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MGG 557: A Decade of Mac Geek Gab and Still Answering Your Questions
Back from WWDC, Dave and John talk through the geekier side of Apple's news and what it means to you. Then they open the mailbag and answer your questions about virtualization, long trash empties, running Automator workflows from email and much, much more!
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Note: Shownotes are complete!
Stuff mentioned:
- BBEdit 11 (3:11)
- Excel for Mac 2011
- Numbers for Mac
- WWDC 2015 Keynote (16:49)
- System Activity Monitor (iOS app)
- OS X El Capitan Preview
- iOS 9 Preview
- Apple Music
- Phil Schiller joins John Gruber for an interview on The Talk Show
- JetBlue FlyFi (44:43)
- Apple Watch (47:37)
- Speck CandyShell Fit (for Apple Watch)
- Addonics ADSAIDE SATA to IDE-ATAPI Converter (50:52)
- Install & Run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in a Virtual Machine on top of OS X Lion (51:38)
- Apple’s Snow Leopard License Agreement
- Unlock Snow Leopard for VMWare (and the MacRumors Article about it, too)
- MGG Episode 1 (1:08:38)
- MGG 357: Geek Memories of Steve Jobs
- MGG 300: A Celebration Among Geeks!
- How to Run Boot Camp in a Virtual Machine (1:15:00)
- Trash It (1:16:06)
- Running Automator Workflows from Mail Rules (1:20:57)
- Run Automator from AppleScript
- Mail Act-On
- Keyboard Maestro
- The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
- You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network
- BackBeat Media Podcast Network
- MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show and Applr.