It's time for Mac Geek, Gab, and listener Jeff brings us our quick tip of the week.
He says, this quick tip came to me when I had stopped during a bike ride to take a photo with my phone.
I opened up the camera app and somehow instead of clicking on the shutter button, I slid
my finger from the shutter button to the right towards where the front rear camera button is on my iPhone.
The app immediately started a video recording. If you release your finger from the rear front camera or from the right there, it will continue
to record until you click the shutter button again to stop it.
Alternately, if you still have your finger on that rear front camera button, you can
slide it back or you can just grab it and slide it back.
He says, I like this much better as it is a one step process to record a video rather
than having to select video and then press the shutter button.
That's how you lock a video.
The way that you record a quick video is just hold down on the camera shutter button while you are recording.
And sure enough, it will, or while you were taking a picture and it will record a video.
More quick tips like this.
Your questions answered today on Mac Geek Gab 986 for Monday, June 12th, 2023.
Music.
Greetings folks, and welcome to Mac Geek Gab, the show where you send in your
your quick tips like that one, your cool stuff found, your questions.
We put them all together into an agenda, so we'll share the first two and then we will try to answer the latter.
We try to answer your questions here. You send them into feedback at MacGeekUp.com.
We try to answer them.
This episode, we will be doing maybe one question, but we have a lot of cool stuff found, as we promised at the end of last week.
So we will be digging into that after we do some quick tips here.
The goal, of course, being that each and every one of us learns no less than five new things
every single time we get together.
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We'll talk more in depth about each and every one of those shortly here for now here in
Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton.
And across town in Lee, New Hampshire, it's pilot Pete. Good to see you, Dave.
It's good to see you too, Pete. Yeah, man.
Yep. Uh, here we are. We got some, we got a lot of stuff. Let's uh.
We do. We do indeed. I think we should dive in.
Uh, so I love that first quick tip. Uh, so yeah, just to recap, when in camera
mode, hold your, hold your thumb or your finger, it doesn't matter what, what you
hold on it, you can do it with your nose if you want.
Yeah. But hold down on it to record a video for as long as you're holding it or sort of push and slide to the right as Jeff mentioned and it will sort of lock into video recording mode and as he said it's a faster way of getting there than simply switching over to video letting it change modes you know there's a little lag there so yeah I've always liked that one.
James! So great minds...
Oh, sorry. No, what's that? I was just saying, so great minds think alike.
Your nose. But I bet I'm not the only person who has had my hands full or dirty and used my nose
to pull up a message on my iWatch.
Absolutely. Just saying. Oh, yeah. Another quick tip. Yes, I've done that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, just use your nose. It's fine. Yeah. Or anything else you like.
James has another little thing that I suppose you could use your nose for if it's maybe pointy enough.
I don't know. He says from the home screen, and he says, I tested this both on iOS 16
and the iOS 17 beta, but I, but we believe this was introduced as early as iOS 13, but
I'll share what the tip is. Start playing audio. Doesn't matter what, you know, something
from the podcast app. It could be while you're listening to this, uh, in, in whatever app
or the music, but while audio is playing, he says, uh, if you're like me and you wanted
to change the volume up or down significantly, you would have to click the volume up or down
buttons rapidly in succession to achieve your desired level of volume.
But he says it can be better than that with this quick tip press either the volume up or down button
Just once so that the little volume gauge shows up on the side right next to where the volume buttons are,
And then before the gauge disappears,
Grab it with your finger on the screen and drag up or down And that way you can really fine-tune your volume without having to press the buttons like a crazy person,
I don't know that I ever knew this despite i've seen that volume gauge we all have I've just stayed on the buttons and you know press them like a crazy person and.
You know so yeah, I like it. It's a you go. This is what we love about doing this show now
I just need to remember that in the moment right like with these quick tips the ones like this one,
That I want to remember when I get your emails about it. I,
Practice them a few times right like right in the moment so that hopefully the next time I'm actually doing it,
there will be some sort of sense memory, muscle memory that's like,
hey, hey, hey, wait, don't forget, you can do the little drag thing.
So you do it right now if you're listening to your iPhone.
Yeah.
Yavel, what do we got? Got one from Bill?
We do. Bill writes in, he says, I recently noticed that Inventura,
the image capture app, now includes an OCR option checkbox when scanning to a PDF.
As a longtime user of image capture, to standardize my UI to the different scanners I've had over the years.
This is a great new feature. My prior workflow was to scan and then use PDF Pen Pro
to OCR the scan document.
I still need PDF Pen Pro for all the PDFs and JPGs that I create, or JPEGs, however you wanna say it.
Phone photos, or receive. I'm running Ventura 13.4 and image capture 8.0.
Oh, hold on, here's the most important part of the letter, Dave.
Thank you for your continued excellent an informative weekly podcast.
That is the most important. You're welcome. Thank you for your comments.
This is, this is very much a team effort here.
Uh, so yeah, it, it, we love being able to do this and, uh, Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a pleasure and a, and a privilege more quick tips.
Jam cycler has one from, uh, from our discord channel here where he says,
It's long bugged me that when I long press to view a full text message via notification center,
I can't then long press the message for a tap back response like a thumbs up or a heart or whatever. However, he says,
Just like we talked about the mention of double tapping a message for tap back,
You can just you can do that same double tap in the notification center view
So when you see a message come in a notification center,
if you double tap it, you get the options right there in notification center
for a thumbs up, thumbs down, you know, exclamation point, all of that good stuff.
Some.
Ah, it's amazing. I, that, I had no idea. I love these things. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
I haven't tried that yet. You've tried that? I have.
Yeah. I, I, I, I practiced what I preached, uh, on that one.
There you go. So yes. I also like to make sure they work too, you know, but.
But that's, that's important, right? Before sharing them, I guess.
Yeah. I mean, I've gotten it wrong and I will continue to get it wrong sometimes because
there's some things we can't really test. And so it's like, you know, we, we, we
trust you folks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So I've got another one from Bill. Bill writes in, for those of you, for those of us, use or are using the MacBook family of keyboards, but want the functionality of the home and end keys.
For example, I am in the process of moving workflows from a 27 inch iMac to a MacBook Pro 14.
There are keystroke combinations to provide the functionality of the home keys and end key. and end key.
You've probably covered this before, but I had to hunt for how to achieve
the home and end functionality in Excel,
particularly for moving to the start and end of a sheet.
Mecha keys for the home and end keys found on the Apple Extended Keyboard
are home with function plus left arrow,
and end is function plus right arrow.
In Excel, for the Apple Extended Keyboard and MacBook Keyboard, home or function plus the left arrow
to move to the first column of the current row.
Control plus home or control plus function left arrow to move to the top left cell of the sheet
and control plus end or function control plus the right arrow to move to the last cell used on the sheet.
I continue to learn way more than five new things in each episode, thanks.
