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I hope you're well and your self deprivation. Hey, it's Melwin. That's right. We are recording early. I said, I mean, I'm in Durham while we record this. I'm gonna be in Cancun. We're we're gonna. That's where we will be.
It turns out I am giving up snow for lens yes we're we're getting we actually we got a little bit of snow the morning we recorded this but we're supposed to get like another 8 inches or something over the next couple of days So hopefully if the power does go out my my standby generator the the silly, Fix that they were supposed to have done to that actually works.
I can't control that though so we're just gonna do the show and hope and you know we'll figure it out Todd has our Todd has our next tip or or next quick tip. He says I use the Mac OS calendar, And I you and I used to use the go to date screen the keyboard shortcut command shift t to go to a date that's same keyboard chart that works in busy cal by the way.
Lately he says i have found it easier to click on the year button at top center now I have the entire year in front of me and I can suit simply quick click quick.
I can easy for me to say I can simply, On the day I want need a different ear click on the left right arrows in the upper right to move years he says somehow I find this easier than the go to date, Shortcut than typing the month tab type the day tab type the year so you can use the aero keys to change those numbers up and down as well but the year of you works fine for me no I can I get this, Eight and I we all visualize things differently you know for example time, I visualize.
You know the and I can't remember that the the name of the the ride but it's it's the the thing work goes fast enough to get sticks the round up exactly that's how I think of a calendar but I think about it. Like in in almost threeD view it's it's bizarre right so maybe it's bizarre maybe you tell everybody to I don't know but it's what works for me so I can totally see where for at least some of us.
Clicking and seeing the year view, To then navigate let your brain stay in whatever visual mode your brain is in as opposed to having to translate it to yeah I wanna see July 27, Now I need to think about that that's actually July the number 27 in the year you know by typing it in I can totally see how that that makes sense and if this was far too much of a glimpse into my My ready for Cancun brain? Well, sorry.
Oh thanks Todd that's a good one I like these tips I like I like I like workflow tips that that you know can make things more efficient it's good stuff. Earl. And you know I I've never given it much thought when I need to go to a year I I seem or you know to a previous year or something I I'll go to the year view and then scroll up or down, Yeah he's using the yearview. I find myself working in this month and next month so often that.
That I generally just look at month few. In fact, I get just a little screwed up. If I, if I get down into the weak view, I feel like I'm looking at my dad to throw a straw, you know, the whole iPhone screen is too small. Yeah. The week, the week view is too small on the phone. Yeah, I I use, Busy cow on both, I work my life.
And and that really lets me have a picture of what's going on and if I need to change timezones I can change time zones in busy calendar obviously shifts things around and I can see two time zones at once if I. I will see this. Yeah. So, take it a time zone. So, I anchor my my laptop never leaves Eastern time, But I always know what time it is at home and that I never have to worry about.
Queue me at the right time. So, if I'm out on the west coast, Eastern time than it you know at 930 Pacific Time I get hey 30 minutes to recording oh yeah okay there you go yeah, That makes sense. Yeah. Okay, I mean, it would do that even, Yeah I was gonna say I changed I let my timezones change in my calendar and I never. I almost never have an issue with.
I've got mine set so I don't create events like this. I don't mean to say that I'm like perfect and somehow it can never make a mistake. But this mistake I have engineered against. I protected myself against. However, if I get an event from someone else that it is in, What my calendar refers to as floating timezone AKA no time zone, That screws me up because if I'm home, let's say, when I put that in, it now is in eastern time, If I then in my calendar will now make it eastern time,
Regardless of what it was supposed to be. So, if somebody, if I'm meeting somebody at 2 PM Central in Austin next month, And they send me a floating time zone event I put it in his 2 PM. Anything to add to that John I got. When I schedule events like when we were. Schedule it while I'm here but I'll.
Everything is correct, You know like pizza at 1 PM Eastern time if your timezone on your device is changes it will be 10 AM, Unless unless you've experienced something that informs you that you do need to overthink that but, But that's what I'm saying is if I put stuff in as long as the time zone's not floating which is rare that that's that's it's very much an asterisk scenario for the most part all events come in with a time zone assignment and then that's.
