's a, Now, 5X versus the 2X that I have, I think I would take advantage of that. And then the, you know, higher res wide angle. So, like, the camera upgrades and the always-on display seemed to be worth the $200 to me. Okay. It was kind of the judgment call that I made on that one. That's fair.
Yeah. And then I did also buy and order, I could have ordered them earlier, but I just ordered them today, the AirPods Pro 2. Because I have the original AirPods Pro, and I think we talked about last time. I do have hearing aids that I paid a ton of money for, and I don't think are going to be as good as the hearing aid feature with the AirPods Pro 2, to be honest with you. Yes. Yep. All right. Cool. Cool. I stuck with the 16. I did a lot of soul searching after our conversation on Monday.
I sat down with Lisa. We both talked about it. And Lisa doesn't quite know this. I told her I was on the fence between just keeping my 15 pro and getting her the 16 or keeping the, you know, getting giving her my my 15 pro and keeping the 16. I actually bought two 16s this morning. I bought one in ultramarine 256 and one in pink 256. And the reasons for this are are are multiple.
I want lisa this is where my mistake may have been made and i need to see it and get it in her hands she takes pictures with her phone a lot she seems to think that she would be okay with the cameras in the 16 versus the 16 pro and so that in it in and of itself that's a worthy experiment right to see. Um, but the other thing is that camera button, which of course the 16 has, yep.
It was, was the most attractive thing to her. She's like, I wind up, you know, editing and cropping my photos anyway. She's like, I don't think the, the extra zoom really matters. I'm like, okay, well that's, I could make an argument either way, but you're the one that uses it. And she's like, yeah, it's like, I don't think so. And so, uh, so I did go with the 16s for both of us.
And the reason I got two was that the Apple intelligence features that I've been testing in 18.1 are really a game changer for. I want everyone in my family, the four of us, to have access to that on our phones as soon as possible. So by buying two 16s, I now have three devices in the family that can support Apple intelligence, my 15 Pro being one of them. And it means i need to buy at least one more phone this year which will come christmas ish for uh.
For one probably just one of the kids maybe both i don't know um probably just one because i mean it is a lot of money to keep spending so and and we do find that 256 is the number for our family So I bought two of them, two 16s this morning, and there's one more coming. The reason I didn't order the third this morning is I don't want to start the warranty on it until it's going to be in someone's hands, which probably won't be Christmas.
It'll probably be mid to late November just because we might celebrate an early Christmas when our daughter comes home, assuming she comes home for a little bit. So I've got to ride the wave on that, though. I've got to keep an eye on how far out orders are marching and place that order at the right time. So I gotta be careful on this. Yeah. Because I almost got burned on that last year or two years ago. It was two years ago. Yeah. So, uh, I mean, last year would have partially made sense.
I kind of feel like, I mean, unless there's just volume supply chain issues, I guess it does have the new chip. So maybe because the 18s in there, it's at bigger risk. But I feel like.
We're kind of past those days of like availability on iphones like flying out the window super fast anymore because i i just because i think like i even got to the point where i didn't upgrade last year and you know like i'm the prime person to upgrade and i talked to a lot of people who are also prime people that upgrade that didn't upgrade so i i'll be interesting to see how the numbers are after today yes right in terms of
like are they timing out i'm gonna guess not i'm gonna And I guess like you could pop on and get an iPhone 16 or iPhone, any model tomorrow or at the end of the week or. Interesting. I'd be surprised if they actually sell out. Yeah, it was, it was the 14 Pro. Could be wrong. Two years ago, we got one for our son for Christmas. I think it was 14 Pro, right? Because that would have been 2022.
Yeah. and like it was dicey getting it but you know by like middle of november for whatever reason it was hard to find these things um so but we'll see yeah yeah you might be right yeah you might be right so yeah and i mean it'll be interesting because they could also be adjusting uh supply based on sales kind of flattening out correct so they could ramp down and then christmas comes And people are like, oh, I want to get I'm going to get the new phone for the family.
And yeah, that'll be interesting. Pete is not here today, as you've sorted out. We don't know what Pete has ordered. I'm assuming he went with the 16 Pro, not the 16 Pro Max. I've been talking to him this week. Our thoughts are with Pete and his family. And Pete is with his family. Pete's mom passed away this week. And and so obviously they're spending some time together and our thoughts are with him. So he he did he did give us, you know, obviously give us permission to share that.
So we can we can all we can we can dedicate this episode to Pete and his family and his mom. And yeah, all that. Yeah. But I'm assuming Pete bought the 16 Pro because his only reason for buying the large one was the camera. And once we realized that the camera was no different in those two. Well, right. There you go. We got emails from a lot of you this week, too, that, you know, as we all realized that together, I was like, wait a minute.
Don't necessarily need to go that far. So I did not buy my AirPods Pro Gen 2 yet. I will. I am definitely going to. I just, I figured, I mean, Amazon has them or had them for $199, which is a decent price. Sometimes there are Black Friday sales on these kinds of things. And especially since it's a one-year-old product, I'm kind of waiting that out. The software to do all the hearing aid stuff is not available to any of us yet.
So i'm not in a huge rush although i have plenty of my my airpods pro gen one are are shot i'm on the fence as to whether i should replace the the one ear earplug from wow whatever i forget the thing we mentioned do you want mine because i don't have anybody to give mine to which one of yours is shot my gen ones they're not shot my gen ones work great oh it was jeff's it was jeff's gen one that that were shot one of the ears was like yeah that's right if we have we have a good set between us can
we pair them all together like what's the how does that work i don't know uh my my mine works great and uh you know um earwax aside you know like yeah you can have them, Saruman is a thing that's right yeah.
