It's time for Mac Geek, Gab, and I'll bring us our quick tip of the week.
On your Mac, go into System Preferences, System Settings, whatever version of the OS you're
running, go into Privacy, and look at every category and make sure all the apps that you
want enabled for things like full disk access and accessibility and all of those things,
make sure the ones that you want enabled are enabled.
I did it this morning on two of my Macs and there were like four things in a few
different categories that I wanted enabled.
I swear I enabled them at some point, but no, they were not enabled.
More quick tips like this. Plus your questions answered today on Mac geek have nine 89 for Monday, July 3rd,
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We'll talk more in depth about that in a little bit. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.
And here in Lee, New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete. Welcome everybody.
Welcome indeed. Yeah. Let's do this thing. How goes with you today, Pilot Pete?
All things being unequal, good. I'm starting to catch my own tail.
I chased it around the world, or I actually did a slingshot.
I went all the way to Singapore, eastbound, and then all the way back.
Oh, so you went, you went east out and west back. Yes.
So you. Three quarters of the way around the world, all the way to Singapore.
And actually that's about halfway. Cause we were exactly 12 hours out. As I recall.
That's right. We were 12 hours off from each other.
That's right. When I recorded in Hong Kong last week. So that's right.
Yeah. So I'm starting to catch my own tail and figure out what time zone my brain is in.
Well, when you, when you, when you figure it out, let us know.
You know, the sad thing is when I was in my 40s, I could recover from a trip like that in about two days.
Now it takes a little longer it I noticed yeah I noticed when I turned 40 that I'm even going out to California I needed something to help regulate my sleep patterns on the road otherwise I was I was a mess it was Chris Breen who who sort of pointed me down that path because he saw me a few days into a macrodex but he's like you don't look so good are you okay I'm like I've been sleeping about two hours a night it's like yeah you might want to fix that so yeah. There you go. Okay.
Medical, the medical geek gab. Yeah. The old guy, medical geek gab.
Yeah, exactly. Melatonin is what I use. And I used to not take it when I'd wake up at three in the morning going, oh, I don't
want to be all sleepy. Yeah.
Don't know. Sunlight and coffee will wash the melatonin away and you're good to go.
So it's something you can safely take if you're trying to sleep in the middle of the night.
Yep. So there you go. um, I take a, uh, a melatonin and CBD combination thing now, and it is perfect.
It's great for me. I, you know, you gotta know how CBD affects you, cause we're all different in that regard,
but I'll put a link to the one I take in the show notes again.
There you go. I sadly pilots don't do that.
I understand. Cause the FAA doesn't think it's funny and it is not an excuse.
Should you pop positive for THC? Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
Just use CBD. Nope. Not an excuse. Not an excuse. That's it.
Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of time zones, we are doing a hangout this coming Sunday, July 9th at 4 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time.
And we have settled. APM UTC. Is it 8 p.m. UTC? Is that right?
Are we only four hours off? Yeah, we're four hours off in the summer.
And we have picked a topic. It is shortcuts. So come prepared to share any shortcuts that you use, and of course, you know, learn from
all of us.
These hangouts are very much a many-to-many conversation.
We do them in Zoom.
The link will be in the calendar, so if you subscribe to the MacGeekGab calendar at macgeekgab.com
slash calendar, you will have the Zoom link right there in the calendar.
We will also post it in our Discord at MackeyCup.com slash Discord.
And so you will need the passcode. It's in the calendar.
It's in the Discord. I just can't put it on like Twitter or Facebook or even probably Mastodon.
Oh, you can, but the results are bad.
The results are not optimal. Yeah, it's, it's, it was bad.
It was a bad- Or free advertising before you come
to the Shortcuts Hangout.
Go find Max Barkey's field guide on Shortcuts. Oh yeah, right.
Do some homework before you get there, and you'll be more.
Uh, ready. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's, yeah, that's great.
Yeah, I'll put a link to all of those things in the show notes.
In fact, they are there.
Uh, there you go. The first slash next quick tip is from listener Ben, who says, uh, I found a new shortcut, speaking of.
This is more just a keyboard shortcut, uh, hold down command and option and click a folder
in the dock and that will open the folder in the finder.
Very cool. And he says that's listed in 80 shades of option key,
which we will also link to. But yeah, option click a dock folder
and it will simply open it right there in the finder.
So, very cool. I appreciate it. I love, I love shortcuts like that.
And that option key is, that's the closest thing to magic on.
Yeah, exactly.
All right, we will keep on trucking here. Chicago Tom has one for actual shortcuts and he tells us,
or reminds us, that you can use the terminal to run a shortcut.
You simply open up a terminal session.
You do shortcuts, space, run, space, quote unquote, the name of your shortcut within quotes.
And there you go. And he also reminds us that if you're in the terminal typing man space shortcuts will give you even more options that you can do with the shortcuts command there in the terminal.
Who the funk needed me to add a command?
Yeah, well you know what's nice about that, and I know you can you can run shortcuts from apple script
but what's nice about things like that is You can always run shell scripts aka terminal commands from,
Lots of different languages not just apple script not just automator, but all sorts of things and so,
Having that ability and and I think this is why a lot of these command line tools get built so that,
But even without an official API from your language of choice to something, say shortcuts, you have this.
And you can definitely do that.
You know, you're not going to necessarily get, you know, bi-directional data back and forth.
You're going to have to sort of figure that out on your own, but at least you can trigger
a shortcut from any language, you know, because the tool is there.
It's on every Mac after whatever point they put it on there. I don't know.
But, but yeah. So. So that's uh yeah, but I that to me. That's I think that's why they do these things is Is that so?
Speaking of Command line stuff lawyer Jeff wrote in with what I call the cool stuff found
but we'll put it here because it just fits he found a,
page that is the advanced Mac OS command-line tools and it is full of some fantastic
command line stuff that you can do on the Mac. The command caffeinate,
pbcopy and pbpaste for using the clipboard, network quality, SIPs, which I always forget about for image manipulation,
all kinds of different things. So, first of all, I love this and I've got it bookmarked now and you can too just
go to MacGeekUp.com or mgg.fm slash 989 that will get you right to this or subscribe to the newsletter that we have, and you will get these show notes with these links in your email box every week.
What I love even more about this is that Lawyer Jeff, long-time listener,
sent us this, and it was created by Sarab, another Mac-Ecab listener, long-time listener, contributor in our discord.
So it was like the perfect little circle of Mac-Ecab life, and uh, and it made me very happy.
