It's time for Mac Geek Cab, and listener Val brings us our quick tip of the week, saying, I got caught listening to your discussion about reducing file sizes. And one tip that might be interesting, you can drop a file into ChatGPT, give it a prompt to compress it to a preferred size, and it can handle that quickly. You can do it with images, you can do it with documents, whatever you want to compress, it will figure it out and do it.
Thought that might be a neat addition to your tips. Val, I couldn't agree more. More tips like this. Plus, your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 1081, for Monday, March 17th, Corned Beef and Cabbage Day 2025. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekgab, the show where you send in tips like that and we share them. You send in cool stuff found, we share them. You send in questions. We share those and discuss potential answers, sometimes even the right ones.
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here in sunny Austin, Texas. I'm Dave Hamilton.
And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
And here in New Hampshire, where you'll be soon, Dave. It's a beautiful, almost 60 degrees day. So it's Pilot Pete.
Amazing.
Glad to see you guys, everybody. Code 1081, by the way. Police code 1081 is a call for a portable breathalyzer. Hopefully we won't need that today.
I travel with one of those.
Well, there you go.
I have only because I got it at like a conference or something. It from the backtrack people.
Okay.
And it, it's, it's actually pretty cool. It, it's standalone or it syncs to software on your phone and you can track things over time, but it'll show you your, you know, your blood alcohol content. It is interesting to test that in, you know, after you've had one cocktail, two cocktails, whatever, and learn like.
Oh, okay.
Where you are. That's where, that's where that is yeah yeah yeah it's interesting nice yeah yeah i'll put a link corned.
Beef and cabbage gay also another day i think it's uh saint somebody
I think it's i didn't.
Wear my green i'm in trouble
Oh i did wear green today i got a shirt here yeah i'm in austin for south by southwest as i mentioned um i and i i did see that eddie q and um ben stiller thing they did a I don't know keynote I guess just the two of them a conversation about severance and making great products and all that stuff it was really interesting seeing, Eddie Q talk about. Apple in general, I mean, he was very complimentary and praised Severance a bunch and was proud of Ben and his team.
And Ben said he loved working with Apple because they're not heavy handed about telling him what to do or anything like that. But everything that Eddie said was so steeped in what we heard from Steve Jobs over and over again. Like the Apple culture is just like in his bones or at least in his PR talking points.
But, you know, he says, you know, at Apple, comparing them to Netflix, which Ben sort of brought up and he said, well, you know, here at Apple, we choose to do a few things and do them excellently. So we can't afford to have flops. We don't just throw everything at the wall and wait to see what sticks. we kind of rely on everything to stick on the wall that we release. And, you know, I mean, it's, that's the Apple way, but it was just interesting to hear him talking about that.
Even with selecting like TV shows, it's so.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. They've done a pretty good job of that. I will say there have been a couple, what I would call flops.
Yes. Yes.
They're all creatively interesting at the very least.
That's fair. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, you can see why Apple chose each of the things that they do, even if it's not for me or for the masses either, you know. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah.
The more important question is, how pink was Eddie's shirt?
That's pretty pink. Not Peter Norton pink, but, you know. Does that reference get lost on anybody?
The Peter Norton one?
Yeah.
Or the Eddie Q pink shirt one.
Well, we used to call, it's interesting, like probably the last time I used this phrase that I'm about to say, the pink shirt treatment, was when I was here in Austin. There was a suite of like hard drive repair tools called Norton Utilities.
And peter norton wore a pink shirt on the like the box and and i think it was like even in the app somewhere or whatever and it was like it was magic it would fix things you know it would work on i'm pretty sure there's a mac version too but it was certainly a windows version and we ran both and uh or maybe utilities yeah maybe it was just a mac version i don't know but we we ran it a lot and we called it the pink shirt treatment and then
one day i said that and you know people looked at me like well like you guys looked at me so you know we stopped saying that i.
Forgot about it honestly but you're i mean you're absolutely right yeah
Yeah peter norton peter norton yeah norton utilities yeah yeah yeah yeah you.
Know the funny thing is i probably get billed i don't know four or five times a month for my norton utility subscription for 469 dollars and all i need to do is call this number if it's a problem
Well there's that there's that i.
Love those emails
Jan landy sent in a quick tip for us if you are in photos on your iphone or ipad and you open a picture to look at closer if you pinch to zoom in the top right of the photo if you look closely you will see the word crop click on it tap on it and it will open the photo editor in crop mode i had no idea it's hidden though it's like you know kind of buried in the photo you got to know that it's there and then like everything once you know there it is so thanks for that so question yeah when.
It opens in crop mode does it crop to your zoom yes is it preset to crop to your
Zoom I believe it did that. That would be cool. I can't test it because my phone is my webcam. Right. Right. Right. This particular thing.
If it doesn't, they missed an opportunity because I would assume what happened.
I'm pretty I tested it. I'm pretty sure it did. It was it was a very natural like, yes, of course, this is what you want to crop to. OK, great.
Yeah.
So very cool.
Yeah, very cool.
Yeah.
But if it doesn't go right. It was late at night when I did this, so I can't promise that I was correct.
Yeah.
So I have a, uh, I have a photo step that I ran across. I was like doing some research or something else. And, um, I don't know about you guys, but like a few things happen, you know, often I'll take screenshots for things for work or whatever things that I'm working on more often than not, I accidentally take a screenshot somehow of some stupid thing that I really don't want.
Right yes yes those screenshots end up in photos right yep uh i was looking around for something else and i found out that at least starting in ios 18 and i don't know when it came into mac os but you now have the option to hide screenshots from your main photo library so you don't have to see them just sitting there in your main photo library so in ios if you open up the photos app and go to all go to the all photos tab um down at the bottom there's a i think
it's called the filter icon uh it's the two little it's a round circle with an arrow up arrow down if you tap on that there's actually view options in there and you can tap and uncheck screenshots and then screenshots won't show up in your main in your main library on mac os you just open up photos you go to all photos tab and it's under the view menu you can select and uncheck screenshots Screenshots will then, of course, still be accessible through the media album
that under media types screenshots, but they won't be in your main screen. Photo library all photos area right so it's a nice way to like clean that up so you don't have to see stupid screenshots oh
Man i gotta do that yeah yep okay yeah yeah that's great.
