It's time for Matt Geekab and listener PC Unix in our discord brings us our opening quick tip of the week, He says I have been annoyed for some time by the five minute increments for setting the time in reminders, I knew I could create the reminder with my voice and say at 6 o 2 a.m But I didn't know how to edit an existing reminder with more precise minutes than every five minutes which is what the little roller gives me. Turns out it's easy. Double tap on the time and type what I want.
Why do I want this? To get certain reminders just before another. More tips like this plus your questions answered today on MacGeekAb 972 for Monday, March 13th, 2023. 2023. Music. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show where we share tips like that one, we share your questions and answer them as best we can. We share your cool stuff found. We put it all together into an agenda. The goal being that each and every one of us learns at least
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And here, I have no idea where I am. I think I'm in Aachen, Germany. Just came in from Hong Kong. It's Pilot B. Glad to be with you guys. Wow. Wow. This is, this is the, it's not often that we're in three different time zones, but, but it seems today that is the case. Yeah. Fascinating. Yeah. Yeah. Fascinating. I think I'm in three different time zones all by myself right now. All right. Yeah, I know the feeling. We're still recording here on Eastern Time.
Speaking of Eastern Time, we like to do these Hangouts every now and then. We're trying to do one a month, and I wanna get ahead of alerting you all to the next one. It will be on Sunday, March 26th at 4 p.m. Eastern time. It is in our calendar. Excuse me, you can subscribe at matkeekab.com slash calendar. You can join our Discord at matkeekab.com slash Discord. The Zoom link will be in there. We can't post it publicly on social media because otherwise we spend most of the hangout
just fighting off the script kiddies. So I don't know what the topic of this one will be. We're still working that out in Discord. Mostly it's up to you. So join our Discord. We'll chat about whatever it's gonna be, but the Hangouts are, it's nice to have a topic and we will have a topic, but really it's just nice to get the community together. So that's coming up Sunday, March 26th. And with that, I think it's time to dive back into the Quick Tips. John F. Braun, how about, how about Adam?
Um, sure. Excuse me. Um, Adam says, I just discovered something I don't think has been mentioned on your show. I have many screens full of apps on my iPhone, so I wasn't sure where a newly downloaded app was. I figured searching would be the best way to find it, so I do the pull down to activate search. I type the name and find the app, and then on a whim, I tried this. I press and held on the app, as I would in a normal app screen to make it pop and get larger and prepare to move it to another
location. The search screen went away and took me to the app's location on whatever screen it was located. I could then drag it as normal and relocated it to where I wanted it to be. This would be great if, for instance, you have your apps organized a certain way and you download a new one that you want to add to a folder of apps on your first screen. This is common knowledge, and why haven't I ever tried this before? No, I don't think it's common knowledge. I've never tried it.
Yeah, no, it's a good tip. I found that the place that apps go when you download them isn't as predictable as it used to be. I always looked on my last screen and it usually would put it there, but even I had, I downloaded an app recently and I couldn't find it. I could have searched like this tip here, but here's another one that worked for me. All right, if you keep scrolling to the right, eventually you're gonna get to the app library.
Right? Yes. And there's a recently added bubble. So that's another way. You know, your most recently added apps will show up there. So either one will work. I like it. Yeah, I guess it was two years ago. So I might be due for this again. But when the 12 mini came out, or when the 12s came out and I got my 12 mini, I decided to start fresh on my phone, right? Not preemptively, like not migrating stuff over, and certainly not preemptively
loading apps that I thought I might need, right? I would only load an app that when I when I actually was going to use it. And that it was a good thing. Like it was an easy process, mostly painless, and it allowed me to kind of re-experience the phone interface, as it currently was or is. And one thing I found was having my own bespoke app folders and the endless home screens, like I have no time for that in my life and no need for it.
I have one home screen and the second page is the app library. And I launch things by searching, I don't dig around on my phone for stuff. So when new apps are installed, they appear nowhere for me, other than in the app library. They don't appear on the home screen. And I've found that great. I mean, obviously we're all different. We all use our phones differently. But if you haven't started from scratch on an iPhone in many, many years, I recommend letting yourself go through that process.
I mean, don't stop everything and do it right now. But the next time that opportunity presents itself, get a new phone or you've got to, you know, you've got to wipe it for some reason. Think about, just let it ride. Thoughts on that? Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. Richard A. in the Discord asks, he says, do you have any shortcuts on your home screen, Dave? I don't. There are really on my phone, there's only one shortcut that I use regularly, and it's, my nap time shortcut.
The part that really bothers me though, is that Apple installed their own shortcut called Naptime, and with iOS 16. And it's a very different shortcut than mine. And so when I tell Siri Naptime, it loads apples. I tried deleting apples, it came back. I tried renaming apples, it came back. We will nap with our app. You will be napping. Exactly, right. And so I had to change mine and now I call mine Catnap because it had to be something different.
Like there was no way that my shortcut could be called nap time anymore. And I got no, obviously no notification of this, but that's the only shortcut that I use. And as you just heard, I invoke it with Siri. So yeah, no, I don't have any shortcuts on my home screen. I have a lot of shortcuts that happen via automation, not via like me hitting them. So, yeah, I don't know.
You're making me think about this because maybe I do need, maybe I would benefit from using shortcuts on my home screen, but yeah, I just use them as automations, so. Yeah, I do all my shortcuts, I think, mostly through Siri. Yeah. What's the weather today? Yeah. That kind of stuff. Yeah, exactly, exactly. All right, next, John, do you have more on that? There, perfect. All right, Renell brings us to the next quick tip. Says, just listen to episode 971.
In terms of spam filtering, I use a simple rule that searches for the word unsubscribe in the body of the text of the email and then moves that message to a folder called unsubscribe. When the mood takes me, I can sort through that folder quickly, deleting, unsubscribing as I like, and occasionally while listening to the show. So yeah, I like that. That's a good tip.
I would think you would, if I were to do that, and I've thought about this, like as soon as the tip came in, I thought, hmm, wait, wait, wait, like this could be life-changing. The only issue is if it, you know, like if one of you guys sends me a message that has the word unsubscribe in it, well, that's now a problem. Right? You know, so I might make the- Why is Dave ghosting me? Right, exactly. Well, there's a lot of reasons for that. I know.