It's just converted from Zulu time like like you said Pete. Yeah. I was working with one of my bandmates recently we with one of the bands I I mean we use a Google calendar to share dates in all of that. We recently changed the calendar that we use. I'm still not sure why we we did that. We had one Google calendar. We moved to another one. Not sure why. But anyway, what that meant was it's a brand new calendar.
And one of the guys texted me and said i can't get this to add to my iPhone it doesn't show up in the list oh my god it shows up fine for me and then I thought we'll wait I'm using busy calm I'm just logging that into my Google account it's own way. Let me look on my iPhone you know and see and sure enough I couldn't see it either in my iPhone calendar. About the secret google.
It's ridiculous what I'm about to tell you if you if you haven't experience this before great maybe you never will and if you have you're going right I remember this. When you have calendars in Google calendar by default. Most of them will not be exposed to your iPhone when it tries to you know generate a list of calendars for you to either show or not show. You have to log in to google.
And go to a URL I'll say the URL but it's also in the show notes at Maki Keb. Com you have to go to google. Com slash calendar slash iPhone select. And it's this horribly laid out like it looks like a very programmer written screen that never got any styling or anything but it's this ridiculous screen. And with check boxes next to the names of your calendars and you have to check the names of your calendars that you want to appear.
And be exposed to your iPhone and then on your phone you can choose whether to have them appear or not. It's crazy. Alright. So that's what I got. You wanna take a still Robbie John. Robbie says i don't have many shortcuts that are real beneficial to me and have not explored the shortcut app capabilities until recently. I've listened to you guys talk about creating a shortcut to manipulate low power mode on the iPhone and some other shortcuts people have made after exploring around the shortcut.
Recently I saw you could send a text message when something happens and I thought why would I wanna send a text message when the apple display results on the screen for me to.
Now to the tip My mother is in the elderly category and a couple of days ago I was visiting her I looked at her phone only see it was in low paramode because the battery The elderly people occasionally forget the plug in the phone to recharge and it came to me I need to make a shortcut automation on her phone that sends me a text message when it goes on a low power mode, Percentage so I can call her before the phone dies and tell her to plug the phone in.
It doesn't work when you're 97 year old mother has a flip phone, That's fair, Yeah, I don't know what the magic is. I mean, I do. It's that he doesn't have a ton of apps on there that he uses all the time. He's, you know, That's that's really what it is. Yes. That's exactly right. Being technical and having a screen addiction. It turns out are not, I've long since deleted it but years ago I was in a restaurant in California and there was an entire family sitting at about to dinner.
They're all sitting there on their phones. You know, playing with their screens and I snapped a picture of it and put it up on Twitter and wrote, you know, that the# togetherness. Alright. Hey sister I'd love that this stuff happens. He says you can. This is which is amazing to me. He says, what you write is, you know, you you draw with your pencil, And your tag word. So, if you, you know, if you're making a note about this show, you can, you can write, you know, hash maki cab. Then,
So, now you've got that just written, scribbled in your own version of scribble. Then you go back and tap on the word. And a pop up will come up and turn it into a text. So, if you're listening to the show and taking notes, I know some of you do. It did you know, it's certainly not mandatory, obviously, when there's no, there's no, it's not gonna be any quiz, But but if you're doing that write it and and then just tap on it and it pops up.
If an app offers turned it into attack he's he's got some context and some tips here about this, Nick says this works best if you put the tags on a new line, And sometimes you have to scroll the tag off the top of the page and then scroll it back for notes to process it and recognize it as a potential tag so thank you for that. That quick tip and. Five, Yeah And you're right that's perhaps the buried buried lead here is is is that yeah you can do that yeah exactly, Yeah.
Sorry. Now you gotta put that in the show now. Find any file. Oh, Will that search notes to find any file. And you know you can the content is and it's really granular and it was it was search your network dries, your attached storage. That is soup. It's super powerful. Hey, interesting to be faster than spotlight. And certainly better. Like I said, you get more granular. You can say I want this type of file. I want it has these contents.