So i'm wondering and you could probably set it to go only to screenshots to see them and quickly get rid of a bunch too
Well i mean the screenshots album is automatic that's been around for the media type albums around for a while it's just you don't have to have them intermixed with your main it's kind of like the uh like when you hide a photo and it goes into the little hidden album you know yeah right i don't know if people know that tip too but like there's a hidden album and you can mark photos as hidden which means keep it in my library like don't delete it but i just don't want to see it so
like that's a great way to call and curate from your main album like photos that you want to keep but maybe they're not quite perfect you know they might be a little blurry or not quite the exact framing that you want but you know still a memory you want to keep but you just want it dashed away from your main scrolling library and
Is the hidden album the one that you can password protect to isn't.
Yes i think you can i think
That you can yeah i remember seeing that as an option so.
That's that's a different use of the hidden album i think but i
Don't know what you're talking about, Adam, but, but you're probably right.
Um, different, different use case,
Different use case. Right. That's yep. There you go. Uh, Andrew has our next quick tip, which is really a follow-up to something that I was talking about where I have a task list or a reminder rather to check my undated reminders, uh, every Sunday. So actually it's probably on my list for today that I haven't looked at yet.
Uh, because otherwise I don't see them because I usually only look at reminders that are set for a certain date and Andrew says, uh, You can do this even easier or make this process easier by going into Reminders, Add List, choose Smart List from the dropdown of List Type, name it Undated or whatever you like. For the first column of the parameters for the Smart List, you choose Date. And the second column, you choose No Date. And then, boom, you get a list that only has Undated Reminders in it,
which makes it even easier to parse and find those. So thank you for that, Andrew. I love it. That's great.
Very cool.
Yep.
All right. Well, I found one. I stumbled across this myself. Yesterday, I was looking for a way to get information about the Wi-Fi network I was on because I was trying to work with an Internet of Things camera that only worked on 2.4 gigahertz. And I wanted to make sure that when I turned on the network that I wanted, that indeed, because there was some confusion in my mind in looking at it on the router interface, whether it was broadcasting in both 5 gigahertz and 2.4 or just 2.4.
It turns out if you hold down the option key and click on the little Wi-Fi symbol up in your menu bar, you get all kinds of cool info about your network that you're on, your IP address, the router's IP address, your MAC address, what security it's using, what channel you're on, hence which gigahertz band you're in, all kinds of stuff. The noise, the strength, the transmission rates. So, once again, the option key comes to the rescue with a multitude of very cool stuff.
And I found it gives you a few more items. Actually, well, I missed earlier today, and I clicked on it, the tail scale with the option key held down. And it gives you like four more.
Really? Yes.
Yeah. So, it gives you things like, you know, you can quit but leave its VPN active or it's some debug and that kind of stuff. that I had not noticed or is not there if you just click on it.
Yeah, yeah.
But that's a twofer for you there. Hold down the option key and find all kinds of extra cool stuff just waiting for you there on your desktop.
Love that.
Laptop.
Yeah, that's a shout out to John F. Braun. That was one of his favorite things to mention at times for troubleshooting and handy little tips like that. Yeah. Okay. I was, it's funny that you came across this this week, Pete, because I too had basically this mentioned. However, I got to my hotel and here in Austin, and I knew that I was going to have all kinds of things to do.
And so I, before I unpacked my suitcase, I checked, it was it was fine it was a strong like many bars connection full bars but no real speeds i was getting maybe three megabits per second in both directions and it was you're.
Like wait am i still on an airplane
Exactly it was like all right i can do the show like this i can survive fine and and then i i looked i did the option key thing and i realized i was on a 2.4 gigahertz network And I'm like, okay, so this room's just in a crappy spot. I'm like, all right. And then I look under the table, kind of by the door of this residence in, you know, suite or whatever it's called. There's a ruckus access point on the floor and it's plugged into an ethernet jack in the wall.
And I look on the ruckus thing and it says, you know, power over ethernet into here. So I was like, okay, great. Should have everything it needs. No lights. I was like, all right, this is bad. Obviously, I unplugged it. I replugged it. Still no lights. And so I was like, all right, well, this should now be fixable. So I texted you. I used the Marriott app, and I texted the front desk. I said, hey, I'm heading. It's like 8 o'clock at night at this point.
Like, I'm heading out for about three or four hours. Here's what's going on. And if you have somebody here on Saturday night that can take a look at this, great. Otherwise, it's fine for tonight, you know, anytime after, you know, 930 tomorrow morning. Whatever. So I went and did what I did. I came back and sure enough, the box, there was a new box and it was lit up, but there was also a new Ethernet jack in the punch panel in the wall.
And that's when I realized that this should have been on a wall across from it. Somebody knocked it off the wall and just tucked it under the i don't i don't i have no idea how this transpired but this would never have worked on any of the jacks over there uh it was on the other side of the wall i found where it had been like ripped out of the wall so i don't know what transpired to to cause that for someone to plug it back in somewhere else incorrectly uh but it works and now i've got your.
Story and you're sticking with
Well yeah wait i hope they don't blame me for this yeah exactly, The texting the hotel saves the day again. I love being able to do that with the app.
More and more hotels are doing that. Yeah, it's nice.
So great. Because I was able to explain everything without having to play the operator game. You need to write this down. The white ruckus box. But with texting it, they can just pass that along to whoever it is. I get to write the note. they don't you know i'm not relying.
They don't have to try it yeah yeah yeah
So yeah it worked out and it it's great like the wi-fi has been mostly great i mean i get like 60 to 80 megabits in each direction so okay you know could be worse could be a lot worse in fact i've had a lot worse, all right uh let's see shall we go on we have one more quick tip from gene he says um.
I have an issue where new safari tabs show up in all the darndest places with lots of tabs open i have to watch like an eagle to see where the newest tab might spawn the safari debug menu lets me choose to have all new tabs be after the last tab oh great my audio is going nuts because of my cpu love that uh he says which is my preferred action there are lots of other choices as well in order to enable this safari debug menu you have to run a terminal command uh and
uh you first need to make sure that terminal has full disk access in in settings privacy security full disk access and then there are there's a terminal command to uh enable or disable the full disk access and i would put those in the show notes except uh you can do it with onyx and onyx makes it way easier so you just go into the parameters section of onyx which is available for free from titanium software and uh and and then you can just enable the safari debug any right there so i'll put a
link to onyx in the show notes but i love this it's it's great because yeah the option, that's the default is is very um let's see it's a new tabs i gotta find where it is But tab ordering. Yes. Position of new tabs is after last related tab. Well, what does that mean? Like they're all in the web browser. How unrelated could they be? Like, yeah. So yeah, I don't know. So thanks to Gene, we now can put those where we want them.
