Today’s Premium episode — and July’s last — starts off with some great Mac tips that your fellow listeners have sent in. How to restore battery life, how to revert Lion’s text replacements, validating your backup routine, AppleCare start dates, and more are covered. Then it’s on to John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton answering your questions. Topics covered here include diagnosing over-running fans in your Mac, iPod nano’s FM radio, 64-bits and Lion, and more. Subscribe to Mac Geek Gab today — it’s just US$25 for 6 months — and you’ll get this episode immediately!

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Stuff mentioned:

Burning a Lion Boot Disc
Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
10.6: Verify Time Machine Backups
Data Backup 3
Retrospect for Macintosh
Carbon Copy Cloner
SuperDuper!
Startup Manager: How to select a startup volume
Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
Hardware Warranties
Dropbox
locate
grep
Snow Leopard Performance (32-bit versus 64-bit)
iTivo
pyTivo
HD Radio
Divvy
AppDelete
ArchDetect
SpiderOak
iDrive
SugarSync
Spotify
Pandora
Music Genome Project
Spotibot
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MGG 344: An Appetizer of Tips with an Entrée of Answers