Yeah, I swear to thing. I I gotta I I know I have it. It's it's not in my. It's not you know it's not in my my my default like my fingers don't know to just launch it and use it when I need to do a thing. It it that's one of the ones that quickly fell into my workflow find any file in I think yeah I I think it was a $five donation is what's requested,
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's it's like Thomas Templeman apps or something like that. I think he's the one that makes it. Yeah. Yeah. Super super powerful. Cool. Craig has a little something to share back in episode 967. And Craig's been through this. He says, this will happen unless you can figure a setting known as connect when last connected In your AirPods setup
And then enable this setting so that cuz that's the only time you can change those settings. Okay. The default setting is automatically and that's what's driving you crazy is that it bounces things around. He says the the setting is device specific and does not travel with the AirPods This does defeat that auto connect feature that you that you ran into. So, thank you for that crate. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, pretty good. Yep. On the subject of AirPods and very.
Mark in mark M I shall say in our discord channel, But i did bring my apple watch puck charger turns out you can charge your air pods pro case agenda too case on the Apple watch puck, He says this might be old news to many but it's news to me. When I read this I. So, yeah, it's interesting. See, I missed it. It was the second generation and I'm like, yeah, I tried several times with the puck and in the AirPods Pro first generation. Yeah, yeah. And it never did work.
Here's the other cool thing about AirPods Pro second generation. On it. To find your AirPod, you no longer need that because it makes the exact same. There's an air tag built into the AirPods Pro second generation. Correct. Yeah. Yeah, That yeah I mean it's. They did change and I like there are times when this is frustrating to me but. It used to be.
I could set an alert to tell me when you know when alert me when my wife you know leaves the house so that I know you know the children meet me at the club or whatever. Now I can still do that Heard location. Yeah, what up with that apple. I had gotten so used to doing it like oh okay I'm gonna you know I'm gonna just sit at my desk and sort of plow through you know my to do list.
Hey but when my wife gets home we're gonna go out to dinner or or you know do a thing whatever you know and so I would set an alert. To tell me, oh, she she just left, you know, the gym and she's on her way home. Now, I know I've got 20 minutes to wrap up the one thing I'm in, get changed, or whatever, and off I go. I've stopped doing that because. Because well I I suppose because I never told her in the past that I did that not that it was using it for like creepy reasons but.
I realized oh if I do if now if I do this she's gonna get notification she's gonna think I'm stalking her which obviously I am, You know she's gonna be 100% correct about that but but yeah they they convenient I have stopped using it for convenience maybe that's the way to say it and I I I don't like that maybe I just need to just start doing it again and and
Tell her don't don't worry about this yeah yeah and she'll understand of course let me clarify for the for the listeners that don't know your set up, You're in a separate building across the driveway from your home and you don't have the you have the windows blacked out for studio reason correct. So you can't see or hear when she pulls up in the driveways. Now that she drives that WRX that thing's loud
So, but if I have headphones in, I won't hear it, right? Like, yeah. So, yep Daughter out last summer I believe it was when she went to work and she got she got home that night and then it notified her hey someone's here tag is. With you. Pizza tag. So it it tells you whose it is. Yup. Well, you know, per the name that's that's stored in there. So.
Yep. It it you know she often will leave her purse just in the car in in the garage and if I'm going out to you know pick up you know Chinese food or something just go take it and it's like, You know I'm almost back home with the food and it's like You know someone's air tag is with you. It's like cool.
Pete you had a great little quick tip that you shared in in preshow would you would you share it again now for me please yeah so how many times have you ever said been told in your iPhone hey go to settings, Go to but here's some classic one because it's it's nested. Okay, well, do you first you gotta know where that is? Well, it's in general.
So, you gotta scroll down til you find general and then, Put your finger in the middle of the iPhone screen touch it and pull down about a quarter inch and at the top you'll get a little search window then you just type in update, And it'll take you right to all your update settings. But if you've ever found yourself scrolling and scrolling and hunting for a nested setting on your iOS device. Just pull down. You gotta search window at the top. I like it. No, I use it all the time. Ha. Alright.
Yes so. TV Roku being the operating system. Yeah, With certain shows being too dark. Or other video parameters and and there is a way to set like the brightness and the contrast and stuff but I took. NHDR issue. Yeah, I I would have agreed with you. Yeah.
So yeah in one of the threads that I saw talking about this they're like hey by the way, There there's some menus that you don't get on normally get on the TV but there's a whole bunch of ones that are buried in there and maybe there's something geeky enough. There'll help fix your problem. There's a wireless menu cuz it has WiFi images and ads menu it sounds interesting. Roku channel info secret menu the HDMI secret menu I think that's where I found the setting that fixed my problem okay.