And he also wishes John well in his future endeavors. Absolutely, yeah, I will put these so that you folks don't have to go back and listen to Pete describe them. I've heard yeah
Yeah, no I didn't think about it until I sat here and listened to you doing it and then it was like, oh, yeah
No, no, we we we cannot we cannot ask people to listen to this.
So don't feel the need to listen to that segment again I have copied and pasted this and we will have this in the show notes for Mackie cab 986
right in line where Bill's question is, so yeah.
Essentially, it's function and arrow keys.
Yeah, it's function and arrow keys. That's, yes, that's a great way to encapsulate it,
But yeah, it'll be there.
Alright, now that I've fixed that in the show notes, let me see where we are with the next
thing here, and that's going to come from Josh.
Oh yeah, this was, I didn't know if I should call this a quick tip or what, but it was
a great little story.
Josh says, I created a calendar event some months back on my calendar for an appointment
to get my license renewed. Today I received the notification about my planned appointment and went to look for the
confirmation email for any instructions.
This is where my issue began. They sent me a confirmation email from a random no-reply type email, and to make matters worse,
I wasn't 100% certain if I gave them my Apple or Google email address.
Since I use both in Apple Mail, I searched with Apple Mail for terms I thought would
be in the email body with no luck.
The only way I could think to make things easier was to find out when I created the Apple calendar event
because it was likely the same day that I would have received the confirmation email.
I like this line of thinking. I've done this too. My guess is many of us have like, okay,
I know that email was somewhere in this date range. Maybe I can find it.
He says, there is nothing I could find in the calendar app through the GUI that shows me when I created it.
I searched a few things on Google and here's how you can find when you created a certain calendar event.
I love the ingenuity here.
So you take the event and drag it to your desktop, Then, open the file in a text editor.
This will be an ICS file, and you can look for the word CREATED in all caps, because that's the format of ICS.
And ICS are the little invite things that you get when you're getting a calendar invite from somebody or whatever.
So it's just, you've just dragged one of these to your desktop,
you open it up in a text file, text editor, like bbedit, or, you know, even text editor or whatever,
and then you look for the word CREATED, there will be a date next to it, and it's in, you know, year,
four-digit year, two-digit month, two-digit date, and then a T after that,
and then it will give you the time that you created it to.
And so, you know, he was able to see, okay, I created this on March 18th of this year,
and then he was able to search his email and found the relevant information,
which I love this, this is fantastic.
I will share that BusyCal in its info panel allows you to display lots of information
and you can pick and choose what's in there. One of the things that you can show
is the date that you created and the date you modified any calendar event.
And I can't tell you how valuable that information can be. Like it is, so many times I'll look at an event
and be like, wait a minute, I don't think that's what I meant to put there.
And I get to see when did I change it or if it's a shared calendar,
when did someone else change it and who?
Which is super valuable.
So anyway, I share. Yes.
It's what you do. It's what I do. I, it is, I do it, I do it, I do it. So yeah. Yeah.
So thank you, Josh. And to describe that date that Dave talked about, it's eight digits.
So it's now the date this comes out is the 12th of June. So it's 2 0 2 3 0 6 1 2.
That's it.
Yeah. And then, and then you'll see a timestamp after it, like it keeps going, but, but yeah.
Hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds.
Hours, minutes, seconds. Yeah. It's hours, minutes, seconds.
And then it ends with a Z and I bet Pete you can guess what that Z is for.
It might be Zulu or Uniform Time Coordinated.
Yeah, it's UTC time. Is that UTC is the same as Greenwich Mean Time, right Pete? Yes. Okay, all right.
A-K-N, for whatever reason, the military has 24 of the 26 alphabetical letters for each of
of the time zones around the world, and that is the Zulu time zone.
So when you hear me refer to Zulu, so we are in the Romeo time zone.
I had no, I knew that that UTC was Zulu time and I was pretty sure that GMT was the same as all that.
I had no idea why it was Zulu time. I love that, that's fast.
So we're in Eastern, Eastern time is Romeo time. Eastern is Romeo.
We're in the Romeo time zone. Is it always Romeo even when we're in daylight time or not daylight time?
Yes. Okay. I think so. That's perfect.
That's my recollection. Yeah. I have not been on active duty in 28 years. Yeah.
Fair. Fair, fair, fair. Okay.
So, so you do not, you do not use, you, you just standardized to Zulu time with your commercial
piloting. Yes. That's so people don't show up late or early for their flights. No, I get that.
Yeah. airline scheduling is everything's based on Zulu or UTC.
And then, but like if, so you would fill out what was called a yellow sheet when you would go flying.
You would always put, you know, they would say time zone, you just put Romeo because you're
flying on the East coast.
If we went out to Yuma to do a heavy weapon or something like that.
I want to say it was the, someone correct me, but it was the Oscar or, no, I don't think
they used Oscar because it's too much of a zero. So it was probably the Papa. Oh yeah. Yeah.
Okay. But fascinating. Yeah.
Fascinating. Huh. Uh, all right. Thank you for that.
That I, this is, I love, I love learning these things. I love learning lots of things.
Yeah. Well, it's just trivia to fill your brain. It's not like it's something we see all the time and never give it a second thought.
And never give it a second thought. Correct.
Yeah. So thank you for that. That it's, it's nice to have context to it.
So it's nice to know there's not only Zulu time.
So, right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And it, but it is, it makes perfect sense that in an ICS,
like when I think it was Red Dutta at Apple who created the ICS format.
No, he created CalDAV. Sorry. Sorry. I may, I may have, he might've created ICS. I don't know.
He definitely created CalDAV, But, uh, whoever created the ICS format, using the one letter codes to indicate time zone
is far more efficient when you're building a text file than having, right, than having a three letter code.
EDT, EST. Right. Yeah.
Right. Atlantic Standard Time. Wait a minute.
We will, we will do this one way and one way only and you get one character in which to
to do it. Enjoy. Yeah. No, it's good. All right. You want to take us to, uh,
Mr. Jam cycler. There you go. I can do it. Another one from jam cycler. Yeah.
So he makes a lot of animated GIFs for Mac Mondays, including screen recordings on his iPhone. And since this requires some practice,
a number of the recordings are duds and need to be deleted.
If I know that recording needs another take upon stopping it,
I can simply swipe down on the notification that reports, quote, screen recording videos,
save the photos on quote and tap delete.
So essentially when you're done doing a screen recording, it gives you no, Hey, you know,
I've saved it to your photos.
Just swipe down on that and hit delete. Now you don't have to stop what you're doing.
Open photos, go in and select it, delete it. Are you sure you want to delete it?
Yes. Are you really sure?
Yes, I'm really sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Oh, that's great.
And if they're documented somewhere, we haven't found them, but that's, um, I love these little little things.
You know, it's, it's, I love these little things. I love that we all find them for each other and share them with each other.
