It's time for Akikab and our opening quick tip comes from me I noticed this week my wife went and turned on what we call our lizard lamp which is actually the lamp that's in our lizard's tank And she, it's normally on a timer, right? But it's it's a it's a WiFi enabled lamp. So, it's, you know, linked to all of our various systems.
Did she turned it on because she had just fed the lizard and saw it was later etcetera. It didn't matter, Watch to remind me to turn off the lizard lamp later before we go to bed cuz now it's it's past the schedule. And I said wait a minute let's try something and I told the A lady. Turn off lizard lamp in 2 hours and she replied i will turn it off in 2 hours. Amazing. Unfortunately, More tips like this plus your questions answered today, On maki gab 969 for Monday February 20 2023. Music.
Welcome to the show where we share tips like that. We take your questions, we try to answer them, we share a cool stuff found both from you and from us,
We put it all together into an agenda that tries to make sense and maybe keep some things topically and thematically organized. Such that it makes it easy and fun, For every single one of us, including us, your hosts, and you know, me and Pete and John, Every single one of us learns at least five new things every single time we get together, Sponsors for this episode include yeah and sometimes people play that that sound when we learn something especially important.
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In here from Memphis today is pilot Pete and I hesitate to talk about the weather cuz you know no one cares and it's a podcast that it's passed anyway sorry but you won't really have to take.
Yeah, not that much but it's 38° here. It's fully 20° colder in Memphis today than it is in New England. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's, John I am I'm so proud of myself that I made sure that you were not muted when you said hello to everybody for the first time As the sis up here I I do reserve the right to to well the power anyway I don't know if I reserve the right but I certainly have the power to mute people And speaking of What's this update, We said happy fourth
Fifth anniversary to the launch of the first computer boat system computer bullet board systems are where John and I met.
Not quite 45 years ago but not much. Not much more recently than that. Yeah, not much less. Yeah But yes CBS in Chicago launched on February 16 45 years ago and Yeah it's where John I met they were Chat forum where you is generally speaking it was one person could connect at a time because we weren't using the internet from our homes the internet would barely existed at least as we know it today,
And the seeds of it existed perhaps it's better way to say it but but to connect with each other as just regular old civilians we used our modems to dial up using our phone lines so, Screaming at 300 bod baby. Yeah, 1200 is where I started but but yeah, yeah, I was sort of late to the game in in that. So, it got all the way to like 9000 or something. Oh, you got, you you went from 1200 bars I think you could do 56.
Go in one direction I I remember that but I like I was right about the time that I we all started moving to like I moved to an ISDN line and then very quickly after that to a cable modem and you know after the races but I feel like he was a 115 two modem. Yeah. But remember it was, Oh, yeah. I remember downloading, you know, what by today's standards would be super tiny and you know, it taking 20 minutes or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
Yeah. Yup. Crazy. Anyway, that's that's for us. That's where it started. So, I just wanted to to acknowledge that birthday. Yeah, I never saw other, Systems that pop up in the area. The two that I remember, so one, it was, was called diversa dial. And it basically let you And the other was our friend Steve actually wrote his own system.
Multi user chat system it was on AA PDP I think PDB computer that I think is boss Yeah, those are sort, those are sort of the anomalies, the exceptions that to the rule of of it being one person at a time, but yeah, seeing those things, That people wanted to be able to interact in real time with each other and obviously we've, you know, we've come. We've come full circle and then some on that. So. Yeah. Yeah. Rain out at IP addresses is it were He actually had to pay for long distance. Unless.
Let's move on to some questions. Well, wait, wait, wait, there was one at all, one other thing. Actually, Upgrade to Venture 13. Two. One which came out within the last week here, So So There is a website that I would like to prevent from ever loading and I cannot find out how to do it running mac OS 13. Two dot one's party 16 dot three.
When I search Google I do find how to do it on older versions of MacOS and safari but not the newer versions I had not wanted to do this on older versions and with the system settings change in Ventura I've not been able to find where to make the change. And yes, I feel your pain because I, And mostly instructions on how to do this say oh yeah go to parental controls it's like. System settings. Oh Huh but yeah I mean. So a nice find when I. Other ways of solving this problem,
Mine would have been like open DNS or something like that. Right. You know, some. Huh. I think. That will get you there. Yeah, Modifying your host's file there's a way you can modify your host's file oh. Domains or addresses go into the bit bucket. Oh yeah. Will you have a question becomes hang on Pete? While your formulating your thought, I just, I just wanna share if you wanna modify your host's file. I put a link in the show notes that tells you how to do this.
The file lives at Slash ETC slash hosts and you would do this most likely from the terminal you could do it other ways but but I put a link in the show notes for anybody that wants to experiment with that but yeah that would be one way of doing it.