Wow. Amazing. Or HDR. Hey. Cool. I would have thought yeah yeah I know HDR sometimes they made it depends on the TV and how it interprets it and all that stuff but sometimes yeah yeah. Very cool. Very. Hello there's that sound that sound means that I get to take a minute here and tell you about our sponsor collide and collide has some big news because if you're an oak to user, They can get your entire fleet to 100% compliance. How.
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My wife's new M two MacBook Air freezes every once in a while she's using the Ventura at the time you sent the email it was 13. Two my guess is he is updated to 13. Two. One in fact I know he hasn't it hasn't fixed fixed it he says, When it locks up i tried to force quit various apps to try to isolate the application that's causing the hangup okay, The track pad click stops working but i can move the cursor eh and use the return key to quit an app once the cursor is in the right place.
But in that case quitting the finder doesn't cause a restart even after manually force quitting each app until there's none left running save the finder. I finally resort to a manual shutdown by holding the power button when i quit each app one of the time the lockup is not cured. I haven't checked the activity monitor yet to see if there's a memory hog bogging down the system. But starting application activity monitor could be complicated by these freezes because I can't click anything.
By the way my Mone Air also runs venture and doesn't have this problem. We we've made sure everything's up to date. So this is an interesting one. Of it being it seems like the track pad simply stops letting him click or her click. End, That's interesting because the track pad is software based. On these machines. I mean it has haptic feedback. It certainly a piece of hardware it is sensing the pressure that you put on it. But it's not actually moving
In any way. So, it makes sense if there's some software agent that. Manages the track pad if it gets hung up well. Chuck is try using an external mouse like plug one in when this is happening can you click. With that like is it something about the track pad either the hardware or the software my guess is it software cuz it reboot solves it so it's probably not hardware.
But you know, anything's possible. It's too consistent to be hardware, right? Like when this problem happens, it's that the track pad stops, it better restart fixes it, that's why I'm thinking not hardware software. That could be wrong. Feedback and Mackie Kipp. Com. Please tell me. But, You have the answer Pete. Go. Yeah. I'm gonna stop it. Randomly. It's an interrupt conflict. Oh my gosh Yep she's get out sorry. Yeah hey.
Oh, well, you know what they say. Yeah. Hey, fix stupid. Yeah, all good things must come to an end That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah so I I I that would be my first test is is this something about the operating system that's not letting.
That particular, you know, that that particularly driven track pad that's part of the MacBook Air, whatever that software is and I think, in fact, I know that there is also a way to trigger a click with the keyboard, By leveraging accessibility i don't know that, That how to do that off the top of my head but there is a way so that would be another if you don't have a third party mouse with you and you experience this and or you know you're going to, It might not be a bad idea.
Power, you know, just forcepowering down the machine. Oh yeah TN Papa in the chat room, Terrible thing to do but, Look in there for a stalled process they generally appear in red and that might. I don't know. Anything else. Sometimes if your machine locks up and is non responsive if you now normally you shouldn't do this but I found sometimes the this can help analyze the problem if you hold down the power key.
Sometimes it will know that something terrible happened and it's like hey you wanna see the crash report and like okay yep I have and and the crash report will. Show you. You know, hang or you know, some other reasons. Dave what is it that don't get all the spread for your memory there's a process you can launch. A console.
Would it be in cartoon? It mean maybe, It sucks no you you have to, This is one of those things where it is a skill that you need to develop and trying to do it for the first time in the moment of having an issues is just gonna lead you down a path of desperation and and. But. The way to read console logs is to use the live filter. So, it's essentially a search box in there. That it, well, one way, I don't wanna say the definitive way but one way to sort of make sense of and start.
Sort of sort of you know putting AA filter on the river of of crap that just pours out into the console, Yeah it's the river of crap It's a it's a okay there's a there's an image here it's not exactly incorrect with what you get when you're looking cuz you you're about as happy seeing Without making any sense of it but you can put a live filter on it so it will only show you things. You know that match your filter in again in real time. So But I can't,
Tennessee Pop is in the chat room. So, so I think carnival sales on that river. So, he may be right Sharing it That is funny though. Like that's really funny, Wow. But filtering it down the problem with filtering it down of course is you need to know what to filter.
