My Chatbot Ate My Inbox
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Safari pinned tabs can hog resources
Dave explains how pinned tabs (especially active Sheets) stay active and can slow Safari and the Mac.
You start this episode leveling up your daily workflows with fast, memorable tweaks: styling text in Notes with a long press, dropping today’s date into Google Sheets with a quick shortcut, testing your real-world network speed from the Mac, and turning any clipboard grab into a Preview window so you can annotate or export in a flash. You also learn that canceling an in‑app subscription doesn’t instantly nuke Family Sharing, why Safari’s pinned tabs might be quietly chewing resources, and how to right-size your browser use so it serves you instead of hijacking your Mac.
From there, you dive into practical tools for real life: apps to tame your family’s book library, a screensaver utility that slows things down, and current router picks spanning UniFi, TP-Link Wi‑Fi 7 options, Eero, and Orbi so your network actually matches your workloads.
You hear how to orchestrate multiple AI agents, safely archive and truly back up your mail, and keep your own chatbot from eating your inbox, plus Cool Stuff Found like Omerta, YouTube on Apple Vision Pro, and more—because in the Apple tech world, as in life, Don’t Get Caught without the right tools and backups in place.
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1130 for Monday, February 23rd, 2026
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- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 Tom-QT-Long-press Aa in iPhone Notes to choose text styles
- 00:05:03 Avraham-QT-Use Command-Semicolon to enter current date into Google Sheets
- 00:06:46 Russell-QT-Use your Mac’s networkQuality to test your speed
- 00:10:30 Rob-QT-Paste Clipboard into Preview with Command-N
- 00:11:54 QT-You don’t immediately lose Family Sharing when you cancel an in-app subscription
- On the subject of browsers…
- 00:13:28 Allison-1128-Safari’s Pinned Tabs can be resource hogs
- 00:17:18 How much are you using your browser these days, anyway?
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- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:23:58 Alan-What software exists to catalog my family’s book library?
- 00:31:22 Ken-How do I slow down my Mac’s screensaver?
- 00:34:54 Phillip-Which router do you recommend today?
- UCG Max
- TP Link Wi-Fi 7 Deco BE67 (or BE68 at Best Buy)
- TP Link BE63 (also Wi-Fi 7)
- Eero Pro 7
- Orbi Wi-Fi 7
- Reviews
- 00:45:40 Manhattan Glen-MGG Review-Great Show
- AI Learned Something! … or … AIn’t It Cool? (Ok, obviously we need a segment name for our AI talk)
- 00:48:49 William-How do I set up multiple AI agents for my task?
- 00:55:05 Todd-QT-Use Perplexity’s website to download files it has created
- 00:57:09 Your mail might not be as backed-up as you think
- 01:06:57 My Chatbot ate my Inbox
- Cool Stuff Found
- 01:16:53 ATC-CSF – Omerta – Don’t Get Caught
- 01:19:42 Eakster-CSF-YouTube for Apple Vision Pro is here!
- 01:23:18 MGG 1130 Outtro
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