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It is. It is.
It is. I think, Adam, are you going to read Bob?
Yeah, I got Bob. He's got a question for us. He says, my question is, when is it safe to actually disconnect the drive from the Mac? The light on the drive is still flashing, which to me means it's still in operation. In Windows world, you have to wait for the safe to remove message and any lights on the drive to go out. I failed to do so long ago on a Windows machine and haven't been able to read that flash drive since.
I've never seen such a safe-to-remove message on macOS, but I don't want to get caught. I also have the same issue with an external hard drive I have connected for Time Machine. More than once, I've received a nasty gram stating that the drive was not properly disconnected. Yes, I've been caught.
Bob, just rip that sucker out. I probably won't lose any data. Oh, no, that's not the answer. Yeah, man, that is so disconcerting. It would be nice to have that message. I think that other operating system kind of does that for you. It says, hey, it's now safe to remove. But so the first thing I would do is open disk utility and see if the drive's listed there. And if it's not, you're probably OK to pull the plug.
If the light is still flashing on the drive itself, rather than pull the plug, I'd go into Activity Monitor and click on the disk tab and see if there's anything reading, any activity reading, writing to the disk there. If there is, then I'd try the force quit and see if that helps.
There's probably some terminal commands or something you could use as well, but it seems to me that Disk Utility and Activity Monitor are the two simplest, most straightforward ways to make sure that the drive is done reading and writing properly. So, Dave, you got thoughts on that, I think, because you answered that question, too.
I think Adam had something to chime in with.
Oh, OK. I probably have the same message as you, Dave. The easy Mac way to deal with this is go into your finder and in the sidebar, find the drive and just eject it. And if it won't eject, it'll tell you it can't eject if it's in use. And if you do eject it, it will unmount it and then you can pull the cable. Although i will say this real geeks just pull the cable
It's true that sucker i do often rip them out and and see the little nasty message um i i think what he's saying is that he has done that he's ejected it in the finder it's no longer there in the finder but he sees lights flashing still on the drive and.
Which scare the hell out of you
Well, when it's no longer appearing in the Finder, that means it's unmounted, right? So that's that. However, it's still powered, and it's possible that the drive itself is doing some housekeeping or whatever.
Yeah, it's got some cache going on, maybe, right into the hard drive.
Yeah, I mean, hopefully flash drives aren't using right caches.
Oh, yeah, fair enough.
Disaster. But it could be, right? So maybe wait till the lights stop flashing if you're worried about it. But I like your suggestion of looking in disk utility, at the very least, just to confirm that when you see it gone from the Finder, it's also unmounted in disk utility. It should still appear in disk utility as an unmounted volume, right?
But, you know, confirming that the status change is reflected simultaneously in both Finder and disk utility would kind of be a good thing because, yeah, at that point, it should be safe to yank. But waiting until the lights calm down, not the worst thing.
As he mentioned there, though, I mean, honestly, my Mac likes to rip the drives out just from time to time for no reason also.
Yes. Yes. Yeah. Love that. When you get the message, it's like, you should properly eject that drive. It's like, no, you should properly eject that drive.
You did this. I didn't touch it. You just decided to boot it off.
Yeah.
You just decided to unmount it on your own for whatever reason.
For whatever reason. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Um, yeah, it will run for fun in, in our discord chat says, uh, I'm old school, but I miss activity lights, uh, from what we used to have. I, I guess I got over having activity lights for drives cause we certainly had those and you could watch the, the, the activity lights go.
I guess I got over that with SSDs. um but i because with with drives i more than looking at the light i would just listen you'd hear when it was like crunching and not crunching most of the time but um but i still use that's why i like you know iStat menus or stats or any one of the myriad menu bar things to tell me when there's network activity because i still miss my modem lights but that's okay it's fine i'll get over it carl has
a question for you adam okay carl says uh on last week's show you talked about logging in with apple id what's the difference between that and using the hide my email feature i use hide my email if i have to sign into a new app or website using an email address as a login.
Name oh did i lose you guys i think i lost him i definitely lost him this is fun hopefully it's coming back this is where the hotel wi-fi isn't the best but uh but we'll get there i think if it has to go too much longer i will cut this out of the audio but um believe we're still streaming hey adam so the audio version is i i have the truth for the audio version and now we're back so uh i read the question for you now can you answer it yes great.
So this is a great question because I guess last time we didn't really clarify. We had the question about sign in with Apple and how that works. So we kind of talked about that. These two features are somewhat related, but also separate. So when you're using the hide my email feature, that is something you could use when, say, you're signing up for a service or an account on a website. And you want to use an aliased version or not your actual iCloud email address.
So what Apple will do is they will generate a aliased email address, and I think it usually shows it to you. We also talked about last time where you can go and review the emails that you've set up. But it creates a fake, quote unquote, aliased email address that's given to the site you're registering with so they don't have your actual iCloud email. And then what that will do is that will relay through Apple's servers and go to your actual iCloud.
So you're not disclosing your email address to said service when you're registering for it and you can use that you know when you're when you're signing up directly now the thing is there if you're signing up directly for an account with that service and it asks you a bunch of other questions like what's your name what is your you know what what security questions do you want and all those things that you get what's your address what's your phone number what's your if you're you're providing all
of that data to that service or website that you're signing up with if you're using sign in with apple the big difference is is you can still use an aliased email you can choose an option to use an aliased email so i.e not provided that Service your actual email address but when you're registering or logging into that website what is actually happening is you're going to apple's servers you're authenticating and registering with apple and if it's creating a
new account for you then what happens is after apple has verified that you know your apple login they send a token or just basically a encrypted key back to the main service along with the bare minimum amount of information they need to create an account for you if you haven't created an account yet to register you usually that's just your first name last name i think in most cases and then again if you've chosen to use the hide my email address the that aliased email and then it creates
the account and logs you in but the key difference there is you're logging in through apple's servers not through the third-party servers apple's authenticating you saying yes this is this person now go ahead and log them into the service and it's it's all done through I mean, there's a million other, um, third-party services.
