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MGG 544: Backup To The Future
Your geeks return on yet another sunny-in-New England Monday to deliver the most chipper of pre-Spring-beginning Mac Geek Gab episodes possible. iOS Hotspot security concerns, slowing backups, 5GHz WiFi channel advice and much more are discussed. Download today and enjoy!
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Stuff mentioned:
- Ides of March
- Equinox
- Dynamic Frequency Selection Part 3: The Channel Dilemma (7:30)
- iStumbler
- OS X Continuity (19:28)
- Little Snitch
- Mail (Yosemite): Rebuild mailboxes (34:54)
- How to Clean Up and Rebuild Apple Mail Data
- Yasu (47:09)
- OS X: Repair Home Folder Permissions
- OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock
- OWC’s Newertech Keypad
- How to create a password-protected (encrypted) disk image (57:27)
- Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
- Crashplan
- BitTorrent Sync
- The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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- BackBeat Media Podcast Network
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