It's time for Mac Geekab, and listener Andrew brings us our quick tip of the week. Andrew says, I used to take screenshots of my applications folder and keep them in Evernote, so I had a list of all my Mac apps if my machine crashed, and I had to do a clean install. I thought there must be a way to print a list, and there is, and it works. You can make a PDF of your text file if you just go to the applications folder and print that list or screenshot it and put it in notes.
More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekHub 1069 for Monday, December 23rd, National Christmas Movie Marathon Day, Festivus, and happy birthday, Pilot Pete, 2024! Greetings, folks, and indeed, welcome to Mac Geek of the show where you send in tips like that. We bring in tips like that. We share tips like that. We share cool stuff found that we all bring in. We share your questions.
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show notes. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.
And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
And here also in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete, where 1069 means advise your telephone number. You know, what can I say? But you got me, Dave. You talked about Festivus. I have to tell everybody that Festivus is a real holiday. It was actually developed by the father of one of the writers on that episode and celebrated as early as 1966 in protest to the commercialization of Christmas. That's fascinating. There you go.
Yeah. Yeah, and I have one other thing to say about that. I got a lot of problems with you people. Now, you're going to hear about it.
There we go. Look at that. I had no idea. I thought Festivus was made up for that Seinfeld episode, but there you go. Learn something new every day.
Love it. So we got the link in the show notes to the Wikipedia page about it, and much like George Costanza didn't want to talk about his dad creating Festivus, the writer wasn't particularly eager to put that into the show. and the producers talked him into it and it turned out to be one of the cultural icons of our time.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So... Oh, very cool. Yeah. While we're kind of getting into things here, I want to make sure everybody knows about our giveaway for December here, which is at MacGeekup.com slash giveaway. You can enter to win copies of Brett Terpstra's Marked 2, which Adam sings praises about. It's true. At least once a month.
I use it constantly.
Because you use it.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. it is such a great tool if you do anything with markdown uh you definitely it's a tool you definitely want in your toolbox
Awesome awesome.
And everybody should be using markdown i'll just throw that in there too if you're not what are you doing with your life
I i need well you know what i'm doing with my life i'm waiting until we get down on the bug list of our macgab stuff because i can't use markdown right in the macgab wordpress for some reason it like breaks all the text editors so yeah so.
I have a quick question about that i played with markdown a good bit and and obviously guys like brett durfster who invented
It no brett didn't invent it john gruber and aaron schwartz invented it.
Okay yeah my gruber
It was gruber and and aaron schwartz i think i'll i'll um anyway.
It's it's amazing right i mean obviously the things you can do with markdown are eye-watering when it's simply a text file What I would like to do is, hey, Apple, hey, Microsoft, help us all out here. Have a way to create the cool stuff we do. Convert to Markdown. I'm not sure. There may be a way to do that, but because Markdown is going to be timeless, right? It's pure text. It can never be like the old, I don't even remember the name of it now. 20 years ago, there was a, it wasn't Oracle.
It was another one. It was another whole office suite, which is now defunct. And if you've got documents in that format, you're pretty much toast. you're out of luck
So yeah i mean if you i would get uh the max sparky field guide for markdown like uh john in the discord chat is asking about i hate saying i never i never got it the best way i can i mean the best reason or the reason that convinced me to start using markdown was just um and really just doing everything in text is the portability of it like yeah if you're writing stuff and you just write it in text, that's great.
So that's step one is just like, forget about Word and all this other formatting stuff, right? But then people want pretty documents and that's where Markdown comes in, right? So you write in text with Markdown and then you take a tool like Marked and you convert it into a pretty formatted PDF when you need to send it to someone or a Word doc or whatever format you need it in.
Or HTML, it's beautiful.
Or HTML if you need to post it on the web. But your source material then is just a text file, and you can back that up, you can put it anywhere, you can keep it, and guess what? We know that Word's not going to probably die, and it'll always be a supported format, but who knows? I do get emails from people who say, oh, I found this old disk or this old storage thing, and I have AppleWorks files on it.
you know what do I do what do I do with those I have this dissertation I wrote in college and I'd love to see it again
You could play frisbee with that disc that's about it
That'll never happen so even just for future generations text will always be a format that's probably always formatted and readable and usable so I
Have two things to add and I, Before I do, I will say that every time I have this conversation with someone about Markdown and I look at the format, it's like, oh, yeah, this is how I should be writing all of my notes so that they can just go and do these things. I don't yet. Maybe someday. But at least it doesn't scare me like Regex does. So, you know, there's that. Markdown evidently was created by John Gruber alone.
however uh it was built aaron swartz had created atx as structured text and gruber then when he created markdown two years later he swartz was let's say he's he says his sounding board or his first beta tester or whatever so there you go that's the uh that's the story okay and um for those files that you mentioned in your anecdote that people don't have apps to convert anymore one of the very first things that we would have called cool stuff found on this show.
And I, gosh, I think we might've even talked about it in episode one. We didn't call it cool stuff found. We didn't come up with that sort of moniker until years later, but, uh, is a website called Zamzar Z-A-M-Z-A-R. And it is file conversion on the web. You need to be comfortable uploading whatever the document is or might be to. Somewhere else. There's that. Well, I'm just saying that. However, we've found that they have all kinds of, you know, documents.
And it's like, yeah, like we had a word perfect file or something that was converted, you know, to a word file or things like that. You know, those are the ones that are like, oh, crap. Like, yeah, WPS to Doc X. That's one of the popular conversions that they have here. So, yeah. So, Zamzar.com is.
So, Dave, are you sure on the first show you guys didn't call it. Cool stuff found.
No, we weren't even that interesting at that point.
That's fun to go back and listen to. It really is. Yeah. Right? You learn as you go.
Oh, absolutely. Well, and I knew.
And it was a good show then, even, for what you were doing. It was great.
I guess. It was two geeks talking. Yeah, it was two geeks talking. That's correct. Yeah. You know, it got better. And I knew it would.
Now it's three geeks talking. It's 50% better.
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You said from the fire
Hose. Yep. Sift it down into the- Listen, what happens in Vegas stays on the internet forever.