You can do this. You know, I like apples cause it's, I trust Apple, but you know, it's like when you sign in with Google or sign in with Facebook or sign in with Twitter or sign in with whatever, they all work more or less the same. You all right, Pete?
Everything okay over there?
Sorry, excuse me. Yeah, I thought I hit the mute in time. I did not. I think you were muted.
I think you unmuted for that. So we appreciate that.
That's great.
But hopefully that clarifies it. But yeah, Hide My Email is a thing where you can hide your email and generate aliased iCloud email addresses to use when you're registering. I think there might even be a way. I've never done it. But I think there might even be a way to just generate one just randomly through iCloud. But I'm not positive.
Yeah, I think there is.
I think you can.
Yeah, yeah, I think there is. Yeah.
Yeah. And then sign in with Apple is more about protecting your account information. And so that service will never have your login. And like we talked about last time, the nice thing about that, too, is you can go into your iCloud account and you could revoke that registration from that third party service from Apple's side.
You don't have to even be logged into that service. So if that service were compromised or you suddenly decided, you know, I don't want that account there anymore, you could just yank that login from the Apple side, which is kind of nice. Yep.
Cool. Thank you for explaining that. That's great.
Yeah.
Shall we move to David in Texas?
We shall do so at this time. Yeah.
I'll be Dave in Texas. He can be David in Texas.
All right. Yeah. So David writes in, hi, guys. I share a group message thread with six or seven other people. Let's say it's called Golf Buddies. Not everyone in the group uses iPhones, but that's never been a problem. It all just turns all the bubbles green as we're all using SMS or whatever non-iMessage protocol. But sometime after iOS 18 came out, the group message thread got split into two. One day, late in 2024, we were chatting and suddenly there were two Golf Buddies threads on my phone.
And not just on mine, but at least some of the other guys in the group were seeing the same thing. The newest messages were only appearing in one such thread, but not in both. I thought I would clean things up by renaming the threads, so at least we could all be on the same page going forward. I left the oldest one as Golf Buddies and the most recent post as Golf Buddies 2.
That way, I reasoned we'd all know to post in number 2, and the older post would still be accessible if someone wanted to scroll back.
Well, the problem has continued. several times in the past couple of months i have sent or received a message to find out that there are now two golf buddies two threads ouch this week it's happened again it's maddening this wasn't an issue prior to ios 18 i'm running 18.3.1 but i can't speak to what other versions uh others are using on their phones all i know is it's making us not want to try and communicate this way any longer do you have any thoughts or suggestions on how to fix this
So it's interesting because i got david in texas's message when i when dave me arrived in texas and i thought oh man you know right i think i know exactly what's going on here uh and it has to do with the rcs addition to uh ios 18 with some carriers and then i thought when is rcs coming to mint mobile and so i asked chat gpt and it it didn't really it it sort of had an answer but perplexity had a very specific answer and it's like right with ios 18.4
beta uh you now have the ability to do that and i was like oh amazing i'm gonna update to the 18.4 beta while i'm traveling so i did that and it's been fine other than exactly the problem that David is talking about, because I have several group message threads, mostly with my bandmates in the various bands I play in. We are every band I'm in, it has mixed, you know, Android and iPhone people. And. And evidently, I was the last holdout for these to move them to RCS.
Once I got RCS, the threads, instead of saying text message SMS, now they say text message RCS. And I was like, woohoo, this is great. And so I texted one of the bands where one of the guys had actually asked, hey, can we move this to RCS? Like, you know, we can't send files around or anything with SMS. And I was like, no, I'm the holdout. So I texted it.
And it seemed to go through fine. And then a second thread appeared and then three threads appeared for one of the other bands I'm in because I wasn't the first one to text that group. And it became this disaster where not only does everyone have multiple threads, they are not the same. And so the nearest I can tell, when you have a group of all SMS people that then changes to RCS, it is a completely new group. All of the devices see it as something brand new.
Ah, okay.
And then each device or each app, because, right, you can do RCS with different apps on Android phones. So each app messages on the Mac, on the iPhone, and then whatever you're using on Android makes their own decisions about if and how to merge those threads. And no one has agreed on how that should happen. In my opinion, they should all just be merged into one. That's not how it goes. So you wind up with these things.
And I, I've been seeing it happen all week where threads just keep like respawning and you don't have the same amount of history and nobody's got the same thing in both places.
And it's a mess. uh i don't know what the answer here is because i i think part of the issue is if if somebody has a weak data connection or or can't communicate rcs for any reason it falls back to sms and now you're creating another permutation and the whole thing starts all over again so i don't know that there's an end to this i don't know that this is just a like um migration pains like once we get through this it'll it'll all be good reading david's email and that's why i wanted to
have you read all of that because he's been at this for months like for me it's been single digit days and.
Right because we just got there
Yeah because we just got there right yeah exactly yeah but But I have no hope after reading David's message that it's going to get better after I get past this, you know, first few days of of growing pains. Yeah. And my guess.
Is never occurred to me that that would be. Yeah. You know, seeking is hard. It seems like RCS is harder.
Well, it's not. It's just messaging. Yeah.
Go ahead yeah but
Say it's creating these permutations let me get out of the way
Go ahead no no i was just saying this is the first time i obviously heard this i didn't read that earlier and as you were describing it and pete was pete was reading the question my first thought was exactly what you just described dave where it's like this has to be the kind of thing where the first time it flips to rcs it creates a new thread and everybody's supposedly on our rcs but And if you get one person coming in there who's not on RCS for whatever reason,
I didn't even think about the weak signal thing, but you know, you get one person come back into that thread with SMS. It's like, well, now we got to split it off again and put everybody back in SMS mode. Yep. And then, all right, no, we're going to put everybody back in RCS mode, but we're creating a new thread every time. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Uh-oh. Did I lose you guys again? No, I didn't. Okay.
No.
Uh, yeah, yeah. I, I'm, I mean, I thought my issue was related, and this was like, you know, we all get so me focused, right? I thought, well, I'm running iOS 18.4 beta. So, of course, this is like going to be flaky. This is new. And then as soon as I read David's email, I was like, wait, this isn't new. This has been there since iOS 18, like beta over the summer. They've had plenty of time to work this kink out. The only difference now is that I have access to this.