It's important to remember, like, the way to find these things is to think, like.
What, to think along the lines of, if I were in charge of this, what would I want,
or if I was a user of this, which it turns out you are if you're doing one of these things.
What would I want, and I could control how it was built, what would I want to give myself?
And think about what the, because that's the mindset that the programmers that are creating
these things, the engineers that are creating these things, that's the mindset that they're in.
They're using it, but they also happen to be in a position to create these. So be, you know,
thinking, oh wait, I might want to delete one. You know, how would I do that? What follows general
Apple human interface guidelines? Okay, yeah, let's add that in. And oftentimes they are just
added in there because it makes sense to add them in. So yeah, I love it. It's good stuff.
Yeah. Hey, we've mentioned that we're going to be at MaxDoc, which is true, we will. That's later
this summer in July. I'm 99% sure I'm going to make it. I'm going to bid for it off.
Okay. Yeah, there you go. Great. MaxDoc is Saturday and Sunday of the weekend that would
be the July, I think, 22nd and 23rd, if I'm not mistaken, whatever that turns out to be.
On that Thursday, Barry Fulk is returning with his Midwest Mack BBQ and he wanted us to share this here.
The Midwest Mack BBQ is sort of at the core of Mack Stock's existence.
Barry created this BBQ because he wanted to get himself together with a bunch of his favorite
podcasters and podcast listeners.
So he created this barbecue and said, would you guys come out for a barbecue at my house
on some Saturday afternoon in July, many, many moons ago?
And a lot of us said yes, including me and Pete. John was there too.
And that's when Mike Potter, who created Max Stock, said, wait a minute, if all of these
people are going to be in the same area, why don't we have a conference during the day,
And then we'll go to Barry's for the barbecue at night.
And that's exactly what happened. And so things were born and Barry is bringing it back.
So if you want to learn more about Barry's Midwest Back Barbecue and you are going to be in the area.
There's a link in the show notes that you can, um, you can check out and hopefully it's, uh,
you know, I hope to see there. I'll, I'll be there. So yeah, Pete might be there. We're not sure,
you know, going to try. All right. Cool. Uh, one last quick tip for, but then we've got some cool
stuff found to do and you know, all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, and there was some
discussion about this further in the,
Discord channel just this morning.
But on the show today, he writes, you talked about setting a rule for removing mail.
But Apple says... Last, on the show last week. That's okay. Yes, last week.
He wrote it that day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I meant what I knew.
Apple says, important because messages in the junk folder are automatically
deleted after 30 days.
Periodically check the junk folder for messages that were mistakenly marked as junk.
It seems to be true. My old iPad only has recent junk messages.
So, yeah, we were, we were talking last week about how to auto delete, how to.
Create an auto delete rule, if you will, for, um, for junk messages, uh, on your
Mac, and it turns out you don't have to necessarily iCloud will delete them
after 30 days. And it, it seems like there is no adjusting of this. You can on your Mac,
you can set your Mac to delete junk mail in iCloud and any other mailboxes that you have,
you get to decide it per account. You can do it, you know, I forget what the options
are. I don't have them in front of me, but you know, it's 30 days, 15 days, a week or
something like that, you know, a week, two weeks, a day. So you can have it deleted earlier,
I don't think you can have junk just stick around past the 30 day mark.
I think iCloud. Right.
And then I guess the discussion in there and I lost track of it.
Um, I looked for it in discord, but someone, I think it was Portho John said he had more mail
in there, but the junk mail.
Those it's the junk mail that goes, it's the junk mail. Yes.
Yeah. So I was wondering if, if you reply to junk mail, does it automatically on junk or archive
it somehow? So it doesn't go away. I don't know. That was my.
If you want to mark something as not junk, I believe with iCloud Mail.
You need to tell it not junk in either Apple Mail or in the iCloud Mail interface.
Otherwise it's going.
Right. However...
With most email servers, and it would not surprise me if this is the case with iCloud as well,
with most email servers, moving a message from the junk folder to your inbox also is a way of
signaling and training that this is not junk. I don't know if that's for certain with iCloud.
I don't use iCloud Mail in any real capacity. I mean, obviously, I have iCloud Mail accounts,
You know, if we all do, but I, it's just not one that I use.
So I can't speak to that for certain, but that is how you do it with Gmail.
That's how you do it with fast mail or a way of doing it with Gmail and fast mail.
There are other ways you can Mark those as you know, as well. So, yeah. Yeah.
All right. Yeah, Pete. I bet we could do some cool stuff found. I guess.
Yeah. Let's do a couple of quick ones and and see you see where we get and then and
and then we'll dig into some that are not going to be so quick.
And listener Adrian sent in a note talking about the, um, there, there has been for a long time,
this Google document called the I in general, the iOS beta app compatibility chart,
and it has been updated for iOS 17.
And wow, I looked at this for the first time yesterday, and it had maybe a hundred things on it and now it has almost 800 things on it.
Yeah, so people have been busy. It is a link to a Google sheet. We all only have read-only access.
Obviously, there are people who maintain this that are able to write to it, but.
Yeah, yeah. And if you want to add an app to the list, they have a form that you can fill out
And that might just add it to the list. I don't know. Yeah, it might. Yeah, I don't know. I don't.
I don't know, but it will tell you if you are considering updating to the iOS 17 beta.
What you're going to break. Yeah, what's going to break for you. Yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, handy. Everything on your phone. It's not going to work now.
So, yeah, yeah, no, it seems like a lot of stuff is working with beta one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, but again, I, you know, I will, I am, I maybe today if I have time, I am going to put iOS 17 on my 10 R, which I believe it will run it so that I have it running on something here and playing with it.
And so, well, yeah, we'll report back on that one, but I don't, I know there are many of you who have
already put it on your daily drivers and bless your hearts, thank you for that. I'm not going
to do that quite yet. I usually will, I'll wait until sometime, I have some travel at the end of
August. I got to go to podcast movement in Denver. I will probably switch over my daily driver to the
beta after I return from that, which would, if all goes according to historical indications,
that would give me about a week to 10 days on my daily driver with the, you know, the
final, something close to the final beta before it's released, which I find usually works
out pretty well.
So, but I, I do, I am hesitant to travel with my iPhone on a beta version of software.
So as a developer, you can get the beta now, the public beta is coming out later, right?
Or is it already out? I think next week. I think it's, I think they said next week. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. And so is the public, I know by definition, the beta is not stable, but is the public
beta not stable enough? You don't want to put it on your daily driver yet.
The public beta has traditionally been a week behind the dev beta, but it's basically the
same thing as the dev beta. So yeah, no, if the dev beta is unstable, the public beta is unstable.
It's you know. Gotcha.
Yep. Yep. So yeah, they just delay it by about it by about a week.
