Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

More Dock tips, backup strategies, long-haul WiFi, and general troubleshooting questions about your Mac round out this week’s episode with your favorite geeks, John and Dave. Subscribe for free today! Sponsor:BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Note: Shownotes are complete! iPod Nano Settlement DMAchoice.org WYWH Postcards AmazingMail Typical Mac User (with Victor!) Your Mac Life (with Shawn!) TalkShoe Cheating at Leopard: Make Stacks work the way you thought it would DragThing Spaces SOHCAHTOA Oscar Had A Heap Of Apples Carbon Copy Cloner Dipole antenna Yagi antenna 802.11b Homebrew WiFi Antenna Shootout Cantennas for 2.45GHz , 3.5GHz , 5.8GHz EME (communications) (earth-moon-earth) log-periodic dipole array (LPDA) – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

Dave and John are back in the saddle for another Monday evening filled with Mac geekery of all sorts, including answering your questions, solving your problems, and sharing your tips! This week’s episode includes a healthy focus on Mac OS X’s Dock, including a few tricky ways to customize it — want to add spacers to your Dock or customize which apps hide it? Listen in for that and much, much more! Sponsor:TextExpander: The customizable typing shortcut utility – if you’re not using it, you’re wasting your time. Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! The Vision Show 2009 Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel mdutil (Spotlight) Clearing Spotlight Cache in Mac OSX Dock spacers OnyX Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis YouSendIt Sharing Large Files with iDisk DVD Player and Blu-ray Player region codes Gmail – Configuring other mail clients AppleJack – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

John and Dave are at it again for a special second scheduling-induced show this week! This time they’ve got real-world stories to share and tips from all of you. Of course, a few listener questions will be answered, as well, rounding out today’s weekend show! Sponsor:Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and A2—Real speakers designed for portable audio players that deliver astonishing sound (and don’t cost a fortune). You can’t get better sound for your iPod or iTunes! Note: Shownotes are complete! The Vision Show AppZapper SheepShaver Run Classic apps on Intel Macs with SheepShaver SheepShaver discussion on Emaculation.com iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library Picasa for Mac (beta) – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.  

More WiFi wisdom, questions, and love from your favorite geeks and all of their great listeners! Dave and John are back with an audio-comment-filled show that also covers Dave’s trip to South by Southwest, some RAM upgrade options, and more. Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! Welcome to South by Southwest 2009 iPhone: Basic troubleshooting iPod touch: Basic Troubleshooting AirPort Extreme 802.11n Enabler for Mac iPhone Configuration Utility 1.1 for Mac OS X iPhone Configuration Utility 1.1 for Windows MacJury #903: Evidence is Heard and Judgement is Passed on the iPhone 3.0 Announcements MacBook Pro (Late 2006) – Technical Specifications 802.11n/g/b Wireless USB 2.0 Stick Adapter & Extension Cradle Service set identifier (SSID) iStumbler Release 98 AP Grapher Moore’s Law 6GB of RAM in the “Late 2008” MacBook Pro CAS latency – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

John and Dave discuss solutions for listeners’ AirPort problems, full hard drives, what to do when sending a laptop in for repair and more. Then they share listener tips for connecting to NTFS file systems and decompressing RAR archives. Send in your question and the geeks will likely get you an answer, perhaps even on a future show! Subscribe now and never miss another episode again. It’s free! Sponsor:BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Sponsor:Audible: Get a 14-Day FREE Trial of AudibleListener® Gold And 1 Free Download only with this,special MGG link Note: Shownotes are complete! Square Root Day Pi Day South by Southwest 2009 Radius Atomic Bass Radius Atomic Bass for iPhone Apple Product Specs A gamer’s take on the new Mac mini Macintosh 128K: Technical Specifications Resetting AirPort Express AirPort Express status light (LED) behavior and meanings Speedtest.net Speed Test Discover Wi-Fi Protected Access Wireshark iStumbler The Sword of Shannara: The Shannara Series, Book 1 Spring Cleaning 10 Monday’s Mac Gadget – Need to Free Some Disk Space? Check out Xslimmer! Monolingual OmniDiskSweeper Setting up firmware password protection in Mac OS X I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today MacBook Pro: For maximum performance, upgrade memory in matched pairs Matched RAM on Intel Macs Tom’s Hardware My hovercraft is full of eels (in many languages) macfuse NTFS-3G NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0 Zipeg BetterZip – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