But, but like, so I, like, there's a world where you could build this filter for yourself. And clearly for Renell, you know, this works. I don't know that without having a few asterisks in the filter, it would work for me. But I like this idea. That's good. I've got a question about that. Yeah. So the problem with unsubscribing anyway, in my mind, is often you are confirming your email address is live.
Right? Yes. Or is that? No, that's true. I mean, to a degree, like, they're, going to send you the email anyway to believe that they don't already know that your email is live. I mean, unless you are bouncing messages back to them, they know your email address is live. Oh, okay. So is there a script or a way to bounce it back to them without replying? Right, right. Is there a way to set your, if you, like for instance, I run a domain, therefore I have a server.
Is there a way to get in there and set some kind of a script that bounces to these chuckleheads? You know, there used to be, I'm looking in Apple Mail right now, There used to be a way to in Apple Mail. There was a bounce command and it would phony up a bounce response. But no, of course it's gone. It well it's gone because. It would only fool a human, not a computer. And by that I mean, it would also not fool a human if the human stopped and looked at the headers. And read the headers. Correct.
Because you'd see where it came from and you'd be like, no, that's a phony bounce. Now I really know a human interacted with this. It made it worse, not better, and gave you a false sense of importance or security. or both. Because I have several filters that when they come from this domain, delete it. But I would much rather bounce and let them think I'm gone.
Yeah. You would, that would have to be something you, you did with your mail host and I like, I, yeah, I don't know of any sort of- Someone in the audience help us out. Exactly. Yeah. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com. Yeah, please. Wait, feedback at MacGeekGab.com. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com? That's what I said. What did Eduardo say, John? Here's what Eduardo said. Just listening to my cake at night 71 in the tip of the week, pilot Pete talks about a tip from listener Todd about option,
right-clicking a folder to open a new window. That's great. I decided to try option and down arrow to see what happens and it opened the folder in focus just fine. But I noticed the change the size of the window. I found that weird and decided to go option up arrow to go back to the folder I was before. It didn't go. Instead, it opened a new window. And every time I hit option up arrow, another new window opens. At first, I thought it was the recent folders, but it's not.
I tried to find out where these windows come from, but was unable to. Um... And yeah, there's a reason you weren't able to find it because it's, so after doing a little research here, Dave, I found out, Dave and Pete, I found out that this is actually a shortcut introduced by default folder. And I found that out by, I found an article over at Stack Exchange titled, what do option up arrow and option down arrow do in the finder? And they pretty much
explain it is that it's not the finder. It's default folder. Got it. Yeah, that's a good, a good find. There's, it's not uncommon for, you know, I mean, I run into it myself, but of course I don't notice it right away because I get, I get lost like, like we all do. But for someone to ask me a question, like, why does the app switcher look totally different? And when I hit this key, like it doesn't work I'm like, well, that's not the app switcher.
That's like keyboard maestro's app switcher or something. Like we have these third party apps that we rely on for the things we rely on them for. And it's easy for us to forget that they do other things too that we might sometimes run into and cause some inconsistencies if we're not aware of, you know, of what's going on. So yeah, third party apps, they're like, they're great. I couldn't live without default folder or keyboard maestro, but they do make changes to your system that.
Especially when you're on a different system, can be a little, you know, a little disconcerting if you would. So, yeah. Cool. Do you use default folder 2P? Is this one that we all use? Pete's muted, but that's okay. I'm sure we'll hear him eventually. I knew it. I knew that. I was seeing if you would notice. I was shouting really loud, all the way from Germany. Yeah, I was going to say Germany to Vegas. It doesn't really, it doesn't work.
Well, sound travels slow. It'll take a while to get there. No, I don't, but I need to look into that. That sounds like quite a handle utility. Oh yeah, no, default folder is great. I will say this, I started using it, you know, maybe a decade ago, maybe more. It was very necessary then because there was no utility in open and save dialogues, to jump to a favorite folder or something like that.
Like you had to manually navigate every single time. And that, for me, is sort of the killer app of default folder. It's basically its primary purpose is is that now that Apple and this has been there for a long time. Once Apple added the Finder favorites that also then now appear in open and save dialogues, you know, on the left-hand side, you can see your desktop and your documents and any other favorites, they just naturally are there. That makes default folder less necessary.
But because I had started using it and it's in my workflow and in my fingers, I keep it. One nice thing is I can set a default folder for a given app. So, and hence its name, right? So it works, you know, it adds to that functionality, but it's, it's, I will say that it's not, John Kotel will be unhappy to hear me say this, but it's not quite as, he, I'm sure he
knows this. It's not quite as mandatory to have default folders as it once was, but I still put put it on all my Macs because I like the way it does things better than the Finder. Great. All right. One last quick tip, I believe, from also from PC Unix in our Discord. It says. Listening to the 9to5Mac happy hour podcast, it says, I learned that if you power off your watch OS 9 watch, it doesn't really power off. It's actually in power reserve mode.
And a three second hold of the crown will display the time. Cool and handy. So that, uh, he said it because it's, you know, works on any watch running watch OS nine that that will go a few models back. So yeah, interesting that it's not off. I wonder, I wonder if that's, I wonder what the, the, the driving reason for that is, is it for, for this little utility to have the ability to see the time or is it for find my, you know. That's my conjecture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet it's find my.
I bet that's the reason. Yeah, it's great. I mean, you know, and I wonder how far off the phone is too, right? Because it's findable after it's off. That's an option now. The phone is also findable after it's off. Yeah, but Richard A in the chat. But that may be just last location. No, I think the phone is findable. But Richard A in the chat shares a good question. He says, is the watch part of Find My? It might not be. I'm pulling up Find My on my phone, which I just
cannot do. It doesn't want to let me type the word Find correctly. I can't do it because my phone is my camera right now. Yeah. But I am certain. Oh, yeah, my watch is there in Find My, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, and that's that's a series five watch that's there and find mine so yeah, yeah. So what you're telling me Yes, I wanted to look for this, but if you go to settings, general Where on what device down on the watch okay? Yeah, okay?