So and then, um, PM Conaway in our discord chat is reminding me about roaring apps.com,
which is another resource for compatibility for Mac OS and iPhone apps and windows apps.
They say, uh, for all kinds of stuff and they have a compatibility compatibility table as well.
Uh, this does not, these are, I'm looking at it to see if they have. The, the new betas.
I don't see.
Oh yeah, they do. They have Mac OS 14 on this list. So I, yeah, I'll put that in here too.
Yep. They're already up to date. Love it. Love it.
Well, you mentioned in the fact about the discord, I, uh, want to bring up to people, come join us at...
Mgg.com slash discord during the show for live chat, but there's a help desk tips, cool stuff
found. Basically, it's a great community with a bunch of people helping each other out tech
support for free. Yeah, yeah, we all help each other. I've gotten as you know, as much help as
I've as I've given there. It's it's great. Yeah. So yeah, thank you. And then the one other quick
thing on there is that normally we are in MGG live chat this week.
Yeah, don't don't dig into that. Don't, nope. I'm going to stop you right there. You're going to
confuse everybody. I'm confused. Because it's, yeah, we're, we are doing an experiment in the
Discord. If you're there, you'll understand it. If you're not, you won't. If you're not,
don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Exactly. Pay no attention to the man behind
the period. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but, but we are continually evolving the
the discord group to best serve the way that we all want it to work.
Um, and discord's adding features too.
And we're always sort of reviewing those features and, and, you know, seeing what
ones would make sense for us to adopt and what ones are just like, yeah, we'll leave
that sort of on the side, but yeah, no, there's, there's, yeah, it's good stuff.
I do have community come join us. And, and one place that I like to use discord Pete is outside.
On my patio, but here in New Hampshire, we have lots and lots and lots of cold weather. Yeah, it's been a little bit too. It's been weird weather, man.
But yeah, we get a lot of bugs around here and I mentioned this last year and
and I will mention it this year at the beginning of the season because.
It's been life-changing. The products from a company called Thermacell for ridding the air around me of mosquitoes have been life-changing.
They have portable units and some of these portable units, you know, are in the I'll say the 25 to 50 dollar range
and they will do like a table or you know, you're like your fire pit kind of thing or whatever.
They do have a system that you can that is meant to be more permanently installed
but you can install it yourself. Like I installed mine. It's not, it's not scary.
You know, you don't need an electrician or anything.
Uh, you just plug it in and, and, but you leave it outside all winter and, and then you use it
again in the summer, which we did last year. And it's been great.
And that's called the Thermocell Live LIV system.
But check out if you need mosquito protection, I have some other portable units that I bring
with me to outdoor gigs and I set them up.
You know, I just put it next to my drum set and let it go. And, uh, it's life changing.
So what's the technique you use, Dave?
It's different kinds of tech, depending on the different, um, the, the different, the portable
units are different from the, the, the one here, you know, that you use at home.
But I think chrysanthemum oil is part of it.
There's yeah, there's, there's a variety of different things.
They, they talk all about it. They're not, it's like, they're very transparent
about what the, uh, what the things are.
So make sure to, uh, to check that out and uh, make, maybe make your summer, you know, a little less itchy.
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We shall it after we did our.
Recap episode or a reaction episode to The Apple keynote and you know all of the new software and everything
One of the things we talked about in that was the the new features coming to safari
specifically profiles and in our chat PC Unix asked you know what's the
difference between the existing Safari tab groups and Safari profiles and it's
a great question Apple didn't explain it we didn't explain it on the show and the,
The reason is...
We already, we thought, you know, we incorrectly made the presumption that everyone knew what profiles were for in a web browser.
But if you've only ever used Safari, you don't know what profiles are for in a web browser, because you've never experienced this anywhere else.
So, the, the, most other major browsers already have this feature. This is definitely a catch up with Safari and a very welcome one.
So the major difference is the way I think about it is your cookies and your preferences.
Let me give an example. Let's say I'm logged into Amazon in one of my tabs in one of my tab groups,
right? I'm logged in as me. And if I open up another tab or another tab group that happens
to have Amazon in it, I'm still logged in as me. But what if I need to log in as my affiliate work
email account into Amazon, right?
Like I can't just open another tab and do that unless I open a private tab, right?
And then I can log in and do that in that session.
But then when I close that private tab, it's gone.
Or I could create a profile to be logged in one of them as personal, one of them as work.
Then I just choose the profile that I wanna use and boom, I'm good to go.
I'm logged in as personal in my personal profile and that never changes unless I log out
or it times out my login, you know, expires it or something after, you know, 30 days or whatever.
And then I have my work profile that's completely different set of preferences and cookies and all
of that stuff. So it's, it's, it's essentially multiple personalities for your web browser
in a good way. I hope that makes sense. Um, it does. Okay. I could, here's why, because it,
it happened to me and we talked about it briefly, but I, it never even occurred to me that,
that I needed to use profiles.
I do two different shows on the same platform, StreamYard. I was having to log out of one, to log back into the other.
And once you said, hey, just use profiles, you can change profiles and remain logged in on both,
on the same platform with both different names.
And yeah, same thing as Amazon, two different accounts. Right.
Same, it's awesome. Two different accounts, yeah. Where I use it most often right now
is with Google accounts.
There's some, I have my main Google account, but then I have others,
and Google only lets you be logged into so many, and it starts getting really confusing
if you have one profile, one browser, like Safari, just logged into as many as it can be.
You wanna switch around, it's weird, you wind up having to reauthenticate,
and it can be a huge mess.
So I have different profiles in Chrome for different Google accounts, and then I'm good to go.
And I haven't messed with this in macOS Sonoma yet, so I don't know the implementation,
But in Chrome, I can have...
Different windows open simultaneously in different profiles, which is huge.
It really is cool. Yeah.
My hint for that is it lets you pick colors. So red is for my repeat, which was my call
sign and one P is purple.
So Pete at arm is my, so that's how I can look at a window and know exactly which
profile I'm dealing with.
That's really smart. Yeah. Like that. Yeah.
I need to do that too. because I haven't gotten smart enough.
Like I know that each of my profiles has a different color because it sort of auto assigns a new one
when you create a profile, but I don't know what they are.
I need to be more intentional about that. Oh, I got intentional about that because I'm like,
oh, I'm in the wrong one. I got to figure out which one is which.
Yeah, pain has an interesting way of inspiring us, doesn't it?
It learns you not to do that again. It does, it does.
All right into some cool stuff found the first one is I saw David Chartier over on Mastodon
posted he said do you need a watch later service that supports virtually every video platform
and works on all your Apple devices including your Apple TV yes he says the answer is yes
you do need this and that means you need an app called play he says you should all download
it and send them a couple of bucks. So yeah, Play is a watch later app that, as David said,
works on all your devices, so you get to track everything that you're going to watch. I use.