Uh okay yeah because no nobody in my family wants them who the the two people, who I could give them to won't want them and then my other daughter already has her own pair so got it all right well let me let me let me think about that well yeah I know where to find you and we'll we'll talk but yeah Saruman is not Cerulean I I learned it's it's a different color uh shall Shall we go and do some more quick tips here? Let's do some more quick tips. Bill has one.
He says, I've known for years about turning the virtual iOS or iPad OS keyboard into a trackpad by tapping and holding my finger on the screen. What I learned today is that if you continue to hold the one finger on the screen, but tap the keyboard with a second finger, you can now move the original finger and it will select text as long as you drag it.
Remove the finger to stop selecting additional text. For example, hold the finger on the keyboard to get the virtual keyboard, move the cursor to the beginning of the text you want to select, tap a second finger on the keyboard, and then select the text you want. This makes cutting or copying text easier. Did you know about this, Adam? I did. I forget to use it. And I do the stupid thing where I'm trying to grab that dumb handle that's a
teeny tiny tap point. And it doesn't go where you want it to go. And yeah, selecting text is a thing that you can do with the trackpad-y kind of thing. I had no idea. This isn't something that I learned and forgot. I have no recollection of ever being exposed to this. And what I love about that, so I love that I'll be able to do it. But what I especially love is when I'm in line for something, this is how it happens. Like, you know, in line for a film at South by Southwest, this is generally
where this conversation goes. But what do you do for a living? You know, we do the thing. I do a podcast. What is it? And I share, oh, we do tips and tricks. Like, do you have an iPhone? Yeah, yeah. Well, we share tips about that. And then in that moment, there's an expectation that I'm going to share a tip with someone. Right. And so I often default to the, well, did you know that you can hold down the space bar and do the thing?
About half the people that I show that to know it. And the other half, of course, like all of us were when we first saw it, our minds are blown. Now I have something to show the people that already know it. So that I think the reason that came to mind is this ensures I won't forget to use it myself. So, yeah, I was pretty stoked about that when I found it. Yeah. Cool tip. Yeah. I am a one password user, as I've mentioned many times.
And 1Password on the Mac recently brought in a change, a user experience change, where when you're autofilling in Safari, it will autofill and then it will autosubmit. It will autofill and then autosubmit. And that's great. It streamlines the whole process. Except when it's not. And there's certain websites where I know the auto fill, auto submit thing basically bypasses the need for checking the remember me box. But there's still some places where I want to check the remember me box.
And I can't if they ask for username first, and then the remember me is on the password screen, right? Because if it asks for username and I tell it to auto submit, it auto submits the username sees the password screen i watched the little box go by unchecked but the box is on the second screen where i have no interaction and uh and so i was like all right. I filed a support request, right? And you can, there's two things. You can disable it entirely, or you can disable it per login.
The part that blew me away was I didn't know that the place where you set this stuff up even existed. So if you're a one password user, you have the little icon in your browser toolbar. If you right click that, there is a settings screen that comes up.
And it's a huge option set of options in this screen and you can go to um auto fill and save there and you can turn off sign in automatically after auto fill so that would just turn it off completely uh you can also as i said disable this on a per item basis by uh clicking on again just Just click on that icon, but don't right-click it. Just click it standard, open it up, find the item that you want to change. And then there's three little dots, vertical dots in the header of that icon.
And there's a series of options there. The first one is edit, you know, and then you can add it to favorites. But one of them is don't sign in automatically. I will note that this option is not available in the 1Password app when you edit the same item. So this is why I had trouble finding it because, well, because I didn't know where to look.
But yeah, clicking the 1Password icon in your browser toolbar and then using the three little vertical dots on the icon allows you to set this on a per item basis. And it's been a game changer. That does sync from my, for amongst all my Macs. So it, it, it, it is a persistent setting. It's just one you can only find in the user interface of one password in the browser. I will note, you have to click the icon to do it.
If you do the thing where you, the keyboard shortcut to bring up the one password dialogue, that does not have this option. You have to click the thing in your browser toolbar with the mouse. Like it's the only way. So hopefully that saves some of you from going through those headaches. And, and I, I, I credit this one to Steph G because Steph G was the customer support rep at one password who enlightened me to all of this. So interesting.
Yeah. Now I have a question. Go. go because i'm guessing if if it's if that setting is not on the item record in the app, that says to me because the plug-in right is a separate quote-unquote app yes yes for lack of a. Does that mean that setting is part of the plugin? And then, so, would that setting then be browser-specific? Or because it syncs, does it remember that across browsers?
So, if you set that in Safari, and then you go try to log into that same account in Chrome, will it not autolog you in in Chrome, or will Chrome autolog you in? I am making sure that I need to unlock one password, evidently. Or whatever other browser has the plug-in. Sure. Yep. I would guess that because it syncs, it would work cross-browser. Yeah, let me make sure of this. Because I doubt the plug-in under the hood is browser-specific. So, you know what? I said that it syncs.
So I'm not sure that it does, but hang on one second, because one password, the one password, you're right that the one password plug in or browser extension, I guess we're supposed to call, I don't know, whatever. The thing in the browser is a separate app. It uses the same data store as one password, but there are issues. In fact, in fact, my support request was not started because of this.
It was started because of a bug that has since been fixed where the browser plug-in and the app were not staying in sync in terms of their unlocked state, and that was an issue. So I am making sure here that it in fact –. No, it is specific. It does not sync across browsers. Well, I lied. Okay. Sorry. It does not sync across Macs. It is specific to this Mac. How is that even possible that it's storing its own preferences locally here?
Well, because most plugins or extensions are like little JavaScript apps, right? They're JavaScript based. And I'm guessing that it's storing that info like locally in your browser somewhere would be my guess. Either using local storage or... It's about an item that's in my encrypted one password database. No. Okay. It definitely does. No, I just had not, I picked one that I had not synced.