I'm like, wait a minute. I think I know who created this as I was reading through it. So.
Yeah, I love I love I love the Mac keycap family and I love when it works out that way and lawyer
Jeff didn't know like he was like, oh I just stumbled on it. I had no idea who created it
So cool stuff in there for sure, which is why I would have called it a cool stuff found right? Yep.
Speaking of keyboard shortcuts while still on keyboard shortcuts Chicago Tom delivers again
Then he says, I got tired of reaching for my mouse to activate Siri on my Mac, so I,
went poking around in settings looking for a better way.
Did you know that if you press command space and hold it for a couple of seconds, that activates Siri?
Alternatively, you could use spotlight and type Siri and it will launch the Siri.app,
which will prompt you to dictate commands.
Yeah, so this can be set in your Macs go into you know system preferences system settings
Go to Siri and Spotlight.
And you have the option to set a keyboard shortcut for Siri, and there are four of them that, well, three, and then you get to customize. So, I guess four.
So, you can hold the microphone button on your keyboard if, in fact, you have one of those.
If you don't, as Chicago Tom says, you can choose Command Space, which is kind of a handy thing to remember,
remember, cause you got command space for, um, for, for spotlight.
Yeah. And then if you hold it down, okay, well now you're in, in Siri mode, option
space, if you want, uh, there's something else. And I don't even know what this command is.
Oh, it's like the, uh, the keyboard button and space. So the, like, I think it's the, I think that's the keyboard button and space.
I don't know.
It's a circle with like two dotted lines in the middle. That's the function key.
No, no. I think it's the keyboard like switcher button. I think that's what that is.
But if you don't have that on your keyboard, then don't use that.
And then there is the option to customize it.
So you can kind of do whatever you want.
So I always thought the keyboard input for the Yes Lady was kind of redundant.
The whole point of that is to be able to speak it. However, you got to then watch if you even
say the word seriously.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have. I have not. My Mac is always close enough to me.
I've never used Siri on my Mac. Do you use Siri on your Mac, Pete?
Almost never. Yeah. I think when I've, you know, played with something, either answering a question or I want to see
if this will work or that'll work.
Sure. Yeah. Almost never.
Usually it's the watch or the phone. Occasionally on the iPad.
Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay. So I'm in the same boat. I don't even think I have like I certainly don't have it set to listen for for the, you know, the command.
They have my phone set to listen. Oh, same. Yeah. But and then the watch, I think you press and hold the crown.
You can do that or you can, you can raise your watch and say the command. Hey, followed by the word city. Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, I certainly don't have that audible listening happening on my Mac for that.
But I think there might be times where I could be more efficient telling it to do something with Siri as opposed to, like, doing a thing.
So I need to experiment with triggering Siri from the keyboard and see where my life goes.
I think you're right, although, you know, it tends to go back to that discussion that we've had prior that, you know, you're more efficient until you're not.
And then the next, you know, next thing you know, you're in a urination contest with your computer trying to get it to do what you wanted it to do when all you had to do was was tell it to do it.
You are like, I'm thinking was type the command. Yeah, you know, I have my start the day script and sure.
And, you know, I use the mouse to trigger that from the keyboard maestro menu.
I could trigger that with, you know, a voice command.
And so, I don't know, I don't know, yeah, I need to, it's one of those things, I try to make sure I don't get, I don't fall into the trap of, I've never done it this way, therefore I don't need to do it that way, right, like, it is, I like to be able to experience it, and then say, okay, I've done it, and then I'm going to do it again.
And decided that I have a different way that is more efficient for me as opposed to just presuming that.
Without with you know presuming with ignorance, right? I'd rather presume with experience there or,
Uh not presume with ignorance, but but actually decide with experience So I do I do need to I do need to play with that,
Because I did play with it a little bit when it was first on the mac and I was like, uh, I don't this doesn't
doesn't make sense for me, but maybe I need to find a couple of things.
Feedback at MacGeekGab.com folks. If you are using Siri on your Mac, tell us how I would love to know.
Yeah.
Tell us at feedback at MacGeekGab.com. It's feedback at MacGeekGab.com.
That's where Martin sent in the next quick tip, which he says,
a tip you'll hardly use.
He is right.
But knowing that you can do this is, has been powerful for me.
He says, I am presently crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner.
And the problem here is that the time is changing by one hour per day.
So he's just slowly marching across the Atlantic one hour per day is what the time zone changes.
Despite having wifi and cell service, the iPhone can't find a reference point
to make this change automatically.
I've been plugging in odd geographic locations as kind of a hack, but today someone showed me
how to change the time manually.
Go to Settings, General, Date and Time.
If you haven't already, switch it to set the time manually. The time zone is displayed in blue
and below that the date and time.
Long press on the time and a keyboard with dates will open up.
The time is in the lower right-hand corner. Change the time by spinning the wheel.
Go back one screen to General and the time you choose will now be displayed.
You can also change the date by touching the date you want.
Your Apple Watch will pick up the cue and automatically match the date and time on your phone.
I've done this just by manually changing the time zone.
I've done it on airplanes, where I know that I want to know what the time is going to be when we land, you know, when I, when I wear a, you know, a manual watch on a plane, like not a smartwatch.
As soon as we take off, I set the time for my destination, right?
So that I have that.
I often like to have that going on my phone and on my watch too.
So what I will do is change it into manual, set the time zone for the destination.
And then change it back to automatic and usually it doesn't switch back Even if it's on the plane's Wi-Fi and then boom when I land I'm you know kind of already in in in that mode, so,
Martin's right. It's a trip. It's a tip you will hardly use, but it is good to know that you can do it,
So thank don't forget that you've done it so that you can switch it back to automatic
Well, that's why as soon as I change the time zone. I change it back to automatic immediately
Uh, so that I don't forget.
Yeah, because otherwise you're right.
Yeah. There you go. I've had a rare occasion where I've had at mid flight.
My watch will change to the.
I'm assuming based on GPS. That's what I was assumed.
But most of the time it stays at my takeoff time until I turn
the phone on after landing.
I'm going to ask a question that you, you may have to give a certain answer, even if it's not the correct answer.
Do you leave your watch?
Do you put your watch in airplane mode or is it is it getting some kind of signal? Okay. No
I always leave it Bluetooth to my telephone. Oh, right because your watch doesn't have a cell signal on it. So it's it's it's Wi-Fi Yeah. Okay.
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, but you know.
So, I think at some point we were told to turn our iPads, our iPads are cellular, and,
I think at some point we were told to turn those to airplane mode.
