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MGG 525: Wi-Fi Isn’t Always Friendly … Or Consistent
Yet another crazy week for Apple users. Apple Pay launched, iOS 8.1 was released, all kinds of new stuff came out. John and Dave talk through all of this as well as answering your questions about managing text, restoring documents to the FInder, seeing details about Time Machine and more. Download today and enjoy!
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Stuff mentioned:
- Apple Pay (1:56)
- CurrentC
- CVS Says it Can’t Take Apple Pay, Evaluating Options
- Shut Up and Take My Money (13:45)
- Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity (16:18)
- Enable Yosemite handoff on Older Macs
- Continuity Activation Tool
- Enable SMS Relay
- Verizon Edge FAQ
- iCloud Photo Library
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) – Technical Specifications (30:29)
- Apple – Support – Welcome To My Support Profile
- defaults write com.apple.networkbrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES (possible Terminal fix for Yosemite Wi-Fi issue)
- FAQ and support for using Trim Enabler in OS X Yosemite
- Kext Drop
- Batch Rename in Yosemite (53:19)
- OS X Mavericks: General preferences (59:00)
- Fix Safari’s Address Bar (1:01:06)
- Enable/Disable Swap on Mac (1:06:30)
- OS X: About OS X Recovery (1:11:22)
- OS X Mavericks: Change your startup disk
- Yosemite OS 10.10 Mail Memory Leak (1:15:33)
- ClamXav Antivirus (1:21:13)
- Non-App Store Version of ClamXav (allows background processing)
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