Right on.
Yep. But our job is to sift it down into the things that would be interesting for all of you. The good news is what's interesting to us is interesting to all of you. And that's not an accident. That's because we tend to attract listeners who are interested in the same things we are.
So we you send it to us.
Well, but like going out to Vegas and like looking at it, we've already been doing like a lot of this work. I've already sifted through things I know who I'm going to meet with. So like and one one product category that seems to be gaining steam and some of these are already out.
so i i'm not breaking any embargoes here uh is open earbuds so kind of following in the steps of apple's airpods not pro like the gen 3 or gen 4 uh there's a lot of these open earbuds open air earbuds but instead of the form factor where the airpods do what they do and just kind of hang in your ear these open ones clip around the back of your ear or over the top of your ear and it's really interesting i like i said harder.
To lose one in the toilet that way
Exactly it's not just going to bounce out it's clipped on but it's not see it's not you know whereas airpods pro are using your ear the seal in your ear to hold so anyway that's one product category i'm really eager to see and there's there's lots coming in that category if all the the the we'll call them rumors are are correct not really rumors there's that yeah yeah, So anyway, we'll have more about that.
Okay, well, how was that for a quick tip, everyone?
We had a lot to talk about, Pete.
Yeah, there you go. And we learned about Markdown. You have bonus tips. Yeah. Right?
Yeah, I love it. Yeah.
I still don't understand how Markdown works. It shouldn't work.
It does.
It should.
We'll have a training session. Pete, we'll jump on Zoom and I'll show you.
You know what? Speaking of that.
Hey, yeah, we could do it then.
We could, yeah. We did schedule our next Mac Geek Hub hangout, our Zoom hangout. I know.
I know. uh it's been too long and that's why we scheduled one this this year's been kind of nuts um it is on the calendar i believe it's in about a month it's january 19th yep at 4 p.m the link will be provided the link to the zoom will be provided in the calendar invite so if you go to macgeek up.com slash calendar you can subscribe to our calendar that tells you when the live shows happen as well as those we will put the link in the discord on the day
of so that's at macgeekup.com slash discord and it will also be sent out via our mailing list so you can go to macgeekup.com and sign up for the mailing list very specifically it will not be posted on any social media other than our discord because we don't want to attract the randos that come in so you know Too late.
Dave.
I already know where the link is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Sorry to tell you, dude. It's a good time. So it's a nice little thing on a Sunday afternoon.
We just want the randos we know.
Yes!
There you go.
Yeah.
The randos we know. Well, there's a show title.
The randos we know. Yeah.
So, hey, and a quick correction. At the very beginning of the show, I had the banner up for MGG 1068 in the correct date. I corrected that. So if you read that, I caught it, and it is 1069 for December 23rd. Great. Sorry about that, folks.
Most people don't look at the video for that anyway, so it's all good.
There's that.
Do you want to take us back to Quick Tips, Pete, and bring us to Tony?
If I don't, nobody else will. So, yeah. So Tony writes in, and like me, hey, Tony loves holiday music, and I do too. I just don't want to hear rocking around the Christmas tree in July, unless I gain suicidal ideations. So he says, look, the season is when lots of folks queue up holiday music for listening on Apple's music. But remember, Apple uses your listening history to feed its algorithms to generate music suggestions for you, your listening station, for example.
So unless you want to be listening to Rudolph until spring, Go to Music, Settings, Use Listening History, and turn that off until after Christmas. And it's also possible to create a focus that toggles Use Listening History on and off. Happy Holidays. And here's Pete's addendum because I'm a Spotify user. When you open Spotify, tap on your profile icon. It's either on the Mac or in iOS. Once you tap on your profile icon, select a private session.
A padlock icon will appear indicating your session is private. And remember, private sessions end automatically after a period of inactivity, so ensure it's active each time you listen to holiday music, unless you want to hear about Rudolph in August. Just saying.
Rudolph in August sounds like a new Christmas song that could be written.
There you go.
Or Olive, the other reindeer.
So i have questions i
Have answers they're not correct
Because i'm gonna practice what we preach and try not to get caught so toggling so toggling that setting will not expunge previous history it just pauses my
Understanding is that it pauses it until such time as you turn it back on
We have confirmation of that good
Thing you didn't back it up before you started well
And then assuming it does i guess the the follow-up maybe stump the geek question that i would throw out is if i did want to expunge my history how would i do it if that doesn't do it
Oh that's a great question.
We don't have to answer that today but maybe someone could look it up and tell us or we can follow up with that but yeah
I'm sorry i was deleting some uh comments speaking of randos uh what'd you ask i missed no
No it says.
Um that's like beetlejuice if you say rando three times they just show up yeah right um
Now there's there's some discussions about this on on apple's discussions forum and Somebody says you can clear the queue, which will clear your playing history, but that's not going to clear.
No, that's just the play history.
That's just the play history. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great question, Adam. I don't know the answer to that.
Maybe you can't. Yeah. Maybe Apple just knows forever the music that you like. Part of the reason this comes up is I will give you another tip. So if you and your wife share a iTunes account, because you had to do that back in the day.
Yeah.
Listening history becomes problematic. Let's just say that. Because my wife and I don't share the same music interests.
Long car rides must be hell.
Well, what ends up happening is I do a lot of S-lady don't like this. S-lady don't like this. S-lady don't like this.
Nice.
To kind of reset the balance of the force.
So there is... There are some interesting things about this. We'll have to look at it, look a little deeper. But it seems like your recommendations are going based on the most recent four weeks in a rolling period. And and there is some anecdotal reports. There are some anecdotal reports that clearing your recent listening history will help to expedite help to shorten that period. Yeah.
Yeah. Again, all quite nothing from Apple, all very anecdotal, but, but enough of these reports that again, the plural of anecdote is not data. Hat tip to Kelly Dumont for reminding us of that regularly. But, uh, yeah. So maybe, maybe there is at least something to that. So, yeah.
Well, cool. Well, I will transition us back with a tip from Andrew, who says, quick tip on enabling column view in the iPad Files app. He says, lads, well, society made me. I am not sure if this is new, but I just found it.