Like they put in the profile for Mint Mobile to BRCS in 18.4. But, you know, David's been having this problem since December. And my guess is, as we are talking about this and you're listening to this, many of you are going, yeah, same. So, yeah.
Yeah.
That sucks.
It sucks. Yeah. Yes.
What's up? Well what's that
You're not wrong this could be the thing that drives everybody to whatsapp you're not wrong well.
How about this i mean this feels like something apple could handle in software or any messaging app could handle in software right it's like this thread is called the same thing it has all the same people let's use some little apple intelligence behind it and go you know what we're just going to merge these into one in the software on our side it just to like help people out here well
And they're like it can't be that.
Hard to figure out that this is this group is this thread right
It's doing some of that that's the problem is it thinks it's doing exactly what you just described and for some reason it can't keep doing it but that would only solve the problem for apple users yeah right you know the android care about anybody else, i'm just kidding no.
Uh this is you just said you said earlier this is a me a me problem
This is a me yeah yeah right yeah as long as my thing's fine i don't care what what happens on the other side although i really do because it i have seen like some of my bands use slack to communicate which is awesome yeah and some don't and we've tried it with with one and people like i don't want to have to put another app on my phone like i don't understand this this is stupid and it's it's change resistance right you know it's like i don't want to do that let's just use one sort of you know
monolithic thread in in sms it's like god there's could i can't imagine anything worse but sure let's do that makes it really easy to separate conversations great you know stupid memes and important details for gigs all just mashed together in one outstanding excellent what i wanted yeah exactly excellent.
Oh that's nuts yeah oh well
Oh well yeah i don't know i don't think there's anything i guess.
We don't really solve anything
No there's nothing any of us can do i don't think if there is feedback at mackie cab.com please tell us.
You you heard him feedback at mackie cab.com
Exactly feedback at mackie cab.com
Time to go to john father john let's.
Do it yes Well, on a Sunday afternoon, Father writes in, Hi, guys. I am trying to get back to normal Apple mail, whatever that means. I turned off the priority columns, but I still don't get the number of new mails on the icon before I open mail. In the past, just looking at the icon, it would say there are so many specific number of new mails to be read. Now, it only shows a small fraction of that. Is there any way to get back to the real number of new mail messages to show
up on the icon? And I'm assuming he's talking to the badge. Thanks as always for the show and look forward to seeing you at Mac Stock, Fr. John. Yep.
So I think what is likely happening here is just the setting that is in mail for the badge count. What I would go in and do is double check your settings for the doc unread count in the mail settings. So if you go under open up mail and go under settings and then go to general, there is a little dropdown that says doc unread count. And that can be inbox only or all mailboxes.
So I don't, I'm guessing that maybe he's looking for all mailboxes instead of maybe inbox only, but I would play around with that setting and see if that's what the issue is.
Yeah. Yeah. It, it, yes. We, we have to assume we're understanding the issue correctly and, and your solution is the correct one for the issue. We believe we're understanding.
Right. I mean, it could be something different, but without more detail, I don't know, but that would even, I guess if you're seeing an account that you're not expecting that, like that's, if that's feeling like it's not the right count, that would likely be what the issue is. Um, I was just noticing an option in there that says you can also set it to today which looks like a smart folder but I'm wondering if that's a smart folder I just have set up on my mail
Maybe I don't have mail open so can you set up.
Like smart I know I was trying to open a mail and now I can't find my I can't find the window somehow I closed it so huh
Yeah interesting yeah.
Play around with that setting and see see what you got yep hopefully that helps
Bill has our next next question bill asks any advice on which domain name registrars offer the best deals i've been using godaddy but its fees are getting pretty high for a single year 25 for a dot net uh full domain privacy and protection another 20 the only thing we use our domain for is to keep stable email addresses and we have no website or other activity the email is handled by a long-held Google G Suite, the free legacy edition. Ah, yes, quite coveted.
My automatic renewal, I have a few of those and I'm happy about it. My automatic renewal hits in April. So any advice would be appreciated. I will do a bit of Google food too, but I trust your recommendations. Thanks, gentlemen, and repeat.
Yeah, thanks for that.
It's never been articulated that way before. Right, yeah.
So hey by act of congress i'm a gentleman i have proof hanging on my wall Oh, boy. Anyway, so I used to use GoDaddy, and, boy, if you like upsells, go there. It's constant.
They're really good at it, yeah.
Oh, it's brutal. It's 15 turndowns before you can finally get to your checkout box. But I digress. I've been a happy Hover.com user for years and years and years. I still have most of my stuff there. Not all of it, though.
Their support's great, and it used to be, and it's been a long time, used to be you could call their telephone number for support and within one or two rings you're talking to a live person wow no yeah no uh mail you know voicemail boxes to navigate through or any of that kind of stuff and they'll help you set up you know whatever pointers you need that sort of stuff haven't done that in a while though so i don't know if that's still the case um when i started the uh so there i
was podcast they suggested i use namecheap.com and i looked on there and they offer a .NET domain for $10.48 a year. And it looks like the retail renewal on that is 15 bucks a year. So I would look at Namecheap, N-A-M-E-C-H-E-A-P.com. And I found them pretty simple to set up pointers for mail and redirects and forwarding and all that kind of stuff. Pretty simple, straightforward, good stuff. I've been happy with that.
And then he, I think he also mentioned in there in security about uh about the privacy and all that um i don't have that on namecheap i used i just used a florida address where i don't get mail but i happen to have a you know a townhouse so that's me i swear it's me but you can't get me there So i bet you know maybe if it's really important to you that you receive mail and use privacy go to a postal center usa and rental mailbox for however much
that's probably more expensive than just paying the 18 bucks or whatever for privacy but do
You have anything to add to this adam before i add my two cents.
Uh i wasn't sure if i was on mute or not uh i i've been a happy hover user as well i was trying to log in to see i don't remember them charging extra for the security privacy thing i don't think i pay extra for it i think it's part of the registration if i'm remembering correctly but it's been a long time since i've been messing with domains so i wanted to double check that before i said that but if you guys know differently let me know but yeah i've been super happy with hover
for ever they've been my main domain register for over a decade now probably yeah
I highly recommend everybody move to cloudflare um they added a registrar to their services some point in the last few years and uh they don't charge a markup on it so they basically pass through the cost of um of you know whatever it actually costs to register the domain uh and then that's it and then they'll host your dns for you too and they are i mean they they host dns and proxy probably half the internet uh the only downside to using cloudflare for your registrar is that they don't
work with all top level domains so you know some of the kind of you know they might i think they work with dot tv but you know those kinds of domains some of the dot.
