The Mac Geek Gab

Yes, folks, it’s time again for one of your favorite Mac Geek Gab segments: Cool Stuff Found. Today it’s an entire show packed with all the stuff you and your favorite geeks have found in the last month. Listen and find all kinds of stuff you — and your Mac — just can’t live without!

John and Dave discuss using the old Apple Pro Speakers on newer Macs (good luck!), Time Machine issues when moving disks between Macs, syncing tasks/todos from your Mac to your iPhone, Mac HD webcams, and multiple clipboards. Subscribe today — it’s cheap, just $25 for 6 months — and enjoy!

Dave and John answer your questions about AirPort problems, share your tips about iPhoto usage, answer questions about sharing speakers amongst multiple output devices (even across a network!), and more. Subscribe today and download this episode for free!

John and Dave have put together a fantastic show for you this week. They talk about how to verify Time Machine backups, managing swap — and sleep — files on your Mac, how and why to create a new user test account, checking your power consumption, how to use multiple sets of speakers simultaneously, throttling bandwidth on your (or someone else’s Mac) and lots lots more. Download today for free and enjoy!

John and Dave talk and troubleshoot video issues, motherboard issues, and connecting to a headless Mac. Then it’s time for a discussion about tracking email recipients, and Dave even tells his crazy story about the guy who had gremlins in his computer — and got ‘em out! Don’t miss it.

This episode’s topics discussed — and solved! — include iPhoto library management and troubleshooting, getting Spotlight to index again, discussing how much swap is too much, and more. John and Dave dig into all this and more in a way that not only solves your problems, but helps you to understand the solution and why it works. Listen today and enjoy!

John and Dave have a great discussion today answering your questions, sharing your tips, and more. Topics include tweaking Safari’s settings to load your custom tabs, resolving IR remote issues, an excellent primer on using Terminal Commands, Resetting mobileMe, and more. Subscribe today, support your two favorite geeks, and enjoy! 

John and Dave answer reader questions about managing iTunes music and libraries, helping listeners with sleep issues, troubleshooting AirPort and more. Then there are a few follow-up questions about PowerLine and how best to use it, plus some tips and thoughts from previous shows. Finally, Dave wraps it up telling of a very curious experience he went through recently with mail-in AppleCare.

John and Dave kick off the week with a podcast full of your questions, their answers, combined tips, and valuable stories from the lives of your two favorite geeks! First it’s Dave and John answering questions about dealing with multiple iTunes accounts and best practices for prolonging the life of your MacBook or MacBook Pro battery. Then it’s follow-ups from previous shows, including PowerLine, application switching, AppleCare and more! Don’t miss it — this episode is free today, so download and enjoy!

Dave has a MacBook Pro tale of woe to tell, then it’s off to listener questions and tips. Today’s topics include updating an unconnected Mac, sending mail from alternate addresses through Gmail, a question about hiding your IP address, and more!

It’s time for another Cool Stuff Found episode, and John and Dave deliver for sure! Some great things, including a replacement for the discontinued Visual Hub! Definitely download, tune in, and absorb this one!

John and Dave kick off August with a show that combines your feedback about previous topics with their answers and thoughts about new topics. Subjects covered include Mail tips, securing your backups (in some very creative ways!), managing videos, and more. Definitely check it out!

Dave and John answer some great questions today, including how best to have Time Machine only backup a fraction of your hard drive, fixing some permissions problems, securely shipping your hard drives and sensitive data, what to disable when you visit a hotel (or public hot spot) and more. Subscribe today, support your two favorite geeks, and enjoy!

Straight from the weekend into a show just for you, John and Dave have LOTS to cover today, including your tips and suggestions for a few previously-discussed topics, then it’s onto a Time Machine question, 10.6.4 troubleshooting, iCal digging, and more. Subscribe to this feed for free and enjoy!

John and Dave are back with an action-packed (and info-packed!) show just for you. Lots of mail questions (both on the Mac and on the iPad!), troubleshooting Fonts, RAM, and a whole lot more!