Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

John and Dave, live (to tape, er, hard disk!) discussing your tips, questions, queries, concerns, and favorite Mac apps!

More Dock tips, backup strategies, long-haul WiFi, and general troubleshooting questions about your Mac round out this week's episode with your favorite geeks, John and Dave. Subscribe for free today!

Dave and John are back in the saddle for another Monday evening filled with Mac geekery of all sorts, including answering your questions, solving your problems, and sharing your tips! This week's episode includes a healthy focus on Mac OS X's Dock, including a few tricky ways to customize it -- want to add spacers to your Dock or customize which apps hide it? Listen in for that and much, much more...

John and Dave are at it again for a special second scheduling-induced show this week! This time they've got real-world stories to share and tips from all of you. Of course, a few listener questions will be answered, as well, rounding out today's weekend show!

More WiFi wisdom, questions, and love from your favorite geeks and all of their great listeners! Dave and John are back with an audio-comment-filled show that also covers Dave's trip to South by Southwest, some RAM upgrade options, and more.

John and Dave discuss solutions for listeners' AirPort problems, full hard drives, what to do when sending a laptop in for repair and more. Then they share listener tips for connecting to NTFS file systems and decompressing RAR archives. Send in your question and the geeks will likely get you an answer, perhaps even on a future show! Subscribe now and never miss another episode again. It's free!

Dave and John have a lot on the agenda for this week's episode, including (but certainly not limited to!) Safari 4 beta, Switcher questions, formatting large drives, routers, and podcast management. Subscribe for free today and never miss an episode again!

John and Dave are here delivering all kinds of stuff today. A quick follow-up on the Drobo, including some listener tips, then some Time Machine discussion, which leads into listener questions about DVDs, Quality of Service, hiding the Dock, and more. Subscribe for free today and don't miss another episode!

Dave set up the Drobo and DroboShare this weekend, and even played with some DroboApps, so he and John take some time to talk through his experiences and the devices themselves. Then it's on to listener feedback and questions, including some iPod-related podcast-playing tips, how best to display mounted shares in the Finder, and more! Subscribe for free today!

Listener questions answered, tips shared and more, with topics including syncing files and calendars using DropBox and MobileMe, migrating to a new Mac, and sharing an AirPort connection. Subscribe today for free!

John and Dave answer your questions, solve your problems, and share your tips! This episode has them talking through converting video files, watching your Mac on TV (yep!), some file sharing for both Macs and Windows, and lots more. Subscribe today for free!

Dave starts off discussing a strange issue with his monitor setup and how he got it resolved, then he and John are on to the latest Safari vulnerability, some updates and corrections from listeners about previous shows, and they wrap up talking about some new gadgets and toys they've been using! Subscribe for free today!

Back from Macworld Expo, John and Dave have a relatively "normal" show for you this week. First they cover a few remaining items from Macworld Expo, including the upcoming BusyCal and a virtual machine from Sun. Then they move on to answer your questions about extending and enhancing WiFi connections, with some great suggestions buried and peppered within. Don't miss this one, folks!

Live again from the podcast stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, John and Dave talk about the coolest stuff they've found on the show floor, and then of course take some listener/attendee questions. LOTS of fun to be had here, folks!

Live from the podcast stage at Macworld Expo, John and Dave share their thoughts about the keynote announcements, wax poetic about Macworld Expo, and even take listener questions live from the crowd!

John and Dave have arrived in San Francisco for Macworld Expo and recorded today's show from the hotel room. Everything's shaping up to be a great show, and John and Dave talk through their experiences and thoughts about it. Then it's on to some security certificate clarifications as well as some software featured as Cool Stuff Found. Subscribe today for free and enjoy!

In this final show of the year before heading off to San Francisco for Macworld Expo, John and Dave start by sharing the tips that they -- and you! -- have acquired over the years attending trade shows. Listen for advice from the pros on how to survive the big week! Then it's on to questions, including topics such as wireless safety, disk buffers, large desktop folders, and more!

John and Dave sync up for a crazy show in this crazy holiday week. The questions run all over from dual monitors to security certificates to MobileMe and everything in between. Dave even chimes in with a classic rant about MobileMe (did you think he wouldn't??). This is one for the books, folks. Subscribe today for free and never miss another episode!

Dave's back from vacation and he and John are back in action answering your questions and solving your problems. But first they talk about today's announcement from Apple about their plans for pulling out of future Macworld Expos. This show goes from basic to geeky and back, all while your favorite geeks do their best to ensure you understand each and every bit. Dave's still without power, so this...

In this special-edition MGG, Dave interviews Paul Kent, VP of IDG and head honcho for Macworld Expo. Dave and Paul talk through all the new stuff coming at the Expo and also discuss fixes that IDG has put in place for WiFi, Edge, 3G, and pass pick-up/registration. Definitely one you don't want to miss! Next week, Dave and John will be back for more and more!

Back in action before Dave heads on vacation, he and John go through as many of your questions and tips as they can during this action-packed episode of Mac Geek Gab. With topics like Time Capsule bridge mode, sending email from remote locations, finding out - and fixing - those pesky runaway CPU processes and more, this podcast is sure to please! Subscribe today for free!

John and Dave are local in New Hampshire, no bandwidth issues to get in the way today! Just a straight-ahead podcast answering your questions, helping you change permissions, re-enable Airport, suss out GigE versus FireWire speeds, and even a follow-up on encrypting your data. Good stuff! Subscribe for free today.

John and Dave talk about restoring icons in Finder windows, the merits of OpenDNS, Defragging (and a geeky sidebar!), Leopard's slow network browse refreshes, software updates, and more!

Dave's doing the show from Austin this week, so he shares his thoughts about some of the new gear he's equipped for this trip. Then he and John go on to share your tips and answer your questions about printer presets, multiple audio sources, remote controlling Windows computers, Time Machine fixes, and even an interesting PDF conundrum. Subscribe for free and download today!

A week off brings your geeks back raring to go, and they chat through some cool stuff YOU found, a possible fix for Time Machine errors, security connecting to public WiFi networks, and more. On top of all that, they announce a contest at The Mac Observer where you can win a free Conference pass for Macworld Expo 2009!