Column view on iPad OS. So there's a little icon in the Files app up in the upper, looks like right hand corner looks like three little well it'd be depending upon what mode you're in either three squares if you're an icon view the dot with a line the dots with the line if you're in list view and if you click that icon there is a column option which looks like three columns in the little icon so you can toggle your views between that and bonus andrew says you could also
drag and drop in that view in iPadOS.
I don't think I'd ever seen this before. Yeah. Love it.
Neither had I.
Love it. Love it. It's good stuff. Yeah. Uh, Andy has our next tip and says, I want to remind us all of the power of safe mode last week. He says I upgraded from my 2017 iMac 27 inch to a Mac mini M4. Uh, yes, I paid the Apple tax. Oh yeah. With two terabytes of, of storage and 64 gigs of Ram. He says he paid the Apple tax. Uh, but he says this will last me eight years. So I'm good with it about a month ago. Yeah, I get it. Well, I have done the same thing.
About a month ago, on my old iMac, I started having issues with network connectivity. I determined the issue was on my iMac alone, as I could access the internet, but could not accept my routers either. I have two routers. One's a Synology, one's an RG. Couldn't access either one. When doing the migration to the Mac Mini, I transferred everything except network settings, hoping that would fix the issue on the new machine.
It did not. Finally, I called Apple, and after running through the basics, Apple support suggested restarting in safe mode to see if the problem continued there. In safe mode, I was able to access my RG router, and when I restarted the Mac Mini normally, not in safe mode, the problem had been resolved. I then did this on my 2017 iMac with the same results. I wish I knew exactly what got resolved, but at least it was good to see that
safe mode was the right fix. Yeah, safe mode's an interesting thing. Its primary sort of stated reason for existence, I think, is it doesn't load... It loads only the basics is probably the right way to say it. So it's not loading any extra drivers or third-party apps or any of that. But in addition to that, it also does a house cleaning of the system on the way up into safe mode to really kind of get everything back to square one.
It cleans a bunch of caches and does a lot of the sort of maintenance that might get overlooked, especially if your machine's off or whatever. So, yeah, it doesn't surprise me, but it's nice to know that whatever that cache was or whatever got wiped out and rebuilt, and there you go. So, yeah, love it. Safe mode.
That's awesome. Yeah.
Yeah. I forget about safe mode. I don't know when the last time was we recommended safe mode to potentially resolve a problem, but it doesn't hurt.
So does, I'm going to stump the geek question here. Does Apple still have on their, they must on their support site, how to, you know, how to go into safe mode, how to go into restore mode, how to clear, now I don't even remember what it's called, but basically resetting your SMC, which I don't think you need to do anymore with Apple Silicon.
Yes, there is an article about starting up your Mac in safe mode, and if it's an Apple Silicon Mac, you press and hold the power button until loading startup options appears, and then you select a volume, and you press and hold the shift key, and then click continue in safe mode, which will be one of the options that comes up.
on an intel mac you restart your mac and as soon as it starts immediately press and hold the shift key until you see the login window and it should see safe mode in the menu bar should say safe mode in the menu bar so it's it's a little different on the silicon mac you got to get to the startup options with the, with the power button held down and then hold the shift key after you select a volume so it's a it's one extra step but it's all about the shift key that's
yeah that's a way to say okay i.
Think the difference is it's at
Support.apple.com yeah yeah.
I think the main difference right is just how the security works and i think there's some pre-stuff that happens with the intel max like it's there's kind of like a pre-volume or something like that that you boot into
Yep that's right yep.
You have to get past first some security checks and then
That's right yeah makes.
That's why it's different
Yep so thank you for that andy good stuff anything else on that adam nope okay uh in our quick tips slash don't get caught section got a note from a listener the other night who says uh, i'm about to have a heart attack i just did something that i don't do but i did uh, This listener, Dave, has a recording studio. He says, I was in a session today, and I needed to make some room on my work drive and was quickly deleting some stuff.
I just finished the session, and then I went to go open up another project that I've been paid a bunch of money for and that I'm working on in the mornings and evenings. I am in the final phases of, and I realized I just deleted the entire project. I have backups, but I didn't do backups in the last couple of days, which is just incredibly stupid, he says, because I am normally religious about that. And he says, I ended up downloading disk drill and running that.
He says, I can't believe how many deleted files it found and said that they had a high probability of being able to be restored. However, the most important ones weren't there. I had a backup of the whole project from about three days prior it would have cost me a fortune if I didn't have at least that and I will go and reconstruct the rest. But remember, your backups are only good if you keep doing them. Thank you for sharing your story with us, Dave. Yeah, I know. There's that.
So I don't know if we've ever mentioned this before, Dave. There's this one called Setapp.
Oh, yeah.
There you go. And it's available on Setapp.
Oh, Distro. Oh, it is.
Yeah. In case we hadn't mentioned it.
I like it. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, no, that's good. That's good.
So yeah, this, this exact case was why I, um, one of the reasons that I used chronosync on very specific folders for like, in my case, it was my podcasting folder where I would do garage band and stuff too, and just had it auto watch and auto sync that folder all the time.
So it's not, it was a backup to an external volume, but not technically like a true, like what most people think of as backup it was very selective yeah um and it was that was for this exact reason because i had been burned by that one time where you know something and if time machine hasn't picked it up yet or your other backup hasn't picked it up yet this was more immediate like hey anything that goes in here back it up you know like copy it over yep yep so
Yep and i've actually got something along speaking of backups that uh i'll do some more research on and i may need your help dave i remember uh you may remember some months maybe over a year well over a year ago now you helped me create a backup volume on the disk station for time machine to use yeah time machine saying that's full and can't pack up to it anymore and i'm like what that should never happen it should just start writing over it
But yeah time machine i so while we're going through this it doesn't it's a fine time to go through backing up in general i uh i use time machine, i use carbon copy cloner ccc backup i think it's what we're supposed to call it now, and then i also use a piece of software called arq uh arc as it is arc is um it it's a very uh, Sorry to say this. It's backup software where you can just kind of set the destination to be anywhere you want. It could be another folder on an attached drive.