So I am seeing now, yes, I am seeing now that it does sync across Macs, at least as far as Safari is concerned. But now, do I have 1Password installed in Chrome on this computer? I don't. Okay, so that's odd. We'll have to maybe follow up on that one. We'll have to follow up on that one, yeah. I thought I had it installed in Chrome. I must have it installed in Chrome. What? Well, let me see what happens if I go to, this is real time here, folks.
We are real time, real time answers. No, I guess I don't have the plugin installed in Chrome. Okay. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to mess with that right now. No, no, no. But it does. I just confirmed that it does in fact sync from Mac to Mac. And I would guess that therefore it syncs browser to browser too, unless there's specific settings in it for each browser that are like baked into it. So it possibly, yeah, we'll, we'll find out, or one of you will find out feedback
at Mac e-cub.com. What was that? Did you say feedback at Mac e-cub.com? Yeah. Feedback at Mac e-cub.com. That's right. That's what we, that's what we use here. All right. Shall we keep moving on here? Yeah, Derek has something. So Derek says, I was listening to episode 1054, and you shared how the Apple keynote mentioned complex shortcuts for the action button. I thought I would share my action button shortcut and see if it sparks any ideas for your own.
When the shortcut runs, first, I get the screen brightness. If it is less than or equal to 20%, I then toggle the flashlight. light. I use auto brightness, so the idea here is that if the screen is dark, then I am probably in a dark place and need the flashlight. Second, if the screen is brighter, greater than 20%, I get the device's orientation. If the orientation is landscape right, meaning that the action button is on top, I open the camera.
At that point, I use the volume buttons next to it to take the picture finally if all of those conditions are not met then i open my favorite podcast app, shortcuts are starting to get more and more helpful for getting your device's state and doing something with it hopefully this helps give you some ideas to use the action button better.
Yeah man that's pretty cool right i i i don't think i i don't think i knew that you could get the device's orientation in a shortcut and do things with it so i i think we need to we need to ring the bell again here i should have rang it for the other thing too about the um yeah there you go oh yeah the real bell i like it uh yeah that's really smart i i yeah yeah it's cool just like like he said i i really i mean i love the the shortcut that he described i especially love of the the
context he gave it that like i'm gonna tell you what i do so that you can do other things that maybe this inspires and that i love yeah exactly yeah yeah the idea is you know that um. The idea here really is about hey there's a bunch of like these dates that you can look into when when you're writing your shortcuts, right? So, you know, what, or I didn't know you could tell what orientation, not only what orientation your device is in, but whether it's right or left.
Yes. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. But of course it knows, like it has to know which side is up. We were aware that the device knows this stuff and apps can know it. Really cool that shortcuts can know it. I love it. Yeah. Yep. I know. Yeah. It's got, the ideas are swimming. Uh, speaking of swimming ideas, we mentioned snapshot management in, uh, episode 10 48. And talked about how you can manage them with Disk Utility and also Carbon Copy Cloner.
And as usual, I made sure the folks at Carbon Copy Cloner knew about the mention. And Mike over there, Mike Bombick from Carbon Copy Cloner, wrote in and said, shared some interesting things. He says, snapshot disk usage, purgeable space, and Disk Utility's snapshot size values happen to be one of my favorite topics. He says, this is a little bit future leaning, but not all snapshots are purgeable. They are on the startup disk.
Nobody should create a snapshot on the startup disk and expect it to stick around long term. But they are purgeable on the startup disk is what I should have emphasized. But on other disks, snapshots should stick around until deleted by the end user or an application that they use to automate the management of such. And he says, I've been going back and forth with this one with Apple for about six years. And finally, in Sequoia, a.k.a. Mac OS 15, right? I think that's right.
They have committed to stop deleting carbon copy cloner snapshots. Frankly, I can't believe it has taken this long. They've literally been deleting what many people consider to be valuable user data. And I've even seen a few cases, he says, where people lost the opportunity to recover previous versions of files because the system deleted their snapshots.
Disk utilities. So that's a good that's a good thing. And by the way, I believe shortly hours after this episode comes out or maybe days after, I think it's the 18th, right, that that we all get Mac OS 15 and iOS 18 and iPad OS 18. So, this is a feature to look forward to, and we'll focus a lot more on that stuff in episode 1056, the next one.
But he does say, disk utility snapshot size values, these are not actually helpful in terms of knowing how much space will be freed if you delete any specific snapshot. The sizes are cumulative, so the size indicates how much space is freed if you delete all snapshots up to a given snapshot.
Snapshot that's a bit misleading if you look at the last snapshot and think that you can just delete that snapshot to free all of the space if you right click on the table header you can enable the private size column who knew wait where's the bell i know uh right yeah exactly uh he says which is more direct about individual snapshot sizes i.e the amount of space that would be freed if you were to delete a single snapshot so yes go into disk utility and enable that private size
column on the snapshots for you right clicking he says uh just so you know private size and we all know is the size value that carbon copy cloner presents and he has a whole article about this which of course we will link in the show notes so thank you thank you thank you for that mike Like, great, great stuff. He's such a smart dude. Smart, smart guy. That's the kind of developers we have in this community that make, you know, our software and everything, like, truly awesome.
Like, they are incredible. Just incredible. Incredible stuff. I'm blown away every time. Zoe corrects me. iOS 18, my initial statement was accurate.
Accurate ios 18 comes out on september 16th which is the monday that this episode comes out so yeah i i my apologies for the miscorrection and thank you to zoe for the uncorrection recorrection so yes love that we i love that we do this uh in with a live stream for exactly these reasons so that we can just get things right yes everything comes out on monday the 16th including uh Uh, Mackie cab 10 55, the episode you are actually listening to. So yeah. Uh, okay. What else do we have here?