But the tracking, it was, you know, obviously it was turning off the Wi-Fi and then the
Bluetooth and the signals weren't good.
And I think anyone just leaves, everyone just leaves it wide open right now.
And you know people are leaving their cell phones on. Of course.
Inadvertently and intentionally.
And I think all the engineers have proven that no longer interferes with the, well,
shouldn't interfere with the radar altimeter and the resuction of the other things.
Although the whole 5G thing, and that's a, another big, to use my earlier term, urination
contest between the FCC and the FAA, you know, for whether or not, you know, is it too close
where the signal's aimed, it interfered.
And they've proven that does interfere with the radar altimeter, which is critical in
really low light or low visibility when you can't see the runway, you're counting on that thing to
tell you exactly how many feet you are. Well, not you telling the autopilot how many feet it is
above the runway so that it can properly flare and set the airplane down on the runway in an
automatic landing. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. But I think you're right. Like we've we've proven that.
People leaving their phones on doesn't cause planes to fall out of the sky. I mean, it just
just by nature of, like you said, even the unintentional, I mean, I've done it where I
forget, you know, I'm in the middle of whatever and they do the announcement and you're like,
yep, been there, done that and whatever.
And then suddenly. And the engineers, I know they've gone over it.
What happens if 400 phones are on it trying to get a signal that they've had to do that or they would, you know.
Of course, yes, of course they have, right.
That's a, that's a really fair point. Yeah. Of course they have.
All right, uh, we got a couple more quick tips. We'll blow through these. I love all the quick tips.
Yeah.
Ben in Discord says, On iPhone and iPad, there's a setting to change the speed of the long press response.
In iOS 16 and earlier, the choices are slow and fast. 9to5Mac has pointed out that in iOS 17, you get a third option of, uh,
Faster or something like that or slower. I don't know. There's a third option,
And you can set this now you go to settings accessibility touch haptic touch and,
You can make a long press take less time on your phone fast. I believe fast is the default,
but you can change it to slow and there is a a, uh, fast is, is the new default or whatever on the, the next on iOS 17.
And you can make it even faster with iOS 17, as I understand it.
So, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So haptic is an adjective relating to the sense of touch or tactile.
So they may as well just call it touch, touch, just saying touch, touch.
Thanks for that. P haptic touch.
Haptic is relating to touch or the sense of touch.
Yeah. Okay. You know, I'm, I'm sorry. I just. Nope. I appreciate that.
I had to look up the word haptic because I'm sitting here and going, what is haptic?
I've never, you know, before smartphones, I've never heard the word haptic.
Okay. What's haptic? Oh, it relates to the sense of touch.
Well, okay. Then it's touch touch. Maybe they should have called it touch.
It's a fancy way of seeing feedback for your touch. Yeah.
The science of touch. Yeah. OK.
Yeah. Hey, Hey, hang on. There we go. Now you've learned. We've all learned something new.
I bet the vast majority had no idea.
We've learned something new.
I'm not, I'm not sure. Not any, I didn't say useful.
Thank you. That's right.
I didn't say we've learned something useful.
Yeah. Well, that's right. And we don't, we don't guarantee that we
don't promise useful. That's right.
We do promise five new things. That's correct.
Yep. Um, Ben shares something that is probably useful. Useful, there we go.
It says, uh, I found, for the first time I found that when I copied something, it did not end up on my Mac's clipboard, so I couldn't paste it.
Since the clipboard is part of the Finder, and this is the part that I needed a reminder on, the clipboard is part of the Finder,
I forced the Finder to relaunch, holding Option and right-click on the Finder in the dock or select Finder in the Force Quit menu,
and then the clipboard behaved normally again.
So, yes, relaunched the Finder to resolve clipboard failures.
Uh, also, Nibsuk in our Discord commented that by issuing kill-all-keyboard from the terminal should also reset it because that's the pasteboard service, which is where the, um, the, whatchamacallit, the clipboard lives, so. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you use Clipboard Manager, Dave? Oh my gosh.
I mean, obviously I use, I use keyboard maestros clipboard manager only because I use keyboard maestro for other things.
And so it means that I, I don't have to have yet another something running, but yes, I could not live without a clipboard manager.
Do you run one Pete?
I, I, you know, I, I assume since I run keyboard maestro that I do, but I don't know.
I've never used that function of it.
I've always used the one thing I have on the clipboard now.
And.
Never, never much played with it, though. It looks like Schotter.
We talked about that a couple of weeks ago. May have may have something there, too.
But I need to get in there and.
Find out what I'm missing, I suppose. That is something where if you don't know about it,
you don't know what you're missing for sure.
You need to I'm trying to think of the right way for all of us,
for anyone who's not already using a clipboard manager, if you find, start paying attention to your workflows.
If and when, and I'm guessing it's gonna be a when, but I'll say if, you find yourself bouncing between,
say, Safari and Mail, or, you know, one app,
like, if you're pasting things into a spreadsheet, right, and you've gotta go get them from Safari
and paste them into whatever,
and if you find yourself going back and forth, so you go to Safari, you copy the first thing,
You go back to mail or your spreadsheet you paste it in then you go back to safari
You copy the second thing go back paste it in,
Or even if you're you know It's not safari if you copy one thing from safari and one thing from from mail
But you're going back and forth and pasting it into your spreadsheet each time.
Copy all the things and then go to where you're gonna paste them and use your clipboard manager,
To paste the things that you have now copied because they are all in your clipboard,
It will be tedious the first time because your fingers don't know all the right keystrokes to make those,
Entries on the clipboard jump out at the time that you want them to jump out
That is a thing that your fingers will learn very very quickly Trust me on that. So yes, the first time will be far less efficient than what you already know how to do,
But that's the thing like Lisa was looking at me the other night and I was doing something on my computer
or she was doing something.
I'm like, wait a minute, like you could use a clipboard manager.
She's like, yeah, I don't quite understand. I'm like, all right, well, let me show you.
And as I showed her, she was like, wait a minute, that's life-changing.
It's like, yes, I am shocked.
That Apple has yet to include a clipboard manager, not just on the Mac, but system-wide, like iCloud-wide.
I want one on my iPhone and my iPad, and I want it to sync amongst all of them,
and I just want access to my clipboard history.
It's amazing because now I can treat the clipboard like a little bit of a backup.
I mean, you don't want to go too crazy because things can get wiped out,
but it's non-destructive in that when you copy or cut the next thing, it doesn't blow away
with what was there previously.