It could be an FTP server. It could be a WebDAV server. It could be Amazon S3 server, right, which opens up a whole lot of options because S3 has basically become a standard that other people have cloned. and i use um i use a uh a piece of software called minio running on my sonology and that.
Acts as a s3 destination and so i back up i have arc back up there and i realize this is very belt and suspenders where i have like you know six different backups of the same thing but if one of them fails i have others and i can i can trust but verify but i only have to verify like once a month or once every two months i go in and make sure that all three of my backups are working but um you know that one of them hasn't died for some reason but uh but the backing up
to with arc to minio is it's just one of those interesting things and because i now have a minio server m-i-n-i-o is is what it is you can set it up for free on your uh as a docker container on your Synology. And what's cool about it is I also have our WordPress sites backing up to my disk station to the Minio destination because there's plenty of plugins for WordPress to back up to S3.
And instead of giving it an Amazon endpoint, I give it the endpoint of my dynamic DNS address here at my house. Then I point a port at my Minio server and it's just like, yeah, I see it. I mean, I have to log in. And there's like credentials, things like that. it works and it's it's great so very cool yeah yeah so like all three of those time machine ccc backup um and then arc to minio and then.
Does arc run continuously or on a schedule or can you set it up how can you set
It up i have arc running on a schedule um yeah and it it runs once a day you know and i just tell it to back up whatever i want it to back up you know so, yep uh i'm extremely nervous at the moment because i see that in the agenda someone perhaps one of us or perhaps one of our listeners has selected everything i.
Was just copying i wasn't going to delete much yeah i was going to see if you had
Your backups in place yeah exactly yeah we do so if you're listening to the show live uh or if you care to or even if you don't we do have a link where when you're listening live you can see the agenda that we have for that we are using for that episode it is literally the same document and we edit it as we're doing it adding links in it is world editable i know it sounds crazy but i also talk all the time about how great our community is and this is an example of it yeah no one's
ever come in and like ruined the agenda intentionally here.
He comes he's gonna
Say it no i don't think it was you once but we had somebody you know like put something in or delete the whole thing and of course it's a google doc so there's there's you know a revision history it's fine versions of it yeah it's all good i.
Was i was gonna say you had what i wasn't saying i did it saying don't don't give anyone any
Ideas oh it's fine i can give people ideas we just trust them not i just.
Had to delete comments you know
I know, but that's the YouTube comments, Pete. Those don't really count. That's why we use Discord for our community.
That's where the randos are.
Yeah, it keeps the drive-bys out.
Only the randos we know.
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All right.
Cool.
Not louder, Adam.
Yes, sir. What?
Are you starting us with cool stuff found?
Am I? Am I off?
Yeah. I think you are. Oh, yeah.
I got Sharon. Yeah. A little follow-up. Sorry.
That's okay. Because we'd have been having a conversation about the iPhone action button and my not using it because i haven't bothered to like hook it up to actually something useful beyond mute and unmute and uh she says hello gentlemen with an asterisk uh read that as you wish oh boy i'll use gentlemen that's funny i didn't notice that before i keep hearing you especially adam that you have not embraced the action button and i still haven't she says i got a shortcut from Halide,
which makes, which allows me to choose six different options. So I guess with hitting that button and we'll have a link to the Halide, uh, little, I think it's probably a shortcut, um, thing. So the six different options are mute toggle. So toggle the mute flashlight, rotation lock, camera, Halide and settings.
I mostly use it for camera, but there's those times that I need to mute as well and I can choose that option so there's a link to an article over at Mac Rumors that tells you how to set it all up and um This is great. I need to actually give this a shot. I just need to get off my lazy butt and do it. And I just haven't.
I, yeah, I need to do more with that too. I need to set up one that like intelligently does one thing when I'm on car play and another thing when I'm not like that, that would be, that's kind of where I'm, I'm going with my, my action button these days. Yeah. I, Because when I'm on CarPlay, when I hit the action button, I want it to launch into ChatGPT's voice conversation mode because I use it in my car all the time when I'm driving, especially late home from gigs.
It's really nice to have a conversation if I'm alone in the car. Right. You're all asleep, so I can't call you.
Probably not, actually.
Yeah, that's fair.
So there's times you've texted me at that time in the morning, and I'm answering right back.
Right back. Yeah, I see. Oh, it went red. Oh, okay.
That's what do not disturb is for.
Exactly. Right? Yeah, exactly.
Which, actually, while we were in the ads, I hit myself a little reminder to turn off my focus at the end of the day. Because otherwise, I'll go all day and not get a single call. I'd be so happy about it until close of business. I'd go, oh, I missed it. Oh, no. Damn.
Well, so for that, I have a focus mode called podcasting focus mode. and it changes my lock screen on my iphone to something.
Yeah see i didn't change my i need to do that and
That that visual indicator of the lock screen change is.
I used to on my old phone yeah on my old phone i had like a microphone for podcasting and like oh okay that's that's the mode it's in yeah um but yeah yeah um Dave, I don't know about you. I started, you're talking about action button for CarPlay and stuff. I just started putting mine in the center console. So I use strictly CarPlay, and if I can't use CarPlay, then I need to just not touch my phone.
Oh, yeah. I mean, I basically do the same thing.
Even though it's mounted up there and it's kind of the same as your screen, it's, you know, I just don't want the hassles. It's a $500 fine in New Hampshire to be caught touching that thing. Correct.
I just reach down and hold the action button until it launches into ChatGPT voice mode, and then that's it.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would love if ChatGPT had a CarPlay app. I'm guessing the only reason they don't is that Apple has asked them not to so that people would use the Siri to ChatGPT integration. And I will tell you, I would love to use that. I'm on all the latest developer betas because of that. It sucks. I can't have an interactive conversation with it. At best, and this is at best, I get one answer out of it, and then...
And then it goes away again.
Yeah, it's like, no, let's keep talking here. Let's go, lady. Yeah, it's...
I get S-lady, you'll ask me, hey, can I send this to chat GPT? Absolutely. Yeah, I want the answer. And it comes back, and then it goes back into, I'm not talking to you until you launch it all over again.