Okay, yeah. Oh, so my question was, so I'm playing with buttons a little bit here. So, I may have missed it if he stated it. But you're doing that on an admin account. So, I'm assuming other accounts on the computer are then affected and wouldn't be able to go into the settings and change. The load. If they're not admin accounts. And then also tea and papa in our chat suggests using next DNS,
And I, this is my first time I think my first time hearing him next dance. It is entirely possible that we've actually that I've actually talked about it on the show. But it doesn't. It's exactly that and more so. Yeah, interesting. Alright, we'll put a link to that in the show notes. I'm looking at what the pricing is. You can do it for free.
Which might be enough, I always feel like I always feel super selfish cuz I feel like I'm the one that learns the most during this show cuz cuz I'm like, Involved in everything so I sort of like. Cool. Any more on that John or is it time to move on. I thought they were becoming more corporate. Are they? No. I haven't used it in a long time. I would use it early on to keep the kids from going to. Yeah. Websites and that kind of stuff. No. Okay, so they still have their home. You know when we,
When we had when we started this this thread but I was like I don't know if that's still exists so yeah and then the other thing cuz I can throw another link in here right is listen notes. Com that's how you search for content in a given podcast, Wasn't that the website? Listen notes. Yes. I mean the way I would search for it is just by going to Makib. Com
Because our search engine is so good now. Yeah, it's better, yeah. Look for, look for next DNS and no nothing comes up. So, we probably would have put it in the show notes if we talked about it. So, yeah There you go. But you're right. Listen notes is a great way to search podcast. Yeah. So, that's now in the show notes too
At MacKeeb. Com or if you wanna go directly there, remember, MGG. FM slash episode number get you there. So, MGG. FM slash 969, We'll get you there and we will get you to listener Roy. Since I recently bought a new Mac mini in my five and eight gigabyte sea gate hard drives are starting to fill up could you briefly explain the different types of hard drives and which. Hard drives or complete hard drive system you recommend for time machine backups and external data backups.
There are lots of different ways to go and and I don't think. For me for time machine I find that a direct attached drive is is best and that it's most reliable time machine the technology. Gets kind of wonky connecting to a drive over a network and that was even true when Apple was making network drives like the time capsule which was literally built for time machine, Time machine doesn't there's no smarts.
In it to keep from like having up a network drop cause corruption or things like that so when if you do wind up with a drop in in your connection for whatever reason to your drive. The backup can get corrupted pretty easily that happens all whole lot less when the driver is connected directly so. Any but but in my opinion any drive that you're gonna attach to your Mac is gonna be fine obviously SSTs are faster but of course more expensive on a dollars per gigabyte scale.
What I see most often from listeners and and people I talk with is that most folks are buying you know what I'll call inexpensive bus powered drives to use for time machine, I can't stress this next part enough, Yes you can compartmentalize things in APFS makes that even easier if you didn't know here's your bonus quick tip you know you can go into disc utility
And create different volumes. I'm not calling them partitions intentionally because they're no longer partitions. You can create different volumes on a drive and and with APFS you can specify, What the maximum amount of storage given volume is able to have you can even set minimum stores very cool so you can do that, And get some big mondo drive that you use for time machine but time machine will fill up whatever you give it so just know that going in so,
Like if you're if your internal drive is one terror, My advice is, you know, buy a two terabyte bus powered SSD and let that be your time machine drive. You're gonna have enough space for history even if your drive is almost full and if your drive's almost but like you're your boot drive's almost full.
Often I've often run time machine, On a drive that is exactly the same size as my boot drive so one terabyte boot drive I've run a one terraby time machine I know that I'm not gonna fill up my boot drive you know passed about 80% and if. Bryan and Rowan the chat room is asking SSD versus hard drive and yeah I mean why not it you know those those smaller two to four terabyte bus powered SSDs or relatively inexpensive these days they run quietly
Which I really like. I hate hearing a hard drive going. I I would say yes this to you over hard drive for sure, Yup. So I do time machine backups. Well but I do multiple things so why I do time machine on my sonologies one machine goes on one goes other. I then use hyper backup on the technology to back up the entire contents of that to the other one because I have enough room to do that.
And on my third thing so taking your advice this time around and then I do a carbon copy cloner to an external SSD yeah, Okay so I wanted I wanna dig into one of the things that you said cuz this is interesting to me, Why is it that you because I think we're gonna surface something important here why is it that you. Clone or hyper backup your backups to your other sologies. Partitions or or.
Machine would say hey there's something wrong with your time machine file you're gonna have to start from scratch and I'm like oh great yeah. What if I do version to backups of my sonology. And what I would do to fix the problem it usually worked is I would restore an older. Time machine backup file and then try it again and it worked. So I remember when you told me about this initially a number of years ago and I was like oh my gosh that's brilliant and I started doing that. And then.
You don't need to do that anymore Because BTRFS onology is a lot like APFS on the Mac it's the newer file system and one of the things it brings with it similar to what we get with APFS on the mac is snapshots.
