The Mac Observer's Mac Geek Gab Enhanced
By Dave Hamilton & John F. Braun
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Podcast Description
Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun come together weekly to discuss things of interest to Mac geeks, yet present them in a way that's both entertaining and informative for the average listener.
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CleanMGG 382: iOS to Mac Syncing, Geocaching, Lion Finder & More | John and Dave have a fun-filled show today, discussing iPhone photography, iPhone geocaching, Mac syncing, more taming of the Lion Finder, and much much more. Download, press play, and enjoy. It’s free today! | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 381: Mac Internet Recovery, HTML on iPad, iDevice Syncing, More! | This week’s Mac Geek Gab episode finds your two favorite geeks, Dave and John, starting off discussing the reasons and how-tos behind Lion’s new Recovery Partition as well as Internet Recovery, then it’s off to figure out how to edit HTML on your iPad, solving iDevice and Mac syncing issues and lots, lots more. Plus, Dave has now had some hands-on time with the Lantronix xPrintServer, and he and John talk through that, as well. Perfect to take with you on the road and geek out during your commute! | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 380: Premium Posted with Managing iTunes Libraries, iOS Time Zone, More | Dave and John kick off February’s first Premium episode with discussion about portable iTunes libraries (and their associated woes!), discussing the nuances of setting your iOS Calendar to properly handle time zones, and some quick tips about how to read console logs. Then it’s off to some Cool Stuff Found and more. You won’t want to miss this episode, so sign up today (it’s just US$25 for 6 months of extra episodes!), download, and enjoy! | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 379: Trackpads, RAM Upgrades, AirPort Utility & More! | Today’s episode has John and Dave talking through flaky trackpads, upgrading laptop RAM, the new AirPort Utility, and emptying the trash. They also discuss tricks that might cause your MacBook’s trackpad to stop working, how to reconfigure your network with multiple routers, and diagnosing shutdown issues related to Lion’s resume functionality. Then, of course, come some tips as well as a fantastic list of Cool Stuff Found. Download today and enjoy! | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 378: Tips, Cool Stuff Found, & Your Questions Answered | Back from Macworld | iWorld, John and Dave dig into the mailbag to share your tips, your Cool Stuff Found, and then to answer your questions. You don’t want to miss this one, folks! Download it today for free. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 377: Live from Macworld | iWorld - Stump The Geeks! | John and Dave recorded this live on Friday, January 27, 2012 at Macworld | iWorld allowing audience members to come up with questions to try and stump the geeks! Peppered in between questions were Cool Stuff Found picks from the visits John and Dave each made to the show floor. Tune in, press play, and enjoy! | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 376: Premium Posted with Managing iCloud Backups, Graphics Cards & More | Today’s show features your two favorite geeks, Dave Hamilton & John F. Braun, first sharing some tips about managing your iCloud backups (and how to exclude items from them) and seeing — and controlling — which graphics card your Mac uses. Then it’s on to ansewring listener questions about manipulating hidden startup items, iWeb hosting alternatives, battery issues and much, much more. Support your two favorite geeks’ efforts and subscribe to Premium today! It’s just US$25 for 6 months, getting you two extra episodes permonth. Subscribe, download, press play and enjoy. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 375: Tips on Dock, Resume, AppleCare, Gmail, Ripping, & More | Dave, John, and your fellow Mac Geek Gab listeners have TONS of tips to share today. Highlights include managing Lion’s resume, dealing with Apple Customer Relations (versus AppleCare), what to do to ensure a successful clean Lion install, fixing missing icons in your Dock, and flashing your new iMac’s DVD drive to ensure full ripping speed. All this and more in today’s (free!) episode of Mac Geek Gab. Download and enjoy! | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 374: Cool Stuff Found at CES, Questions Answered & More | Dave’s out at CES and he talks about the cool stuff found on the show floor (and elsewhere!) there. Then he and John are off to the races, answering your questions about controlling a Mac with your iPad or iPhone, manually decrypting a FileVault 2 partition, troubleshooting a slowing Handbrake, organizing content on a dual drive system, and much, much more. Download today (it’s free) and enjoy. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 373: Premium Posted with Finder Tricks, Time Capsule & Cool Stuff Found | This first Premium episode of the year sees Dave and John dig in right out of the gate, answering questions about Lion’s Finder displays, managing energy saver settings automatically, three different questions about the Time Capsule and tons (and tons!) of Cool Stuff Found. All for you, Premium listener. What? You’re not yet a Premium listener? Well, sign up today and change that. Just US$25 for 6 months of extra episodes and full archives, all while supporting your two favorite geeks! | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 372: iTunes Match, Safari Fixes, Sending Files, & More | Dave and John Kick off the new year doing their favorite thing and yours: answering your questions and sharing their tips about the Mac and other Apple products. This show’s full of great stuff, as usual, including a discussion about iTunes Match (and solving some quirky problems therein), fixing Safari when it’s got you down, tips on sending large files and much, much more. Download today (it’s free!) and enjoy. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 371: Premium Posted with Managing Your Media, Viruses, Cool Stuff Found | John and Dave round out 2011 with this fantastic Premium episode of Mac Geek Gab, discussing using Dropbox to sync preferences (and the associated pitfalls), setting ain important, always-synced mailbox on your iOS devices, virus protection strategies for those running Windows apps, centralizing your media libraries and much, much more, including some great Cool Stuff Found. Subscribe today for just US$25, download, and enjoy! | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 370: Finder Tips, PDF Tricks, Cool Stuff Found & More! | Dave and John start today’s show by sharing some very useful tips and tricks that you can use in the Finder. Then it’s off to the mailbag to discuss topics including how to better manipulate PDFs, troubleshooting a pixelated Mac display, Calendar sharing, and even a discussion about DMCA notices received from your ISP. Then it’s Cool Stuff Found including tips for Safari, navigating traffic and and iOS settings. All of this and a LOT more on today’s episode. Download now… it’s free! | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 369: Email, WiFi, and Geeks’ Favorite Cases! | Dave and John have put together a fantastic show today, including some (more!) discussion on email management, tricks for truly conquering iCloud, properly extending your WiFi networks, and then the geeks tell you their favorites of all the cases they’ve tried on all their various iDevices and Macs! All this and more in today’s freely-available Mac Geek Gab podcast. Download, press play, and enjoy! | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 368: Premium Posted with Calendars & Backup Answers, Cool Stuff Found! | Dave and John kick off December’s first Premium episode with a fantastic group of questions from all of you fantastic Premium subscribers. They discuss backups (and what you should — and shouldn’t — see), managing the idiosyncracies of iCal and Calendar (on Mac and iOS, respectively), permissions on your Applications folder, Certificates, and more. Then it’s off to Cool Stuff Found, and you’ll like all that, too! Subscribe today, download, and enjoy! You’ll appreciate it, and so will your two favorite geeks! | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 367: Photo Stream, Email, FTP, iDevice Backups | Dave’s back from vacation and he and John dive right back in, answering questions about Photo Stream, iCloud, IMAP mail, FTP Servers on Lion, forcing iTunes to backup locally and much, much more. Download today and enjoy! | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 366: Mail Management, iCloud Primer, & More Lion Tips | John and Dave are back, and ready to answer, inform, and cogitate all right in front of your … ears! Topics covered today include printing from Mail.app, safely deleting junk mail, backing up your calendar, and continuing to troubleshoot Lion’s oddities. Also included is Dave’s explanation of how he’s running Quicken on Lion (thanks to VMWare 4.1) and more. Download today, press play, and enjoy and learn with your two favorite geeks! | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 365: Premium Posted - Building Mac & iOS Apps, Cleaning Mail, More | Dave starts by telling everyone how he and his son built an iOS app in less than 10 minutes, then he and John dive in (sometimes to the deep end!) to teach you all about rebuilding mailboxes in Mail, how to configure your Mac and router firewalls, how to find out exactly what Spotlight is indexing (and how to stop it!), and more. Plus, Dave got a Kindle Fire and he’s got some initial thoughts about that. All this and more in today’s Premium Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe today, download, and enjoy! | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 364: Solving Network, Startup, iTunes & Keychain Problems | Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun are two of the leading experts on all things Mac (and beyond), and listeners from around the world listen to — and rely on — them to help solve their tech problems. Take a listen to today’s Mac Geek Gab to understand exactly why — these guys are true experts who know how to translate their knowledge into easy-to-understand terms just for you. Download the show to your iPod and take John and Dave along on a car ride (virtually, of course!) and you’ll understand why so many others do the same. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 363: Premium Posted with Deciphering Mac Error Codes, Backups, More | John and Dave have some fantastic tips and tricks in store for you in this, their first Premium episode of November. Today’s geeky goodness includes learning more about Spotlight, copying your synced photos back from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, LOTS of help with Time Machine (well, LOTS of you asked for it!), and soon to be a new favorite, a terminal trick that teaches you exactly what your Mac’s pesky error messages mean. All this and more in today’s Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe for just $25, get this and all the extra episodes for 6 months, and support your two favorite geeks. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 362: Backups, Processors, Migration & Syncing | Dave and John are back in action, all systems go! Today they cover your questions on backups, FileVault, iCloud, Migration and more. Download today, listen, participate, and enjoy! | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 361: iPhoto, Batteries and Saving Money Buying Macs | Dave’s traveling at MacTech and BlogWorld Expo this week while John is manning the fort back at TMO Towers East, but that doesn’t stop the two of them from giving you some excellent tips & tricks about solving your Mac problems. Today even includes a special segment on how to save potentially hundreds of dollars on your next Mac purchase, too. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 360: Premium Posted with More Mac & iOS Tips Than Ever Before | John and Dave round up this month’s second Premium episode with a vengeance. This one might break a record, with your two favorite geeks diving through more Mac and iOS tips and questions than ever before. Buckle up, subscribe (of course!), download and enjoy! | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 359: iCloud, Automator, Thumb Drives & Port Mapping | John and Dave dive in to the mailbag, digging out comments and questions about iCloud, iOS 5, Automator, MacBook Pro fans, thumb drive performance, port mapping on your router and much, much more. Download today (it’s free!). | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 358: iTunes Fights My Firewall | Dave and John kick off the week with another show filled with answering your questions and helping you solve your problems. Your two favorite geeks discuss various topics include how best to migrate iTunes data from one Mac to another in order to preserve the sync states of your various iDevices, the current state of virus protection, problems ejecting disks, how to get iTunes to work happily with your firewall, and much, much more. Cool Stuff Found has a few notable entries in this episode, too. Download today, tune in and enjoy! | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 357: Geek Memories of Steve Jobs | Dave and John take a departure from their normal course today to share their memories of Steve Jobs and how he impacted their lives, both separately and together. While this is a Premium episode, John and Dave have decided to simply release it to all for anyone who wants to listen and join in. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 356: Dual Time Machine Setups, Genius Tips & More | John and Dave kick off October with this great show talking about how to set up a dual Time Machine setup, tweaking your junk mail settings, fixing apps that don’t want to run, sleeping an iMac with insomnia, and more! Download today — it’s free — and enjoy! | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 355: Sometimes Files Miss The Trash Can | Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun come to you in today’s Mac Geek Gab to help solve listeners’ problems, including why files sometimes don’t stay in the Trash Can, confirming you have enough RAM, working with Lion’s full screen mode, and much, much more. Download today (this episode’s available at no charge!), press play, and enjoy. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 354: Versioning, Migration, Fonts & Launching Help | John and Dave start today’s show answering listener questions about Lion’s new versioning features and what that means for the way you interact with documents for affected apps. Then it’s off to migration land, helping a few users with their issues doing so. Cool Stuff Found helps to solve the new Spotlight-order issue in Lion for some, and for others helps to migrate from iWeb to Wordpress. As always your two favorite geeks do their part by explaining these answers in such a way that translates the overly-technical into far more understandable language. Download today! | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMGG 353 Premium Posted: Popping the Spinning Beachball! | September’s second Mac Geek Gab Premium episode launches right into things with John and Dave helping listeners with questions about Spotlight filtering (including where it does and doesn’t apply), Mail issues (including attachments not auto-saving and rules going inactive), and a listener’s daughter who solved the spinning beachball her dad kept experiencing! All this and more on this very special Premium episode. Join now for just US$25 and get this episode and 2 extra episodes per month for 6 months. Support your two favorite geeks today! | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Great Mac Info
As a recent convert from Windows it is sometimes tricky finding out about the Mac’s nuances. Well Mac Geek Gab is the place to do just that. The show is a great blend of layman’s computing info (right up my alley) and the really geeky stuff. I’ve found info on system management and maintenance (very different from Windows) to cool tricks on how to improve my digital photos. If you are new to Macs it is worth your time to download a few of the podcasts to see where they take you. Also their show notes on macobserver.com are the best I’ve come across. Any major issue or program addressed in the podcast has a link under that week’s notes. So when I am listening through my iTrip in the car, I don’t have to write anything down; I just go to the show notes.
Can even make the 'terminal' fun!
Gentle, friendly, non-condescending, humorous, and knowledgeable are apt monikers for these guys. A breath of fresh air!
Great Podcast
John and Dave do a truly great podcast. This is much like asking two really professional, entertaining friends for some advice. The listener greats some really great advice without the condescension of many other shows. These guys are genuine. Regarding some of the other reviews -Are they perfect? Of course not. But you more than get your money's worth. Here's what you do get- lots of good information and reviews. You also get a goodly dose of entertainment. The mini-rants are cetainly a highlight of the show. Many times you'll find yourself saying " Yes" to those rants. They also keep the show to a pleasant 40 minutes or so. My only complaint would be that I'd really like to listen to them even more often.