Info the dot
Sports yeah i mean i think they have they have a lot of them they have more and more all the time but i love cloudflare for all of that stuff and i i have been moving all of my domains in there as i as i can like i said there's some that you just can't move into there but otherwise yeah i'm i'm how.
Hard and what is the process to move a domain into something like that i mean obviously you have to unlock it at your previous one
Yeah it depends on how you're doing it sometimes they'll like walk you well they will walk you through it sometimes it's just put in your login credentials and we'll take care of it from here but other times it's you know here's screenshots of what you you know how to essentially here's here's what you got to do you go get the thing you paste it in it's really not a big deal uh i do i mean i probably do it four times a year you know as i get
renewal notices it's like oh nope i'm not paying namecheap that anymore namecheap is the other one that i use they are, They have a few more top level domains than Cloudflare does, so I use them for some stuff. I'm very happy Cloudflare.
I'll have to look into Cloudflare. I mean, we use Cloudflare for a lot of stuff, obviously for the company I work for. And I think a nice thing with their DNS stuff is I think even at the free tier, they offer some web application firewall and other security things that you can do as well that they don't charge for.
Everything with Cloudflare, the privacy is on automatically. They don't charge extra for that either. I mean, Cloudflare's, they're an interesting company. And I know there's, you know, I'm sure everybody has skeletons in their closets somewhere. But they really kind of hold true to their mission of keeping the internet, you know, secure, fast, reliable, private, kind of all the things. So.
Yeah, I mean, I switched them for my DNS.
Oh, yeah. They're excellent for DNS. Yeah, for sure.
One dot one dot one dot one oh
I see oh for for dns look.
Up the dns server
Yeah yeah dns lookups right and right i used to use google or yeah uh what was the other one back in the day i
Don't remember but yeah.
They're great for that oh
Yeah yeah so i just looked up a dot net is 11 dollars 84 cents and renews at that on uh on cloudflare interesting
Because i just did one with Lisa the other day and it was like nine bucks.
Oh yeah on a sale or something yeah okay yeah yeah huh get down to cool stuff found at some point I'll talk about DNS too but all right Brian
I started purging my domains just yeah I realized I've registered so many domains over the years that I just held on to you like forever for projects that I know I'm never ever gonna do so I finally let stuff stop auto renewing this year try to save some money
Yeah that's not a bad idea yep you know that the harvesters will get it um which is the part that always bothers me but you know that's how it works so brian had an interesting issue that he he wrote in with he um he said, um he got caught uh and the issue was that he uh he has his documents folder sync to iCloud okay he also has Synology oh and I lost you guys again didn't I um I'm here yep he has he has his documents folder sync to iCloud and then he has his Synology drive
also syncing that same documents folder to his disk station doing two-way syncing and he was cleaning some things out and wound up, deleting everything from both and lost he had a backup so he didn't lose everything but he certainly got himself into a pickle with this and it's a long sordid tale but the lesson is, double syncing to the same folder to two different cloud services is.
Opportunity for disaster. If, if you want to have that, you need to do a one-way sync for one of them, or, and you can't do this with iCloud, unfortunately, but like if you, in his case, You know, he has a Synology. I have a Synology as well. And I have my Synology use Synology Cloud Sync to sync to my Google Drive, my Dropbox, my box.com. It syncs to all of those. None of my devices do. All of my devices only sync to my Synology NAS.
So it's kind of, it's taking care of it in a layered approach. So it's not the Mac trying to sync both and then you wind up syncing deletions that you didn't intend to do in various directions. So beware of double syncing, I think is the lesson here. And really understand what you're doing, why you're doing. And if you can't come up with a good reason to be double syncing, don't do it.
You could, like I said, you could do a one-way sync. You could have a daily carbon copy cloner script or whatever that, you know, syncs one direction. I think, Adam, you use a, what's the thing you use?
Uh chrono sync chrono
Sync that's it yeah so and that's syncing in real time one way right.
Yeah i mean you could set it up multiple ways i mean you can it's an amazing versatile tool for it but yeah i i used it mainly for local syncing to a drobo but i mean you can do it over the network you can do it like it's super versatile and you can set it up in a million ways but yeah i have a number of folders that i sync where i do not sync deletions right basically right Right.
Yeah. That's kind of the key is knowing what you're doing and why you're doing it. The two-way syncing with more than one engine on the same folder, just we've seen it cause so many. John Brunt had an issue with that.
Fraught with danger is what I say.
It is fraught with danger. That's the right. Yes. Yes. Double syncing. Fraught with danger. All right. Listen, we spend all our money on our Apple gear, right? We caress it. We admire it. We maybe even whisper sweet nothings to our Macs at night. Why not then actually learn how to use all this stuff to its full potential? And that's where our sponsor Screencasts Online comes in. They've been cranking out top-tier video tutorials for nearly 20 years before YouTube even existed.
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My first one is certainly a travel tip. As I was packing, I knew I was going to be here for eight days. And that's a long time to be in one hotel room. And so I like to do things to make it feel like home. And in fact, it's a question I often ask of touring musicians on Gig Gab. What do they do to make hotel rooms feel like home? Because, you know, they spend a lot of their time. One of my favorite tips was from Brian Ray, Paul McCartney's guitar player.
He brings scarves and he drapes them over the lamps. And, you know, most of the lamps are not incandescent bulbs anymore. So that's relatively safe. But he says, yeah, they fold down flat. Right. Yeah, exactly. But they fold down flat and they look, you know, they're not much to travel with and then yet can kind of turn a hotel room into something slightly less sterile.
Uh i opted to go with the um the electronic route and i used the jbl pulse speaker which looks like a lava lamp and the lighting in if you're watching the youtube video the lighting in this room is kind of weird um so it it may not be super obvious that it is pulsing like a lava lamp and you can control it but it's a speaker and and then it it's you know it can light up your room and you can turn off the other lights and just kind of have that going.