Yeah, it looks like there's one or two in the setup. Yeah.
Yep paste paste is one that porthos john in the. In the discord chat just mentioned here but.
Yeah yeah so i like i couldn't.
Whenever, for whatever reason, Keyboard Maestro is not running on a Mac for me, which is weird.
But if it's not, and I wind up, it's like I feel like it's that whole typing with mittens on feeling.
It's like, oh my gosh. And then I panic. Like, wait a minute.
What have I lost that I thought was saved on my clipboard?
Because I do rely on it to just hold on to things. I'll grab stuff, like if I'm filling out a web form, right?
And you know, sometimes you type lots of text into like a, you know, please send us your customer service message.
And you like type all the things in my order on this day and that you sent me the wrong and the yada yada.
Before I click send, I select all and copy. And then I hit send on that or submit on that form.
And I know that when the form fails, like it does 50% of the time,
I just have that on my clipboard.
Even if I come back to it later, It's like, oh no, that's going to be there on my clipboard.
That's a great idea. Now that you mention it, I can't tell you how many times I find that, oh,
now I need that email address to put in there to send this, and I had the email address cut.
Yep. So, I have another tip for us here, a bonus quick tip for today. As far as email addresses go,
go into your keyboard text replacements, type in your email address as the replacement,
And then come up with, like, some shortcut that you can type to put in your email
and do the same thing with your phone number or phone numbers.
And of course, if you have multiple email addresses.
Like, I have fmgg, and that expands to feedback at macgeekup.com.
I have, like, dmgg for my Dave ad address.
I have ddlh for my personal address. Like, all of these things, so that I, when I'm filling out forms, I don't have to,
and this works on my phone. It works on my Mac because it's synced.
And I do the same with my phone number. I have my, my phones are all in the 603 area code.
So I have C603 for my cell. I have 0603 for the office.
I have G603 for my Google voice number.
And just being able to tap that on my phone's keyboard and not fat finger things is nice.
Do those things. Yeah. I was gonna say I use Comma cell. I use Comma ST for my street address.
The only time it really seems to get me is every now and then.
And the back, you know, the website designer has put in, no, it only wants numbers.
So when I try to type comma Z for my zip code, it won't take it.
Oh, yeah. You know, it's like, yeah, you have to go type it manually.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, you can't put anything that's not a number in there.
Right, right. And then one that I'd literally just used to put this in the show notes from Porthos
John shift option, command V does a paste and match style.
So if you have style on the Mac, perhaps obviously, but that one is a good one
for your fingers to learn so that you can paste things without it inheriting
the style from where you copied it.
It will inherit the style of where you're pasting it.
So yeah, all good stuff. I think text editor is good about, not text editor, text expander.
Yes. having that option built into it.
And Keyboard Maestro takes it to another level like Mac OS has that that paste and match style,
Keyboard Maestro sometimes that doesn't work and sometimes there are fields that on websites that won't let you paste into them,
But Keyboard Maestro lets you set up a shortcut to type the clipboard,
right and So you copy something to the clipboard and then you tell Keyboard Maestro to type it and then it just does user interface scripting or whatever
Yes, you know whatever the right term is types it. Yeah, it's a virtual keyboard,
Essentially, yeah, but but no fat fingering like you know it's sometimes they're like oh,
Where I love it is when it's like you're setting up a password right long password. Yes,
Yeah, and they want you to type the confirmation of that password. It's like I'm not gonna do that
So I use keyboard maestro to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's brilliant. Okay?
I learned one there.
Yep. I didn't even think about it. Yeah. No, we're on a roll here.
This is good. This is good.
Um, we had, uh, grumpy in our, and he's really not that grumpy, uh, in our discord.
He's a really nice guy.
Everybody in our discord is nice. You should, if you aren't there, I encourage you to join.
I, I, I dislike using the word should, I, I would love for you to join.
I think you will like it.
I like it there. Uh, no, you should join.
I don't mind using the word. I don't mind using the word, you should join. Well there you go.
I agree with Pete. Grumpy had two follow ups from last week's quick tips.
He says about the QR code scanner, which by the way, I used a ton in Montreal last week
and it was fantastic to be able to start that QR code scanner, hover my phone over the QR
that was on the table, not have to type, not have to like tap anything on the screen, as
soon as it sees the QR code, it launches it, it does whatever it's supposed to do, it's
amazing.
So, you know, you launch that via the control center and then it does the code.
Mark reminds us, sorry, Mike Grumpy reminds us that after it does that, it's opened it
in the web browser inside of.
Control the QR code scanner app not in safari but you can tap the little open in safari button in the lower right and the reason you want to do this and I can attest to this being super handy is if it's like a menu when you want to go back and order your next beer and try a different one if you've opened it in safari you have the menu still on your phone you don't have to go and scan the QR code again to get the menu Ah, yes.
So. Here was a neat one. Let me, for those of you who own restaurants or other services, the neatest one I've seen
so far, it was this restaurant in the Netherlands.
They had a cube on each table with the QR code on it.
Okay. Into that QR code was the table number and you submitted your order through their menu
online. So you didn't have to do anything but touch what you wanted and they bring it to your
table because they know that it came from table 76.
So for those of you, those of you doing that, you're not just giving the menu, you're telling it which table.
So as long as nobody switches the cubes on the table. Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like Applebee's. It's except you get to use your own phone instead of whatever that silly thing is at
Applebee's. You know which table to bring it to right away.
That was pretty clever I thought. I like it.
And to wrap up Quick Tips, Grumpy had a follow-up from a different Quick Tip in that episode.
He says, about adding a receipt to your user manuals, an additional thing to add when you
get a new thing is to take a picture of the model.
So we were talking about adding your user manuals and your receipts in a note or a books or whatever. Right.
Uh, also take a picture or a scan of the model or serial number tag on the item and attach
that to the note or book or manual as well. Very handy to have the actual model number
in the same document as the manual, since many manuals are for a family of products
and having the actual serial number is always a good thing.
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All right. Listener Larry brings us to our questions segment here.
He says my devices are all updated to the most current releases.
That's handy to know. He says I've been using mail app as my mail client across all platforms, Mac,
iPhone and iPad, iPad.
He says I don't do anything fancy, though I have been using SaneBox for the past few years.
Oh, yeah, I couldn't live without SaneBox. That's another one.
He says, I've been very happy.
Lately, he says, I have noticed real email going into my junk folder at an increasing rate.