I turned on snapshots for my time machine shared volume And now if and when it gets corrupted I can roll back day by day by day until I find the one That is no longer corrupted i don't have to be copying data across the network I don't need multiple copies I mean it snap shots do take up more space for sure so you have to be aware of you know you just have to manage that and and the the,
Course technology is much better at managing letting you control how snapshots are managed then than mackless is but, But yeah so that that's my that's my advice. Hey I have I have one more met a piece of advice that might negate the whole last you know 6 minutes we talked about this but but if you have more to add please do because it's relevant I mean No I'll I'll I'll have to enable that. Yeah.
So this whole conversation might be mute, With the fact that in McAlisen with the revamp system settings time machine is no longer a first class citizen it lives buried. Under settings system settings general. And then time machine is like at the bottom of that list somewhere. If you search for it, you'll find it and it's, I think it is one of the ones that if you write click on system settings, yeah, it it shows up as a first class citizen there,
So, whatever that's about. But, you know, It doesn't it wouldn't surprise me if less unless people are using time machine or backups Think about it with iCloud Drive sinking iCloud photos iCloud music library our iMap mail whether that's iCloud mail or or you know Gmail or whatever cloud based you know mail, There really isn't much that any of us store locally that isn't by default synced somewhere,
Despite what a lot of purest might want to tell you they're not entirely wrong but they're not entirely right when they say that sink isn't backup. In a sense sink is backup especially sink with versioning where you have a little bit of history to the sinking and and some you know some of that which a lot of this does so. Yeah, I don't know. Like, I'd be curious.
To hear how many people, Use some sort of traditional backup religiously like you know time machine or carbon cut the corner whatever and and no longer do, Or maybe you have a family member maybe like maybe you're like us and you're still holding on to the past of must back up because we've learned our lessons the hard way, So I'm I'm curious you know do you have family members that that perhaps don't participate in that same backup regimen and.
Have had catastrophic failures and recovered from them because that's really what I'm looking for is the the person who doesn't back up, Or even if you have had a catastrophic failure but you haven't needed your backups because the the automatic sinking of everything just sort of took care of you. So, that'd be curious. Feedback@Makika. Com. Wait we said feedback that my keycap suck. I think it was feedback@MackieP. Com. Well, I believe that's right. Close the phone. And what else one drive.
Do you you not use technology drive for your stuff John oh no yeah I use that too so I back up. Technology drive. So, back ups everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I mean, we, you know, we came up in a time where bulletin boards were a thing and backups were the only backup. You know if you weren't intentionally backing up your machine. You didn't have a backup of your machine, right? Like that that was just a fact of life then.
The day I got a zip drive. Should've been the day I started doing backups. It was not but it should've been, Data loss scenario for me to actually start using that but yeah I have one drive and one place for a backup that was like panicea tape drives were the thing for a long time I managed a lot of tape drives for. You know, for corporate environments and and you know, they would swap out the tape or I would be contracted to go in once a week and you know, swap out tapes or whatever.
But but like I I. The the computing world now like getting a laptop you know you figured I was gonna say a college student but I bet very few college students are getting. Our first time laptop user. So, let's say a middle school student, you know, and and then a high school student. Are they backing up. You know the most important advice and we kinda cover it is to have three backups using different methods could you know which one is corrupt until, Yes.
This is a super duper and time machine around different drives. I'm kinda the same way. I used, are you still use time machine but I use it like on a thumb drive and then another USB power drive and then The drovo. Yeah. The good old days, what did we, what was the name of that 1 day if that then went commercial and hosed us? We had drove trash plans, Crash plan. Yeah but that was kinda cool. No. But yeah I'm gonna get back to using sology to.
To do all my backups but cuz I found that getting into it on Drobo. It's a dying technology. It's no longer sport. Oh, did trouble? I think as as of last week, the company doesn't exist anymore. I think the company shuttered. Don't do your own research on that. Hey, but I'm pretty sure, The hyper backup between the drovo and the. You know it was, But yeah, I'm pretty sure it's it's they're done.
Hey Facebook sleep last at the towards the end of last year, right? Well, yeah, but that's, I mean, bankruptcy is just a financial restructuring of your debt, right? Yeah. You know, so, a company's But sometimes I'm just gonna say companies survive and Is a great way Yeah to to get your, But i don't think they'd succeeded in this because the Wikipedia page.
You know, that's pretty. That's pretty good sign, Yes, Yeah they do just didn't didn't evolve with the time in a way that allowed them to stay relevant in in there for profitable so, Stay relevant in moving forward into things that people actually use unlike backups you've got a tip about drying out your AirPods don't you Pilot Pete. From listener Dan. To share? I do. Yeah, I do. So, yeah, Toilet, Man, that's good In sanitizing it. I was left with a very wet AirPod that had jumped audio output
I figured this was due to the water still trapped inside. After doing some research, I found that you can use dessent packets, The little silk the little silica gel package you find in clothes pill bottles to help extract moisture from the air pot, I had a few discont packs from medications. I'm still currently taking. So, here's what I did. I placed four packs in a very small plastic bag along with my AirPod and squeezed out as much air as I could.