What i wonder whatever whatever about that is like we are still waiting on all the s lady updates those aren't coming till next year right some
Of them are here now i mean the the.
But like the big one the the like more interactive series like it's my understanding like the real series stuff and i don't know why it's taking them so dang long but i i would hold out hope that maybe that's when And that changes. I hope so. That's not going to be until spring, I think, sometime in the spring, right?
I think you're right. But progress has been... It's painstakingly slow compared to where the rest of the industry is. But Pete, the rest of the industry is already doing it.
Fair enough. But, you know, Apple may not have the money to put into this research and development. I'm just saying.
No. Yeah.
All those AI experts they hired are just probably sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
I'm sure. Yeah, I don't, I mean, I get that Apple is, whatever they're doing, I'm sure is worth the time from some perspective. However, I can already do this on my iPhone with a free app from ChatGPT.
Right.
And I can also do it on an Android phone with the built-in stuff. And that's getting, like, they are leapfrogging Apple on this. if apple doesn't come out with something very compelling in the spring i think they've already lost people they need to do something to get people back on this.
Yeah there's no doubt and you know john's mentioning in the discord chat privacy makes it harder i mean in this case though like you've already said if you've opted into the chat gpt thing that's already out the window like you've already said like go ahead you know and all we're talking about is something that's been missing for a long time where Siri needs to be fully interactive.
Sorry for everybody, I just set my thing off so I'm sure I forgot S-Lady, but the S-Lady needs to be fully interactive at this point. You should be able to have a continuous conversation with it and have it react.
But I will give this to Apple, right? I mean, if they did launch it and it didn't work, we'd be bat guano crazy with them. They aren't going to do it until they're sure it works 100%.
That's fair.
So that's what they're waiting on.
Yeah, you're right. I think. It's not just privacy that is Apple's sort of, I mean, Achilles heel in a sense. Because, I mean, they talk the talk, they walk the walk, but it does require them to do more than every other company out there because they've said they're going to do more and they've always done more. But it's not just privacy. It's also their customer satisfaction, right? They, to your exact point, they want to roll this out and have it be easy to use.
But the problem is often with Apple, we see what we're seeing where the features that come out are rolled out very slowly so that support is kept. Support requests is kept to a minimum. Support requests are kept to a minimum. Customer satisfaction is kept to a maximum. The problem with this particular thing is exactly what we said. it's already out there for free and.
They've advertised it that it's coming that's
The yeah i know they've wet our whistle too much nothing.
Until it's the optics it's just the optics
It's the optics yeah it's tough yeah, Speaking of shortcuts, well, one thing I want to share is that with the phones, iPhone 16 that have the camera buttons, the Halide app also integrates with that. So, yeah, so they, you know, they're doing all kinds of things over there. So you don't have to have the phone app be your camera button. Like you can do all kinds of things.
So with my case, that camera button is hard to hit. Just saying.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's almost anything. It's just harder.
Well, I think the Apple case is where they put, like, the little camera button extender in there that costs a fortune. I think that's fine. But, yeah, otherwise you've got, like, a big sort of dip in the case that you've got to get your finger to.
I don't know of these problems that you guys speak of.
I know, Adam.
I'm jealous of you, Adam.
The Spec Presidio case works really well with the camera button.
the it's not it it's the cutout is wide enough that okay it my finger kind of naturally goes there but never hits it by accident so i'll put a link to that in the show notes too uh and with that i will um and mine is actually the presidio grip case because i like the little grippies but with that i will go to jeff's cool stuff found which is uh an app on the mac app store available on the Mac App Store called Shortery, and it allows you to run a shortcut every minute of the workday.
And the reason for its existence is unlike on iPhone, you cannot set a time-based trigger on your Mac for shortcuts. So he says, I have one using Shortery that checks my work calendar and responds accordingly. If a meeting just started, it'll set a focus mode to meeting and then turn my lights red for me to know that the meeting just started.
If I've missed it and for my family to know not to disturb me, if it sees a meeting in the next five minutes, it'll set those lights to yellow so that I know I have a meeting coming up. And if it sees the meeting ends in a minute, it will wait 55 seconds and then set the focus mode back to work, turning off all of my status lights. Ah, I like this. That's pretty good.
Yeah. So shortery is sort of the key to that. And I love the example, Jeff, that even if we're not going to, I like the, I mean, I might actually use that example, especially for podcasting. I might put a light, I should put a smart light in the hallway outside my studio that turns red when I'm podcasting in here.
Dave, it seems like that'd be a great use for those cubes behind you.
It would be a great use for those cubes behind me. I actually have those cubes turn on as part of my podcasting workflow. I talked about those in the last episode, right? The ye light cubes.
You should actually put it outside the door to the outside door.
Well, that's what I was saying.
So it wouldn't tromp up the steps. The light in the hallway. I thought you were talking about the light at the top of the...
Yeah, the light at the top of the steps.
No, I'm saying outside the door downstairs. So no one even enters the garage.
Oh, yeah. Oh, that's true. Yeah, that's true. I don't know if people would...
Closed set. Do not enter.
Do not enter. Yeah. Or I could just put that note on the door permanently. And then it would be fine. nobody will bother me.
Keep out this means you this means you I'd turn back if I were you all right
Next one that we thought we'd mentioned, but I don't think we ever had.
So if we mentioned this before, sorry, folks, it's a repeat from repeat. Actually, this one's from Andrew, who writes in, This is the app I have been waiting for, a way to see stored text, a.k.a. notes, on my watch. For whatever reason, Apple Notes, Evernote, and Simple Notes aren't on watch. I often go without my phone, and sometimes I have a need to respond to inquiries from my Airbnb slash Booking DC. guests with door and Wi-Fi codes and links to maps.
With a cheat sheet, I can store lots of text and it's just there on the watch and iPhone. It also has a great widget for iOS. It's free, but the premium is a one-off $5 for iCloud syncing with the watch. It's a no-brainer. There's also a Mac version, which I'm yet to get, but will.