Something called TV time to do this currently, but the idea of having it on the Apple TV
so that my wife and I can both see the list of what's there and what's next and I'm not
just having to like read her the menu.
Anytime we sit down to watch something, I like this idea a lot.
So, uh, so I'm going to have to check. I have not checked it out yet, but, uh, but as soon as I saw it, I made two notes,
one for me to check it out and one to share with all of you.
So.
So it's a TV app as well as an Mac OS app. Correct. It's it's Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.
So you can track the stuff and, and, and the data syncs. So, you know, you can manage it on your iPhone, you know, set it all up on your
your Mac if you want, and then, you know, just go kind of use the TV as the, as the
selection interface, if you will.
Right. Yeah. Yeah. So I like it.
I like it. And it looks like it's $2.99, $2.99.
So, you know, that's, that, that seems like I'm going to spend that to test it.
There you go. That's worth it. I think so. If it, if it does anything close, first of
all, I trust David Chartier. He's been writing for all kinds of people
and publishing in the Mac universe.
He even wrote for us at MacObserver for a while.
So I trust his recommendations, but if it does anything close to what they say and he says which I'm pretty sure it will,
Then it's probably worth you know ten times that price, but you know that's that's how that's how things are these days
Right, and if not you're out 299. That's it speaking of something for.
299 Lee has a story and a cool stuff found to share Says my wife was getting hammered with an endless series of spam calls from the 2 1 3 area code
Our home in Baton Rouge isn't exactly a hub for LA-based calls,
which made these calls as suspicious as a duck in a business suit.
Verizon's blocking service was no match for this onslaught. With heroic intentions, I armed her phone with my favorite spam killer app, RoboKiller,
feeling like a digital knight.
However, the dragons of spam calls laughed at my pathetic sword.
Every number she blocked, another rose from the ashes, all sporting the 213 badge.
Despairingly, I wondered, how does one block an entire area code?
It seemed like none of my trusty spam busting apps could crack this one.
Enter Number Shield, a two dollar and ninety nine cent shining night from the app store.
It blocks calls by pattern. I had it block the pattern two one three dash number, number, number,
dash number, number, number, number, you know, number being a wildcard.
And voila, we effectively blocked just under a million phone numbers from 213 and all 0s to 213 and all 9s, they're all gone.
Spam killers, spam callers from area code 213, not gonna get caught by you, no sir.
So that's a pretty, yeah, I, as I'm reading this, I'm wondering, because I've done this,
this is why I'm wondering this, but I'm wondering if Lee wrote this
or if Lee asked Chat GPT to write this.
Oh, maybe, yeah. Because I have one correction to make.
Yes.
Got to count all zeros. Oh, you do. Right. It is inclusive.
Yes, it is not just shy of a million. Although there are, to be fair, there are some patterns
of numbers that are not allowed to be phone numbers.
So a million possibilities have been a million possibilities have been blocked.
That yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's good to be pedantically accurate. We like that here on the show.
Like 555, I think it's one of them because they always show that in movies and on TV.
Exactly. There is no five, five, five, five, five. Yeah.
Yeah. There, and there, there didn't used to be.
Uh, one, one ones or any starting with one, because, uh, you would dial a one, you know,
two or international for international distance.
Right. Yeah.
But now most, uh, exchanges and I'm sure two, one, three is there require you to dial the
area code for even what we call local calls and kids, if you don't understand what that
means, ask your parents. But, uh, yeah, yep.
That recently hit us in New Hampshire. You used to be able to, anything within the
603 area code, you could dial the seven digits.
Not anymore. Not anymore because we have numbers that start with one now that we had to, we had
to open it up because we were running out.
So, yeah. Yeah.
It's, it's fascinating, but you know, goodness. It's how it works.
Um, all right. You want to take us to, uh, to the next one, Pete?
Yeah. I've got a cool stuff found.
And I found it. Well, actually I didn't it was actually mentioned on show Patrick. Yeah, Patrick,
Yeah, yeah show 940, but I I've been using it and I love it,
Keyboard clean tool from the folks that bring you better touch tool and better snap tool at fully Vora,
AI That'll be in the show notes. This is cool. It's.
It's super lightweight, it pops up a screen, you click on the button that doesn't really
appear to be a button.
That's the one criticism I could go, but for free, you know, I'll take it. Sure.
Click to start cleaning mode and lock the keyboard. So once you click that, you can touch your keys all day long and nothing will happen.
So you can take, I take a dampened alcohol cloth and I wipe all the sandwich grease and
schmutz off my keyboard and when I'm done with that I can click the button again because your
trackpad and your mouse still work. You can then click the button again to allow it to resume
keyboard inputs. And it works just as well as it advertises, right? Absolutely it does because
And the reason it's important, right, is you don't want to be doing all this input and maybe.
Do something nefarious to your computer without realizing you're doing it as you're just trying to clean the keys
Absolutely, and in the good old days you could do that by turning your laptop off and,
Doing that but now as soon as you touch a key it turns your laptop on so yes
That's the problem, right? Essential. Yeah, right. Yeah, that's the problem solved by this,
Free in the good old days pete. We would just unplug our keyboard and do it
But well, there's that with laptops. You can't do that with Bluetooth keyboards
That's tricky because you you can't unplug it. You'd have to like turn it off take the battery out, right?
Like there's there there are ways but this is this is the easiest way. Okay. I mean, I remember reading it
You know when when we mentioned it from Patrick back in 940 and I thought oh, that's a good idea
But I had not installed it now. Okay. I'm like, I really like it I've used it several times now and I just,
I don't know.
I'm a clean freak on my laptop. I like my keyboard to be clean.
I like my screen to be pristine.
I use special spring screen cleaners with alcohol and a dry pad.
And yeah, you know, that's just the way I can ask for more for my former laptop when I go to sell it.
Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, uh, Roll 605 in our discord chat says, if you use notion on the web, Chrome edge
or Firefox, there is a plugin you should check out called notion boost.
It is a super cool extension that adds all kinds of handy features to using notion in,
uh, on the web. And this is one thing where Chrome definitely has a leg up on Safari.
And still like Safari has some extensions.
Like it has the ability to have extensions.
There are many extensions, which are not at least not yet engineered to work with
Safari, but are engineered to work with the other browsers and, uh, and things
like this are, are huge, can be hugely helpful.
So yeah, if you're an ocean user, go check that out. And thanks for that role.
Uh, I call you roll like, like, I'm sure your name isn't raw.
It might be, but I'm guessing it's not. Anyway, moving on, Pete, you got another one for us?
I do. Another one to revisit.
I, I like revisiting. It's what I do. That's what I do best. It's all right.
Orthos John brought it to our attention initially in show 972 and it's called a shotter.
S H O T T R. No E.
Got it. Uh, yeah. So, uh, it's, what do you call it, Dave? it's shareware, put it SU, and if you don't...