Settings general there's a shutdown button. Are you telling me that doesn't really shut down? That's exactly right Yeah, and you can also shut down the watch by holding the crown in, I think. And then you just like on the phone, you get a little slide over to power off. Yeah, powered off and it won't stay powered off. I had an interesting experience with Find My that happened on Tuesday when I was flying to Vegas.
Because I'm going to be away for a while, I'm going to be, I'm obviously here for podcast movement. That's why I'm here in Vegas is for podcast movement, Evolutions. And then. Next week, I'm in Austin for South by Southwest. So there was no point in flying all the way back to New Hampshire only to turn around 48 hours later and fly back to Austin halfway across the country. Pete would do something like that. I would not.
Hyrule. So I chose not to park my car at the airport. I had Lisa drop me off at the bus terminal locally and there's a great easy bus that takes me to the airport. Great. So I'm on the bus, the bus has Wi Fi, it's about an hour ride. I am like knee deep in what I'm doing. I got a ton of work done on the bus. It was like super productive ride. I was almost like, dang it, we're at the airport already crap. You know, I got to like, that was in
a flow state, right? So I pack up my stuff. Obviously it's fine. You know, pack it up. And and I get off the bus at terminal B2 and I go through security and thankfully I checked my bag because I brought a lot of crap with me because we're doing the show and all this stuff. And then I went through security. And thankfully, I have both clear and pre-check, and they are integral parts of this story because without them, I don't think I would
have been able to do what I'm about to tell you that I did. It was about 45 minutes to my flight. No, about an hour to my flight. But I was on Southwest Airlines, so I needed to be there when boarding started so I could get my seat. So this is all relevant. So I go through clear and pre-check, nobody in front of me, which is great. You feel like a diplomat or something going through. It's awesome.
And as I get to the other side, oh, my phone, I got like randomly selected for the, we need to swab your phone, you know, and a guy asked phone your iPad. I'm like, well, here's my phone. Like, it's fine. You know, so he swaps my phone. He says, I'm not a criminal today, gives it back to me. And I'm rearranging my bag. And I realize, where's my iPad? Uh oh. Yep. And so I like dig around in my bag for it for a minute and then realize it's okay. It's not here. Pull up, find my, and I can see.
It's on your favorite bus. It is on my favorite bus. And it has left the terminal, but the bus is sitting in one spot. So immediately I call the bus line and they're like, yep, let's see where, you know, let me call the driver and see if he has it. If he has it, he will be back. He's gonna be sitting in the cell phone lot for, you know, about a half hour. And then he's gonna come back through to do the pickups, you know, for the people that are going back to the airport.
And so he'll be at terminal A five minutes before my flight starts to board. I'm like, okay, fine. So I pull up, find my, and I look, and I'm waiting. This is, I'm waiting for the phone call back from the bus company. And I look and I can see that it's stable and where it is. And I look. It's like 50 yards at Logan Airport, isn't it? It's out the door to the left from there. 50 yards.
Yeah. But I didn't know if I could walk it. Like I didn't know if I would hit a brick wall trying to walk from the terminal to a parking lot that's not at the, terminal. Right. And so, so it was like, all right, what does it say it's going to take me to walk this seven minutes from terminal A? Like, all right, I got to get to terminal A, which I can easily do from terminal B at Logan. And I just start walking. Right. I'm like, I got to make this like, so I leave the secure area. I walk,
I get to the, I finally, I had to like cross the street. I probably wasn't supposed to cross, but whatever. I made it there. It was fine. There were no brick walls. I made it there. I knock on the bus and the bus driver says, and they had called me while I was walking and said, yes, he's got it. He's going to bring it to you at, you know, at whatever, 12, 10 PM or something like, okay, great. I didn't tell them I was walking.
Cause I, you know, I didn't know if I'd make it. And so I made it, knock on the bus. The guy's like, can I help you? And I'm like, yeah, can I have my iPad? And he's like, yeah, he's like, you found me. He's like, did they tell you where I was? like, no, my iPad told me where you were. The best part was, I was like, this is great, thank you. And I'm like, I'm gonna make it back in time. He's like, what time's your thing? And I told him, and he's like, why don't I just give you a ride?
He's like, I gotta go back there in like 10 minutes anyway. He says, I'll just be early. And I'll wait for my passengers and take you around. So he didn't just take me to terminal A, he took me straight to terminal B and then did another loop of the airport to get himself back to terminal A, which was amazing, obviously. Oh, that was cool. I gave him 20 bucks for that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. But he found your iPad and he, uh, and gave you a ride.
That's a nice tip. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was, um, it was, it was an experience. So, you know, that brings me to a question that's interesting. That is interesting. I used to get notifications when my daughter would ride with me or something that said, Hey, you got an air tag following you. She's right there with her keys or whatever.
I'm wondering why you don't get a, this is a technical term now, a crap ton of notifications when you're on the bus, because you know there's other air tags on the bus. So you should be getting them. I wonder if it's with your device, if it's with your device, it won't notify someone else. I don't know. If you're right, if you have whatever you're, you can set, and it's somewhere in iPhone settings that I'm not going to try and get to right now, because it'll distract me.
But I think it's in Find My on your iPhone, you can choose which device is the one that determines you, like your position on the planet, right? And if you are, in theory, and this may not be the case with your daughter, but maybe it is, maybe if she left her phone at home, but had her keys with her, which had an air tag, which is hard to believe.
Hush your mouth. Right, as I'm saying this, I know that this is an impossibility, but it is possible that like maybe her iPad is set to be her, you know, this is my, my human being device kind of thing. I don't know. I also think that that would be incorrect. Like most. And that was also a year ago or a couple of years ago. So right. You know, that's changed over time. Yeah. Right. What sets that off?
They've changed those security. Yes. But I was just curious why we weren't getting all these notes. Because you know there's a ton of air tags on the bus. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I had I had no less than three air tags with me, the one in my backpack and the one in each of my bags. So, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Fascinating stuff. Oh, hey, that means I get to tell you about our sponsor, Factor. You can power up for springtime with Factor, America's number one ready to eat meal kit.