It's just great. It's clever, well made and a good value so and then we'll put the link there uh into the show notes um and then but uh i'll tell you what i've got a another quick tip for you in there andrew uh for our place in florida i have a little qr code that logs you into our wi-fi password
So when.
Someone comes in just just scan that code and you'll get it
Yeah cheat sheet uh this is fascinating uh it's like it's i think of this app i'm not using it but as we're as i'm kind of processing it here i think of this as something that might get some of those pinned notes out of my note right out of my note like you could certainly do this in notes but like he said you're not going to get it on your watch so you get those pin notes and and now you You can kind of see them everywhere for those things that you need.
And like you, Pete, I, here in the studio, I have a QR code, uh, on the, uh, I put it on the beer fridge because I figure everybody's going to figure out where that is, uh, real fast. And then, then, then.
No one figure they want wifi.
Nobody ever, people prioritize beer, generally beer over wifi. And so they get a beer first. And by the time they've gotten a beer, they already know where to get the wifi password. And as long as I keep the beer fridge well-stocked, I never have to answer the question, hey, Dave, what's the Wi-Fi password?
Have we ever, Cool Stuff, founded the 10.1 design Wi-Fi porter, the TAP Wi-Fi connect thing?
No. Wait, what? Oh, boy.
Tell us about this.
Adam. I've done the QR code thing, too. I don't know. I've seen this advertised, and it looks really cool. And I've had other 10.1 products, I think, in the past. But yeah, they have a little wood Wi-Fi thing. I think it has a NFC in it that you can set up. And you can just like tap to connect. It's for like hotels. Yeah. I don't think it's, I don't know what the price on it. It's not, oh, it's not too bad.
It's 40 bucks for the standard one, which looks to be some kind of wood or something. Like maple or something like that. Yeah. And then there's a walnut and stainless steel version for 60 bucks. So, huh. Yep.
So, you know, I think we have talked about that, but it was a long time.
Yeah, and then there's QR code on the back, so you can, like, flip it over and QR code it if you don't have a phone that does the NFC thing, I think.
Yeah, interesting.
I wonder, oh.
Huh.
You know. Cool. Love that. You could make your own with some NFC chips.
Yeah. Probably almost anything, too. Wait, though. Does the iPhone join NFC Wi-Fi? I don't think it does. it will read it will read the nfc but i don't think it will join the wi-fi i it used to i remember a mac tech conference where they put uh nfc stickers like outside of every conference room door right and and you could join with your your iphone and it was great and then the next major version of ios took that away from a, uh from for from a security standpoint so i i.
Got a stupid question back
But it certainly went away for a while how.
Could that wi-fi porter possibly work if isn't there an nfc chip in that thing how how else would that
Oh it does that's what i'm saying okay but but there's a little note that that uh right on the website kind of that goes underneath the wi-fi porter and says for android tap the block with your android phone for iphone flip it over and use the qr code so i i think this i think this still is the case.
Shut them down
Yeah i i think it was like i was 10 or i don't know why or maybe it was the iphone x and xr or whatever xs and xr could like whatever operating system was around when the xr was the phone that operating system allowed you to do this and then the very next one it was like no nfc wi-fi for you that's right yeah Yeah.
I mean, to Pete's point, though, you could make one of these and, you know, even like laser engrave the QR code on the front.
Are you hearing that, Robin?
You know, for iPhone people and then have the NFC for Android people.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. My sister, Robin's Bird Brain Designs, she could do it for you.
There you go. That's right. Yeah, three years ago, somebody says that, yeah, Wi-Fi connect with NFC is not compatible with Apple. but but i i haven't tested it i'm sure it was taken away security well because think about it right they could make it so that you have to say yes yes yes or type in your your you know your passcode or something or face face whatever like there's a world where this could be doable in a secure way and apple doesn't let us live in that world so you.
Know the problem is the nefariousness of those putting out these codes right they're going to take you to a place you don't want to.
Well, I mean, you can't, like, NFC tags work with, I trigger shortcuts with them. I'm pretty sure that still works.
Yep, that does.
And, like, loading a web page and things like that certainly works. Anyway.
That seems more dangerous than joining a Wi-Fi. Loading a web page. Right? You could get to a pretty dangerous phishing site.
Yeah, I don't know, but, like, joining Wi-Fi now, all of your network traffic could be sniffed i mean i know that's true anytime we join a network but at least we're doing so with intention as opposed to right yeah exactly uh you know that makes me think no i was thinking like how could someone trick your phone into joining wi-fi and it won't happen like if if you've joined whatever whatever you know marriott bonvoy like the generic name of the thing your phone won't spell.
It with one t
Yeah well no no you would spell it exactly the same so that anyone who's ever been to a marriott hotel will automatically join your wi-fi when you're like right somewhere else like you could do that but i think there's like that two week period after which your phone won't automatically join those non-secure networks right it'll it'll you have to go in and tap it and tell it to join that network, but the Xfinity network now that still won't work because they,
it comes with a profile and that profile is unique to you. I'm trying to think. Yeah. Cause that like you, you, when you download the Xfinity thing, if you're an Xfinity customer and you, you, you download their profile really all it has.
Off other people's,
But what it has in there is your, your, your, your, email and password for your xfinity account it just sort.
Of auto you can get in there so to speak yeah
Well yeah but it's if it were a generic one you could then look at the profile pull that data out and then set your network to be the secure xfinity one using that those same credentials and people could get in but that that won't happen so yeah i don't know the magic answer maybe it's good that i i can't think of one like i'm not i'm not i don't.
Know again giving them ideas, Steve.
Yeah, that's what I do. I don't know. It's like, I like to be thinking like this, though. Like, it's always good.
Come delete all our stuff. Come hack our Wi-Fi. It's good to think like this.
Right?
Well, that's part of the whole don't get caught thing.
Exactly. Think about how you might. Yes. Right. Yeah.
And Dave, John pointed out the Wi-Fi Porter tap thing does work on newer iPhones, iPhones 2018 and after.
Oh, okay. All right. Oh, so I'm going to program an NFC tag and put that on the beer fridge for people to join.
All right.
That's good. Okay. All right.