You get money, you still get all the features, but it just annoys you about every fifth or
sixth time. All right, so it's donationware, shareware, yeah, sure. Donationware, okay, yeah.
You know what, it's so good, I sent in the eight bucks to get the license. So what's it,
yeah, what's it do? I mean, I remember talking about this, but yeah. So Shotter is a screen,
capture tool that allows you immediately, as soon as you, you set your own hotkey, so you can go in
and turn off in system settings the default screen capture hotkeys, if you like, or you can set
slightly different ones. For instance, shift command 2 is how you then get the little crosshairs,
drag it across what you want to select, and as soon as you release, it comes up and brings up
the editor, and you can select a photo with text underneath it. Let's say it's a button, so an icon,
I'd say and you select the icon button and the text underneath it and then,
Say blur and it blurs the whole thing and you could then go over now just blur the text
It leaves the icon in place, but blurs the text Oh
You can erase you can erase any of that and it automatically pulls in behind the smartly pulls in the behind the color.
So it looks normal like nothing was there Here's the coolest feature of it for me. If you have a web page that is long,
scrolls way down, but you want to capture the entire thing, you can set up a key
stroke so that it will...
Capture the entire scroll so essentially what you do is you hit that keystroke you drag your crosshairs across that web browser
and you let go and it automatically scrolls the browser to the very bottom or.
20,000 pixels which is what the fault is you can set more or less sure once it's got to the bottom of that web page.
It stops scrolling automatically and brings the entire captured web page up and into the editor This is amazing.
I'm watching and anybody who's seeing the video of the show.
We're all watching the sort of their demo video of this as you're describing these features.
We're getting to see them in an action. Holy cow, like, okay, I need this.
I think we all we all need this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.
It's and it's free. Yeah, right.
But I gave me eight bucks. I mean, yeah, I just put this much effort into it and he's got a
little survey at the bottom.
Hey, what which feature do you want me to do next? I love this. I love it. So Pete, I think you are getting bit by the Ventura core audio
in Chrome bug because we're getting more and more clickiness from you. So I'm going to
ask you to just relaunch Chrome while I tell people about two other cool stuff's found.
I'll make it so. See you guys in a minute. We'll see you in a minute, Pete. Yeah. Yeah.
Good old Ventura audio. Ben shared a different screen capture tool and I figured this was
a perfect time to talk about these that we've kind of had in the queue for a little while.
Ben being Jam Cycler says, I went looking for a Mac app
for converting screen recording videos to animated GIFs
and found Claquette, C-L-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E,
which includes the ability to record the screen including system audio.
And system audio only works in Ventura. Speaking of changes to core audio,
They have made changes, some of them evidently good.
Like the sound isolation plugin we talked about a couple of weeks ago. Some of them.
Different, but that's clackette. So thank you for sharing that Ben and then Andrew Woodward,
has Has a second one for us for screen captures and that is called screen flick
he says it records the screen and audio either the whole screen or just a set square and,
welcome back Pete and He says, Apple is a built-in screen recorder, but uses no audio.
That's where this comes in.
And he says, he uses it for recording video from web pages and live streams.
My use case was TV news stories about my business that I would record and then put up online
or recording Zoom for Teams recording purposes when it wasn't being recorded in the app.
So yeah, all right, that's... Yeah, there are ways of creating the system audio
as a device to feed into Apple's screen capture, but it's not generally the most intuitive thing.
So this definitely solves that problem.
So yeah, thank you for that.
Good stuff, good stuff.
Speaking of audio, how are we doing, Pete? I think I'm back.
How am I doing? Click, click, click. I think you're back. We'll see how the clickiness is. Yeah, yeah.
All right. The, uh, go. Oh, no, I was just gonna bring us to the next, uh, the next cool stuff found that I have, which is, it was suggested by Jeepster8675309.
Uh, it is something I use, too. It's called Turbo Boost Switcher.
He says, I use it to control the fan noise on my Intel MacBook Air, and I mainly use it when on battery to turn turbo boost off.
It uses less battery, generates less heat, and less noise.
He says I you can get it for free, but I bought turbo brew tuber turbo Switcher pro for 10 bucks after I started using it more often
He says I believe these settings are only there are certain settings only available in the pro version which is true,
You can have it kick on automatically with the pro version And do some things I use it here
You know I'm on that 2019 Intel iMac in the studio and as soon as core audio is like kicked in and video is running
My fans would be loud enough for you to hear while I was talking.
Even though the CPUs are not pegged. I mean even with turbo mode off my CPUs are maybe at like 20 or 30 percent
It's not like it's it's overcooking things,
but when video and audio are kicked in it just turns on turbo boost mode by default and
And this lets me turn that off so that my machine does not run into fan mode.
So yeah, it's a great piece of software and it works. Obviously, I'm using it with Monterey.
It works with Ventura as well.
So don't know about whether or not it yet works in Sonoma, but with the betas, but I'm sure we can check that on the aforementioned
lists that we put in the show notes here.
Right.
Yupper. Uh, that's what I got there.
You got anything else? Cool stuff found Pete. I've got, I've got plenty that I'm, I'm
going to happily roll through here, but.
Uh, let's keep going. Yeah. I was looking at the agenda and I've somehow goobered my notes.
So. There you go. Perfect. Someone has disappeared from me. So.
That's fine. Back to you, Dave. Back to me. No, it's totally fine.
We've, we've been talking a lot about portable monitors on the show here and And there is a.
A monitor that one can travel with right and you know apple's vision pro might serve that need for some people
and or the whole vision line of products and i think
i think that's an important way for us to sort of think about this is you know think about the apple watch right,
there are many different models of apple watch there's in a in a run the gamut of pricing so i think i think we will see other models of of apple vision something's
But that could that could be a monitor, but in the interim, well, we don't have that option to even try.
Using a portable monitor when we travel can be really really handy Some of them do not stand up all that well and rod in the chat,
suggested the cabcon tablet stand Which we will put in the show notes. It's 28 bucks and it will obviously hold a tablet, but he says it also holds
you know, like a 15 inch monitor just fine.
And it lets you adjust the height and the angle of it and holds it pretty well, but also folds very flat,
which is the key for traveling it with us.
So 28 bucks and it's yours from Amazon, or at least it's 28 today.
They've got them in different colors. It looks like you could pay up to $31
if you want a different color, if you want black or pink.
So the pink, what they call the pink tax is alive and well, as well here.
So, you know, there you go. Although I'm seeing that there is a 5% coupon on Amazon,
at least while we're recording this.
So, and I think that's been there for a little while. So thank you for that, Rod. Yeah, good stuff.
Yeah. Speaking of cool stuff found, and you're really gonna be upset with me
when I tell you what this is.
Listener Dom shares with us the Anchor,
Everfrost powered cooler and yes, it is cool. It's not inexpensive though.