Um, oh yeah. Scott had it. Scott has had an interesting issue, uh, using, he has an Eero plus subscriber and he has noticed that every time he, uh, updates his Eero firmware software, or it is updated automatically, which is more often the case. If he goes into his Eero Plus settings in the Discover tab, the Advanced Security and Ad Blocking sliders are off.
He opened a support ticket with Eero, and they acknowledged that he was right in that those sliders appeared to be off, but the features were still on. There was a disconnect between the app and the setting itself, and so obviously toggling it would set the sliders to appear correct as well as the feature. But the feature itself was not being disabled by the updates, just the app's ability to read it from whatever, you know, data store, the JSON feed it's getting from the cloud.
It was slightly different with each version. So in theory, this will be remedied and maybe it already has by Eero. We've had this for about 10 days here because last episode was the keynote recap or keynote dissection, I should say. So thank you to Scott for that. because yeah, that's good stuff. Interesting. It happens. Software. Fun. You've never had any problems like that with your software, Adam, right? Not specifically like that. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, like other things. Yes. Or you can't find things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was, I was trying to look up because I might have a bonus tip for that, but I got to remember. Oh yeah. So yeah. I last night was trying to pull up a photo from my favorites and I have installed the public beta of iOS 18 on my iPhone. Okay. And so I pop it open and I'm like, go to my albums and I'm looking through my albums and I'm like, Oh.
There's no favorites album where's my favorites album you know and they redesigned how photos is in the whole layout of photos i looked and i looked and i looked under utilities and i looked under here there and i'm like it's got to be in here i could search for it and it would find all of my favorites and then i could tap and see all of them i could see all of them with the little hearts on them so they were they were all there in my data and i had i guess just literally scrolled past
it so there is a new thing called pinned collections and so favorites has moved under there so if anybody now or when ios 18 comes out launches photos and like where'd my favorites album go that's where it is and i had my wife confirm on her phone that yes there was a favorites album where those were aggregated but now it's a pinned collection i guess what they call it Yep. I, I'm so glad you brought that up. I went through the same thing when I installed the beta initially.
It was like, what's going on? They've got to still be here. But yeah, it's, it's not as front and center as it used to be. It's still fairly front and center. It's just a little bit, a little bit hidden.
Yep. yeah you have to scroll down and it's in a little bar with little square yeah preview icons and you can customize that pinned collection like there's an option to tap in there and you can reorder it and do a bunch of different kinds of pinned collections but yeah it's like why did they move it out of albums though like it was fine there thank yeah thank you for sharing that yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, that is a good one. It's good. All right. We will do more iOS 18 and Mac OS 15 quick tips.
It is 15, right? I get so confused. I don't. Yeah, it's 15. Yeah, because we're on Sonoma 14. It'll be Sequoia 15. Okay. Sahara 17. Oh, my God. You're totally right. What about 16? What's 16 going to be then? Oh, we skipped 16. That is Sausalito. Oh, it's got to be Sausalito, though. We got to have an S and an A. We came up with some others. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can't think of it off the top of my head right now. I don't know.
Super Califragilistica. um in august we started doing monthly giveaways and in august we gave away five copies of reincubates camo which is an app i am currently using i use it literally every time we record the show because i use it with my iphone 13 mini as my webcam and it's awesome uh so i wanted to congratulate our winners peter horan tim kobler chris westergaard ben rosenthal and kirk moss loss congrats they have already been contacted of course and given their licenses and all of that
stuff and we have a new giveaway of course for september our our plan our system is to do this once per month uh and have one giveaway per month and this month it is yet another piece of software it is one focus and we are giving away again five more copies of that in partnership with the folks Folks at one focus. This is an app that helps block apps and websites on your Mac to help you focus. And let me tell you, there were some moments in August where I should have been
using this app. I am glad it exists. Yeah. So go to, we've got links in the show notes always, but go to Mac geek app.com slash giveaway. That will always bring you to the current giveaway. Sign up each month. And there are opportunities to actually sign up more than once for yourself, uh, by sharing and doing them some things and reposting and all that stuff. You kind of get some, some extra, extra signups and, uh, you get to, you know, do your thing.
So, uh, have fun with it and we'll do another one next month. We have, we have lots coming, so I'm excited. Cool yeah yeah we've got free stuff is always good free stuff for you yeah yeah when i first brought it to the team of course at backbeat we're focused on sales obviously you know and when i first brought it to the team they're like great what can we sell it for i'm like, maybe someday but right now i just want to do it i don't want to have somebody's.
Lack of interest in buying this opportunity to keep all of us and you from having the opportunity. I'd rather just offer it. And so we are just offering it. And I guess I'm looking at myself in my camera here, which, of course, Reincubate Camo is doing. And I'm wearing my Cirque du Mac T-shirt from Cirque du Mac 11. And I'm reminded that we did the same thing with Cirque du Mac when we did the first Cirque du Mac party.
Uh we self-funded and we did that for the first three maybe four but i think it was just the first three but i remember there was someone who has been in our still in our industry i don't want to out them uh but you could probably figure it out because they were at the first circ to mac party and they're like this is amazing i want to sponsor it and i'm like yeah that's cool um Um, I'm not ready to have other people help define what this could be.
I want to define it and get it solidified and then just offer the sponsorship opportunity. Cause if I offered sponsors the opportunity to, to sponsor something that was not yet built, they would have more of a hand in defining what it was. And so, but I did promise that person, I said, you will be the first phone call I make the moment we open sponsorships up to this party. And so I think it was like three years later that I called him up and I said, you're the first,
you want it? And he's like, I told you I would. And I'm like, great. And then we got a bunch more. And thankfully we had, we didn't have to pay for everybody's drinks at Cirque du Mac every single time because y'all are expensive. Expensive there was there was one circ to mac where the bill was.