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Let's go to Bill. Bill says, hold on. I went to forward an email with attachments today on my iMac and Apple's mail stripped out the attachments. I tried multiple emails multiple times and honestly tried to forward emails from my MacBook Air, nothing. I rebooted the Air but still nothing. Both are running Mac OS 13.2.1. I can successfully forward these emails with attachments on my iPhone and iPad that also use latest OS.
I've looked for a setting on the Macs that impact this behavior, but I can't find one. Spoiler, I did. Are you experiencing this behavior? Did I miss a setting? This is new behavior I didn't have a problem with before. It isn't working with a message with the single attachment. So it's not the attachment size that's the problem. And again, it works in iOS and iPad OS. All right, so let, here's the answer, Dave. Yes, sir. I think.
All right, here we go. So I've run into this before, Dave, and I think updating the OS, which often upgrades mail, some settings may have gotten the scramble. The best place to look to solve this one, Dave, is in mail, edit, include attachments with replies. And there are various settings there. Mine is set to always, but I bet his wasn't. And while looking into this, I found one of my settings was off, Dave. Okay. So bonus tip, edit.
Attachments had the always insert attachment attachments at end of message checked. Which bothers me because when I was replying, you may have seen some emails that I replied to some questions I replied to my attachment was always at the end and like no no put it. But in line. Yeah right right. So that's that setting. I didn't even know that setting existed.
There have been times when I want to do that with a specific message, because I know that the recipient, like if there's been problems with it or whatever, like I wanna send just essentially plain text with an attachment, and that's kind of what that would like open the door for me to be able to do. Yeah, these are interesting settings.
I knew about the first one you mentioned, the include attachments with replies, but looking at that, I believe that's gotten more granular than the last time I saw it, because there's always, never, ask, and when adding recipients. And what a smart little option that is. So don't bother including attachments if I'm just replying to the person that sent them to me in the first place.
There's no reason for us to bounce this file back and forth, or maybe there is, but you're saying that no. But as soon as you add a new person to the chain, well, they should get the attachment. So yes, make that happen kind of automatically. That's, I like it. It's good. Yeah, and he found a couple of others. You can tweak it. There's an ask setting. Okay, yep. So it'll ask you if you want to attach. And then yeah, as you pointed out, when adding recipients. Yeah, I like it.
Sounds good. So. Yeah, cool. Here we go, Bill. All right, thank you, Bill. Thank you, John. Let's go to Steven here. And Steven asks us about calendars. He says, I'd like to create a calendar to my golf league on its website so that people can subscribe to it. Similar to what we do with Mac Keekab. Mackeekab.com slash calendar. I'm a little confused about ICS files and Apple's iCalendar.
What I've read is that, or calendar as we call it now, what I've read is that calendar or iCalendar is an Apple format and people that are not Apple users have to purchase iCloud.com access. That's not entirely correct. And that's good news. Steven asks, Steve asks, is there a way to create a calendar that anyone can access for free? I've looked at the calendar app on my Mac and it seems pretty straightforward, but I don't know how it works on cross platforms. Your guidance would be appreciated.
Yeah, so yes, you can do exactly what we do with MacGeekGab here. And I say that with an asterisk, we, there was a weird problem with the calendar server that we're on, so we had to do some extra caching to make sure you folks can get stuff. But I don't think that's gonna be a problem for you, Steve. So create, to share a calendar, The first thing to do is to create the calendar on your. Then, and you can do this, this next step on your Mac, or you can do it at iCloud.
I don't use Apple's calendar app, so I'll give you the instructions for iCloud, but it's very similar. So go to iCloud.com slash calendar where you see the web calendar. You're going to click on the little, it looks like a radio icon or maybe, you know, Wi-Fi bars or something like that to the right of the calendar that you want to share.
And then you have two options or two check boxes. One is for private calendar, and that would be where you have to invite iCloud users to be able to edit the calendar. But the second box is to create a public calendar. And once you do that, then you can copy the link to that calendar and that link will, direct anyone with any calendar app to subscribe to your calendar. And so that's what we do with with Matt Kikab is exactly that. We just grab that link.
We again, we redirect it through a little cash that Lucas built for us, but otherwise, it just works, yeah. So, and I don't think you'll need to use the cash. I bring it up only because we talked about it on the show recently and I didn't want people to think we had changed anything. But for you and for anybody else, you're not gonna need the cash. And if you do ask us, I'll share the PHP code with you. It's fine. But yeah, no, it's great to be able to do that.
And then you just take that link that you grab from Apple's website for the public calendar and just link that from your website. Just make a hyperlink to that. And that's it. You don't have to host the calendar. You don't have to do anything. Just say, if you want to subscribe, the calendar is available here. And make the available here, the clickable link to that. and technology should take care of the rest, no matter what calendar software people use.
Do you use, Pete, do you use Apple's calendars like for shareable stuff with any of the organizations you're part of or anything like that? No, I actually, no, I use, Busy Cal is my main app, which is available in Setapp. So I use that, but I actually use Calendar, formerly iCal. I do use calendar for when I get my schedule at the end of the month. And it comes out, I can export it to a calendar. Well, I can only export it to Apple's calendar and then Busy Cal goes and grabs it.
So that's the only reason I use it for. You can skip Apple's calendar on that because, I do this because you're probably getting a.ics file downloaded, right, with your schedule? It just exports it automatically to the calendar. There's no, nothing, it just shows up. When I say export to iCal or to Cal. Right. OK, yeah, it's one of those links. I think you're right. I'm sure it's doing it by a link, but I never get to see it to my knowledge.
What you want to do is go find an ICS file that you have downloaded and right click on it, or click on it and choose File, Get Info, and change the app that it opens in from Calendar to Busycal. Yeah, gotcha. And then click Change All so that it does it for all future ones. Perfect. Yeah, makes perfect sense to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a file type. It's just a file type thing. Correct. Yeah. It's like telling Word documents to open in pages versus Word.