And and so, you know, like that starts to get sort of interesting. And also frustrating. You can experiment with things. You know, you might be able to look at track bad. You might look at What is it HID, Rate because that's the human interface device that's the the shortcut to see these are the things you would just sort of need to know from saying doing a podcast for almost 18 years where you you dive into this stuff. Before that appeared in the chat room. I essentially read from top.
Just set up information here's the version of macous that's running here's the time all of this you will see and I don't have one in front of me to help you with this I I apologize sort of an on the fly thing and and maybe we'll revisit it but in general. It will tell you. It will tell you which thread crashed or which process crashed. To me, that is the most important thing that as an end user.
I can I can use and so I will look for that and if it says it's thread 15 that crashed, Then you can scroll down to thread 15 and see what that thread was doing, You're gonna cease. I mean you're gonna see some things in there that are gibberish to all of us cuz we're not the developer of the the software running in that thread but, There should be some things that resemble english words or some process names or application names or something where you're like
Oh, I see it was while it was you know, indexing my photos that it crashed. So, okay, if this happens again, maybe I have a corrupted photo in there. Like it, you know, those are the thought of it. I I realize I'm like mixing Examples here but that's the kind of thing that's how I read acrossload. I I would be that this would be a great, Thing to sort of crowdsource. I was gonna say feedback at Mackie Cub. Com but I would rather do this in discord because we really get like the.
The hive mine together there. So, I don't know. Do you guys have any any other thoughts. Alright. Checking the you know heading down the path of the mouse would would be the the answer there for you. And blast episode we talked about nest next DNS. As a solution for a few different things. Is it safe a user on the Mac power users forms.
Propose using next DNS to block ads on Apple news which are super annoying the same ad appears over and over again each screen that you scroll and the idea was using next DNS to. Essentially make look ups to apples ads server fail, From a, you know, from an engineering standpoint, I I like this idea. Not a huge fan of ad blocking cuz my life has been supported by sponsors for a long time. I I think you can do better by choosing sponsors that are actually,
At least you're interested in it. Your audience therefore might be interested and you might not drive them crazy. We don't talk about the same sponsor 14 times in the same show. We talk about them twice once the beginning once in the middle. That's my opinion on how to do sponsorship the right way I I totally empathize with how Apple is doing it the wrong way so I I don't necessarily I'm not necessarily against this idea,
What would that mean is you're installing next DNS on your device and Joe ask is this safe are there any downsides you can think of, If I try to do it on my Mac or my iPhone will it behave nicely with my Xfinity modem and my ero. So
And it's it's like it seems fine. It. Next DNS gets to see all of your DNS look ups as you might imagine because they are all of your DNS looks ups are redirecting through them that's by design that's how the service works, There is one option in next DNS that you would have to turn off.
And that is the option that allows you to skip next DNS on known WiFi network so you can Flags certain WiFi networks and say like okay am I home network I don't need to use next DNS you know on my work networks I don't need to use it I wanna use the local DNS for for those. If you wanna block ads on Apple news you would have to let next DNS run anywhere that you might read Apple News otherwise it's not gonna work so you'd have to turn that part off, And that then,
If you are doing things that rely on your device using your local DNS like custom DNS names for your devices and and that sort of thing. So, is it safe? I think so, Is it gonna cause you any problems? Well, maybe.
You know, it's one of those things. We're tried out. If you start having problems, well, turn it off. Did the problems go away? Yes, okay. Well, that might answer the question. You know, so, yeah, I think it's okay to experiment with. Yeah, I I I mean, as I, as a company, It seems alright as long as you're okay with them seeing potentially seeing all of your your lookups so. Yeah. Give it a whirl. It's it's one part of the chain that you can use to block certain content. Yeah. So.
Do you use Apple news? Do you read a lot of stuff in Apple News. That's good. That's good. Yeah, yeah. I think most people are are tolerant of edge that are, Not obtrusive. It's the ones that block the whole middle of your screen and are continuous. Like you said, and over and over and over again. I don't mind, I don't mind irrelevant ad. Same. They're great, And it can be great,
Many, many, new ones every day. Bad ways of implementing ads. Yes, Yeah and I I don't think they're a current sponsor but I I know there's been shows that you know I've listened to one password. And listen to their ad specifically to learn about a feature in it that may I may or may not be using. So, when it's done, right? Yeah. That's.