I think you could get an Apple Vision Pro for about the same price,
but it is, it's a battery powered cooler that will cool up to 42 hours.
It's got a 299 watt hour battery. You connect to it with your phone.
It's also got solar input, it's got dual zone temperature control.
So, if you are someone who camps or does all kinds of, you know, those things,
this might be something for you.
It's interesting, the price was on here when I looked at it,
so I didn't put it in the show notes.
But I think it was over...
I don't know, I think it was over two grand, like, I don't think it was cheap.
I could be wrong on this.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's, it's, it's not, it's not inexpensive. Not giving those away.
They are not giving them away.
Yeah. Let me see. Where can I buy it?
Anchor.com slash everfrost dash powered dash. Yeah, I know that's the website I have up, but
there's no price on here.
At least not that I've found not anymore, but a bit, yeah, I don't think you're going to
get it inexpensively, but they, they do say that they have a 25% discount.
So it's a cool thing. And it's also a cool thing, so, you know, there you go.
Yeah. Oh, I see what you did. Do you see what I did? Do that again.
I don't, I won't do that again. I have to do it.
I deserve that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. No, I don't, I don't have the price anywhere. So they've obscured it perhaps for good reason, but still good stuff.
Block tech has found this thing on Kickstarter and you know,
I'm always hesitant to share Kickstarter things, or at least I like to make sure you know
that you might not get what you think you're gonna get.
Most of them work out all right, but they take, oftentimes take longer to get than they say.
And there's always interesting little things because you're backing a project,
you're not just buying a thing.
But it's called iFrameix, I-F-R-A-M-I-X. And the idea of it is to take your old iPads,
and turn them into digital photo frames, home cameras, clocks, and more.
And they've got a frame that you put around the iPad and you can hang it from the wall.
It helps reduce e-waste because your iPad isn't just sitting there or being thrown away.
And then it you know it's got a little app and you can do different things with it so it's an interesting idea i like it i think it's about it's not inexpensive i think it's about three hundred bucks two ninety nine is the current lowest price you can get them for.
Uh, you know, with Kickstarters, they tend to have like a certain amount at a low price and then another set amount at the next price up and et cetera, et cetera, you know, and then when it goes up for sale, it'll probably be four 99 or something like that, you know, but, uh, but yeah, I, I like the idea of this, you know, the iPad that's sitting in your drawer or, you know, you're not sure what to do with, you're not sure who to give it to having, as we've mentioned on the show, I think it was just last week, we were talking about the, the value of a digital photo frame that you can have in your house and,
Maybe you've already got one.
So yeah, that's neat. Those, those are cool things.
It in that it's a little expensive, but you know, for what it, like, you know,
you, you've got to provide the iPad and then 300 bucks.
So, um, yeah, yeah.
In that same vein, I'm going to tease something because I can't find the link
because I have a new laptop. And by the way, all your messages don't board over from your old one.
But my nephew took an old iPod, the click wheel iPod, and essentially turned it
it into a new one, put all new memory in it. Now it's like...
I don't know, I think 500 or no, it's 256 gig SSD in it and, and a battery that lasts.
Years without a recharge. So I'm going to tease that and I'll bring that to a, to another show
soon. Cause he gave me the link on how they're doing that. So if you've got an old iPod laying
around, it's something cool to do with it. That's cool. Huh. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I
Yeah, I want to learn about that.
That's fast. Yeah. Fascinating.
Huh. I like it. Um, your messages could port over to your Mac.
You're talking about like I messages. Yeah. Yes. So yeah.
And the new laptop, the anything before last week, is it there?
If you go into messages, uh, settings, I message and enable messages in cloud that should sink
them down I mean I'm on this Mac that I
wiped clean yeah and I was unchecked I would you check it I just checked it
all right well hopefully loading messages from cloud yeah I had MDS stores
this the spotlight engines go nuts while,
it was pulling those down so you may have created a problem for yourself
while we're recording you need to reboot
maybe and your sound problem I we're not not going to worry about it.
It it's better, but I think a reboot is probably what's going to fix it.
And if that doesn't fix it, you and I'll, you know, take this offline and figure it
out, but don't, yeah, don't bother. It's, it's much better than it had gotten.
So I think, I think if we were here for another hour, it would get worse again.
But the good news is we're not going to be here for another hour.
So sadly we're not. Yeah. Yeah.
But that downloading messages from the cloud, I'm, I'm I, um, I don't know why
that's not on by default, first of all.
Secondly, I don't know why you can't only store the images from your messages in the cloud.
Like you either get to delete images or keep them but they are then on all your devices
eating up storage times four or whatever, you know.
So like Apple has not talked about fixing that. I haven't heard anybody say that they were
at some dub dub session where they said, Oh, by the way, you know, this is also
fixed in all the new operating systems, you know, cause that, cause that kind
of thing happens like it.
I bet the folks at Mac par someone along those lines could come up with a way to.
Yeah. Yeah. The, I'm amazing.
I know I'm amazing. Can, can sort of offload those for you. I think, I think, yeah, I don't know.
It's yeah. Cause it used to be the only, you know, it was the old like Sanuti and those
type of that you could go in there and.
Delete the cruft. Right.
You
I'll go back and yeah, if somebody knows picture was sent to me five years ago feedback at mackeygab.com if you're if you're,
offloading the images that you've received or sent in messages and,
Archiving them somewhere. That's not just barfing them on all your devices. Let us know,
Oh, yeah, do that at feedback at mackeygab.com. That's what I said p feedback at mackeygab.com
Hey trying to make sure everyone heard you porthos john in slack sorry, in Discord shared Slack GPT,
which is a plugin for Slack, if you're using that in your workplace,
that lets you use the power of generative AI like a chat GPT inside of Slack.
So you can just invoke all of those things right there in Slack for responses
and drafting things and all that good stuff.
So thank you for sharing that. I also noticed that the new version,
and I haven't messed with this, the new version of Jetpack for WordPress
includes some kind of AI generator block,
which is interesting because WordPress would be a place that you would perhaps publish things
that you had AI help you generate and then you edited.
So I need to dig into that too, but that's interesting. So it's the Jetpack AI assistant is now in Jetpack.
Jetpack's a plugin that's put out by the folks at Automattic,
which is the company that makes WordPress.
And it adds a lot of features to WordPress. It is a free to use plugin, and it's kind of a freemium model.
There are certain features that require you to, you know, pay for a subscription or something, but I use it.
We've used it. We used it at MacObserver forever, and I don't think we ever had need to pay
for a Jetpack Pro subscription there, So just bear that in mind.
It's just a quick positive reinforcement, positive feedback.
It is, in fact, after checking that downloading all my previous I messages.
Hey, all right. Good. Yeah. In fact, it's done. Wow.
