MGG 585: It’s Better to be Lucky Than Good

A failed hard drive can teach us some lessons and listener Jon helps us with a few of those. Some tips about printer drivers and the iOS-related lockdown folder follow and then it's time to talk TiVo BOLT. Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun have been long-time TiVo users and TiVo's latest offerings add some new features as well as some confusion your two favorite geeks talk through. Then it's onto Cool Stuff Found for some post-holiday bliss. Add a Geek Challenge to the mix and you've got yourself a fully-stocked episode!

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Stuff mentioned:

• Synology DSM Help – Add a Hard Drive to Expand Storage Capacity (2:03)
• Seagate Date Code Lookup
• Synology Multimedia (including Video Station/DSVideo) (5:55)
• Plex for Apple TV
• HP Customer Support – Software and Driver Downloads (7:33)
• Gutenprint
• Carbon Copy Cloner (14:52)
• SoftRAID
• SMARTReporter
• DeltaWalker for Mac – Compare and Merge Files, Synchronize Folders
• Use Carbon Copy Cloner’s “Find and replace corrupted files” option to verify
• Reset the Lockdown folder in iTunes (26:58)
• Archive your Gmail messages (30:30)
• TiVo BOLT (39:22)
• cTiVo (download from TiVo)
• pyTivoX (upload to TiVo)
• OS X: How to quickly hide the desktop icons (1:00:40)
• Inateck Wireless 2.4 GHz USB Presenter Pen (1:03:49)
• Inateck Wireless 2.4 GHz USB Presenter Pen (Amazon)
• Pi Hole (1:05:11)
• MonitorMate (1:06:34)
• Onyx (1:08:57)
• Banks that will pay for your broken iPhone (1:12:02)
• American Express Extended Warranty
• Stop pop-up ads and adware in Safari (1:14:35)
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
• DIRECTV Broadband DECA Ethernet to Coax Adapter (Amazon) (1:17:59)
• The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed.

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