From the bag and let it sit overnight and when I walk the next morning, my AirPods sounded completely back to normal. Still needed to be charged after being left out all night. But I'm so happy I didn't need to spend a bunch of money replacing my AirPods. So, going forward, I'll be saving my desktop packs. For another potential waterlog AirPod and I hope this helps someone else who gets their AirPods wet and doesn't know what to do
Keep up the good work. Very appreciative of all the tips. I've learned from your community thus far Third generation and the AirPods Pro Splashed on and sweat a pond and that's what I think don't submerge him don't swim in him don't take a shower in him that kind of stuff but I suspect that that IPX four rating assisted in and then getting the the remaining or the water out with the deskant bank. And by the way don't eat those desktop packs no keep those away from your your pets and your kids.
I worked with this guy was right you out from the inside out it worked I think it's it's interesting cuz I always used to keep rice like AA bag of rice at the ready to like throw things into And rice will act in in a similar way. I I wonder which is better So if you know. I've always felt better about rice because it it's like the small little particles and so it like you're getting, It right up against the edges of the thing whatever it is,
But maybe that doesn't actually matter. I don't know. Yeah. So, you know, somewhere recently, I read that that was kind of a myth that Rice doesn't work but I'm like, yeah, you know, I I don't know and I I can't back that up. I couldn't tell you where or why. I can verify it works good. I can verify works to a certain extent so.
Like AA little little chemist when I was a kid and I discovered something I think it was a magic kit that I had and one of the tricks involved putting rice in the bowl and doing something and I got bored with a don't understand it so I poured the rice down the drain. Don't do that,
Why is the drain backing up? I'm like, oh, Yeah it's like the Roto Ruter man like you I've always saved my my desktop packets I'm, Hey I'm not embarrassed to it it meant why but it I'm not sure if I should share the stories that would as to why but I will I, when I was at City Bank, I worked with this guy who I will describe as an old hippie. That's not entirely accurate but it's close enough for this story.
And and he was like he was the chief tech support guy for a floor I I did some different stuff I was doing a lot of page layout and things like that at the time. Being techy nerds, you know, I, you know, bonded all the time. And 1 day he you know he had got like a bunch of hard drives or whatever and he handed me a bunch of desktop packets and he said yeah yep put those with your unmentionables. I'm like. Oh
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This is great when I just wanna send someone's phone number or address before we copy and paste their sender screenshot now you can just uncheck anything that you don't want to include with a contact. And sure enough, now, I found out something weird with this Dave though. So I tried to do this on my Mac and I'm like where where's where's the. And what I'm doing something really wrong here but but the way that you get.
And then and then you get radio but and then if you if you click on the that button you then get radio buttons for all the fields for that contact and then you can choose. But it's not on Mac OS only iOS. Huh sure why that. Safari over time has gotten to be more and more the same app on on both platforms right and we're seeing that happen I mean it you, You know iOS and and was sort of cherry rig to make.
Yet happened with contacts in fact If anything it's been going the other way where we've recently saw the ability to edit groups and such added to the iPad OS contacts app things that were previously only doable in the mac But the two have not merged and so yeah those features that are only there on iOS You know there there has been no reason Yeah.
Yeah, interesting find. I didn't know that existed. I, I, I like that a lot better because it's it like, and I've shared contacts on iOS. I've never noticed that little, That that little thing. What is it? What's the what's the name of it? It it. Good stuff. In the last episode we talked about security keys and and hardware keys. And lawyer jeff,
He says and I wanted to let you know about my experience in using physical security keys on Apple hardware since the 16. Three update for iOS, On the day it was announced I purchased two ubiqui five NFC devices they have both USB and NFC connections. Apple requires a minimum of two physical security keys and that's in case you lose one. Alright, I'd like this already. You add each device by going to settings your name password insecurity.
He says understand it you will not need to use the hardware key to log in or use any of your devices in normal use, The UBK simply replaces the six digit code that Apple sends to all of your connected devices or in his case used to send all of your connected devices that form of two factor authentication. He says that.
It's for those circumstances where Apple wants to confirm that it's really you. I get this every week when I log into podcast connect cuz it uses my Apple ID. They wanna send the thing to my That it's ridiculous. I could can I tell it that I remember like it's still me. But anyway, Since the older method used by Apple was to send a code via iMessage but that was phased out in the past few years for that sixth you know six digit, Thing that he mentioned he said so instead of the code popping up
A message box now appears for him telling him to connect your hardware key and then you just tap the UB key on the back of your phone and if see or insert the USBC and the key into your iPad or Mac
It then authenticates your identity and continues doing what you were trying to do. That's all the key does. So it replaces the code, He he has a lot more to say about this but I that was the part that I thought was really relevant like Where is the where do these keys fit into my apple centric life where Jeff, Tells us where cuz he's using it. So, you don't need it to log in. You don't need it to authenticate when you're. Very cool. Huh. Call. Thank you lawyer Jeff. Good stuff. I like this.
John Gary wrote in with some advice for us. Yeah. Yeah. So Gary says I decided to take advantage of the extra security that outlaw Apple offers and use a physical security key, I ordered a ubiqui five CI and the UBO five NFC.