I used to ignore the junk folder totally, but I've had to increasingly have a look one or even two times a day and I'm,
always finding real good email there.
I'm concerned about this. Yeah.
Well, there is no lack of garbage in the junk folder. I also worry about real mail going there, and if I have to check frequently, it doesn't do me any real good.
Is something going on with the algorithms on my end, or at Apple's, and is there anything I can do? So, um...
Maybe is the answer. Apple's filters are trained both by Apple and everyone so you sort of get the the hive mind
training of email and it's also trained by you,
Apple's filters.
There's actually a knowledge base article that it tells you how to train Apple's filters.
And I highly recommend that you do this actively, not just once, but all the times.
And it says iCloud Mail uses trend analysis, dynamic lists and other tech to automatically detect
and block junk mail before it reaches your inbox.
While there isn't a way to completely stop junk mail, these tips can help reduce.
Reporting junk mail and reporting what's not junk mail
are keys to training Apple's filters in general and also the way Apple's filters work for you specifically.
And you can do this in a number of ways.
If you are using one of Apple's mail clients and it has the junk button or the not junk button,
that certainly works,
but you can simply move the messages between the inbox and the junk folder,
moving it from the junk folder to the inbox will train Apple's mail as not junk
and moving it the other way from the inbox to the junk folder will train it as junk.
So, good question. Yes. Does that work? So that works for iCloud mail or all mail accounts?
So we're talking about iCloud mail as Apple. Okay. However, that also is sort of the paradigm
that pretty much every other email provider follows.
Yeah, like fast mail definitely works that way.
Google mail, Gmail, or Google apps mail or whatever you're using works that way.
So yeah, I think it's a safe presumption for that to be a good path, but it's works.
You know, I have my own server and I use Just Host. That's my service provider.
And so I run my email server from them with my domain name, and I'm assuming that they're following that as well.
They have, the cool thing about doing that is I can run my own global filters. So when I get a.
Email from this, you know, crappy email at junkmail.com, I can filter out anything from
junkmail.com. Doesn't even make it to my mail client to filter. So I'm hoping they're following
that as well. I just go back to, you know, obviously they wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
Why send spam email if it didn't work? So people quit answering.
Yeah, well, yeah, exactly, exactly. But you shouldn't do that.
Yeah, I also agree with Pete. Uh, yeah, it's worth just checking.
I looked quick while we were talking here to see if just host had like a knowledge
based article about this.
They probably do. I couldn't find it while we were chatting here, but it's worth checking with your
provider just to know, for example, with fast mail.
Uh, it learns by what you, it learns by all of these methods and more.
And when you leave junk mail in the mailbox for 30 days or whatever, and it
gets deleted, that also starts training it that that mail is junk.
So I needed to have, I had screwed things up with fast mail.
I'd left too many things out there.
I was not actively managing my spam. And so I learned a bunch of legitimate meals were junk yeah
And so I I wrote a I wrote him a support ticket, and I said hey I kind of would like to punt on this how do I do that and they said oh?
We can reset that for you, or maybe maybe it was possible for me to reset I forget but and in either way they were like yeah
We'll we'll start you from scratch, and it did and now I set it on my calendar.
To every other day manage my spam.
I like doing it from the web interface for fast mail.
I have a URL that brings me right to my spam email box. It's in my calendar, so I can just click right there.
It's super efficient. Oh yeah. It takes me, when I say it takes me 20 seconds a day,
I am not exaggerating. It's really not much.
I sort my spam mailbox by the from address.
You could also choose to sort by like the subject something if you're only doing it once a week I think sorting by subject might be
better because a lot of spam has duplicate subjects and so it makes it really easy to identify patterns.
I find doing it every other day, you know, there might be 20 or 30 things in there for me,
and I do find some that are, you know, bad, and, or, you know, false negatives, false positives,
whatever it should be, things that should be in my inbox, and so I just tell it,
not spam for these, and the rest I tell it delete, and it works out really well.
And that's why it takes you 20 seconds, because you do it every other day.
Correct. If you did it every two weeks, it'd take longer, every month, obviously, longer.
It would take longer. Yeah.
And that's why, you know, when I reset my junk mail filter, you know, when I reset the trainings.
I was doing it every day for a couple of weeks, and then I realized, okay, it's probably not
going to be any different to do it every other day. When I let it go more than every, like if
I'm traveling or, you know, I miss the to-do on my list on one day and I do it on, you know,
and it's been three days now, it takes me remarkably longer than just 50, it's more
than 50% longer because my brain gets tired and distracted as I'm reading through those lists.
You know what I mean? And so I do, I know exactly what you mean. You know, I get halfway through
and I'm thinking about something else and it's like, oh crap. Okay. I got to do this again.
So I got to deal with that email right now before I forget. And then the next thing,
you know, you're dealing with other things and you're like, wait a minute. I was in the middle
of my junk mail. Yep. So for me, and we're all different, right? But for me, every other day
is the right pace. And really, even if I miss a day, every three days is manageable. If I let it
go more than that, then it's like, it's a chore. I have to really focus and maintain a level of,
focus that I don't want to have to do. So that's why I don't choose to do it once a week or once
every two weeks. That's just too much for me. EDD is not just an acronym. It's a way of life.
No, it's a way of life, but it's all about learning how to live with yourself, right?
And so with this it's like, yeah, if I do it every other day and then on the opposite days
I use sane box as well. I have a box called sane news, which is one of sane boxes automatic boxes
You can turn it off, but it grabs all of my newsletters and puts them into one folder
I manage sane news on my off days from spam,
and so uh and it's nice because i'll tell you what reading through newsletters when all when you know that
That's all you're seeing there is newsletters makes it really easy. It's like do I want to read that one? No, no, no
Yes that one I do want to read okay, and then I read it and look at it great
I move on to the next one and so I'd let that be a little more freeform than the spam thing
You know, but that's the point of it. So yeah.
So Maybe sort but sorting by from address for my spam,
On my schedule is perfect when I used to do it every two weeks, which again for me was a failure
But sorting by subject was another way. So think about what you just got to find the path that works for you,
um, and also know what your Mail server like your mail host how to train it so that you're actually getting back quickly before we before we get off this subject
And so I I think mgg uses mail chimp when you send out your newsletter, correct?
When we send out our newsletter, it's mail, it's currently MailChimp.
We've been thinking about changing to ConvertKit, but that's a whole other conversation. Okay.
So, but, but, okay. So obviously there's services for sending out newsletters, but how are these spam guys getting it out?
