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MGG 556: Blowing Dust and Perma-Verbose Mode


Recording hours before the WWDC 2015 keynote, John and Dave answer your questions, as per usual! How do you detect and deal with duplicate files? What about a failing hard drive with some important data? What's the right – and wrong – way to clean dust out of your Mac? And have you ever wanted to enable perma-verbose mode? Find out all this and more on today's Mac Geek Gab!

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  • AltConf
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  • TidyUp (16:55)
  • Path Finder 7
  • TotalFinder
  • Locate and organize your iTunes files (22:57)
  • Silicon Roller (34:57)
  • Onyx
  • Boot Arguments in OS X
  • Perian
  • Flip4Mac
  • VLC
  • Infuse
  • ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ (Location of many iCloud files, Terminal may be required) (48:47)
  • Allison Sheridan’s S/MIME EMail Tutorial on Mac and iOS (1:02:41)
  • GPGTools
  • AppleScripts for Marking Mail Messages as Read (1:14:04)
  • The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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 June 8, 2015  1h27m