That trick works, you know, with any kind, any file. And if you have multiple apps that are capable of opening that type of file, and apps will register with the system and say, like, I can take these types of files. So in that list, you probably won't see anything other than Calendar and Busy Cal, would be my guess. I don't know. I don't know what she got installed. Right. And along those lines, I have kind of a quick tip and then maybe another avenue along
calendar lines. The quick tip is we have calendars for everybody in the family to include the dog. So she gets her heartworm medicine and that kind of stuff. Smart. But it doesn't, yeah, it doesn't, you know, we get the reminders through there and dog's got a vet appointment, whatever. The kids have a vet appointment. You know, then they're animals, I tell you they're animals. Oh, did we lose you, Pete? I think we lost Pete again. Man, he teed that tip up perfectly.
And then somebody in Germany decided to close the intertubes. And so we aren't going to get Pete's calendar tip right now. I don't think John, we will, we promise that Pete's pal calendar tip will come back either this episode or in a future episode, depending on, uh, well, I would say the Germans for now though, John, you want to take us to Brian? Brian says, I'm leaving on a trip to Antarctica and internet access will be minimal for several
weeks. We can pay for Wi-Fi on the boat, but it's very slow and very expensive. Data is sold by the hundreds of megabytes. No, not gigabytes. I'd like to be able to stay in contact with just messages. Is there a way to limit the data coming across Wi-Fi? I've been searching for ways to limit data, but the only options seem to be around limiting cellular data. Ideally, I'd like to have just messages or WhatsApp getting data and I'd like to stop any pictures from coming through.
Similar to the data we often get for free on airlines. I've got private internet access, but I don't see any options about how to limit data coming through the VPN. Would love to hear your thoughts. I'm told there are some options on Android, but I can't find anything for iOS. I found something for iOS, Dave. I thought low data mode was only for cellular as he did, but apparently you can set up your WiFi connection to also be in low data mode.
Yep. So I think that's the best you're going to do on iOS. I think that's right. You can't get granular like with with a cellular connection, you can say only allow these apps or don't allow those apps like you can do it on an app by app basis and say, yeah, this app will never have access to cellular. You can't do that on Wi Fi that you're right that the best you can do
on an iPhone is just turn on low data mode, sort of generically for the connection. But that really I will keep, I would do two things. So now that I'm thinking about it, I would definitely do the low data mode thing. I would also put and keep your phone in low battery mode. Because, what's it called? Low power mode. Thank you. I knew it when it came out that it wasn't correct, but I couldn't think of what it actually was.
I would put the phone in low power mode too, because part of low power mode is that it doesn't go and do all that background fetching of data in order to save power. And I say all, it's most. But it will do it while you're charging. So if you really wanna be aggressive about this, I would only turn on Wi-Fi, when you want to do something on Wi-Fi. And at the very least, I would turn off Wi-Fi while you're charging because the low power mode restrictions
don't apply while you're charging. The low data mode restrictions do apply while you're charging, but low power mode restrictions do not. So that would be, that's just, you know, if you really want to kind of ride herd over it, I would be aggressive about when you turn on wifi so that you're not burning up, those valuable hundred megabyte chunks. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I do remember. I'll have to dig up the article, but on Mac OS, last I recall, you could do some,
incantation with ifconfig to limit the bandwidth. Yes. Well, whatever pipe, but I don't think you can do that on iOS. That would only limit the speed of the pipe, not the amount of bandwidth the loud through it. I mean, it's a function of time at that point, right? The longer you leave it, it will, you could download a terabyte of data and if you cut it to half the connection, it'll just take twice as long, but you'll still burn a terabyte of data. Right. So,
but the Mac also has low data mode for wifi connections if memory serves me. And I'm, I'm pretty sure it's there. Let me look, hopefully it does. It does. I'm sure it does. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm pretty sure that it did. Yeah, low data. I can see it right there. I'm not gonna turn it on for the connection I'm on right now. For obvious reasons. Well, I'm back from the ultimate low data mode. You might call it the no data mode, which is why I left. Yeah, we figured Pete.
So Pete, do you have a minute? I was just going. Would you, you got, I mean, you teed that up perfectly and you dropped off like the moment you were gonna share the punchline. So you had some, you have calendars for everybody, including the dog. Everybody. Yep. Including the dog when the kids have vet appointments, cause they're animals, I tell you. I tell you, yeah. We heard that part. Yeah. No, we got there. Well, and that was it is that everybody's got it. So that was my kind of quick tip.
And then, but the other thing was I think, and I could be wrong to circle back to a previous topic, but. He mentioned wanting to host that calendar on his site. And is Google Calendar, you can embed a calendar into your website. Can you not do through a frame? In there like an iframe or? I don't know of this, but that, I mean, there's a lot of things I don't know about. Last time I was poking around in Google calendars, there was a way to embed it into your site
and host a Google calendar appearing on your site. Yeah. Doesn't send someone off site to go get it. Right, right. I'm sure there is. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, as you say it, that makes sense. Yes. So using the CalDAF protocol, is that it? Well, I mean, you probably not, but maybe. I mean, I don't know. I don't know the mechanisms. I'm going, I'm definitely going into a territory about which I do not know.
Yeah. Yeah. But, but no, I mean, it seems realistic that, that someone would have built that that functionality for Google Calendar. So you would need to publish to, you know, put your data on Google Calendar and then do whatever that embed is. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Shall we go to Stephen here, John? Sure. Okay. Um, Stephen says, I've been having two windows pop up very couple of minutes on my Mac Mini 2018
that I cannot get rid of. See a scratch attached screenshot. And basically what he's getting are two dialogues that prompt for a username and password. Okay. Hmm, wonder what that could be. And then he says I have two time capsules that I can access with passwords that doesn't work for these pop-up windows. I've also tried my Synology NAS name and password with no success. Can you give me advice? And before I could give him advice, he said, I was able to fix my problem.
Somehow, and I didn't know this was part of the equation, automounter was trying to connect to Stevenstein capsule dash 20.local rather than DS1918 NAS, which is his Synology. That makes sense, okay. So the problem was, and so I'm like, oh, what's automounter? So automounter is a tiny little program that I guess is very persistent as we saw demonstrated here in mounting network drives.