I went into the upload east settings on my iPhone 14 and followed the steps after setting up the security keys I noticed that on my iMac I was being asked for my Apple ID password by the podcast app So I put it in clicked okay and it kept popping up and even if I would click cancel and quit the podcast app, Out of desperation I restarted the mac and i thought the dialogue box popping up is gonna prevent restart but thank you
Thankfully, it did not. If you follow my YouTube, lead and use these security keys, make sure you restart your Mac afterwards so you don't get caught. Cool stuff and yeah so yeah this is it's interesting I'm curious to see.
Not just experiment with security keys. Well, If you're experimenting with them and then, you know, like 3 to 6 months from now, are you still using them or have you abandoned them for some reason or another, You know we choose our place on that continuum between ultimate security and ultimate convenience.
Actually quite a bit of convenience. In fact, I would, you know, I would like it better, You know like and then I don't have to think about it that wouldn't be a bad thing but you lose that key, And life starts to get. The other one you take and your travel bag with you you lose the the travelling one while you're traveling yes there's still one at home in your Mac but it ain't with you,
So, now, what do you do? Write those kinds of things start to that's what enters my squirrel brain. So, you know, so you're temporarily. Out of luck. Potentially, you have to replace it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I don't yeah that that's what I'm saying is it's it's like I just I don't know. I wanna know if you just get to forget all that security stuff. I just used the word password
Or monkey monkey is a good one and no one will ever figure it out. No, no, no. The problem with either of those ideas Pete is they they make me use two hands, To type in my thing. So, 123123, and the reason it's 123123, and not 1234, Is well, if you can get away with a three character password which I think you can. Then, 123, is great. Cuz then you're just using three fingers, super efficient. If you need four characters, you do 1231. Now, you don't even have to move your hand.
See how I actually justified using. I actually sold that like I'm I I'm not serious about that folks I I like that sounded too good coming out I really started to believe it. I could just change them all. Hey, Brian. Yeah. Yeah and it's interesting how the two different mechanisms. So, yeah. So, there's past key and a security key and make sure.
Make sure you separate the two because they're different. So, yeah, so I went to I found an article and it said, yeah, these sites are using it and one of the sites. Should have used that but best buy so I have a best buy account so I'm like okay let me go there so you you go to their site. You get the sign in prompt and one of the options is sign in with a pass key. So, I'm like, okay, that's cool. Let me try this. And then what happened is I got a dialogue and this was the.
Part that I think could be potentially confusing. It's like choose how you like to sign in. Do you wanna use an iPhone, iPad, or Android device. Really wanna use a security key. Interesting. Interesting. Hey, I chose the first option because I don't have two security keys. Right. So, I can't do that yet. Right, right? And I think I ordered another one Just so I can do it with the the physical key my fear with requiring. The physical key Dave is. You're out of luck, man. Yeah. It's interesting.
And it asked me for my email address and then it said you don't have a pass key on this device so you have to so do I have to sign into my account and add a pass key to it is that the key. We've had is the route I took. Okay. So, I would, I would have to go in, I think that's the path that I eventually took. So it wasn't entirely.
Yeah they could do this better like I I I'm shocked that they aren't just coming to me right now that I've logged in, And saying, you know, go like do you wanna enable a passkey. Yeah, sign him without a password using pasty. Okay, so that that yeah, you have to log in for Best Buy, you have to log in and set it up. When I did it with cash flow, which is what we talked about last week, I. I ate it like after I logged in you know recently it just.
Boom. You know, like, do you wanna set up a pass key? Like, yes. So, but I'm also on an a 2019 Intel Imac. I don't know that this device would support past keys like how would I authenticate them? I'm I'm now really curious about this because I I can't do like if I say create your past key. It says do you wanna save a pass key for this pass keys were saved yes okay so I just type in my password so you know 1231.
And and then it says, okay, now it says I'm also. You're all set My pesky right so if now if I go to say sign in with a pass key it ask for the email address so I still need to give it my email address do I identify me and then It comes up and says i have a pass key do you wanna do that I authenticate with my super insecure password. Of 1231, and then boom, I'm in. Okay. Alright that's pretty cool,
And then the others, you know, there's obviously Google Authenticator, a lot of places we're using that but is that that's that's totally different. That's just for your your two factor thing but if the two factor goes away with a pass key because you now have this You know that that now locks to you. So way more secure than a than a multifactor kind of thing because if I got access to your Google Authenticator or if you're like me and you store your.
You know, instead of using a separate app. Now, if I get access to your one password or. If I get access to your last passport something that would be far more likely and timely. You know, with past keys, you need the individual keys. So, I but really, Then I just need access to your keychain on your Mac I mean it like there is still a single point of failure. If I if I'm wrong on that. Yeah. Feedback. Yeah, no, I think, I hate you, right. I, as part of a quick tip, I turned off my.
