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Drawing, Backing Up, and Being a Screenshot Ninja – Mac Geek Gab 816
Did you know you could move your screenshot selection window around after you create it? How about rearranging columns in the Finder and having it remember? What about Profiles on your Mac, and how they can be used to hijack your browser?
If you listen to this week's Mac Geek Gab with Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun, not only will you know how to do these three things, we guarantee you'll learn at least two more (and probably a lot more than that!). Press play and enjoy learning all these things with your two favorite geeks.Note: Shownotes are complete!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 816 for Monday, May 25, 2020
- 00:01:44 Jeff-QT-Reposition Screenshot Selection
- Cmd-Opt-4, Define Area with Mouse, Use Spacebar to Reposition
- 00:03:20 Peter-QT-Rearrange Finder Columns per Folder
- 00:05:06 Patrick-CSF-GoldenChaos with BetterTouchTool
- 00:06:50 Zach-CSF-pbcopy and pbpaste the Clipboard from Terminal
- 00:08:10 CSF-Eggtronic Power Bar – $149.99
- 00:10:50 CSF-SoundID Personalized Sound Profile
- 00:14:33 Neal-CSF-Backblaze supports S3 and Synology HyperBackup
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- 00:19:57 Bob-New Drawing app for Mac?
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- LibreOffice
- Inkskape
- Krita
- Autodesk SketchBook 4+
- GIMP
- 00:24:24 Kevin-Changing iMazing Backup Location
- iMazing > Preferences > Backup > Default Backup Location
- 00:26:38 Douglas-Can’t Empty Trash because VoiceTrigger is in Use
- 00:30:03 Gannon-CloudPhotos Sandbox Consuming 80GB
- ~Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support.
- 00:34:07 Tigg-QT-Reset File Sharing for Catalina Functionality
- System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing > Options to select AFP and/or SMB
- 00:35:30 Larry-Constant Bluetooth Connection Request
- 00:42:42 Rob-Architecting Your Mac’s Best Thunderbolt 3 Chain
- 00:51:34 Tony-True Two-Factor Authentication on our Apple Devices?
- YubiKey
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- 01:02:47 Patrick-Stop flickering graphics by disabling secondary GPU
- gfxCardStatus
- 01:08:32 Bob-815-Separate Spaces with Dissimilar Monitor Sizes
- 01:10:21 Bill-815-Self-relocating Docks
- 01:12:28 Jeff-Check for Double NAT every six months
- 01:15:44 John-Don’t forget about Profiles Redirecting your Browser
- System Preferences > Profiles will appear if there are any installed
- 01:19:30 This Week’s MGG Premium Contributors
- 01:23:03 MGG 816 Outtro
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