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.

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Stuff mentioned:

TripIt
Cirque du Mac 9 Scheduled for Friday, January 27 at Macworld | iWorld
How to Manage Data Backups with iOS 5 and iCloud
MobileMe to iCloud Transition Gives You 25GB Storage Until June 30th, 2012
gfxCardStatus
/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports (may contain .crash,.shutdownStall,.hang,.spin reports)
/Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons, ~/Library/LaunchAgents, ~/Library/LaunchDaemons (location of launchd .plist files)
Lingon
Ten ways to replace iWeb and MobileMe hosting
Pair Networks
DreamHost
Cyberduck
Sandvox
The Karelia iMedia Browser
OpenDNS
Prizmo
NeatReceipts
Dymo CardScan Personal
Business Card Reader
StreamToMe
Spanning Tools for Mac
Zoom It
ScreenFlow
Mac 101: QuickTime Player
ControlPlane
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BackBeat Media Podcast Network
MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of We Have Communicators (formerly the iPhoneAlley podcast).

MGG 376: Managing iCloud Backups, Graphics Cards, Batteries, & LaunchAgents