By The Way, Alexa

Want a quick way to send the same iMessage to another person? How about customizing the icons of your PDFs? Quick Tips are your friends, and John, Dave, and Pilot Pete have plenty for you this week. That’s not all, though! You get to learn how to technologically-enhance your outdoor living, analyze your network, find ANY file on your Mac, and much, much more. Press play to enjoy learning at least five new things with your three favorite geeks!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 940 for Monday, August 8, 2022
  • The MGG Discord Server is Live!
  • The MGG Merch Store is Live!

• Quick Tips

  • 00:01:05 Skylar-QT-Hold and drag Message to new person, boom!
  • 00:03:54 India is off by half-an-hour…for analog watches? – Interesting factiod
  • 00:04:45 Jeff-QT-Copy File as Pathname with Option Key
  • 00:06:03 Copy Pathname to Enclosing Folder
  • 00:07:51 Set Custom File Icons in Finder’s Get Info
  • 00:10:45 VSTOL Definition
  • 00:11:41 Jon-QT-Drag Folder Icons into Save Dialogs For Quick Navigation
    • Default Folder X
  • 00:14:10 Get Info on Photos
  • 00:16:17 Eliot-QT-No Beta If Traveling – TRUE! – Bring a power bank
  • 00:19:13 Replacing the iPod Touch
  • 00:26:23 Gary-QT-Amazon Drive Sunsets at The End of 2023

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• Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

  • 00:32:24 Technologically Enhanced Patio!
    • Sonos Roam
    • Thermacell LIV 
    • Nebula Capsule II Projector
    • Top Gun Maverick
  • 00:45:13 By The Way, Alexa
  • 00:47:11 Getting Rid of an old Alexa Device
    • Amazon 4th Gen Echo Dot
    • Manage Alexa Devices – Deregister
  • 00:48:54 Nichelle Nichols RIP

• Cool Stuff Found

  • 00:50:08 JFB-Wireshark, a network analyzer
    • Capturing all traffic in promiscuous mode
    • ​​Port Mirroring for Packet Capturing on Smart Switch
  • 00:56:30 Jeff-CSFR-Find Any File … truly does!
  • 01:02:15 GC-Why are my windows moving?
  • 01:03:41 Patrick-CSF-KeyboardCleanTool to Lock Your Keyboard When You Need to Clean It
  • 01:05:34 CSF-Silent Knight
  • 01:09:45 Lee-CSF-Synology-focused YouTube Channel with SpaceRex (and also Marius Hosting) – Also NASCompares
  • 01:13:02 JP-Proactively Replacing Synology Hard Drives?
  • 01:17:17 CSFR-TimeMachineEditor for managing your Time Machine Schedules

• 01:21:07 MGG 940 Outtro

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  • Pilot Pete’s New Aviation Podcast: So There I Was
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