Dave and John have a lot on the agenda for this week’s episode, including (but certainly not limited to!) Safari 4 beta, Switcher questions, formatting large drives, routers, and podcast management. Subscribe for free today and never miss an episode again! Sponsor:PDFpenfromSmile On My Mac: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add text, images and signatures, combine and split PDFs, reorder and remove PDF pages, and fill out and save PDF forms. Check out the“scribbles” featurefor correcting papers and more. Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days.   Note: Shownotes are complete! Horse birthday cake Safari 4 Beta The WebKit Open Source Project Eye-Fi iPhoto 5 or earlier: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library glims Setting the time till shutdown on an uninterruptible power supply Linksys WRT600N My Book Mirror Edition macfuse NTFS-3G RAR RARLAB Downloads KeyCue Limitations of FAT32 File System Play any region-coded DVD Left, Right & Center – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

John and Dave are here delivering all kinds of stuff today. A quick follow-up on the Drobo, including some listener tips, then some Time Machine discussion, which leads into listener questions about DVDs, Quality of Service, hiding the Dock, and more. Subscribe for free today and don’t miss another episode! Sponsor:Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and A2—Real speakers designed for portable audio players that deliver astonishing sound (and don’t cost a fortune). You can’t get better sound for your iPod or iTunes! Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! Drobo DroboShare WD My Book Mirror Edition RAID atvusb-creator How to increase recording capacity on your TiVo DVR Firefly iTunes Media Server Western Digital DRM’d Hard Drive Won’t Let You Share MP3, DivX … Or Impulse Tracker Discovering Sparse Bundle Disk Images VLC media player MacTheRipper DVD Region Code Bandwidth throttling in OS X WaterRoof Throttled Pro – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, and Circus Ponies.

Dave set up the Drobo and DroboShare this weekend, and even played with some DroboApps, so he and John take some time to talk through his experiences and the devices themselves. Then it’s on to listener feedback and questions, including some iPod-related podcast-playing tips, how best to display mounted shares in the Finder, and more! Subscribe for free today! Sponsor:BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone!   Note: Shownotes are complete! Groundhog Day (Official Site) Drobo Creating a RAID Set DroboShare DroboApps Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) Vista Network Issues Using the AirPort Admin Utility to create a WDS network with multiple base stations AirPort Express: How to join an existing wireless network in client mode MarcoPolo Topic : How to have it keep playing podcasts one after the other, automatically? twhirl Adobe AIR RCDefaultApp – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, and Circus Ponies.  

Listener questions answered, tips shared and more, with topics including syncing files and calendars using DropBox and MobileMe, migrating to a new Mac, and sharing an AirPort connection. Subscribe today for free! Sponsor:PDFpenfromSmile On My Mac: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add text, images and signatures, combine and split PDFs, reorder and remove PDF pages, and fill out and save PDF forms. New in version 4: OCR, MS Word import and more. Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! Groundhog Day (pseudo-holiday) Groundhog Day (movie) Belkin HDMI to DVI Cable The Digital TV Transition iDisk Utility Eye-Fi EXIF MobileMe: Troubleshooting “inconsistency” alerts when syncing data Using Migration Assistant to transfer files – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, and Circus Ponies.

John and Dave answer your questions, solve your problems, and share your tips! This episode has them talking through converting video files, watching your Mac on TV (yep!), some file sharing for both Macs and Windows, and lots more. Subscribe today for free! Sponsor:Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and A2—Real speakers designed for portable audio players that deliver astonishing sound (and don’t cost a fortune). You can’t get better sound for your iPod or iTunes!   Note: Shownotes are complete! Meatballs The Monty Python Channel on YouTube DRM in Microsoft UK’s Mobile Music Service iLife ’09 Secrets of Safari’s Activity window VLC media player iSquint Frame types TubeTV Gefen DVI Audio to HDMI Adapter boxee Gefen Wireless for HDMI (UWB Technology) 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes GUID Speakeasy Speed Test Speedtest.net AppFresh i use this – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, and Circus Ponies.