Certainly at least one where the the bar bill was over 50k so yeah yeah yeah maybe 60k yeah i have all the numbers i have not gone i i don't know that i will ever do this adam them uh but i certainly at this point have not gone back and tallied up everything we spent on the 11 circ to max we did and all of the sponsor money that we received to see whether we were net positive in the end or net negative because there were some that were
sponsored where the end bill was more than what we had anticipated and so we didn't have it covered you know uh and then there were some where it was the other way right you know so um there were there were some of them where it was like, wow, we made a profit on this. That wasn't really the goal. And it was like, well, you know, I don't know that we've actually made a profit on this. But again, that wasn't the point of Cirque du Mac. It was an event for the community
for us all to have fun. And so these giveaways are kind of the same thing.
Very cool yeah best not to look says grumpy in the chat and uh i agree we have more tips to share though adam shall we oh more tips well we had a conversation yeah yeah right we got it we got a couple more here you know it's it's funny to me the well you know we talk about all kinds of things on the show and then something will resonate and we'll wind up talking about it for two more episodes it always i am always surprised at what that is and the whole idea of unifying the downloads folder
is is it so for now apparently yeah right now that's the thing of the moment yeah john says gents not gentlemen gents was just listening to mac geek gab 10 53 in the discussion regarding down the downloads folder for icloud and for your mac what i do which i I think is the best of both worlds is to place an alias of my iCloud download folder inside my Mac's regular download folder.
That way I don't sync large files across from my Mac's download folder, yet have easy access to anything that I save on my mobile devices. And if there is something I want to share with my mobile devices that I downloaded on my Mac, I just drag it into the alias of my iCloud download folder. Easy as pie and makes everything just the way I like it. Ah, I like this. Okay. Yep. All the different creative ways that people have solved this issue. Clearly, this is something Apple needs to address.
There's enough folks out here that care about this that, I don't know, it seems like a thing.
Um jeff has another way of doing this he said uh in talking about this i took a different approach for a unified downloads folder on my mac i make sure the downloads folder in my home folder is empty and then i delete it okay in icloud drive i create an alias of the icloud downloads folder and then drag that alias into my home folder, the alias to my iCloud Drive Downloads folder thus replaces the Downloads folder that formerly resided in my home folder.
I repeat this process on every Mac that I have. And then, as has been discussed in iOS, iPadOS, Safari settings, choose iCloud Drive as its downloads destination. And that's it. Now, he says, thanks to iCloud, the contents of the downloads folder will be the same across all your Apple devices, just as if Apple offered downloads in the cloud. Delete an item from the downloads folder on one device and it will be deleted
from the downloads folders on all of your devices. There is no need to change settings on perhaps multiple browsers or multiple mail applications. Oh, right. Because there is no vestigial downloads folder hanging around in your home folders to cause confusion. I like this. Okay. And he says, I also added the unified downloads folder to the my finder sidebar for easy access. Oh, okay. I like this. Yeah. Downloads in the cloud.
Yeah. Yeah, it seems like that. I like that phrase because it's somewhat of an oxymoron. It's like you've downloaded it, but it's still in the cloud. Like, where is it? Downloads in the cloud. It makes my brain hurt. I like things that make my brain hurt, usually. So, yeah. Well, Garrett has another way that he handles this issue.
He says, hello, Dave, Adam, and Pete. I would like to offer a comment regarding Andrew's quick tip on the Uniform iCloud folder, particularly in response to Dave's concern about accidental large files clogging iCloud storage. I use a Hazel rule to manage files in my Downloads folder by automatically moving them to iCloud after 24 hours. This approach requires vigilance on my part. I assess downloaded files to determine their future usefulness.
Files that I anticipate needing later are retained, while unnecessary or large files are promptly deleted after use. I like it. That's smart. I actually had a similar thought, but we'll give Kirit credit for it because Kirit had it before me. Yeah, that's smart. We could take Kirit's idea. And merge everything together because the concern, bear with me on this. This is, I'm talking while, Well, my mouth is open while I'm thinking, which is rarely a good idea.
But here's the thought. The concern is we don't want to fill up our iCloud drive with massive downloads, right? You know, the disk images, things that aren't going to be helpful. Right. You know, they might be helpful to your other Macs. That's sort of its own issue.
You but um what if a hazel rule was used or maybe not hazel maybe chronosync a mac would have to be running all the time but looked at both downloads folders and kept them in sync so you have your icloud downloads folder your mac downloads folder keep both of those in sync however However, put a put a, you know, a filter in there that says anything that's like a disk image, don't do that. Anything that's, you know, larger than one gigabyte, don't do that. Right.
And that way you kind of have all of your other downloads, the PDFs, the the little things. But the stuff that's not going to be helpful to your to your, you know, on your iPhone or iPad doesn't need to be there. And you could also use ChronoSync or maybe even better ResilioSync with some of these rules to keep your downloads folders amongst all of your Macs in sync, even with the large files. So I don't know. Like there's a world here.
It would it i don't know that there would be a one-size-fits-all solution but similar to you know what um derrick did for us with the customized shortcuts thing maybe this gives certainly this stream of consciousness that i just blurted out here gives me some ideas to think about even if i don't use the ones that i said i don't know yeah.
What do you think absolutely yeah okay all right yeah yeah i i mean especially like uh with the icloud folder you know like just a one-way what you'd be doing really a one-way sync with those rules right so mac to your icloud folder well you'd want the oh yeah because the icloud folder is already on your mac right yes yeah yes yeah you'd only need to get the ones that are from your local mac that you want from your local mac into your icloud folder right if i'm thinking
about this right because the iCloud folder is going to sync anyway and you could you wouldn't have to copy them you could move them, so that you don't keep two copies on your Mac that's true yeah you'd actually probably want that see. So now you have downloads that aren't on iCloud intentionally by rule and not by manual management and then max the rest huh See, there's all kinds of things. This is what I love about nerding out. Yeah, and we'll get 27 more ways to people do this for next time.