We try to do it right. I do like that next DNS. Let's you do this. Yes. On your iPhone because you could. This idea of of forcing AA DNS redirect or a DNS look up to fail. Is a time honored practice, right? You know, that whole, Concept of going and downloading what we call a hosts file of all the known ad servers and installing that on your Mac, To cause all those redirects to or those look ups to fail.
The problem is you can't implement that on an iPhone, The way you can on a Mac you can't get to the terminal on an iPhone and and edit the Etsy host file and yeah and all that so, Like next DNS it's cool that it it's sort of steps in the way of that and let's you do that it's a, It's a different I never used an app like Next DNS before John you should check this out just the way you turn it on and you have to go in and like give it,
Permission to interrupt your DNS queries I didn't even know that that was a thing on the iPhone so it's it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. The thing is when it ends. Been too aggressive on your ad blocking because it will become a cat mouse game that yeah makes them so approved. Right. Yeah, I get you could get worse. Yeah, pop-up blockers failed for a while. Yeah, yeah. Ads and not render the page properly because yep.
Yeah it's super easy to do that. Yeah yeah yeah. People hate you when you do that by the way. We tried that at Mac Observer. I mean we tried a lot of things. A mac observer. You know But but yeah people heard people people were furious about that. It was like why are you furious? You're trying to You know, the price for viewing our content is looking at our ads that we choose to show you. Like, it's okay. Anyway.
We like you skip what you're at the ads here I don't know how many of you know like in general I don't know how many of you know about chapters here on. Did you know there's, But now most paused podcasters the apps that used to play podcast support chapters so you can jump around from segment to segment like for example I just started a new chapter, At the 50 minute and four second mark here for,
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And thankfully it ended with Chris figuring out his problem cuz I don't know that I would have ever thought of this. I have a weird safari issue. It is sinking, mimicking, mirroring. This is I've gotta describe this computers all running the the latest venture 13. Two. One says I typically run my IMAC and Mac studio simultaneously with universal control. To expand my screen real estate and I will tell you.
He says this morning I decided to update my MacBook Air and play with it instantly when opening safari I noticed that whatever was opened on my MacBook Air, Was mirroring on my max studio and vice versa and so it really came down at all three devices if he did something in safari on one device,
It would happen on the other it wasn't like he was controlling the mouse or the keyboard it was that he was controlling safari and only safari but it was near instantaneous that he would open a new tab do a thing and Safari. You know. I got caught, The changes are assuming you're connected to the internet and everything. All else is equal. The changes are near instantaneous. So, being inside the same tab group on all three, Devices
And and have AA somewhat mirrored experience. If you were to type something into it like a web form on one computer. That wouldn't appear on the other but having those tab groups come up does sink it up. So. It'd be interesting. I I'm I'm sure there are scenarios where this could actually be leveraged in an interesting way. You know, some kind of kiosk type scenario. I don't know. Like there's something here but.
Then and maybe you'll know why. So thank you for sharing that with us Chris and thank you for figuring it out cuz I don't know if we ever would have I I I don't use. Tab groups I need to dig into them though like I think I probably could get a lot of use out of them but I that the new version the new implementation of tab groups is very different than what it you know what it was in the past so. I don't know.
No In 968 we talked about, Photos of some sort and indigenizing them I think right maybe not maybe I'm sure that we got a question though from Tony C who lives in Thailand, That visiting. Yeah. The family. But he asked about digitizing photos. And we had two different answers for him. My answer was just because my wife about.
Probably about 2 years back needed to ditch ties much photos and wouldn't take my suggestion which is use your day gum phone you know it works good works good last a long time, But I get it because there's reflections and inconsistencies and keystone issues and all that if you're using your phone unless you're using a perfect stand of some sort.
V 39 scanner, Scanning your photos, putting them out, digitizes them all, and we've had good success with that, taking our role particularly the older paper photos that were never digital of review grant errands Sure great game parents and that sort of thing I have one of my great grandfather who was I had swimming coach at Pennsylvania for 40 years and wow yeah, Those are all digitized now but they they weren't back in the day. Yeah, right. Right, right
No it turns out there weren't. Yeah yeah In the Charlottesville You know, certainly consider hardware. You're gonna save money. You won't necessarily save time but you will save money. My And and then they give you you know a memory stick back is usually how it works these days. It used to be a CD or you know your or that maybe they're just online. You download them now. I don't know. But.
