The Charm of the Chime – Mac Geek Gab 709

You have questions, Dave and John have answers. Today's topics include malfunctioning AirPods, setting Apple Pay addresses, restoring a Recovery Partition, email and iMessage encryption, and much, much more. Download, press play, enjoy, and learn!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 709 for Monday, May 14, 2018
• 00:04:57 Gary-Setting Apple Pay Addresses
  • General | Settings | Wallet & Apple Pay | [Card] | Billing Address
• 00:09:01 Andrew-Restore Old Recovery Partition
  • How to create a Mac recovery partition
  • diskutil list
  • Cloning Apple’s Recovery HD partition
• 00:15:18 Mark-AirPods Malfunctioning and
  • Factory Reset AirPods
  • ScreenFlow
• 00:20:26 Mark-MS Word Permissions Oddities
• 00:24:37 Sponsor: Save up to $150 off a Ring of Security kit at Ring.com/MGG
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• 00:30:29 Charles-CSF-LIFX Bulbs
  • Homeseer
  • TP-Link Smart Outlet
• 00:34:16 Leon-CSF-SwiftDefaultApps
  • RCDefaultApp
• 00:40:38 QT-Create a Test User Account

  • How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac

• 00:45:08 DLH-CSFR-AppTamer
  • Renicer
  • Quitter
• 00:51:00 Scott-CSF-Phaiser BHS-750 Bluetooth Sport Earphones
  • Plantronics BackBeat Fit
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• 00:59:22 John-New Internet Gateway not functioning
• 01:04:06 Bill-Sending Files Securely
  • Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is
  • Encrypto from MacPaw
  • ZIP with Encryption (from Terminal, “zip -e [target] [source]”)
  • WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption
  • Guardian piece about WhatsApp Encryption
  • Signal
• 01:20:44 MGG 709
  • Deep Space 9 in HD
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