I was going to say we probably need to retire this topic temporarily, but that's not fair. Like, we do that. We will intentionally be like, let's wait three weeks to bring it back and collect all the things so we're not just doing it every week. I think it's fair because you know where folks can go. Where can folks go?
Our discord yes and they can share it there and then everybody gets all the information i love our discord community it's it's so god it's so good man and anybody can sign up right thousands of people everybody behaves everybody's so more than that like obviously everybody behaves it's it's our community but uh, everybody's so helpful and smart and of course all of that's also obvious i don't need to say any of these things it's awesome yep yep macgeekab.com slash discord that's right.
Jeremy has a question and i'm hoping we can give him an answer here uh he says uh chaps because he knows we're uncomfortable with the word gentlemen thank you uh he says i have five count them external drives hanging off my MacBook Pro via a Bestek powered hub, which is over five years old now, and an anchor something or other. He says, I don't know what the anchor something or other is. We'll get to that. I'm getting odd issues with drives not mounting or not behaving as they should.
And I suspect the drives, the cables and or the hub might need updating. Any advice on sorting this out? And he gives us a little more detail about what he has. He has a 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro. He has the Bestek 3-in-1 hub, which has four USB 3 ports and two Type-A ports and an audio jack, and then an Anker 7-in-1 hub with HDMI, power delivery, USB-C, and two USB-A 5-gig ports.
Uh, an external monitor via HDMI and a USB wireless charger, all connecting via USB, uh, B to a, I don't think he means B to a, I think he means C to a, but anyway, thoughts on this, my friend.
Oh yeah i don't i don't think maybe anchor is gonna like my thoughts and answer good news anchor didn't sponsor this episode you know what we didn't have any sponsors for this episode i love their products i own tons of their products i only buy cables from them like exclusively and i buy them in bulk i think i've mentioned i have uh what i call adam amazon in the house with just a supply of anchor power warts and cables and stuff
because my family is always constantly asking me for them so that out of the way i have an anchor i don't know remember what this thing is like a usbc hub you know the dock right yep thunderbolt dock it's great most of the time but i have an issue and it happened last episode you guys saw me just disappear right i remember this will die like out of the blue and i don't know if it gets too hot because it does get super hot yep i don't
know like it just gives up the ghost and so this is an opposite problem i usually have it where i've literally unplugged all my external drives from it because it will just randomly disconnect my drives. And I lose keyboards, and I lose all this stuff that's connected through that thing when it happens. And it's like a millisecond. It just flips out. And I tried to troubleshoot it, tried to... I'm convinced I probably just need to replace it. It was what I probably ultimately should do.
But I'm just being lazy about it. So that's one thing is like... I might suspect that now i've tried like googling it searching it um one thing that i thought was because it's a vertical one uh the way the the power comes into it the cord hangs like straight down the back so it's up at the top of the because it's a vertical yeah yeah yeah and it hangs down and so i even bought these little stick on um because it would pull the the usbc cable the thunderbolt cable kind
of at a weird angle yep and i and i was like oh when i bumped the desk it's jiggling and it's just hitting the connection just enough and it and but i bought this little stick on thing from owc they're great that lock your usbcs like in yes so they can't wiggle or move um and that i thought that worked for a while but then it started doing it again so is it is it possible that it's your mac like have you isolated it have you tested this and seen the issue with the hub on a different mac
no i haven't done that yet so that's kind of where i was going next right is the next troubleshooting is is it a device in the chain is it you know so it gets to what i call because i'm old school right this is the this is the what do we have back in the day not extensions, oh extensions manager yeah extensis extension manager right which was like.
Some extensions misbehaving this could be some devices misbehaving so you know it's like really the way to test this i guess you could go two ways you could try just disconnecting one device and kind of go backwards but probably the better way to do it is like take everything off put one thing in see if that all works fine and you don't have any issues and then if you don't then plug Plug the next thing in.
Like, you know, it's kind of work through the chain and see, is there a thing in this chain that's misbehaving? I call it isolation testing, but it's hard to do when you rely on all of the things. Right. And it's tedious. So you kind of have to do one. When I'm in that scenario, I would love to have only one thing connected and isolate that way because then you're certain. But, you know, that's what it is. But often I do the first thing you suggested, which is one at a time.
I'm oddly reminded of when we had, there was one summer we had four cats in the house and one of them was peeing on the couch, but we didn't know which one.
And so uh what we did was we isolated one cat at a time and then we had to like isolate different permutations of the cats to know for certain that okay it's definitely that cat like it only ever has happened with this cat but if we just left one cat out and isolate you know and hid the other three or lock the other three up a that would be very difficult to do with the way our house is but But B. You know, maybe it's two, one of the cats is bothering the other one and that's
why it's doing this, you know? So it was a whole, it was a whole thing. I don't know why we got here. Isolation test. Yeah. Yeah. Paul brought up in chat another one. I mean, did, I don't remember if he said if these were all like powered hubs and stuff like that. I mean, in my case, I have all powered hubs, although it might be worth checking the power rating because I do have like four USB powered USB drive, but I've unplugged all those for mine.
So like I'm running mine and all that's hooked into it are keyboard and mouse and my Mac at this point, there's some Yubi keys and like, there's not a lot plugged into that thing right now. And no drives at this point, but in our listeners case, yeah, is everything getting enough power. Through the entire chain? Like is something drawing too much power?
Because a common thing people will do is they'll get an unpowered USB hub, plug that into their main docking station or whatever, and then hang a bunch of things off of it, right? And then it doesn't have enough, they don't have enough power. And so they start behaving oddly. So with that, it would be kind of, actually kind of, now the cat anecdote, Makes sense, right? Because one device by itself isn't going to have the problem if that's the or isn't going to have the symptom.