But there there are plenty of services out there that will do this and and they'll get it right for you whereas. You know, scanning them yourself, If I did it this way or if I set the resolution like that I might be happier in the end in 2 years and so now you're going back and I mean don't get me wrong obviously we're all about like learning geeky skills here. If it's truly a one time thing and you you just can't imagine needing to do it again.
Maybe this isn't a skill you need to or want to develop. If it is a skill you wanna develop, then by all means, you know, down the road. I will add though that if if you do send them off by all means, please please please particularly if it's a replaceable. Make sure you have some sort of a copy. Was when I was when I landed in A four on the deck of the USS Lexington my hook was in the wire and my wheel my main mounts were smoking and somebody snapped it at that perfect instant.
I sent the negative off to have it blown up into a poster and never saw it again. No. Oh, you gotta be kidding me. I mean, if this was, you know, magazine covered quality. Oh, I'm sorry old man. I'll suggest another one. I hope I've used Epson Scanners in the past, If you willing to spend a little bit more money they have one called the Epsom Fast Photo FF 680 W. Okay. Just wanted to read through. Yeah. Pretty much and and. Hey photo and document scanner,
If you're doing hundreds of these things this would perhaps save your sanity. There's no hope for mine folks but there is hope. For yours. You're buried in your monthly paper and all that stuff. David Sparks did a feel guide several years back. Call, Paperless and he talks about how to use a scanner to Digitize them and then. Yeah. Yeah and having AA sheep feeder for that kind of stuff makes a huge difference. My absolute,
Has, I mean, I bought it this way. It wasn't like it just came by surprise but it is, it is a multi-function device and it has a sheep feeder on it that will do double sided, Stuff. In fact, they'd even prince double sided. Having a double sided printer, In 2023 it's you are it sounds ridiculous for me to be excited about being able to print double sided. It is a game changer for all like there are some things for work that we just.
Need to have printed cuz we use them in a way that you know and being able to print stuff even set list for the band, Right? Like I mean, I print a set list before every gig cuz trusting an electronic device to can keep everybody on the same page. No bueno. You know it's gotta be but if I want to put the set list what I'll normally do for the band is.
You know I I print out one page that's the the set list and then a second page that is what I call my back pocket, Songs that if if we don't wanna play a certain song or we need extra songs like what's in the back pocket here it is well, The back pocket was always a second piece of paper and it was you know it'd start floating around the the stage pretty quickly now it's literally on the back you know I just I need it you know break glass in case of emergency flip paper in case of emergency
You're good to go. There it is. There's those tunes. So, having a double sided printer, I I can't stress enough how how how much we all, Appreciate that but The Sheet Peter is also a double sided sheep Peter so for things like those mortgage docs and and you know that makes a huge difference to be able to to just burner I'll do that I don't have that current capability
Well it the next time you need to do that come on over Pete you're you're welcome to use mine. There you go. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. And the other thing I thought about while you're talking was in that field guide is it that I got out of it Many years ago. It's like naming conventions. He talks about all that so you can go back and find your stuff. Nice I put a link to to Max Barkey's paper list field guide and in the show notes of Mackie Cup. Com so.
Last episode in 969 we were talking about cloud services and such.
And and listener Adam. About backups you were talking about iCloud Drive and Sonology Dr and it gave me an idea, Would it be crazy to just migrate all my documents that I keep an iCloud drive over to Cynology Dr because if I did this I could theoretically reduce my iCloud plan to a cheaper tier and save a bunch of money, What would the pitfalls of this be and yeah I mean I I sort of glossed over this as an option when we were having that conversation it is in a sense what I do,
That I I store my my sort of main documents archive that goes back decades is on my sonology drive and therefore sync to all of my devices for those of you that that don't yet know technology drive is, Is an app that you I mean it's a it's a server based thing that sits on your distation but it's also an app that you run on your Mac similar to Dropbox and it just keeps things in sync and you can of course selectively sync different folders on different devices and all,
And it's what I do and it allows me a to keep my data mind and be It's my storage not not someone else's that I have to pay a subscription for it. I choose my words carefully there because I do have to pay for the storage. I had to buy the hard drives and when they die, I gotta replace them. The only pitfall that I run into with this is that.