Are they, are they abusing the MailChimp terms of service or, you know, whom, whomever I
use them as a, as an example, because they can send mass emails.
Yeah. So the, um, I'm trying to think of the right way to answer this.
Yes, the some of the spammers are using a, you know, respected mail sender, if you will,
but MailChimp will boot you if you get too many spam complaints back, right?
They and they tell you about it. They're like, okay, like, you know, you're at point two percent or something.
No, no big deal. Like it's going to happen. They understand that.
But if you're at like two percent, they'll send you an email and then that's it.
But sending mail does do good to complain to the absolute it.
Yeah, I mean, I guess I don't know like, yes, it does good. I don't like I it's waste too much time.
But but yes, it there there is help in that some mail hosts will do the complaining for you.
They will report things back to the the sending agent. So, I know Google does, if you mark something as spam on Google, they are logging that and
like MailChimp would hear about it and all that.
So there, it's great. I don't know about FastMail, they probably do.
They manage a lot of email there.
But you know, we used to send all of, well, a bunch of our email through our own server,
because we have our own server and we can send mail.
It is really hard to get your, and I say little server, like it used to be the Mac Observer
server, it was sending out all kinds of email and it was doing everything from Backbeat media. Um...
It is very difficult to get a mail server that you run yourself quote-unquote respected by the community and to be able to hit the inbox. MailChimp is
respected because they don't tolerate spam and so they can hit the inbox better. You know,
ConvertKit, respected. They can hit the inbox. Dave's little server that, you know,
does its own thing and hasn't managed MacObserver email in, I mean, it's been 10 years or something.
That would almost always hit people's spam folders when I sent through that.
So I use like Google's SMTP relay now, which is great.
So, yeah, yeah.
But again, you can't abuse it. You've got to, you know.
Yeah, there's two or three blacklisting services out there that'll put your server on the blacklist and then good luck, right?
That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, yeah. You want to take us to Kent? Yeah, so Kent wrote in, hi Dave and Pete, Safari on my iPad Air Gen 4 has recently started exhibiting an odd and,
irritating behavior. It's on iPad OS 16.5.1. When I do a Google search and then tap on the result, it doesn't take me to the right result.
Instead, the tap results in a thin outline of the listing with a quote share and
and a quote, save to collections icon as shown in the screenshot attached.
A second tab takes me to the desired result page. I've tested this on the iPhone SE with 16.5.1 and my 2019 iMac 13.4.1.
The iPhone doesn't display this, the iMac does on rollover, but clicking the result takes me directly to
the link page without needing a second click.
The screenshot is from the Mac, and of course, you can't see the screenshot.
No amount of searching has turned up even a mention of this behavior. It's a jarring change.
To tap the result, expecting the page to open and then realizing it didn't and having to go do it again.
I'm threatening to nuke and pave to see if that clears it up and to see if there's a simple solution.
Check in with us to see if there's a simple solution.
There is a simple solution. We didn't find it, but Kent did.
Yes, we looked for it. We didn't find it. He did. Yeah.
Yeah. So he writes a quick follow-up in the answer. I searched through Safari settings
and noticed I had, quote, request desktop websites and then all websites turned on.
I've had it this way for as long as I can remember. I turned it off, closed all my tabs
and tried a new search, issue gone. Turned it back on and the behavior returned.
Off, off again and gone again.
Perhaps a recent change by Google as evidenced by it showing up on the Mac.
I don't know, but what's left of my sanity has now been preserved, so.
Yeah, this is interesting. So I never knew about this setting, Pete.
It's in, I'm seeing it on my iPhone in settings, Safari.
Scrolling almost to the bottom is request desktop website on.
And you can set it to all websites.
You can also set specific websites to always request a desktop website.
Like on my iPad, I have it request my Synology disk stations desktop website
because I want the full experience when I'm on my iPad.
But, uh, but yeah, I, I never used it for everything. And I think he's probably right.
Some change at Google must have, have, you know, catalyzed this.
So.
Right. Yeah. I mean, it wouldn't have otherwise, you know, I tried to duplicate the behavior.
I looked all over and I'm glad he found it because that was a.
Yep, that's bizarre. Yep, but it could be handy and I'm thinking about this is interesting because as we're having this conversation
I'm thinking about I'm gonna try,
Setting that on my iPad because I prefer the desktop website on my iPad in almost all cases,
so It's certainly not on my phone, but on my iPad Yeah But but again
I might need to find a way to like tell it don't do this for Google or just use a different search engine try duck,
duck go? And then maybe that's the answer.
Oh yeah. Right. I don't know. Yeah. Hadn't even thought about trying a different
search engine. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, you know, like that's not the answer, but it is a solution, right? Yes. So yeah.
Good stuff, Kent. Thank you for sharing that with us. Yeah, indeed.
I, um, I have a question.
It's more of an observation because I, or maybe we'll call it a geek challenge.
So I was in Montreal, uh, here in New New Hampshire, where we are, is about a less than five hour
drive each way.
So we drove up and got an Airbnb where we could park our car.
We were up there celebrating our niece's birthday with her.
We took her up. She lives with us. And so the three of us went up.
It was great. Had a really nice time.
When I crossed the border into Canada, my car stayed on miles per hour.
My Apple Maps on CarPlay for the, uh, like, uh, turn directions and all of that stayed on miles.
The speed limit signs on the road were all in kilometers. The speed limits as interpreted by my cars,
I have a Subaru Outback from like 2018, so not that old.
And it has the speed limits of some roads on it, you know?
And those all stayed in miles per hour because my car stayed in miles per hour.
Apple Maps, only the speed limit on Apple Maps showed up in kilometers per hour.
And it was like, okay, well you didn't change anything else to kilometers, but,
you Change that and it's like so I had to ask my family All right. Tell me what you know, how much is how many miles is 50 kilometers? How many miles is 80 kilometers? Like I?
Yeah, no, I mean I can look I can look on the on the obviously on the speedometer,
But it first of all, it's really tiny and I'm trying to drive in a foreign country
And I don't want to screw that up, but what I look at for the speed of my car is the,
Digital display of the speed and of course that was still in miles per hour because I could change it
But I would have to stop the car to change that particular setting allowed to change it on the road
You're not allowed to change it while you're driving. Yeah, exactly,
And for good reason I it's not a complaint, but it was like this is really weird
And I mean it didn't take very long for me to learn the translations because it was only like three of them
You know, it was like 50, 80, 100 and I could like get close on the rest,
And then of course my car was showing me the speed limits and the right thing
But I thought that was really weird now Google Maps, which I used for a little bit driving home.
