Mac Geek Gab

John and Dave have some fantastic tips and tricks in store for you in this, their first Premium episode of November. Today’s geeky goodness includes learning more about Spotlight, copying your synced photos back from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, LOTS of help with Time Machine (well, LOTS […]

Dave and John are back in action, all systems go! Today they cover your questions on backups, FileVault, iCloud, Migration and more. Download today, listen, participate, and enjoy! Sponsor: PDFpen from Smile: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add text, images and signatures, combine and split PDFs, reorder and remove PDF pages, […]

Dave’s traveling at MacTech and BlogWorld Expo this week while John is manning the fort back at TMO Towers East, but that doesn’t stop the two of them from giving you some excellent tips & tricks about solving your Mac problems. Today even includes a special segment on how to […]

John and Dave round up this month’s second Premium episode with a vengeance. This one might break a record, with your two favorite geeks diving through more Mac and iOS tips and questions than ever before. Buckle up, subscribe (of course!), download and enjoy! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: […]

John and Dave dive in to the mailbag, digging out comments and questions about iCloud, iOS 5, Automator, MacBook Pro fans, thumb drive performance, port mapping on your router and much, much more. Download today (it’s free!). Sponsor: Gazelle is THE place to get cash for your used gadgets. Visit […]

Dave and John kick off the week with another show filled with answering your questions and helping you solve your problems. Your two favorite geeks discuss various topics include how best to migrate iTunes data from one Mac to another in order to preserve the sync states of your various […]

Dave and John take a departure from their normal course today to share their memories of Steve Jobs and how he impacted their lives, both separately and together. While this is a Premium episode, John and Dave have decided to simply release it to all for anyone who wants to […]

John and Dave kick off October with this great show talking about how to set up a dual Time Machine setup, tweaking your junk mail settings, fixing apps that don’t want to run, sleeping an iMac with insomnia, and more! Download today — it’s free — and enjoy! Sponsor: TextExpander: […]

Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun come to you in today’s Mac Geek Gab to help solve listeners’ problems, including why files sometimes don’t stay in the Trash Can, confirming you have enough RAM, working with Lion’s full screen mode, and much, much more. Download today (this episode’s available at […]

John and Dave start today’s show answering listener questions about Lion’s new versioning features and what that means for the way you interact with documents for affected apps. Then it’s off to migration land, helping a few users with their issues doing so. Cool Stuff Found helps to solve the […]

September’s second Mac Geek Gab Premium episode launches right into things with John and Dave helping listeners with questions about Spotlight filtering (including where it does and doesn’t apply), Mail issues (including attachments not auto-saving and rules going inactive), and a listener’s daughter who solved the spinning beachball her dad […]

With time having passed since Lion’s release, John and Dave and the entire Mac Geek Gab community have been pooling their knowledge about the benefits — and pitfalls — associated with the Snow Leopard-to-Lion upgrade process. Dave and John share some of the latest information here today, as well as […]

John and Dave are back after their schedule hiccup last week due to Hurricane Irene, and they’ve got a whirlwind show for you all today! Lots of great questions came in over the past couple of weeks, including controlling Lion’s desktop order, moving from Aperture to iPhoto, diagnosing Apple Mail.app […]

Dave and John are back in action after Tropical Storm Irene blew through, and they’ve got a great show to kick off September for you. Premium all the way, your two favorite geeks start by talking about calculating free space properly, Lion tips, and Dave talks about his new experience […]

John and Dave are back at it, this time with August’s second Premium episode. There are more great Lion tips here than you can shake a stick at, including some hidden Mail shortcut keys, information about Time Machine doing local backups, seeing recent documents per Application, and more. Then your […]

Dave and John hit mid-August at full stride, answering your questions and sharing tips with you about sending Mail with MobileMe (and how best to configure Mail to do so), Mission Control misbehaving, how iTunes Match will likely work for older, ripped recordings, moving your Time Machine backups, and more. […]

Today’s Mac Geek Gab episode features your two favorite geeks, John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton, answering your questions about controlling tabbing in Mail, preparing for the MobileMe-to-iCloud transition, archiving your Gmail in both Mail.app and on iOS, Safari cookies and more. Some great tips are enclosed here this week […]

Dave and John are back again this week here with their first Premium show of August. As always, your two favorite geeks walk through answering some tough (but fun!) questions, then off to sharing their tips, your tips, and finally Cool Stuff Found. Don’t miss it! Subscribe to day — […]

Dave and John kick off August with an absolutely overflowing mailbag. Today’s show kicks off with a healthy serving of tips, including solving a frozen mouse and keyboard, reducing the size of PDFs without killing their quality, and a note from an Apple Genius clarifying more about how they choose […]

Today’s Premium episode — and July’s last — starts off with some great Mac tips that your fellow listeners have sent in. How to restore battery life, how to revert Lion’s text replacements, validating your backup routine, AppleCare start dates, and more are covered. Then it’s on to John F. […]

Dave’s back from vacation and he and John dive in and share all the cool OS X Lion tips that they and your fellow listeners have found. There’s some GREAT stuff in this episode folks, including some answers to listener questions, as well. Don’t miss it! Sponsor: Audio Engine: Audioengine […]

This week is a special week because you get TWO Mac Geek Gab episodes instead of just one (and then they’re off next week). Dave and John come back to help solve Mail.app date confusion, keyboard & trackpad freezes, contact syncing problems, and a big discussion about what to — […]

Dave and John kick off the week helping you prep for Mac OS X Lion, discussing a few tips that will pave the way for your migration to Apple’s 10.7 version of their desktop operating system. Then it’s off to the races with tons of question and answers about all […]

John and Dave kick off July with this awesome Premium episode. Topics covered include WYSIWYG font menus, controlling Safari’s PDF plugin, various backup questions (including one about backing up across the Internet to a friend’s house), and much, much more. Subscribe today for just US$25 and enjoy an additional two […]

John and Dave end out June answering your questions and sharing as many tips as possible! Topics covered include setting the iOS default calendar, dealing with CalDAV servers, diagnosing bad RAM (and possibly more!), consolidating movies in iTunes, and much more! This one’s free, folks, so subscribe, download and enjoy. […]