To see if it because it dries me crazy sometimes. 9 hours 9 hours later i turned it back on it was driving me nuts I was sending text messages to people and it was like why do I look like I'm typing, Back in like, you know, the third grade. Yeah, the third grade or something. I got it. Yeah. It was like, okay, yeah, no. I see why auto capitalization is on by default
Yes, there are those moments when it drives me crazy but there's many, many, many more moments where it saves my butt and I rely on it. So, yeah, no, that didn't last. Hey, Dave, while you're following up from last week, guess what? Can I throw a couple in? Yeah. Please. Go ahead. You guys talked about, PDF filing yeah PDF expert had the same exact problem and I just ignore it cuz I'm in a hurry to get this open and signed and yeah you guys should use Onyx use Onyx.
Ran it. It it rebuilt that launch. Database and the launch D and boom. Done. Fixed it. Instantly, Yeah, The other one was talking about Apple Pay in international travel. I wanted to bring up two points. One is if you're going to South Korea, don't count on Apple. Pay, it's a holy on Tube City or if Samsung, which is. Not apple Google google Google pay,
I've never found it there. And then but the other thing I would suggest to people is make sure you have a credit card because it was a charge charge. Your credit card. Make sure you have a credit card that does not charge you international transaction fees. Cuz they're they're skimming off the top of the exchange rate if they're charging you those fees. Yes. Don't let them do that. Yes. So, yes. No, that's a great I when you brought that up.
Pre show man I I was like how did I, How have i traveled internationally twice in the last you know 8 months and not share that tip with everybody here because I share it with my family like before we go away I'm like check with your credit card so you know which one's not to use You know when you're there.
It was, you know, had no no, whatever the three%, whatever it is, and it was like some outrage. So, it's outrageous. Yeah, it's outrageous. Yeah, exactly, Hey speaking of resurfacing advice from a prior show. John back in 1946 actually. That we see frequently in Maco Es Ventura you restart. You're startup apps launch which includes things like you know bartender and and default folder and things like that.
And then you start getting messages saying you know bartender needs accessibility permissions or default folder needs full disk access or whatever it needs. And you go and look and it has them and it's like guys why are you telling me it doesn't have it. And there's this TCC database. That needs help That was older pre dating macros Ventura that said there was a command line that you could use while your macros up and running to reset various bits of that.
It it doesn't, I've I've not found that to actually solve the problem because I've had this problem since we talked about it twice once on this machine which we talked about in 964 and then, This past week on my Mac Mini down in the office so the intel machine are the Mone machine rather.
What I found is you have to, The TCCD file in in one other that sits right next to it I'm not gonna go through the instructions here because it involves safe mode in terminal and all of that stuff but there is an article. And I can't stress this enough either have a second Mac next to you with the article up
Or print it out. I've printed it out. I've now used the print out twice. Once up here and once downstairs but delete that database. Now, the next time you start up Everything will ask you for that permission because the database is empty Let's say. So, my advice, I think. Venture that screw this up with the early builds and is now better I I don't wanna go out on a lemon say that it's actually. And so but i think if we had venture prior to let's say 13 one or maybe even 13 two,
It it like we're stuck with whatever that issue was. Wiping out the database, letting it rebuild it with today's venture seems to be the thing. So, my advice is. I would. Course if you're not seeing any issues I would understand why you don't wanna go through this headache. My guess is you might wind up with this headache down the road so you know do it proactively that that's my advice but but certainly know that it's it's doable. Yavour, I mentioned the.
That would let me stream like a commercially available device that would let me stream air play to it I mistakenly That it would do airplane two it will not the audio engine beef I only does airplane which means it can't do the multi room audio through airplane can do it it's own way but not through airplane however dog and Allison. Have a better answer for us and John you're gonna tell us about that.
Oh, well, I will, I, I will, I will share it if if you, if you are not prepared. Okay, cool. Great. Alright, there's solution. Is the Belkin sound form connect? Airplane two adapter and airplane two receiver. Wireless streaming for Apple devices to Bluetooth speakers optical in three. Five millimeter speaker inputs for iPhone 14 13. Yeah that's the device and it's it's way less expensive than the. Then the audio engine one this is $6280.
That's pretty good and it has yeah it has an audio out so you could go to an RCA if you wanted I mean it's got it's got. Man, I make it hard to see. Yeah, it's kinda analog audio out and edit it and the digital. Yeah. Nice find. I like it. I like it. I like it. Pretty good. It's good man. Alright. Hey we're sort of in cool stuff found here so we're just we're gonna go for it we're we're jumping the cool stuff out John you wanna you wanna share the the next one from. Yes let's do that.
Roger Him. Episode nine to 68 on password managers and your frustrations, Which is a premium key pass app for Apple ecosystems This app lets you decide what you want to do with your data and is transferable to other platforms should you wish and also it will use local and Wow. The user experience is great. It integrates with safari auto fill. No I didn't actually use the the the product itself but I did download and check it out and,
So you start it up and it's like while I don't have any data in me it's like well yeah that's cuz you have an imported it. How do you import it? There's a little button that says add database and here are the options. Add from files add from one drive database add from drop box database. Let me see access SFTP database add web dab database and then you can import from one password last pass Apple slash iCloud origineric CSV carpa separated values.
