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Have Mac or iOS questions or problems that you just can’t figure out? Mac Geek Gab has your answers. Submit your questions to Dave & John and they’ll dig in and get you your answer. Want to know how to safely move your iTunes library? Need to find duplicate files on your hard drives? Is Gmail’s “All Mail” folder confusing your Mac’s Mail.app? Listeners just like you wrote in with these questions this week and they got answers. You can hear the answers, too — it’s free! Just press play, or even download and queue up for your next commute. What are you waiting for?

It’s the first Monday in May and you know what that means: yep, just like (most!) every other Monday a new Mac Geek Gab is up for your listening pleasure! This week, John and Dave solve your questions about those pesky Firewall “incoming connection” warnings, how to choose an iPad (old versus new), Data Detectors in Mail, monitoring Time Machine a little more closely, and more. Additionally, some new tips about getting even better Apple Genius Bar support, blocking Flashback with OpenDNS, resetting your printing system and managing your Mac life with anti-virus software are included as well. Cool Stuff Found is in there, too, but you’ll have to listen to see what that is all about. What are you waiting for? It’s free! Just download and enjoy.

Want to learn how to stream DVDs to your iPad? Want to fix your Mail rules so that they stick from launch to launch? How about clearing up ghost messages in Mail that just won’tdelete? Or maybe you want to learn how to remove Google’s software update from your Mac? This and more is what other Mac Geek Gab listeners have asked about, and John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton have your answers!Then it’s off to some tips directly from you and your fellow listeners, including what could perhaps be the very best VNC, remote-access, app for your iPad to control your Mac. All of this and more in today’s Premium episode of Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe for 6 months (it’s just US$25) and enjoy! 

John and Dave are back from their week off, and came home to a mailbag overflowing with your questions! With that, your two favorite geeks will dive in, see what they find, and get you their very best answers to your Mac and iOS questions and problems. Press play and enjoy!

John and Dave wrap up April’s final Premium show with some fantastic questions (and their best answers!) on topics including drives mysteriously waking from sleep, finding embedded GPS picture data, changing app associations, and much, much more. Tune in today (and by “tune in” we, of course, mean subscribe, download, press play) and enjoy!

John and Dave kick off this week with two topics no Mac user ever expects to talk about: viruses and defragmentation. Yes, folks, it’s true: sometimes you have to confront those things which you just don’t want to think about. Then it’s off to a more fun topic: integrating cars and technology. Once done there it’s time to dive into the mailbag and answer listener’s questions on the air! Don’t get caught, folks, just listen to your two favorite geeks. It’s all part of your balanced (tech) diet. 

In today’s Mac Geek Gab episode, John and Dave talk through all the places to check when repurposing a Mac for another person. Then it’s off to manage the iOS Notification center, and finally your favorite geeks go through a group of questions and comments about their recent backup episode. All this and more in today’s podcast.

John and Dave are here with April’s first Premium Mac Geek Gab episode, and it’s one you won’t want to miss. Following up on a previous show, they start by discussing an automated solution for keeping your disks mounted, then share some juicy details about how QuickTime processes plugins on your Mac. A few additional tips are shared and then it’s off to the mailbag chock full of your questions. Learn how to tame Address Book and its crazy groups, follow along with the geeks as they explain the difference between bad blocks and file system corruption, learn about Inactive vs. Free memory and much, much more. Download today, support your two favorite geeks, and enjoy!

Dave and John kick off April with a bang! Today’s episode is filled with great answers and tips, with topics including recreating Lion’s recovery partition, copying mail between user accounts, issues with apps launching (and not launching!), and solving that pesky problem that happens when you’re sharing a folder and someone writes a file that you can only read. All of this and MUCH more in today’s episode. Download now (it’s free) and join these two knowledable, fun-loving geeks on a troubleshooting journey.

This week, Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun take you on a deep dive through backup options, meanings, and strategies. Learn what the geeks think about all this stuff, and learn what they use themselves to ensure they won’t get caught (without their data!). All this, plus a healthy dose of Cool Stuff Found on this episode of Mac Geek Gab. Download today (it’s free) and enjoy!

John and Dave do their best to make the geeky stuff understandable, digestable, and enjoying. And now, this week’s Premium episode with even more flavor! Topics include getting more granular calendar alert settings on your iOS devices, bridging networks together and really controlling your devices IP addresses in less-than-optimal situations, plus a spirited discussion on just what this whole “4G” thing means on the iPhone 4S anyway. All this, plus Cool Stuff Found (and more!) in today’s episode.

Dave’s back from South by Southwest in Austin and so he shares his thoughts about this year’s conference versus previous years. He’s also got a new iPad 3 that he and John will talk about, but that still leaves time to share some tips and answer a few of the questions that you and your fellow listeners have sent in. All this and more in today’s episode of Mac Geek Gab. Download for free today!

Dave and John kick off March’s first premium episode by sharing a bunch of tips and Cool Stuff Found. Definitely a show start you don’t want to miss. Then they dig into the Premium mailbag and answer all your questions, including how to fix iBooks PDFs, Safari Autofill, router settings, and more. Topped off by a few in-depth conversations including one about iTunes in the Cloud vs. iTunes Match, and you’ve got yourself a killer start to the month of March. Download today (just $25 for 6 months and 12 extra episodes) and you’re in good shape!

Dave’s back from vacation and he, John, and Pilot Pete dig into the mailbag to answer your questions. Topics include finding links to networked files, solving Address Book problems, managing external speakers with iTunes and your Mac, and troubleshooting iPhoto. All this and more on today’s episode. Download now (it’s free!) and enjoy!

