Long Term Storage, Photos, & Cool Stuff Found

This week, John and Dave come together to answer your questions about long-term storage, Photos Libraries, Migrating to a new Mac and much, much more. Listen as your two favorite geeks drop the knowledge — and your Quick Tips and Cool Stuff Found — so that everyone can listen and learn at least five new things together! Join us and start the new year right!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 851 for Monday, January 4, 2021
• Quick Tips
  • 00:01:53 Mark-QT-Flash Is Dead. Time to Uninstall Flash
  • 00:04:16 Tanel-Siri Usage Examples
  • 00:05:27 Zoom Audio
• Questions
  • 00:07:16 Bill-Moving Photos to an External Drive
  • 00:11:19 Zoom -> Settings -> Audio -> Show in-meeting option to “Enable Original Sound” from microphone.
  • 00:12:28 Craig-Good Travel Router?
    • TP-Link TL-WR902AC AC750 Travel Router
  • 00:16:20 Robert-Reader View Oddness
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• MOAR Questions
  • 00:23:42 Dennis-Which types of Disk Images for Cold Storage Archives?
    • Howard Oakley’s Concerns over Sparse Bundles in APFS
    • StuffIt Expander 16
  • 00:29:24 Mark-SSD versus HDD for Long Term Storage
    • DriveDx
  • 00:34:30 Ed-Back Tap Live Listen?
    • ISOtunes earbuds
  • 00:38:49 Harvey-Post-Catalina Time Machine Weirdness
    • diskutil list
    • Q: Time Machine error with Catalina
  • 00:42:37 John-QT-Force a Time Machine Backup to Specific Destination
  • 00:43:39 Mike-Best Migration path from Air to iMac?
  • 00:47:51 Robert-MacBook Pro 16″ RAM, Battery and AirDrop
    • eul shows your Mac’s Status in Menu Bars
    • FruitJuice
    • coconutBattery
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• Cool Stuff Found
  • 01:00:08 CSF-Silicon Info
  • 01:01:27 JP-Cleaning up Music/iTunes Duplicates – TunesMechanic to the Rescue
  • 01:03:07 Ben-CSF-CardHop, a Contacts App Alternative
  • 01:04:23 CSF-Netgear Orbi 6
  • 01:08:34 Dave-CSF-Manage LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons with Launchd.info and LaunchControl (US$18)
  • 01:13:03 CSF-Eufy wired video doorbell HDR 2k
  • 01:16:54 CSF-Coherence X and Unite for creating apps from websites
  • 01:18:44 CSF-Microsoft Edge — A Better Chromium Browser for macOS
• 01:21:47 MGG 851 Outtro
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