Huh. Here's what I like about it Davey's girl by pretty quickly on the screen for those watching but the pricing you can do subscription but you can do a one time payment yeah.
I I was looking here right it's well it's it's it's free to start out and and as they point out you're missing some convenience features so they definitely follow the premium model and it's four bucks a month, 19 a year or 80 bucks for that one time payment the convenience features are definitely features that you're gonna want. It gives you the ability to sort of get rolling. Things like face or face idea, touch ID, Don't.
Libraries like I wanna like you know I would love to have I mean I do have AA library that's like the Dave and Lisa password library where There are logins that she and i share for certain you know things like our our So I don't see that they have a, That. That that's great. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Nice fun. Nice fine. I like it.
Keeps us rolling. I have found a thing that I've I've actually been using in the office from Target there sustainable energy harvesting ego smart keyboard, And what that means it's it's a full size keyboard, So, you know, it is wireless and it is also solar powered. So it charges itself with.
I you know I don't use it outside and it has stayed charged for me so there you go and it's also in the EcoSmart realm it's made with like 85% recycled materials, But it's got a nice touch to it it's it's much quieter than my clacky keyboard that I have in the office, I can't have a clocky keyboard obviously appear in the studio cuz otherwise you'd hear clack clack clack clack all the time but I have a clocky one in the office which I really like except,
When I'm on like Zoom calls and I wanna take notes or you know send a text message that I don't want the people on the Zoom call to know about, And so I have this nearby and I just grab it and I bring it over and I use it while I'm on my calls and it's been it's been fantastic and sometimes it stays there cuz it's a comfortable keyboard to use so.
It's pretty cool I put a I put a high pass filter AKA a roll off the low end EQ on on your channel there pizza hopefully that the table bounding isn't, Pounding is in 2000 yeah bomb I cheer into it but so. Something like those lanes to create to put map a command key Oh, for sure. Oh, okay. Yeah, I mean, it it's fully Mac happy. So, I mean, okay. So, yeah. It has, it has a command key on it but command option, you know, control or command alt control whatever you wanna call it.
So, yeah, no, it it's it's my old eyes. I was looking to look like a windows, It's both it you know it's like most keyboards these days it it'll it'll map to either but yeah no it works great and then it's it's got some function keys which even Have like auto signed, you know, mute, volume up, down, brightness, play, pause, forward, fast, forward, reverse, you know, so yeah, it's it's got It's fully. Yeah no it's great it's you know out of the box it's it's a it's great yep.
Does it? No, I think it's it's a Bluetooth only. Okay, correct. It is it is a nearest, yeah, I haven't, that's a good question. I don't. I didn't try to plug it in to my Mac I should look. But yeah, no, I think I think it that is correct. It is Bluetooth only. I I don't have it up here. I have it downstairs. But but yeah, yeah, Bluetooth, It's fine. So, yeah, Ah you wanna take us to the next one John you wanna tell us about kaleidoscope from Todd. Over.
It sucks because i can't find anything and never have a consistent method of organizing my files. I've copied files and folders around without a care. My day is today.
App has saved me dozens if not hundreds of hours it will deeply scared folders on your mat comparing the folders again she each other making it dead easy to easily different equal and One MPthree file that is different and it is buried eight folders deep clariscope will sniff it out and let you know It's also deeply scared text files and images think of kaleidoscope as a nice gooey for diff. I want my it is a pricey app but I happily purchased it instead of manually sifting 2000's of files.
So thank you for singing. We will sing them for you. Yeah, no, and he's not wrong. I mean, it it's 150 bucks or 100 4999 US. So, that that is not inexpensive for sure, But. No. Yeah. That's pretty good. No, that looks cool. It looks, yeah. Yeah, it looks cool. Speaking of cool things that I'd never heard of before Alex S. And. He says with peak it's the ultimate Mac OS quick look extension you can copy text jump to lines and pages and search documents from Quick Look.
That's a pretty big deal like to be able to like find a file space bar and now actually like interact with it in some meaningful ways without having to open it up it's a brings popular system extension keyboard shortcuts to peak. No you can select all copy search jump to line scroll to end scroll to beginning. Big Z labs is what is who makes peaks. So, thank you for sharing that Alex. I like it. It's good stuff. What's next John? You wanna bring us to O'Donnell found WiFi Porter.
So when we were talking about. Of your biz card. He, he thought of something similar. Oh, there's a little different. Okay. Anyways, WiFi Porter. Com sells a $39 device that you set up. To use your WiFi network allow me to create a QR code. Which your visit visitors only have to scan As always you only need To log in the first time it is an attractive piece of pine wood that you can leave sitting on your desk hang on the wall etcetera.