Yeah, we've mentioned AutoMount or a few times on the show. It's been cool stuff found, I think at least once, but also just part of the solution to keeping a network drive mounted all the time because they don't like to stay mounted after say return from sleep or things like that. So yeah, AutoMount can be great. Yeah, I've had that happen more often as of late.
And then a network drive that I had mounted, you know, I put my machine to sleep overnight and then when I fire it up, sometimes it's still connected and sometimes it's still not. That's right. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Yeah. So I'm wondering in this case though, if AutoMoucher is using its own database or if he had looked through key chain access, he could have seen this. Well, the problem, I think the problem was that the error message wasn't clear.
Like it wasn't telling them what login it needed, right? So yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, it's tough. I like it. Yeah, but I wonder if it would have been because I looked in my key chain and there is a login passwords category and then it'll list network passwords. So I wonder if he had looked there, if that would have also, Oh yeah. Good point. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
Yeah. Cause I looked at mine and actually I had like two entries for one of my NASs and one was like 10 or 15 years old, but it used the newer one. Yeah. So that was nice. Yep. All right. Allison has a follow-up from episode 970 when I was talking about turning off auto-capitalization, which as mentioned, I did not last for me.
Allison says, the way I deal with iOS making the first letter of things capitalized, like when you're typing HTTP or HTTPS, She says, if you type a character and it's capitalized when you don't want it to be, hit delete once and then look down at the iOS keyboard. The caps key will be black. Hit the caps key once and it stops being black, AKA stops being active. Now type whatever you want, the first letter, and it won't be capitalized.
So describing it more quickly, she says, just toggle the caps key to disable caps for the character and retype. So that's interesting. So I probably have done this without even realizing it because all of these things become so habitual. but. When it decides to auto capitalize, the keyboard reflects that that's going to happen and you can override it essentially.
So maybe this would be the real trick is, you type a sentence, you hit period, you hit space or whatever, and it now knows, okay, this should be capitalized before you even type the next character, go and disable caps lock, like caps. I don't know. There you go. There's still virtually no way to type the letter I by itself without it being capitalized. I mean, you can do it, but you really have to fight the fight in order to do it.
I don't know if it was my connection or yours, so I'm just going to clarify that was the letter I. No, you, you, I heard a glitch right at that letter, but I knew where you were going with it. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Good stuff. You know, let's have this conversation here. We have, we've been talking about, this whole low memory error message that happens on macOS. We talked a little bit about it this week. John, you've got a thing from Simon here. We got a note from Alison about it too.
I would love to get to the bottom of this, but let's share, go ahead and share Simon's and we'll have a little bit of a conversation about this, John? So yes, Simon got this dialogue that we're hearing about more and more often. So Simon's, I'm sorry, I'm punchy, guys. No, we get it, Pete, you're all good. And here's the dialogue that comes up. It says, your system has run out of application memory. To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using.
And then it shows a list of currently running applications. And all right, here's a whopper. Acrobat is taking up 11.62 gigabytes. That seems a bit excessive. Yep. That's Adobe. So, yeah, I don't think you need that much memory to run Acrobat. I'm wondering, I mean, reinstall the app? Well, I mean... I don't know if he has the latest, and maybe it's having problems with translating an older app?
I don't know. Like dealing with a Rosetta style thing or Yeah, it was just what my gut tells me yeah, I that's interesting you may be right my my first thought was, He had opened, you know 14 PDFs in Acrobat and either not closed them Or even if he had closed them Acrobat was still sort of caching resources from them And so just quitting and relaunching Acrobat much like quitting and relaunching a web browser
browser, it will solve a similar issue because web browsers are just known for, you know, leaking memory like crazy. I have to have Safari quit once a day on my computer. Otherwise things get, things get weird. So yeah, that would be my thought was now there. Another thought is onyx. If I remember correctly, and maybe started up and look, but I'm pretty sure there's an application cache category that.
Okay. Something may be stuck there. Yeah. There are a bunch of caches in, um, that, that oddics can, clean up and that's another thought is, it's just confused. So get rid of that cache data. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. I mean, you know, this one from Simon is probably a correct error message in that, you know, Acrobat was taking up a gobs of memory and needs to release that memory in order
for the system to have what it needs to do. The sort of larger issue where you were, you know, we answered a question last week and your comment, John, was, you know, the, about, you're just, your system has run out of memory without any specifics like Simon is mentioning here and your comment was, you know, that the error message lies, um, it is, I don't. Like, I think that that is probably correct in that the error messages language is inaccurate.
Um, because we're, we're seeing this more and more when you, you, you still have plenty of memory. You found that you had an issue, John, right? Where you were out of storage space on your device, right? So like, clearly that message is coming up. I'd like to just, dig into this and see if we can figure out what that message is trying to tell us. Because again, the words on it are wrong. Clearly, you've had a scenario where you saw that message,
and what it was telling you was, I have run out of space to swap to on the disk. So that is a form of running out of memory, right? Because if it does, if your computer doesn't. What you're running needs more than the physical RAM on your computer, it will page out to disk most of the time. In your case, it couldn't page out to disk. So that's what it was telling you.
But we've heard plenty of reports of people getting the, your system is out of memory message when they've got, you know, terabytes free on their, on their boot drive. They've got, you know, plenty of RAM available for the app. for the app. So like there's something more that, it's something that triggers this message. And I think again, the language on the message is misleading or inaccurate, but I think it means something. I don't think it's just coming up for no reason.
I just want to figure out the reason. And so this is, I don't know it yet. The more data we can sort of collect on this. So send in your stuff. If you are seeing this message, I'd love to know sort of what led up to it. And I don't know what questions to ask yet, but I know some of them. So the obvious ones would be what we've already discussed. The space on your hard drive and also what activity monitor says about like memory usage and memory pressure. That would be helpful.
The other one would be how long has it been since you rebooted your Mac? I'm curious to see if that's part of the equation here. I know in theory you shouldn't have to reboot your computer on a regular basis. I also know in practice that my Macs are way more stable if I reboot them once a week. So I reboot them once a week, and I've never seen this message. That could just be an anecdote. You know, the plural of anecdote is not data, but we do want to get anecdotal reports.