I still have never played with NFC tags. I've got to do it. Got to do it. Got to do it. Oh, yeah.
They're great stocking stuffers for yourself. I always put a gift under the tree from Dave to Dave because it's what I do. There you go. Yeah. Yep.
My favorite gift.
Right. How did you know?
Mine's coming today. I ordered it over a year ago.
There you go. Right. So, a bag of NFC tags, especially sticky ones, is a fun little stocking stuffer. Bag of tags. Bag it and tag it. There you go. All right.
One more quick cool stuff found. Sorry. Ad-libbing or ad-hoc-ing or however to do it is, and I know I've talked about this before, but how I do my QR codes is the IQR app. And you can do all kinds of fun stuff with that. You can embed photos in the middle of the QR code, and it's going to tell you whether it's readable or not. You can change colors and have all kinds of fun with it.
Yeah, there you go. I will put that.
I can put the link to it. Oh, never mind. You're too fast.
Well, if you're talking, I'm doing links.
I don't know. So here's the thing, folks, that are listening to this show, and even the ones watching it, it's a fascinating thing to watch the multitask management going on with Dave. he's able to talk type grab links put them in i mean he's been doing it for a couple years now so i get it but it is pretty impressive to watch the multitasking going on
There are times though where it's like oh no i've been saying yes and i have no idea what we're talking about on the show right now so i do get myself i do get caught sometimes i'll.
Expect that check next week thanks yeah
Exactly yeah that's right yeah so uh let's see well we're in cool stuff found land so we'll just stay here i i get asked questions about sound a lot uh in general and often the questions are about you know what kind of speakers or headphones or this that and the other thing and it it's a very personal headphones especially a super personal choice but even speakers it's it's I mean, I have some sort of default, de facto recommendations, but it's all sort of, well, what do you want to do?
And I'm always happy to answer those questions. Feedback at MacGeekUp.com.
Whoa, wait, wait. Where? Feedback at MacGeekGab.com?
Pete, you heard him. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com.
Gotcha.
Yeah. But one thing that I have found to make a huge, noticeable, immediate difference in how things sound on my Mac at my desk is using an external DAC, digital to analog converter. So your Mac has a DAC, I know, inside it because it's got a headphone jack, right? It's also got a speaker. So it has to somehow take the digital signals and convert them to analog because our ears remain analog devices, right? So the DAC in your Mac is fine, but it doesn't have discrete power.
So it's noisy because of all the other things that are happening inside your Mac. and it's also made to be affordable because people aren't buying a Mac because, oh my gosh, this Mac has amazing sound. It's got fine sound. You can plug headphones in or you can plug speakers into the headphone jack and they sound good. I had a pair of audio, I still have a pair of Audio Engine A2s on my desk downstairs in the office and I had them plugged into my Mac and used them that way for years.
And then i got what the cool stuff found here is i'm burying the lead i got the audio engine d1 which is their hundred and well it's right now it's 125 dollar dak uh and this thing. It it plugs in usb to your mac and. Then you plug your audio, you know, your headphones or your speakers into it without. I didn't move my speakers. They stayed in exactly the same spot. All I did was plug the cord, move the cord from the back of my Mac to the back of the deck.
And it felt like my sound field got 50 feet wider in a great way and deeper. it was amazing the difference in sound that i heard and and and just perceived it wasn't just.
And it certainly wasn't i mean i i actually used a db meter to make sure that the sound levels were the same while i was a beings because we humans perceive louder as better within reason but you know you add 3db to something and it suddenly sounds better it's like well you're getting more information like of course it does unless it hurts you and then then it's worse but but there's a curve to it i made sure the db levels were the same it it was just a wider deeper richer sound
field and so if you are looking for something for yourself or or that special someone i know there's a couple days left and at least the christmas gift giving and i think hanukkah also starts on the 25th this year if memory serves uh but yeah this is uh you know getting an external deck i have and like the audio engine d1 there are many others but it it makes a huge difference that's really the point i wanted to make so so i've made it cool cool cool.
All right should i take us to the last one i threw in an audible great not that i haven't thrown other audibles into this cool stuff found but uh we were talking earlier about weather and i think some temperatures came up and you know i'm in south dakota now and so it's a very very cold cold climate and what i learned my first winter here was key to survival having a really good base layer so i found smart wool which is uh they have all kinds of products but it's merino wool
products and they make base layers which is the under layer back in the day we used to call them excuse me long johns long underwear yeah long underwear yeah yeah but the key is being 100% wool it's super comfortable super breathable wears really really well it's a little pricier but like all things in life you know you get what you pay for and so paying a little bit more up front for good quality warm undergarments but what i like about it best is it's also very breathable so
you don't get over hot too when you're going in and out right so i wear them all day long and super comfortable breathable so i don't get hot when i'm in inside and i stay warm when i'm outside nice huh and i love this stuff this is really good stuff huh
Smart wool all right yeah.
Nice yeah yeah well the beauty of wool is it takes the perspiration away from your body
Exactly it's moisture wicking it's natural you know yeah it's good stuff yeah
Yeah i like it i like it cool thanks yeah yeah uh where are we here time wise what.
Are we time for a couple questions yeah
I think so let's go ahead and uh let's go to alistair start there why not.
All right alistair has a question he says i've been using an iphone 16 pro for the last couple months recently noticed that when i have a photo as my wallpaper and i changed the style to seamless background mono or seamless background, color backdrops, or studio, my photo disappears when the phone goes to sleep. I have the always on display option turned on in settings for show wallpaper and show notifications.
This happens on different photos and only happens if I change the style to one of these styles mentioned above. Any ideas on how I can resolve this without doing a full reinstall, or is this normal behavior that I just haven't noticed before?
Yeah, I don't think it's normal behavior personally. Just me. And of course, now notes won't come up. I have written down notes on exactly how to answer. There it goes. It took its time, but it finally came up. I told him, I said, I don't think it's normal behavior, but something similar happened to me when I had seamless background mono on. And I just turned off the stylized effect and gave up. And when I turned it back on to play with it, it was working fine.