And I checked it out Dave and I think it does more than he stated so not only does it give you a QR code. To log into the WiFi but I believe it all also does NFC. That's cool. And if you want it in Walnut. Who the funk walnut is 20 bucks more. Ah I like it. That's great if you have a nearby or a business or you know. Yeah. Alright. Yeah, I like the like the the bash we were just that.
Me a new Dave. Yeah. Our host put up QR code to get on his network. Oh yeah. Super smart. I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago after we talked about it here in the studio. I printed at Hughe eight and a half by 11 QR code it it says on the bottom join the WiFi here in the studio I'd stuck it to the inside of the door. And I hope to never have to hear someone I know well my answer to the question hey what's the WiFi,
Is just pointed the door. Like there you go. It's all right there. She, Dave, if you just put it over the, over your head, behind the drum set.
You won't even get the question. No, you're not wrong. I could just like paste it on. You're right Yeah if I put it somewhere that's like super obvious to see cuz you're right they wouldn't see that until they if they actually turn around and look at the door they don't know what I'm gonna do until they're leaving I'm moving it to the beer fridge Pete that's gonna solve the problem,
Done. Yep. Yep. They finally signed out of my way. I need beer. They find the beer fridge at first. Then they ask about the WiFi. So yeah. It's a great idea Yeah. No, you're not. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. There's a show title. They find the beer fridge first. Yep they sure do. Beer fridge before WiFi, Yeah. There you go. And a suggestion for any of these solutions cuz I think somebody sent us we may get to it in another episode. There is a way to create a QR code to log in to your
Oh, go ahead and share that. Yeah, I know. We're we're here for sure. Yeah, I forgot who shortcuts. Yeah so if you go to shortcuts on your phone and search for WiFi it's gonna find a shortcut. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's the thing though, it prompts you. It prompts you for the SSID and the password. Oh Oh I see what you're saying my caution is yeah if you're gonna deploy this well why I mean I'm I'm curious I think.
Encrypted. So if I scan that bar code maybe using a third party barcode scanner I think I may be able to see the username and password while we're. I mean you just specify so I'm I'm just offering a caution Once your iPhone joins the network you can go into settings and see the password for the network. So like they they have the password. Yeah, for sure. So, it really the question is, would you give guests to your house.
Your main WiFi password or would you make them join a guest network and if if the answer is a guest network then put the guest network on the thing if the answer is no I'll just let them join it's totally fine then then yeah then then that's the that's the other answer. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, yeah, like my family, they have, you know, my devices and stuff like that and I let them on the main network because I trust them. Well, also, You probably know this they've but there is a way to share.
Oh yes. I also like that was neat but I learned but apparently one of my devices I am not in the contact list so I didn't, Set up the prompt for that and I'm like, oh man, oh, interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but again, your sharing your your primary WiFi network. I've, I've never run a guest network here. I've always just given people, Access to my my WiFi network. I mean, it's it's that same kind of thing like if they're at my house. You know the the I don't know. Maybe maybe I'm being.
Hasn't caused a problem yet you know. I feel like there's. Friends are friends aren't they, Who's gonna hack the guy that filled the beer fridge? That's really the question. Maybe that is the the showtime. I don't know I don't know. Well, the tea and papa suggested putting it on your kick drum, you know, I I could. Yeah Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's not, that's a pretty good idea. I like that. I think that's gonna be the end guys. It's just how it be. It's just. Paris.
Yeah, maybe, maybe. He may be dead now but she was convinced that he did not die then and there's a lot of. There's a lot of. I never. About 8 years ago I was at South by Southwest I was at a session. It was just him and his manager and Robbie was like. Talking about I think a new book that he had at the time would ever but it really there were only maybe 25 of us in the room at the session which sort of blew my mind.
And it became a Q&A a very relaxed Q&A. It was very much like a. And somebody asked about American prayer which is the album that they recorded the music to underneath Jim's poetry. And it was right about that that time that you know Jim reportedly passed away. What was fascinating to me was Robbie the way he was talking he's like oh yeah after Jim. Left us and there was this pregnant pause.
Where like it wasn't like he was choked up about the you know the fact that his friend had passed away 30 years prior or anything it was he was him stopping, And choosing his words very carefully. As cuz he didn't say. Any sibling gym left us and that was that was it. There's also a bank teller in Los Angeles. Now, remember, you know, this is back before the internet. Existed. Or at least in any meaningful way.
Someone matching Jim's physical description came in days after he reportedly died in in Paris but of course. She didn't know this. The bank teller didn't know this cuz the news hadn't gotten to her. And withdraw a bunch of money from Jim's account. And it was like, well, yeah, it was just like Jim was here with drawing money from his account. Like, happened all the time. So I'm I'm I misremembering the name Anne mispronouncing it so, That way you can't find it, You don't know? You don't know.
I believe in that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I didn't up until that day and I actually like as soon as the session was over, I like ran out and called Lisa. I was like, you might be right. I think you're right. I think you're right. I think you're right. That was. Yep. Thanks everybody for listening. Thanks to cash fly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you even the bandwidth for the extra segment about my crazy hairbring Jim Morrison theory.
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