So please send them in feedback at MacGeekGab.com. Know that we are getting them and processing them, even if we don't necessarily talk about this for a couple of weeks while we're just collecting. But yeah, Pete, you have you have a thought on this? Yeah. Well, you're looking in the chat room, Dave, on MacGeekGab Discord. The SMB, Richard A says SMB is still broken inventory for me, a known issue, apparently,
if relevant. And there's apparently a specific setting in Acrobat to enable native OS mode. And then he puts a link in there for that. And then Tennessee Poppice says, I found that SMB failure somehow related to have time machine drives showing up as shared. And once I took those drives off shared, it worked for him. So I think I want to make sure we're not That's a separate issue. I don't think this SMB failure. I mean, I don't think it's related to
this issue, but it's an issue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was, I was thinking the, uh, back to back. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. I that, yeah, that's a separate issue. Okay. I was reading it as a, uh, again, I'm tired. Sorry. No, it's not. You're all good. I was reading this as a memory thing, but yeah, no, SMB is a, uh, a protocol there. Yeah. Yeah. For file sharing. Yeah. Yeah. But, but the specific setting in
Acrobat to enable native OS mode, that would be important for ML Max. That's what drew me into the Yeah, I know it makes sense. You suckered me in Richard A. I will put a link in the show notes to that article about that specific issue with Acrobat. Again, I think what Simon had is a legitimate issue with a correct error message, but it, does bring up this discussion and that I want to keep having. So I just wanted to kind of throw that out there. Yeah.
Yeah. All right. Where are we on time here? Oh, I think it's time. It's time to go to the old cool stuff found bucket because we've got some fun things there for sure. The first one comes from Porthos John in our, I believe in our Discord, and I'm vamping here so that I can find it. Yeah. He says, I am obsessed with this new screenshot app called Shotter. He says it, he doesn't know if it's new, it's new to him. S-H-O-T-T-R, some of the best features.
You can set a default screenshot folder so that you keep your desktop clean. You can set hotkeys for screenshots like native macOS, including a direct screenshot, the active window. I can see that being super handy. It says if you take an area screenshot, you can assign a hotkey to repeat the same area.
Man, when we were doing like keynote coverage at Mac Observer, a lot of times I would grab screenshots from the stream on my computer, and making sure the little floating window was in exactly the right spot. This would have solved that, I like this. And then- Oh yeah, and how many times have you tried to get the screenshot and then the one thing you're looking for times out and goes away before you're able to do it.
So my trick for that with the Apple events, Pete, was I would have, I'd sit and watch it on my Apple TV. And then on my computer, I would press play at the same time. Sorry, Dave is having a USB problem with his microphone. He's working furiously to get back. Dave reboot your 300 baud modem. He can hear us, that's the interesting thing. I think I've got it back. Oh, you're back. Yeah. I don't know what caused this problem, which means I don't know if it will come back.
But thank you for bearing with me. The way that I would do those screenshots. Is I would get my Apple TV going, I would get my computer going on the same video, but then I would pause my computer and resume it 10 seconds later. So I would see it on TV, and then it'd be like, all right, I know exactly when to hit the screenshot button to get that one screenshot to, you know, like we would use them here. It's the old broadcast tape delay. So someone
couldn't get in there and start swearing at you. Correct. Yeah. That would go out over the air. George Carlin induced tape delay. Yeah. The, but the, the, the interesting part. I was going to go somewhere with this. I have no idea where I was going to go. I can barely. I was just saying, well, I, I don't know if it'll jog your memory. I was saying it was always frustrating. You're trying to do the screenshot. We're talking about a shodder.
Yeah. And so you can do a keystroke and have it, have it grab what you want, when you want. Not when you're trying to do a keystroke and use your track pad. And then the, what you get times out and goes away before you get there. Yeah. So, yeah. Craziness, craziness. All right. I think I'm back here.
I think there's probably a power issue because it seems like when I took, so I have my, I have this EasyQuest dongle, which it's entirely possible has just begun malfunctioning, but who knows, to convert from C on my Mac to A. Of course, for my microphone. And as you heard, Pete, like the whole dongle was disconnecting. Yep. And of course that meant the microphone would disconnect.
And so after you highlighted the fact that power was part of it, I unplugged power from the dongle, because I had power going through the dongle to my computer, and that seemed to calm it down. But I will say that it has been like this for days here without issue, of course. So it only has happened with when we're recording. It's Murphy's law. It's Murphy. Austin. I have Murphy on my favorites list. We used to say I have Murphy on speed dial. Nobody knows what that means anymore.
We still have some time here. Everything speed dial. Everything speed dial. Yeah, exactly. So it's, you know, it's interesting. I will, I will troubleshoot this more after we finish recording and see. But John, you want to take us
to, to the next cool stuff found from Jason? Um, I guess though, I don't know. I don't know if I understand totally what this is, but anyways, from Jason, um, did you know that one password password 8 for iOS can now be set as the default app for opening two-factor URLs and QR codes. Open with one password and select the login to have the one-time password attached automatically. Amazing. I mean, yeah, so. But then he sent in a screenshot, which I decided to look on my system as well.
So it's passwords and then password options. Things is on your iPhone. Go to settings, passwords, and then you gotta wait a second for it to populate and then password options. Yes. Yeah, and he has checked iCloud and one password. And then there's a whole bunch of other ones. And I actually Well, so wait, wait, wait, let me let me take this because I think I understand what what he has. So when you go to password options, there are two sets of options to choose from you can say auto
fill passwords, that's a toggle for on or off. Then there is allow filling from and you can have as John said, iCloud passwords and he, Jason has one password, you could have last pass chosen here if you're still using that. But then the second section of this is what he's talking about.