If the problem is power draw, you need to have enough that are drawing too much. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So maybe that's one test, Jeremy, is to balance the power load amongst your two different hubs. But I think both of these are powered hubs. They are not drawing their power from the Mac. If they are, I know the Anker one is powered because you say it's got power delivery.
So it's really going in that direction. But make sure the best tech one is I I'm assuming it is and balance things amongst them. I've certainly had to do I my studio is a very delicately balanced thing, both in terms of power draw and also data flow, because I use my Thunderbolt and external USB hubs.
And I have three of them attached to my Mac studio, but I use them for obviously, you know, devices like drives and my audio interface and all the other stuff that we plug in, but also displays and displays consume a not insignificant amount of data flow in one direction, right? Right. When they're plugged into a hub. So, you know, it was a whole thing getting it here. And then what was it, you know, a year ago, last summer or whatever, when I had to replace it, like.
You know, with no warning, it's like, well, do I have to rethink all my power and data balancing or can I just plug another computer into this? And it was like, when, when my local dealer said, well, I have an M one max studio. It's like that has enough ports. I'll take it. I don't need to think I just can. It's a drop in replacement. Well, plus a monitor, but you know, yeah.
Yeah. That's why it's specifically why I have my monitors plugged directly into my mac is that monitor power draw thing yeah yeah well and and and data flow too like you you know if you're you don't you don't want to slow down write speeds to your super fast thunderbolt drive just because it's sharing a bus with something that's got full-time data flow going to it at 4k or whatever so yeah we have more questions adam i want to take a
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In addition, all of your questions because you are premium listeners can go to premium at macgeekup.com. And that is the queue that we answer first. Although the secret is we really try to answer everything every week and often succeed. We didn't last week, but we caught up before this episode. So we succeeded. I call that success. All right. Shall we? To everybody. buddy. Just add. Absolutely. You want to take us to the next one? Yeah. So Joe has a question.
He says, Michael Sy has some commentary and he gives us a link that we'll have in the show notes about Tim Sweeney, the Epic Games poobah and Apple hater who made the bizarre claim that, thieves who steal Apple gear have a right to privacy and that find my is creepy. I'm not interested in him or his nutty views, Joe says. However, in discussing his comments, Michael Tsai says at the bottom of the link that he doesn't recommend enabling Find My Mac.
Because when anyone breaks into your Apple ID account, they can remotely wipe your Mac. Whereas if you use FileVault and neglect not to store the info with your Apple ID, your data is safe, even if the Mac gets stolen. So I think this collection of features is not designed properly. I wish I could find my Mac without putting my data at risk." It seems to me that the risk of having your Mac, this is Joe again, especially MacBook stolen is much greater than the risk of
having your Apple ID broken into. What do you guys think? Huh? Yeah, now I'm wishing I had read this one and given it to you, Adam. But it is. No, it's a good question. No, no, no. You did it right. You did it the way we planned it. I just now I don't I don't think I don't know that I have it.
This is one of those things, right? You've got me thinking. because my gut reaction is i agree with michael sai in that i wish apple would give me more granular options here and not just lump all of these things together right that would be the best of all worlds as if we could choose you know separate those two things and but but that's like Like the ultimate Apple users dilemma is we like using Apple stuff because Apple makes it work fairly reliably.
Obviously not perfectly because that's why we have this show. But, you know, in general, like they work pretty well and they're all synced together and there's all those cool things. And Apple is privacy focused both in practice and in in in preaching. And so like we take the good with the bad and and this is one of those times.
But i wish it were different specifically here for me i guess i reject the premise to a certain degree like i don't see the problem here that this is choices maybe this comes down to like you choosing how you're going to manage your security like i i mean i use find my and i use FileVault and I don't store stuff with Apple so that, you know, like I'm willing to assume the risk for the security that, you know, Apple can't unlock my stuff.
Like I can't, they don't have the keys, right? We have that option to not let Apple have the keys to all this stuff. Am I missing something here? Nope. No, that's how it works. Yeah, you're right. No, you're, you're absolutely right there. This is one of those things where, and I suppose, and this is why I wanted to have this conversation in the show is we all need to make these decisions eyes wide open right and and so you're the decision you're making which is the same exact one i'm making uh.
Is something I'm aware of. Right. And it's not something I'm going to be surprised by when I run into whatever the problem is that I might run into because of the choices I made. And it's that whole security, privacy, and convenience continuum thing where you can't have ultimate convenience without opening up every security hole in the world. And you can't have ultimate privacy and security without making it super inconvenient to yourself.
Well, I mean, and again, like, and I've trained this to my family, I've trained this, like, I make sure the people in my family know all this stuff, and I make sure that they know why they need to be concerned about these things and make these choices. And I do that to people in the community. I mean, we do it here, we talk to each other. So like, this just feels like a him problem.
Not like, you know, like, you're getting hung up on something that just like you want to have your cake and eat it too but I mean that's not I miss yeah maybe Tim Sweeney's not he's not a security guy I guess he's a CEO of a game company but like yeah I think he'd know better but like yeah you know though the point is like.
This is how security works in this day and age. And, you know, like, make sure your Mac locks when it goes to sleep and that you're using, you know, the encryption that's available to you and that you are setting, like, really good passwords and not doing stupid stuff. And, like, then if your Mac gets stolen, they're not getting in there.
They're not, they're not, they don't have access, you know? And so, like, you could still do the iCloud thing and choose to trust Apple and let them have your thing, you should be fine. Because again, if you're setting a good Apple ID password and you're following the rules that you should be following, a lot of this should be mitigated. I'm not saying it's never going to happen because, again, technology changes all the time.