Just went all in on metric. So it was telling, it was giving me turn directions in terms of the number of kilometers and this that and the other thing.
It's like, I'm not sure that that's better Google, but at least you're consistent.
Yeah. If I told you I wanted to be in miles, don't change that because I'm somewhere else.
Like it's still Dave's brain.
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's just quickly for anyone listening. If you find yourself there, 0.6.
So if it's 100 kilometers an hour multiplied by 0.6, 60, it's not.
It's 63, but it's close enough for government work. Yep.
No, that's a, that's a good, that's a good conversion. You know, if it's, it's 50, then it's six times five is 30.
You're about 30, 33 miles an hour. Yep.
Nope. That's it. That's good math to be able to do. Yeah. Yeah.
Get you in the ballpark. So you don't get a ticket. So you don't get a ticket. Yeah.
That would be a boring and costly conversation and confusing because I'm sure the officer would want to speak French to me at least initially and
I don't speak French well at all,
So yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, don't go so fast Dave.
The other Pete but traveling and and Even if you're not driving or perhaps especially if you're not driving if you're gonna be using public transport,
in
in a country where they speak a language or use a pronunciation that is different
from what your brain is used to.
Learn how, before you leave.
Learn how the locals pronounce the name of the street that you are staying on.
I learned this a year ago when we went to Greece.
We wound up, you know, we had picked our Airbnb because we stayed in Athens for a few days before we went on the road.
I picked our Airbnb. We wound up talking to like a travel planner.
We wound up not working with this woman. She was very nice. She basically told us you don't need me.
Um, but casually as we were talking, she's like, where are you staying?
And I, I like texted her the address, the Airbnb and she says, and it was I O F O N T O S or whatever.
Uh, and she's like, Oh, you're on your fontos. I know where that is.
And it was like, right.
You'll fontos not IO fontos. Like my English brain is telling me to say so creates way. Yeah.
Not so creates way. Yeah, exactly. But, but you'll fontos.
And it was like, and then like we were traveling somewhere and like, you know,
know, the, uh, like the, the, the bus driver or something was like, Oh, you know,
we're coming up to your fontos here.
And it's like, right, that's us.
And the same thing in, in Montreal, you know, we stayed again at an Airbnb and it was on St.
Dennis street, but there locally that's Sainte-Denis and you know, if you don't
know that you might not make that association in the moment, right?
Like, yeah, we were, we did some tour and the driver was like, who is it that's on
Sondini, can I bring you back first?
And I was like, yes, that's us.
And Lisa looked at me, she's like, oh, look at that. She's like, you're right, that is Sondini.
I'm like, yeah, I learned this last year. I need to know how they're gonna pronounce our street,
Not how I'm going to pronounce it. Thank you.
So, I don't know, little tips, for the English speaking world, any St. Dennis folks here, any St. Dennis.
I'm sure they would have gotten there quickly because our, you know, and that was the thing
is he was speaking English to us, but he was pronouncing things in the way, the way you
pronounce the way it is correct to pronounce them.
Yes.
Yes. We're not going to get to everything, but that's sort of normal.
Steve Hammond had a good question with an answer in our discord.
He says, I have a few Apple TV fours in my house, but one of them is often freezing.
I have to get to it and reboot it by removing the power cable.
Any idea what it can be? And then there was a discussion that ensued about how to reboot it every week.
And that would be perhaps like, you know, a smart plug that you can schedule to just
turn it off, wait, whatever, a minute,
turn it back on and fix that.
So, but someone, Blake in Arizona chimed in and said, I have had similar occasional freezing
on two of my Apple TV 4Ks that were identical.
From what I saw, they were both practically full on storage, which amazed me.
Says, I deleted a few apps and so far, they both have been working better and haven't needed to be rebooted. So.
If you're Apple TV, I would say for all of us, go check and see how much storage all the apps
that you downloaded and forgot about are taking up on your Apple TV,
because it might make sense to just delete some as a matter of course and just maintenance.
Kind of like I said at the beginning of the show, going through the privacy settings
and making sure things are on, this sort of preventative maintenance
to keep your, you know, keep your sanity,
preserve your sanity.
I probably have two dozen apps on my home screen and I bet I use four with any consistency.
Exactly, right? Yeah, exactly. So deleting the things that you never are going to use again for sure,
But also if you do wind up in a scenario where you've got an Apple TV that freezes and needs to be rebooted,
Check the storage That would not have been my first thing to check and so thanks to Blake in Arizona now
It will be all of our first thing to check. So.
Yes, indeed Right you thinking all the back-end things what could be wrong with the operating system
Did you get a bad bit in your last firmware update right you know right?
Oh, just delete some apps just delete some apps. It's full, but it won't tell you that it's full right Apple doesn't like to do that,
Except for when they do. I don't know I don't know,
Brent asks a question of us here about What is the is is what is the best malware scanner for Mac OS?
He says, is Malwarebytes still a good option for a free on-demand malware scanner for macOS?
And I, Malwarebytes is still the one that I use, and I don't pay for a subscription to it,
not because I don't want to support them. I don't pay for a subscription because I don't want,
it running all the time, and that real-time agent is part of the subscription, right?
Like that is part and parcel of having paid for it. I don't...
I've chosen, again we talk about our convenience versus security continuum and picking our spot on it.
I have chosen not to have something running all the time that's always scanning things that are running on my Mac.
Because I don't want it to slow my Mac down, you know, and maybe someday I will regret that, but I have a reminder on my calendar.
To remind me to run Malwarebytes once a week, and I do on all of my Macs.
Actually, I don't have it on my calendar. I have a keyboard maestro macro that runs once a week
that launches Malwarebytes. It doesn't scan, it launches it.
When I see it up on my machine, I go and click the scan button.
So that's how that, and then I quit. I don't quit before I scan.
So Malwarebytes is what I use. Do you use anything, Pete? And if so, what?
I do, I use Malwarebytes, Although I don't think I've put it on this machine as yet, my new one.
Yep. I also use C cleaner, which is short for crap cleaner. Great name.
I forgot about C cleaner. Oh yeah. Yeah.
So they have a free and a paid version as well. Yep. And, uh, but I, I find that the free version meets my needs.
Okay. Um, and it's not, uh, I don't know that that's as good at malware, but, but it
It does clean a lot of the cruft in the machine, I'll give it that.
It looks like the free version does less of the malware stuff, and they don't say malware
but they talk about removing internet trackers and things like that, so, yep.