And it's, it adds some nice ambiance to the, to the room. Yeah. I traveled, I traveled with the pulse four because I don't, I realized I don't have a pulse five yet, but the sound is great out of this thing and, and it just, and, and you can have it react to the music or not. And there's a little app that you can use to control it and it's fun. So, you know, something, 250 bucks makes, makes your, makes your room a little a little less sterile so.
Yes that's that's the second time you use that word and the irony is not lost on me uh sterility in a hotel room has never been something i've been to work oh this one's too clean yeah well there's that just saying different sterile one
Type of light i do not recommend you bring with you is a black light do not.
Don't bring a black light to your hotel room bring a
Black light no black lights in the hotel.
Wind up cowering in the corner you will
Not stay in the.
Room sorry folks it's good advice there you go all right um well how about i take us to the one that andrew gave us uh he he was listening to the show and he said there was a discussion about calendars and giving someone a link so they could make a booking in your calendar based on your free time he says over Over the years, I've used Microsoft Exchange. Cal, Calendly, and they all work to a certain extent, but at a cost. Then I discovered TidyCal at TidyCal.com.
And it's a lifetime of service for $27 US. Key features, he says I get a link that I can give to anyone to book appointments for varying lengths of time. I have my own online page with booking options. For example, I can link to this from Linktree slash Andrew Woodward.
Oops sorry about that leave them alone uh and it can say i can see the appointments in the calendars i give it visibility to my apple icloud account and if i had them ms microsoft exchange and gmail as well it drops appointments into whichever calendar i want in my case i have it set up to use a specific calendar in apple and icloud for my tidy cal appointments i can block times out that it can't make appointments so even if i'm free i have Run polls to find uh of people
to find the best time so what else do you need for 27 lifetime it's fully featured and it's a no-brainer um and i played with the link a little bit i really like the fact that you can he he has it set up hey you can book me for 15 minutes half hour hour that kind of stuff so uh being able to set that those different times was was cool um and you can set up one-to-one meetings or group meetings in different locations uh pretty cool little piece of gear it looks like tidy cow someone has gone
made some effort to solve that huh i don't know if it hits all the links i did go back and look at the uh uh the previous question on that to see i forget what it was he was trying to link like three of them together and yeah zoho
Was one of them yeah so yeah so we've got some more follow-ups on that uh that we'll probably get to in the next episode, but yes. Okay. Yep. Um, I mentioned that I am excited about backpacks that have something unique, something I've never seen before. Unique might be incorrect because I haven't looked at every single backpack that's out there, but certainly something I haven't seen before.
And we mentioned, uh, the one from Portland gear last week, the one that I brought with me to South by Southwest here is, um, perhaps even for me, even better. And it's the Nomadic Travel Pack, N-O-M-A-T-I-C. Now, looking at this, it looks like your standard backpack. You know, full size, I'll call it. I got the 20 liter version, which is generally the full size backpack. And it, you know, looks good, fits your laptop in there.
Where it starts to get interesting is, you know how laptop compartments on a lot of backpacks are what they call TSA compliant, where they they flip completely open right so that you can lay it flat without taking your laptop out if they if they need you to do that you just lay it flat that's nice but what's really cool is that the front compartment the big one that you put all your crap into also opens up completely full so you can pack that front
compartment top down like laying the backpack on its back you You just open it up and you can see everything. So you're like, you're never digging to get to whatever the heck is at the bottom of it.
More like a suitcase than a pack.
Yes. And it's interesting that you say that, um, I'll get to that. But yeah, it's more like, I mean, you can certainly only open a little bit of the top and, and then treat it like a normal backpack. And there's some circumstances where that's the right way to get in there. When you want to, you can open it up and really kind of see everything. And it, it's got some interesting pockets inside that you probably wouldn't have in a backpack where you couldn't do that. And that opens up a lot.
And it has two, well, it's got three pockets, the big one in the middle, the one for your laptop, and it's got another sleeve for like your iPad. And then a front pouch that kind of is an organized pouch for, you know, things like pens and chargers and things like that. Great. It looks great, feels great. All of those things does not look any bulkier than you would expect it to. It's actually kind of lightweight and, you know, it works really well.
So where it gets interesting is that if you want, you can expand it another 10 liters to be a 30 liter backpack. And at that point, you open it from the other side and it has a shoe case and it looks like a carry on suitcase. And so this backpack turns into a weekender bag, you know, in a heartbeat.
And you don't have it like you're it doesn't i carried it around all week to the conference and stuff on the plane it it doesn't feel like it's it's got anything extra to it to do this like they've they've really done it well so that when it expands or when it's not expanded it doesn't you're not carrying around something that that feels bulky um it's really amazing i'm i'm pretty stoked with it so. That's the nomadic travel pack. That's the one you and I saw at CES, Pete.
Yeah. Yep. And they weren't giving them away, darn it.
No, these are, these are 300 bucks. So, or 299. So it, you know, it definitely, but that's what most, like most backpacks are in that like 175 to $300 range. The Portland gear one that we talked about last week for 99 bucks amazes me.
Uh i found another one at south by that opens similar to that and i don't have the name right in front of me so i'll mention it on another episode but it's similar to what the portland gear does and it was like 80 bucks or something so that's coming so very cool yep yep so fun awesome yep what do you got next pete so.
Uh well we mentioned a cloud flare before and i i had been using them for dns and i i don't know why when where how i asked the question about secure dns and i ran across quad 9 that qad number nine yep dns uh its dns server is at 9.9.9.9 it's operated by the quad 9 foundation which is a swiss-based non-profit uh organization um it's uh it was founded by ibm and the global cyber alliance and all that but uh it was designed to provide privacy focused
and security enhanced dns services so if if you're uh if you want to do encrypted dns um they're that's their primary i forget what their secondary is i think it's i'll i'll find it in a minute we'll link to it but uh yeah yeah there you go there's There's a link to it, but, uh, because it's, it's Swiss jurisdiction and some of the strongest privacy laws in the world, independent from us, uh, agencies, uh, uh, Google and cloud flare are us based. So, uh, quad nine is not, um, um,
Legal challenges, I've looked at it. Quad9 has been involved in legal battles, particularly with the Sony Music, which tried to force them to block piracy-related domains. And they have strongly resisted censorship and continue to fight against any blocking requests. So I just found it real, very interesting. That's interesting, yeah. Yeah. Oh, and here's the other cool thing. So they have like some malware protections.
They they speaking of blocking they do try to block uh act no malicious domains protecting users from phishing and malware cool
Are you using that as your primary at home now.
