MGG 506: Nine Years, Two Geeks and Hundreds Of Thousands of Listeners

This past Friday marks 9 years of Mac Geek Gab, and your two favorite geeks are at it and stronger than ever. Download and/or press “Play” on today's show to hear some great listener-submitted tips about managing Finder settings, installing Yosemite beta, podcast management and more. Then your geeks answer listener questions, including a great segment on managing disk space, both inside iTunes and beyond. Also the great question is answered, “What are the true benefits of private cloud?” Don't miss it!

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Note: Shownotes are complete!

Stuff mentioned:

• Father’s Day
• Yasu (4:00)
• Onyx
• chmod
• Install OS X Yosemite on Two Partitions (7:40)
• Remote restart a FileVault 2 Mac with: sudo fdesetup authrestart (10:30)
• fdesetup
• Growl (12:30)
• Prowl
• Boxcar.io
• HardwareGrowler
• iPod Classic has better audio quality than all others (16:05)
• Audioengine D1
• On itunes 11.1, can you delete podcast episodes? (24:57)
• Daisy Disk (28:30)
• OS X: What is “other” space in About This Mac?
• OmniDiskSweeper
• fseventer
• What Size? (41:45)
• Battery Doctor
• Arq
• How to mount remote folders from another Synology NAS (1:05:44)
• CIFS/SMB
• The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
• – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network
• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of The iOS Show Podcast and Applr.

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