But if you're doing the best practices for the time, I feel like you're going to be pretty well protected. I agree. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, yes. Yeah. I think the trick is the eyes wide open part. And like you said, that's why we do what we do here. It's exactly. Yep. But as Porthos John in the chat points out, good security on your Apple ID is the answer here. Yeah. Yes. It's that simple. It's that simple. Yep.
Here's, I have something. Sorry. No, go ahead. I was just going to add, the point is, Apple gives you a lot of tools, all of the tools you need to do to facilitate that. I have an asterisk to add to that, which is part of a rant. And it is that the way it works with our Apple ID passwords, we are almost forced to use something that we can memorize for our Apple ID password.
And that's the part where, and I know that they've been working on, like they're aware that this was a much bigger issue years ago. Like now on your Mac, you can log in to your Apple ID using your user account if you have things set up that way. So you can just have to use your user account password, which is also something that you have to memorize, right? So they've shifted it one step away, which is better because at least someone has to have one of your devices.
Is but still your user account password has to be something that you remember and i know that you know touch id is a convenience thing but if you don't have your user account memorized there's no way you could use your mac right and so i you know i use a very insecure user account password on my max and it's the same on all of my max and i probably shouldn't even admit that publicly.
Um but i do right because it's convenient and and i know that that is a but again i'm self-aware that i choose to do this because i yeah but it's if somebody were to watch me log into my mac with my password which is why i like touch id like in that sense touch id on the mac is a security feature because no one can watch you type your password if you're not typing your password right or the watch unlock or any of those things but if somebody were to watch
me type in my password you could get into all my macs and it wouldn't you could watch from probably four feet five feet away and still figure out what i'm doing or something close enough to it and and i'm not proud of that But it is just a fact, right? Yeah. So, but also your Apple ID, like, I'm curious, how many of us, do you use an Apple ID password that is just random gibberish that you've never memorized? Or is yours something you have memorized?
I couldn't tell you what it is right now. Okay. It's in one password, isn't it?
Interesting and how much of a pain in the neck is that for you like what are the do you run into scenarios almost zero huh maybe i need to change my tune on this especially now like yeah i mean i had to deal with it i had to deal with it today but i mean i just i mean i can't pop open the one password app or pop open one password on a device and you know it's occasionally i have to type in a long complex thing but like it's rare when i actually have to do that but that that means you have
to have your one password password memorized yeah i'm just saying mine is of course yeah well but that's the thing if you are not using one password and you're using apple's passwords app right that iCloud passwords iCloud keychain sorry then what like you have to have your apple id ID password memorized, right? Yes, you would. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I presume so, because there's occasionally the time when you need to do that. Unless, well, do you? I guess you could. I mean.
You could log, you'd have to log in on another device and then go into the key chain and then get it from there. I mean, you could do it that way or from the Apple password app, I guess now in the, in the future, right? No, that, that, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. You key chain or the Apple password app. Correct, correct, correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. But you, in that case, you'd have to have another device that you can get into, probably your Mac, which then it goes back to your previous statement that like you have to have a complex password that you remember.
For getting into your into your mac yeah and if you're being really the way you should be you would have a different one for each mac yes oh i i know that i know yeah yeah well i don't do that but i do i mean my login for my mac is very it's a very secure following all the password rules like super long random login that i just have memorized and how often do you change that.
These are the problems right i don't change it but i mean it's a fair point but like, you know at that point like if someone can figure that out i mean i guess, again ai and new technologies and like brute force but like in theory it would take way too long and i'm probably going to be dead by then so i don't know right no i i get it yeah it's just an interesting like we we have to create holes because it's like it's either that
or you write it down somewhere it's like okay well you know there's always got to be there's always got to be that hole yeah yeah i mean again and like it has to be shared with my family right in case something happens to me so that's in but that's in one password so like and they all have access since we use the family account and all that thing. And I also have their security thing, too. They have a thing where you can actually generate a...
Paper copy of a like get out of jail free card and then that is locked away in safe deposit box or whatever yep right um or a safe if you have that in your house or however you want to protect that but again that is still another hole you got to recognize like that's another hole but that's like i guess that's i mean you got to manage that we're never given what we have available to us right now we're and i'll say this but i would like to be proven incorrect so again
feedback at mackeycap.com but given what we have right now we must simply choose at least one you know whole if you will right either a easy to memorize password or you know even a complex password that we've been able to commit to memory, but probably are reluctant to change as often as we would advise others to, right? You know, like, but whatever those things, one of those things is almost certainly true, or I would say one of those things is certainly true for all of us.
We're just each choosing the one that we're most comfortable with. But if it's not true for you, if you have figured out the path around this, feedback at mackeycub.com. Yeah. All right. Well, I mean, that that puts us at the end of the show. We've we've we've exhausted all of our we've exhausted our time. Yes, we certainly have. But I would say we've exhausted it in a valuable way. I hope you all feel the same way. I feel like I got a bunch out of this.
So I do you feel like you got a bunch out of this one, Adam? I for sure did, always. Great, yeah. Well, then that's the goal. When we say at the beginning that we each get to learn five new things, that starts with us. It hopefully then sort of by proxy goes to all of you, but it absolutely is meant. When I came up with that years ago, it was for us, the hosts, to remember that this is to, we are here to learn together.
You know because we can't possibly none of us can be the experts on all of the things we certainly have our areas of expertise and even there there are always new things to learn however there's always new things to learn so thank you for learning together with us and having some fun for the ride folks yep thanks to cashfly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you. And make sure to go listen to Pete's podcast, So There I Was. He will be back, of course.
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It's great you'll love it new software to play with okay go right all right adam pete's not here with his shirt i'm wearing my cirque de max shirt we're gonna have to do this one from memory maybe this is one of our passwords what might you have to say to folks i would say don't have this this is your password so you don't get caught and don't get Well said Later everybody.