The integration is non native compared to iCloud Drive which means that a specifically on iOS on the Mac it's it seamless I don't even think about it an iOS. Technology drive has integration with Apple's files app.
Kind of wonky in it when you bookmark something sometimes the bookmarks disappear this is not specific to technology drive I have the same problem with Google Dr and Dropbox on the you know the integration with the files app it's just not, The the files app I guess maybe the APIs forward or something are just not perfect. I mean otherwise yeah it's totally fine I can I can navigate to things and get there and do what I need to do so.
I would try it out. If you've got a sonology, I'll try it out. And see, the other question is. Data are you storing in your iCloud drive that you could move to your technology drive and will it make a difference in the your storage requirements for iCloud Drive it may or may not depends on what kind of data and how much your storing on. Yes.
My other thought. Alright, so iCloud is obviously in the cloud. Yeah. And synology drive, if you use an algae drive, there is the potential for you to put it both on the. And. The cloud by heaven played with it and I should they call it hybrid cloud. Yeah, we wanna consider that to get some redundancy. Sure, surely some some storage redundancy, yeah, yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As well as iCloud drive.
And in in the last episode you said you increased your storage for iCloud drive, Not you did that not because your document storage started increasing but because your photos storage started increasing is that right, That's my suspicion. Yeah, okay. Well, I mean, you can look. Like iCloud Drive will tell you what, where, where your storage is being used, if you. I'd like to hear you. I club settings and I was like oh manage storage and I'm like oh wow I didn't know I was taking up that much.
Yeah cuz it'll it'll break it down too it'll show like what what percentage of it is photos and what is you know. On your sonology, Well you you know if you're, Apples photos on a network drive of any kind and have it be reliable it needs to be on a local drive. I also, Between any devices one way sync great you know have what's on your Mac sync to you know your network storage device so that you've got a backup, Awesome, Trying to do it another way is you know.
So, there is a sology photos app and apparently that works very well. I haven't tried, Yes totally separate app. Correct. Census anology app. It's a cynology app and you sync with that in a different way. You don't sync with that from from photos on the on the phone your photos library Can populate your sonology photos app and then it sinks it differently from there forward but yes there is that so. To their toss of kind of a one way sync from photos sent to another app yeah.
That's right, Yeah it's just the the danger of putting it on one drive in my basement and not having a failure or the house burned down and losing everything. Just isn't worth it to me. It's cheap insurance, Yeah. To lose photos of the kids. Oh, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I'm to iCloud That lives on my thing. I don't sync it from any of my devices. I just have it. See it locally.
We got time for one more thing. I'm gonna share in a recent episode John and Pete. We were talking about whether it was possible to stream. From our library stream video content from our libraries John you were saying you go to your library you rent blue rays from them. You know, we we have Libby for books where we can get books digitally without having to go to the library. Is there a way to stream from video content from your library.
And Andrew the 8764th specifically, In discord Via either canopy with a K or hoopla libraries usually have a download or streaming tab on their home pages and then list one or both of those services Though sometimes they'll get buried in the list of databases I'll put links to canopy and hoopla in the show notes, But really it's you know, check with your library because that's where this starts but but that would be the the thing to ask. So, thank you for for. For sharing that.
That's just how it be. Oh, this has been fun. Yeah. Interrupt the show release schedule or. We will see you next week. We had a fantastic. It was basically a home networking hangout. And Pete missed it. Yeah, I've I've scheduled the next one. I don't know what the topic is. It doesn't really matter what the topic is. It turns out we. I mean we will have one we will come up with one for the next one but really what what's great is just.
Getting a bunch of us together I think we had I don't know 30 maybe 40 people in there. On on Sunday yeah yeah it's fun the next one is at 4 PM eastern time on March 26. If you subscribe to the Mac Geekab calendar it's already there. If you subscribe to the Mac Geekab newsletter you will get a notification about it in your email box. And of course if you join the discord immacchi kebab. Com slash Discord we will make sure to put a reminder about it.
So, so yeah, we'll do, you know, about one a month on these and we'll have some fun with it. March 1 is March 26 Sunday. As we talked about at the top of the show put this subscribe to the calendar it will put it on your calendar in your timezone so that we're all actually in sync and you'll be there. At the right time. Thanks for thanks for hanging out with us folks. Thanks to cash fly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you.
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