And then, um...
And then actually, you know, and we mentioned it briefly before, as far as trackers, I started
using the Duck.com email service.
And that's, that does a good job of removing trackers from the email when, before it even
hits your inbox or when it hits your inbox, it goes, I've removed four internet trackers from this email.
So that's nice. And then of course, no episode would be complete without mentioning CleanMyMac 10 or X.
Yep. I choose to say 10. That's the Roman numeral. Yeah.
It is. It is clean my Mac X and I, I only, I only know that because when they first sponsored
the show years ago, uh, and they, they didn't just sponsor our show, like through backbeat,
they, you know, we put together a campaign where they sponsored like, I don't know, 10
Mac shows or something.
Cause we have a lot of mattress and, uh, every single host said clean my Mac 10 because I
I think we were taught by Apple that X is 10, you know?
And the, the, the, the feedback came back, Hey, uh, for the next app, for the
next reads, make sure you say clean my Mac X. And it was like, Oh, who knew?
Like, well, now we know.
So, yep. They were nice. They were very nice about it. It was obviously.
Yeah. Yeah. They understood why like, yep.
But it is clean my Mac X, but you're right. That's got a great malware scanner in it too.
So yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I like it. I know you skipped over it, so I won't get to both, but the quick one is Stitcher's going away in August.
Just for both of you that listen to this show on Stitcher. I think there's more than both.
I've seen the stats. Yeah. No, you're not wrong to circle back to this one.
And listen to it on the Mackey Gab app.
Or yeah. Oh, okay. You're leaning back. Like maybe not, you know, we have to get rid of it.
We have not done any updates to the Mac e-cab app in a while. There was, there was a project
planned for this past winter. Lucas was actually going to do a lot of those updates that did not
happen. So I need to talk with Corey, the, the person who created that for us and see where we
are with that, because there are some things that it needs to be, it needs to be updated
and refreshed. Yeah, it works, but there are some things that need to be done with it,
and they have not been done. So certainly use the Mac geek app, install it, it's free.
And you will get notifications from us, which is great. And you can listen in the app.
For my podcast listening, I like overcast, um, you know, yeah. Um, it's, you know,
Apple destroyed podcasts with the latest.
I, well, that is true. I agree. iOS 17 podcasts app is better.
I've been playing with that on my spare phone.
Yeah. So, so I just finding where the episode is and you know, what order it's in and getting it just was, it was not, no longer intuitive.
Right, right, right. Yep.
Nope. I like goober that up. I don't know, but yeah, I love overcast.
It lets you change your speed and get rid of, uh, you know, what is it called?
The intel, intelligent speed.
He gets rid of the silence gaps, the pauses, which is great. Yep.
We, we, uh, yeah, I, I, I like that. Um, I, uh, the, the one nice thing about stitcher is listener.
Gary pointed out is that it will stream only. Whereas most other podcasts app are apps are focused on downloading or streaming.
If you don't have the downloaded copy in overcast, you can go into its own settings,
into downloading, and you can choose to stream when played and never download.
And what's cool is per show basis. You can also then change that on a per show basis. That's right.
Yep. Exactly. Some shows will download some will stream. Yeah, that's great.
But I wanted to point that out because people may be listening and it's got, I think they
said they're going to Pandora, right?
Anybody on Stitcher is automatically going to switch over to Pandora.
Okay. Or going to have to download the Pandora app.
Yeah, that makes sense. But you know, I think Pandora bought them.
That's my guess.
Yeah, or stitcher bought pandora and decided to keep their name. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah fair. Yeah. Yeah, um,
Chad had a question about uh overcast from a couple of weeks ago basically asking,
How do I play video podcasts in overcast?
Uh, you had prepped this one pete, but I I mean, I think the answer is no right overcast
Yeah, no, not that i've been able to find. Yeah. Yeah.
Um, I Spotify is very much leaning in on the whole video podcast thing so much so that they now give us
as creators the option to upload a video to go along with the audio podcast so if if you're
listening on on Spotify and we have remembered to do it and it's not they don't make it it's not,
the easiest thing yet but we'll get there um we we can upload a video and we have for a bunch of of episodes.
I didn't do it for last week's, um, cause I was traveling and anyway, I didn't, but I will,
I'll go, I'll go and fix that in, in, in retrospect.
Yeah. Yeah. So you need to fix that. Well, that's the problem is like you and I,
we get on here and we do a lot of pre-show, but mine records.
Oh yeah. My pre-show records too. I used to do that up there too.
Yeah. I cut that out. Oh, you go in and yeah, see, I'm too much other editing.
I don't have time to go in and change all that. Uh, yeah, YouTube is weird with the editing, Facebook's not too bad with it, and then the file that I download is easy to edit.
QuickTime Player, by the way, if all you need to do is trim a video or even slice out sections in the middle, it is the most efficient thing.
And when I say efficient, I mean in terms of what happens once you finish doing your slicing and dicing and you hit save.
QuickTime doesn't try to re-encode the whole thing, it just saves it.
Whereas, like, Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve, which is an amazing video editor,
and one that I use regularly, will take, you know, for an hour and a half long thing,
it'll take, like, 20 minutes to push it out.
It's like, yeah, it's like, guys, I just want to do this, so.
Yeah, it's already encoded. It's already encoded, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
All right, well, Pete, I think we have hit our time for the week.
We have a bunch of cool stuff found. We still have some more questions to get through.
You will send in more questions to feedback at MattGeeKeb.com.
So I think that means we're going to have to do this again next week, Pete.
Yeah, we are. I think we will. I think we will. It'll be after it'll be after treason day for those of us in Britain. That is true.
After independence day for those of us in the states. That's right.
And uh, and and don't forget sunday, july 9th, which is this coming sunday for anyone who's,
Listening to the recorded version of this Uh at 4 p.m. Eastern daylight time
we will get together and hang out and talk shortcuts.
Really, we'll just talk automation in general. Doesn't have to just be shortcuts.
But yeah, automation in general. So yeah, it's going to be fun.
So I'm hoping to be on there.
It may not happen. That's a travel day for us. We're going to Florida. Got it.
But if my airplane's ready, then I can wait an extra day and do that. Interesting. Right.
All right, cool. Well, we hope to see you. But obviously, we understand you can't make it.
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Anything. Okay. Especially if you're speeding in Canada, because you can't convert your miles to kilometers.
But anywhere else you might be. Just play it safe and don't get caught.
Music.