I am and uh i've been very happy with it until as i mentioned pre-show i was trying to get a camera to connect to and i could not get it to connect to the internet but in setting up quad nine i had created a firewall rule that denied every dns request outside of quad 9's dns servers and this camera was trying to use its own built-in dns resolution probably at google or something like that and it could not connect because its dns was being blocked by my firewall rule as soon as i lowered that
firewall rule it the camera connected right up that only took a few hours to find it Instead,
What I have found, if you want to set up a network like that, where you're forcing everyone to use the same DNS, doing DNS redirection so that when a request goes out on, I think, port 53, it...
Instead of going to whatever ip it said you just redirect all requests outbound requests on port 53 to 9.9.9.9 and that way you wouldn't have had that problem right the the thing tried to use whatever dns it was going to use and it nope you're going to 9999 and it won't even know the difference unless it's trying to use like a dns hijacker because it won't get there so yeah i mean Essentially, you're pre-hijacking it is what you're doing. Yeah.
Well, the way I set it up was to actually use my Mac mini in the basement to be my DNS server.
Okay.
And then it's going out to 9.9.9.9.
I mean, why wouldn't you set your router to be the DNS server?
I forget. I forget. There was some issue.
Okay.
Okay. But the thing is, when I was doing, I was going to like leaktest.net to sue. and there were other servers in the way. Oh, and by the way, it's called woody.net, and they're in New York. I'm going, this woody.net server keeps seeing my DNS queries. What's going on? And then finally realized, oh, that's all part of the Quad9 network.
Ah, okay.
So, yeah, these other servers were seeing it, but they were Quad9 servers.
Got it.
Huh. So I forget the reason. There was some reason in there. um it you know as soon as i had my etsy host file uh edited i was good to go and sounds like it yeah there was a lot of stuff that i was doing there with the help of chat gpt and some of it uh came back to bite me like not being able to get this camera to go but once i finally figured out okay i'd created this firewall rule um then uh you know so this
Is what i love about.
Learning process well
That's exactly it it's like you dive in head first knowing that with that.
You're going to get paralyzed exactly
And it's and but like that's how that's the best way i know to learn this stuff is to just do it and figure out how to get yourself out of there so yeah um.
Yeah what's your number again dave i think i still have
That's right no it's changed it's changed i'm on our i'm on rcs now pete.
Dave never answers my calls anymore no
It doesn't they don't come through It must be an RCS thing.
That's it.
Any cool stuff found from you this week, Adam? I'm putting you on the spot.
No, I was trying to think of something and come up with anything, but I don't buy stuff very much anymore. Sure.
Oh no, I think I lost him again. I think it's time to end the show. It's going to be time to end the show.
Well, we're back.
We're back, but you were never gone.
Dave.
Oh, you heard me all the way through that entire time.
We heard you.
Oh, interesting. Yeah. So you know what? I can, I.
Can give you something actually. All right. Why don't I give you guys a, a board game? So, So I'm at a point in my life where there are just two of us in the house.
Right, right.
My kids have grown and flown the nest and all that fun stuff. And so, but we still love, as I think we've talked about, I love playing, we love playing board games. So I've been on the hunt for two player games to play.
And there is a great one called Jaipur, j-a-i-p-u-r i think or e-r okay i'm gonna get the spelling wrong um and uh you know we go down to the local brewery here and sit and play games and we were playing that yesterday and it is an excellent fun easy to learn quick game the basic premise i'll try to give it to you is um you're uh basically a vendor in a in a bazaar and you're trying to or a buyer i guess for for a maharaja and you're trying to buy things.
And so you acquire camels and jewelry and gems and all these sorts of things. And that's the basic premise of it. But it's kind of like a trading game. So you pick up resources and then you buy resources. And so each turn you're kind of doing that and you're trying to ultimately earn points and you play in three rounds and you try to win two out of the three rounds and whoever wins two out of three rounds wins. so but it's just a fun little fun little game
And it's two players only i'm looking at two player only it turns out i'm in a similar scenario to you um and the best part about this i love that the recommendation of the game because i didn't know about it uh the best part about this was you saying that you and your wife take the game and go down to your local brewery and play, and i'm thinking why have lisa and i never done that with like well we like we could bring this down to Tideline, which is a thing near our house and play
and, you know, have a beer and then go home.
Huh.
Exactly. Oh. That's what we do. We play gin rummy cards. We'll play all kinds of games. But yeah, it's kind of a little weekly jaunt.
A little date night thing.
Usually.
I love that. That's amazing.
Huh.
There you go. Yep.
I love that we do this every week. This little conversation that we have. We should do it again next week i think i bet we will i bet we will yeah well if the wi-fi works.
Well there's that
So evidently having a strong signal to the access point right behind me here does not mean that the connection will remain consistent all the way through. But, you know, it's all fine. Thanks for hanging out with us, folks. Our monthly giveaway, if you go to MacGeekApp.com slash giveaway, you can register to win one of five copies of Unite 6 from BZG Apps, which I used again here.
To do the show and I can use it on Sequoia to whatever we're on Mac OS 15 to do, separate web apps because Apple broke the way those work for me so I'm stoked it's working great I don't even think about it and that's the kind of thing I like so yeah MacEcap.com slash giveaway, thanks to BZG for doing that with us this month thanks to Cashfly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you make sure to check out our
other shows Adam's got a show with his daughter called the Debut Film Podcast. Pete has a show with someone who is not his daughter. So there I was for aviation enthusiasts. And I have two other shows, Business Brain for Entrepreneurs and Gig Gab for musicians and music fans. So, yeah, thanks for hanging out. Thanks for bearing with our fun little technical glitches and all that stuff.
And Adam, you were right. But who is privacy on domains on hover? It's just a checkbox. It's included.
Amazing. That'll save you money right there. How about just Namecheap charging? I don't think they do.
I don't know. I think they do because I don't have it turned on.
Oh, that's true. You don't have it turned on. You are cheap.
I'm a pilot after all.
All right. Well, so then even if Cloudflare is a little, there's a dollar more than Namecheap for a year, you're still getting the benefit of the privacy in there. So, yeah.
Well, you know why you turn the privacy on, don't you?
Why is that, Pete?
So you don't get caught.
Well played, my friend.
Made on a Mac.
Later.