Dave and John kick off February’s second Premium episode with a few great tips, including one for managing reply and reply-all in Mail.app. Then it’s on to answering questions, starting with some variety and then narrowing down to quite a few hard-drive related questions that listeners sent in. John and Dave provide their best insights and invite you to do the same. Join them at their Premium feed, just US$25 for 6-months and you, too, can be a part of this extra conversation.

John and Dave have a fun-filled show today, discussing iPhone photography, iPhone geocaching, Mac syncing, more taming of the Lion Finder, and much much more. Download, press play, and enjoy. It’s free today!

This week’s Mac Geek Gab episode finds your two favorite geeks, Dave and John, starting off discussing the reasons and how-tos behind Lion’s new Recovery Partition as well as Internet Recovery, then it’s off to figure out how to edit HTML on your iPad, solving iDevice and Mac syncing issues and lots, lots more. Plus, Dave has now had some hands-on time with the Lantronix xPrintServer, and he and John talk through that, as well. Perfect to take with you on the road and geek out during your commute!

Dave and John kick off February’s first Premium episode with discussion about portable iTunes libraries (and their associated woes!), discussing the nuances of setting your iOS Calendar to properly handle time zones, and some quick tips about how to read console logs. Then it’s off to some Cool Stuff Found and more. You won’t want to miss this episode, so sign up today (it’s just US$25 for 6 months of extra episodes!), download, and enjoy!

Today’s episode has John and Dave talking through flaky trackpads, upgrading laptop RAM, the new AirPort Utility, and emptying the trash. They also discuss tricks that might cause your MacBook’s trackpad to stop working, how to reconfigure your network with multiple routers, and diagnosing shutdown issues related to Lion’s resume functionality. Then, of course, come some tips as well as a fantastic list of Cool Stuff Found. Download today and enjoy!

Back from Macworld | iWorld, John and Dave dig into the mailbag to share your tips, your Cool Stuff Found, and then to answer your questions. You don’t want to miss this one, folks! Download it today for free.

John and Dave recorded this live on Friday, January 27, 2012 at Macworld | iWorld allowing audience members to come up with questions to try and stump the geeks! Peppered in between questions were Cool Stuff Found picks from the visits John and Dave each made to the show floor. Tune in, press play, and enjoy!

Today’s show features your two favorite geeks, Dave Hamilton & John F. Braun, first sharing some tips about managing your iCloud backups (and how to exclude items from them) and seeing — and controlling — which graphics card your Mac uses. Then it’s on to ansewring listener questions about manipulating hidden startup items, iWeb hosting alternatives, battery issues and much, much more. Support your two favorite geeks’ efforts and subscribe to Premium today! It’s just US$25 for 6 months, getting you two extra episodes permonth. Subscribe, download, press play and enjoy. 

Dave, John, and your fellow Mac Geek Gab listeners have TONS of tips to share today. Highlights include managing Lion’s resume, dealing with Apple Customer Relations (versus AppleCare), what to do to ensure a successful clean Lion install, fixing missing icons in your Dock, and flashing your new iMac’s DVD drive to ensure full ripping speed. All this and more in today’s (free!) episode of Mac Geek Gab. Download and enjoy!

Dave’s out at CES and he talks about the cool stuff found on the show floor (and elsewhere!) there. Then he and John are off to the races, answering your questions about controlling a Mac with your iPad or iPhone, manually decrypting a FileVault 2 partition, troubleshooting a slowing Handbrake, organizing content on a dual drive system, and much, much more. Download today (it’s free) and enjoy.

This first Premium episode of the year sees Dave and John dig in right out of the gate, answering questions about Lion’s Finder displays, managing energy saver settings automatically, three different questions about the Time Capsule and tons (and tons!) of Cool Stuff Found. All for you, Premium listener. What? You’re not yet a Premium listener? Well, sign up today and change that. Just US$25 for 6 months of extra episodes and full archives, all while supporting your two favorite geeks!

Dave and John Kick off the new year doing their favorite thing and yours: answering your questions and sharing their tips about the Mac and other Apple products. This show’s full of great stuff, as usual, including a discussion about iTunes Match (and solving some quirky problems therein), fixing Safari when it’s got you down, tips on sending large files and much, much more. Download today (it’s free!) and enjoy.

John and Dave round out 2011 with this fantastic Premium episode of Mac Geek Gab, discussing using Dropbox to sync preferences (and the associated pitfalls), setting ain important, always-synced mailbox on your iOS devices, virus protection strategies for those running Windows apps, centralizing your media libraries and much, much more, including some great Cool Stuff Found. Subscribe today for just US$25, download, and enjoy!

Dave and John start today’s show by sharing some very useful tips and tricks that you can use in the Finder. Then it’s off to the mailbag to discuss topics including how to better manipulate PDFs, troubleshooting a pixelated Mac display, Calendar sharing, and even a discussion about DMCA notices received from your ISP. Then it’s Cool Stuff Found including tips for Safari, navigating traffic and and iOS settings. All of this and a LOT more on today’s episode. Download now… it’s free!

Dave and John have put together a fantastic show today, including some (more!) discussion on email management, tricks for truly conquering iCloud, properly extending your WiFi networks, and then the geeks tell you their favorites of all the cases they’ve tried on all their various iDevices and Macs! All this and more in today’s freely-available Mac Geek Gab podcast. Download, press play, and enjoy!

Dave and John kick off December’s first Premium episode with a fantastic group of questions from all of you fantastic Premium subscribers. They discuss backups (and what you should — and shouldn’t — see), managing the idiosyncracies of iCal and Calendar (on Mac and iOS, respectively), permissions on your Applications folder, Certificates, and more. Then it’s off to Cool Stuff Found, and you’ll like all that, too! Subscribe today, download, and enjoy! You’ll appreciate it, and so will your two favorite geeks!