All right. There you go. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Where are we here? We speaking of the AI chat GPT stuff, chat GPT now includes
ship the ability to share a link to one of your sessions so it you know you open up a new session you ask it to do a thing for you and it comes up with some response you can share the entirety of that session but but nothing else so i will put a link in the show notes to last week's mackey cab.
The, how I created the sort of the draft for the blog post that became the show notes I've
edited from there and you can compare the two and see like, you know, but, uh, but yeah, it's,
it's pretty interesting. Um, I like it.
That's good. So wait, the link you share only shows the raw, nothing what you've edited.
There's no way to get, yeah. What I've edited is inside WordPress.
Like I copied and pasted it from there into WordPress. I edited some things because, because it
doesn't get things right. All I do is give it the, the agenda that we've
followed and say, write a blog post.
Comes up and says, you know. Yeah.
It might, it might say for this one that, you know, Rahl 605 asked about chat GPT shared links.
It's like, no, he actually told us about it, but it doesn't like, there's no, there's nothing in
the agenda that indicates whether, which way that went.
Whether he asked or told. Yeah. So it's tried, it's got to figure it out
contextually, but what I will say the first
time I did this, or I pasted it in, it somehow knew that CSF meant cool stuff found and it knew that QT meant quick tips.
Now I realize that's not a huge leap, but it was a hundred percent right the first
time. So I, I have to presume that it went and looked at its archive of scraped MGG
episodes from the last 18 years.
And, uh, and you know, somehow I was able to link.
Correct. Abbreviation to the words. Correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right. I have I have one last one.
I think we kind of talked about this in the last episode, but I wanted to make sure we we we really got there.
It is also on Kickstarter, but I I have confidence that it will succeed simply because it comes from
the folks at Rolling Square who make all kinds of great little accessories.
It is called Aircard. This is the sort of credit card sized Apple Find My Tracker that you can put in your wallet.
It's 2.2 millimeters thin, it's got two and a half years of battery life, it's got a 105 decibel alarm in it.
They call it a digital business card. You can get one, or you can pledge 27 pounds.
So, you know, about 30 bucks us, I guess it's going to be right in there, uh, to, to get,
one of these things and they've got some, there are some of the, some of those left
at that price. And then of course at higher prices too.
But yeah, if you are looking for something to fit in your, you know, wallet or your bag
or wherever you need a thing, this might be the thing for you.
So I wanted to make sure we mentioned that before we, before we moved on, because Pete,
as with all good things, this episode must now come to an end.
However, I do want to say something because, uh, while this episode is being released on
June 12th, which is a Monday, this is the final episode that will be released before June 13th.
You
I get that that's sort of self-evident by, you know, linear time and the calendar and all of that stuff.
June 13th. We could go back.
June 13th, 2023 marks the 18th anniversary of this show. So we will be entering our 19th year.
Our show will now be old enough to vote.
Old enough to vote. Yeah. So.
But not drink. Not, well, not, not here in the United States. Yeah.
That's right. Thankfully, we are a global concern here, so we're covered. Everything's fine. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. So, happy anniversary to us. Very much. Yeah. Yeah. This is awesome. Yeah. Yeah.
This is awesome. It's crazy. It's so much fun to be part of such a great thing that you guys have built over the years.
I couldn't agree more. Yep. Yep. It's awesome. So, thanks to all of you for 18 years.
That's really the the key because you know this I enjoy the heck out of doing this,
But I wouldn't keep doing it if there wasn't our community and and all of us doing this together
So yeah, we're just doing the gab the people that are the community are,
You're writing the inputs the tech support,
Yeah, the question is the solutions that you know we try to present some of our own solutions, but it's not just us
It's like it's you know it we all are in this together and every now and then we give the shoulder shrug and they're like hey
You idiots right just do that. Oh Oh,
Yeah, I love those are my favorite moments. I was having a conversation with somebody,
The other day, and we were in a you know a bit of a I wouldn't say heated, but animated it. You know,
Thing where it was it was like no. I think you're wrong about that, and I stopped him, and I said okay wait wait.
I am not emotionally attached to my current thought on this.
Me.
It was some tech issue or something.
I was like, I'm emotionally attached to getting the right answer.
I'm like, so let's dig in.
Because if I'm wrong and you're right, I want to know what you know.
Like, that needs to be my new normal here. And it was like, and that's just true with all of this.
We just want to learn. We all want to. And that's the beauty of our community here.
We all just want to learn.
So, yeah, it's good. What if the right answer is the way we've always done it?
Sometimes that happens, Pete.
I might be giving a reference to another show. It's worth asking the question. There you go.
Yes, but you're right. On Business Brain, Shannon and I last week talked about how one of the things at work,
we talked about five things that are bad to say at work. I think it was five.
And one of them was, but that's the way we've always done it.
It was six, Pete reminds me. But that's the way we've always done it.
That's not a good excuse.
That may be true, but that's the way we've always done it. But it doesn't mean it's the best way to continue doing it.
But sometimes it is. Like, change for change's sake, not always, yeah.
Not always. Change for change's sake is bad. Yeah, but it's something us nerds love.
Like, when we see new shiny, it's like, oh, I'm gonna change to that.
And then we hate Ventura.
And I, I, I dislike Ventura. I don't hate it. I'm trying to remove that.
I'm trying to be very particular about how to use that word.
No, no. I like that, that word is a powerful word. So I, I don't, I dislike many parts of Ventura.
I run it on most of my computers though.
So there you go.
Just because it's too hard to go back. Yeah. Cause I like the features, Pete.
Yeah. It's yeah. I mean, you managed to get the one to go back.
Oh, that was not good, dude. Yeah, that was like real work.
That was, yeah, do as I say, not as I do. Like, I did, as I talked about it, I rolled this one back.
And then I nuked and paved it because it was not good.
I don't think I ever got mail to be happy.
That's not your mail machine. Right. But there were a couple other things that were just,
all Apple apps had problems.
Every third-party app was totally fine. And it wasn't all Apple apps,
but any of the apps that had problems were Apple apps, which makes sense because they, you know, upgrade with the OS.
Whereas, you know, third-party apps are like, yeah, well, we have to sort of be
OS independent to a degree, otherwise, you know, we're out.
So. All right!
That's what we got. So, yeah, we got Business Brain. I do GigGab as well.
And then Pete does his aviation podcast. So there I was. We'll put links to those in the show notes for you to enjoy.
Get yourself some MacGeekGab merch like Pete's wearing there at MacGeekGab.com
slash merch and follow us on Mastodon. I'll put the links in the show notes.
We're having some great conversations over there.
One of the things I love about Mastodon is there's no algorithm and deciding what order to show me things.
I just get them in timeline order and I had forgotten how much I liked that.
Like it's really great.
Well, Pete, we made it through another one here. Folks. In spite of our best efforts. That's right.
Hey, do me a favor folks. Have a good week. Don't do anything we wouldn't do.
And most of all, don't get caught.