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The Charm of the Chime – Mac Geek Gab 709
You have questions, Dave and John have answers. Today's topics include malfunctioning AirPods, setting Apple Pay addresses, restoring a Recovery Partition, email and iMessage encryption, and much, much more. Download, press play, enjoy, and learn!Note: Shownotes are complete!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 709 for Monday, May 14, 2018
- 00:04:57 Gary-Setting Apple Pay Addresses
- General | Settings | Wallet & Apple Pay | [Card] | Billing Address
- 00:09:01 Andrew-Restore Old Recovery Partition
- How to create a Mac recovery partition
- diskutil list
- Cloning Apple’s Recovery HD partition
- 00:15:18 Mark-AirPods Malfunctioning and
- Factory Reset AirPods
- ScreenFlow
- 00:20:26 Mark-MS Word Permissions Oddities
- 00:24:37 Sponsor: Save up to $150 off a Ring of Security kit at Ring.com/MGG
- 00:26:19 Sponsor: Crossover from Codeweavers – It’s time to try it again! 14-day free trial, then MGG saves you 35%.
- 00:27:57 Sponsor: BBEdit from BareBones – The Legendary Mac Text Editor Celebrating Twenty-Five Years.
- 00:30:29 Charles-CSF-LIFX Bulbs
- Homeseer
- TP-Link Smart Outlet
- 00:34:16 Leon-CSF-SwiftDefaultApps
- RCDefaultApp
- 00:40:38 QT-Create a Test User Account
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How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac
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- 00:45:08 DLH-CSFR-AppTamer
- Renicer
- Quitter
- 00:51:00 Scott-CSF-Phaiser BHS-750 Bluetooth Sport Earphones
- Plantronics BackBeat Fit
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- 00:59:22 John-New Internet Gateway not functioning
- 01:04:06 Bill-Sending Files Securely
- Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is
- Encrypto from MacPaw
- ZIP with Encryption (from Terminal, “zip -e [target] [source]”)
- WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption
- Guardian piece about WhatsApp Encryption
- Signal
- 01:20:44 MGG 709
- Deep Space 9 in HD
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