Setup verification codes using, and you can only choose one thing and it can be iCloud passwords, which of course is Apple's, or now one password eight for iOS adds the ability to do verification codes directly to it. So when you scan that QR code for a. To set up the one-time passwords, it will automatically go to one password to do that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty cool. Like, yeah. And my guess is other password apps will add support for this. It seems like Google Authenticator already has,
because that shows up on Jason's screenshot, as well as, what was the last one? Duo Mobile. So my guess is LastPass is working on some other things, like maybe trying to divest themselves of the business, if I were them. But there you go. So you still using LastPass, John? Oh man, oh man, oh man. Alright, Jared shares a cool cool stuff found and it is, I will pull it up, because it's It's a pair of under water... Bone conduction headphones. It is the H2O Audio Sonar IPX8.
And it is their bone conduction Bluetooth headphones. And Jared said he uses them while he's swimming, which sort of blows me away. That that would even be a thing. So yeah, amazing. They they they're open ear because they do bone conduction and they're for swimming. That's not the right screen I'm aware. I'm aware. I'm just waiting for it to come up. That's no problem. Most of the audience is on audio. It's all good.
Yep, so the But yeah, he says he uses them for, For you know swimming and I presume like it could be done differently, sets his iPhone sort of on the edge of the pool and then has these and the list price is 130 on Amazon, but at least at the moment they're available for 100 bucks. Yeah, 99 bucks on Amazon. I wonder if there's any memory on board so you don't need, you know, if you could up, you know.
Oh, I bet you're right because it lists them as bone conduction, Bluetooth bone conduction headphones with MP3 player. So yeah, they've got eight gigs of internal memory. There you go. It's as though you willed it into existence. You manifested it. Right, brother? Yup. Now the next question is, how deep can they go? Can you scuba dive with them? Oh, I don't know that I would do that, Pete. Yeah, that's an interesting question. They're IPX8. So what is, does that tell us anything about the depth?
There you go. Well, let me Google that. of things, right? Like, yeah. Yeah. IPX8 waterproof rating. I don't know. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, but. I don't know that I would, I would go terribly deep. Eight, continuous immersion, one meter more, up to one meter, one meter or more, continuous, continuous immersion, one meter or more. Okay.
Well, I'm going to scuba dive it more than a meter. So, I mean, you know, probably I'd try it, but you know, I'm not going to drop a hundred on them and then go, yeah, let's, let's go ruin these. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's cool. Thank you for sending that in, Jared. I like, I like this stuff. Yeah, yeah.
There's one that I have to share. It's actually something Lisa put on her phone, is the PopSocket Aura case, which is the, it's for MagSafe phones, where you wanna use a PopSocket, but also be able to still use MagSafe. And the way it works is the, It's a case with this pop socket that sort of slides up and down on the case, and you can slide it out of the way of the MagSafe adaptor, you know, coil, and then pop it on a MagSafe charger or in the car or, you know, wherever you want to put it.
And then when you want it back up and toward the middle of the phone, you just sort of slide this little thing. It slides on sort of rails along the edge of the phone, but folds down pretty flat, not flat enough to let MagSafe through it, which is why it moves out of the way. So that's the Aura Popsocket case. At least it was one of those things that I'm like, hey, I have one of these for your phone. Do you, do you want it? And she said, yeah. So, uh-oh, I lose you guys.
I think I lost him. Like I lost my connection. Amazing. It's as though people are just out to get me. I love it. I love it. Let's see what happens here. My home. Hey, I'm back. Welcome back, Dave. Thanks. Yeah. We were under the sledge deadbolt. Great. That's great. Yep. Keep going. I'll catch up. It looks like we need to stay on there because Dave is gone again. I was saying I have a sledge deadbolt on my home in Florida.
It's really cool. set up codes for friends and family to get in and you can do it remotely, you don't have to be there. It's just like a little account and you can activate and disable codes. So if a cleaning woman's gonna go in, you can let her in only on certain days or turn it on and off as needed and then go from there. But I change the batteries on it about once a year and I can unlock it remotely from anywhere in the world.
So I need to start sort of back at the top of this because you did the Schlage encode plus smart Wi-Fi deadbolt for most of the people for almost no one. Oh, good. OK. I get the audio recording. So if I wasn't here, they missed it. But but everything you said about it, Pete, that that did make it through makes sense. But what this Greg sent in this dish, shlage slash, I guess it is shlage. It's a weird word. It's the ENCODE plus deadbolt.
And it is, I'm gonna pull it up here because Greg had some interesting things to say about it. But he's able to use his Apple watch or his phone to unlock the door with it, in addition to a code or a key. So, yeah. Right. Yeah. And here's the other cool thing. What I did was I took my, I went to the hardware store, the Ace hardware store, and I bought a slaged doorknob. And I took the key for my deadbolt, my slaged deadbolt, because you can manually override it with a key, the old fashioned way.
And then I took that to the hardware store, bought a slaged door lock and said, here, make this door lock work with this key. And the ACE hardware store would have, you can make that. So now my deadbolt and my door knob are the same key. Oh wow. but the ability to use that electronic lock works wonders. So I tell people, you know, I tell them, hey, don't lock the door now. Right. You know, if you do, then I've got to get somebody involved,
get over there. But the deadbolt itself, we have amazing amount of control over remote lock, unlock set codes for different family members. And I like to spell out their names or use their birth dates or those sorts of things. So they can be- Don't share that too much. Right. But then if you don't, you can disable it. That's the beauty of it. Oh, that's true. Yeah. You know, you go, okay, the maid's only gonna be there this day, I disable her code the rest of the time.
Oh, that's really smart. Yeah. And so, yeah, as Slayers rule, you got to... All right, we're gonna wrap this up here. I would say... Pete, your audio is... No, you're fine. It's just that your audio coming from Germany, either yours, I can't tell John, are you getting Pete's audio broken up as well, or is it coming through okay for you? Nope, just you. So it's something's going on here. We're gonna wrap the show up where we should have any great time.
One important piece of information about it, and very short, which is it takes probably a little better than beginner, probably intermediate skills to install yourself. There you go. Well, thanks for hanging out with us, folks. Thanks for dealing with our fun little travel bandwidth issues. Thanks for thanks to Cashfly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you. Make sure you check out Pilot Pete's other shows. So there I was.us.
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