So that may fix it, turning it off and turning it back on. If not, I'd push a little harder. Some ideas that I have are go to settings, display and brightness, always on display, temporarily turn off show wallpaper, and then turn it back on to force a reload of those settings. And then go to settings, wallpaper, remove and re-add the wallpaper, and then reapply the stylized effect and see if that works.
The other one, and I'm not saying this to insult your intelligence, but it may be, or, you know, I have low power mode set to come on at 85%. I'm wondering if you're in low power mode, if that may be. Now, he said it only happens in a few of the stylized effects, not all of them. So that tells me that he probably isn't. But I think low power mode will affect that. So make sure you're not there if you are.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Low power mode. It's the only thing I've seen do it. Um, yeah, it's interesting. I mean, yeah.
But mine would just, just hung. Apparently the one time it happened to me, I was like, Oh, that's, that's weird. And I went out of it and came back and it was working fine. So kind of forcing a reload of it seemed to work.
Yeah. It could just be, it could just be buggy and Apple has it on a list somewhere and what yep it's low priority because it's probably not it's annoying but it's not you know affecting any critical functionality yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't have any i don't have any other thoughts about this.
I don't have anything to add yeah yeah those good advice pete yep
Should we do Mike here? I think we've got time for at least one more.
Mike says, Hi, guys. I just got a new M4 Mac Mini, and I want to move all my settings and some of my apps from my old Intel Mac Mini to my new one. Is there a way to selectively choose what I transfer to the new Mac other than an all-or-nothing backup, restore, or migration assistant? Also, is there a way to save a bare-bones configuration for mac os ios for future installs or duplication thanks for all the fish mike
I'm guessing based on mike's thanks for all the fish comment that he might be someone who followed you over from mac cast oh.
Or or just you know just a douglas adams fan
Well that that too i i mean obviously yes a douglas adams fan for sure but uh i know that that was that was in the title of your last episode that.
Was my last episode yeah
Yeah yeah so yeah very cool do you ever get to meet douglas adams i.
Never did i know he was a huge mac
Guy he was yeah yeah he he showed up at like a comp usa in austin while i was living there i think to god what was i want to say that the game was spaceship earth but it wasn't that's the epcot uh attraction uh but whatever that that game was that he came out with uh that he was pushing and that we sat and had a long conversation he also came to a couple macworld expos too yeah yeah.
Sure yeah yeah
Um i i think yes we and it's interesting we kind of talked about this earlier in the episode when sharing some tips that migration assistant does offer some level of granularity we had that listener that chose not to migrate their their network settings to no avail for their problem but still they were able to make that choice and i think it's worth looking at those options i my guess is the way mike kind of, what he's looking for i don't think you're going to find the exact level of
granularity that you want but you might get something close so take a look it's not going to hurt to kind of dig through those options and don't just accept the defaults of Migration Assistant. Another fun little app that I've heard of lots and have never used, and I think we've even talked about it here on the show, is a free app, open source app called Macup, M-A-C-K-U-P.
And this is really built for backing up and syncing your settings of apps between different Macs, but might be the kind of thing that could at least keep a backup for you of some of these settings. So that would be another thing to look at potentially. Yeah. I don't know. It's a command line thing. But other than that, I don't have any ideas. Do you?
No, just so people don't know. When you're using Migration Assistant, you'll get to a screen that says select information to transfer, and then it'll show things like applications, and then I think the user accounts, and then there's one called other files and folders, and then there's your system and network. A couple of those have little disclosure triangles where you can rotate those down.
and then get additional options. Unfortunately, applications and other files and folders don't have those. So you're not going to be able to get any additional options there, but you will for your user folders and your system and network files and stuff like that. Yep.
Yep. Yeah. I think it's time. I think we got to call this one. Maybe we need to air some grievances.
Oh, there it is.
I got a lot of problems with you people.
There it is.
Now you're going to hear about it.
Now you're going to hear about it.
You know, we do like airing of the grievances here at MacGeekUp. We've fondly called them fist shakes over the years. But, you know, it's potato, potato. And we even have a fist shakes channel in our Discord. I will share, though, that while the stated purpose of the FistShakes channel is to simply air the grievance and get moral support, We are a community of troubleshooters. And so often when a grievance is not makers, shooters, yes, troubleshooters, not makers. That's right.
But we sometimes make trouble by troubleshooting because sometimes people just want to be heard and supported. And yes, I'm with you as opposed to, you know, that problem is actually solvable if you do this, this and this. So we do sometimes spill over into Q&A mode in the Fish Shakes channel. But, you know, but I mean, it seems like it's all well-intentioned.
Yeah.
My daughter.
And then there's the help desk channel in there.
Well, the help desk channel. Which is great. Yeah.
And occasionally we mine that for questions and stuff.
Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. My daughter told me, like, this was, how old is she now? probably 15 years ago, she was telling me about something that was happening and I launched into like normal Dave mode of troubleshooting. And she stopped me and she's like, you know, you don't always have to give me an answer. Sometimes it's good if you just listen. And I was like, oh yeah, that's actually really good advice.
That's a Venus and Mars thing there, Dave. Yes.
No, it's really, it is, but it's also a really good device because dad mode is we're solving problems. That's it. Sometimes that's not what is wanted or warranted.
No.
And we don't see it.
No, I don't see it. So I did. We made a deal. I was like, okay, if you want help, ask me. And if I'm unclear about whether you want an ear or an assistant, I will ask you. And she was like, sounds fair. And it's actually worked out really well. And I've applied this with other people as well. I don't just limit it to her. But anyway, sometimes we fail. asking that question in the help in the fish shake because we all like fish shakes and festivus is a good day for them so all.
Right i gotta get out of the mode of if i can't help don't bother me with it just saying
All right well.
Pete pete pete is pete that's why we
Love him that's right thank you for hanging out with us everybody uh not just today but all year uh have a great holiday week here. We, of course, will be back next week with another episode because it's what we do. Thanks to Brett Terpstra. I hope he's doing well. And the giveaway with Marked2, MacGeekGab.com slash giveaway. And then, of course, our CES sponsors, CCC Backup from Bombick, The Omni Group, Private Internet Access, Roborock, and Eero.
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