Mac Geek Gab
by Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson · 1,000 episodes
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Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting for Mac, iPhone, and iPad Users
Latest episodes
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1 h 18
Wake Up, It’s Time to Go to Sleep
Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1165 with a stack of Quick Tips: find the four new options hiding in iOS 27’s jiggly-icon mode, see how Messages remembers where you were when you jump back t…
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1 h 21
Cool Stuff Made for an Audience of One
Mac Geek Gab 1164 is all about Cool Stuff Made, the apps you built and sent in, starting with Tap2Click, which finally gives your Magic Mouse a quiet tap-to-click. You’ll hear why…
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1 h 17
Emphatically Kind Requests
Customize your Finder icons for instant recognition, stretch your Apple Watch battery on long workouts with Low Power Mode, and jump months back in your Messages history with a sin…
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1 h 21
Chromations or Aberrations or a Sheen
Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1162 with a stack of quick tips. You’ll stop your iPhone’s Camera Control from firing on every accidental squeeze, flip the Mac app switcher into reverse with…
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1 h 22
Naked In Public
Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1161 with a round of Quick Tips: flip through browser tabs with Command-Shift-[ and ], kill your iPhone flashlight with one tap, and learn iOS 27’s new swipe-…
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1 h 18
Old Contact, Who Dis?
You’ll learn how to ask S-Lady to find a family member through Find My so you don’t have to call them, and why Command-Backtick (one key up from Tab) cycles windows inside a single…
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1 h 34
It's Not a Crease, It's a Wave
Apple’s September 2026 keynote is in the books, and Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton are here to help you figure out what’s actually worth your money. You kick thin…
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1 h 26
Maybe It's "S-Bot"
Start Mac Geek Gab 1158 with Quick Tips you’ll actually use: trigger your iPhone’s camera from your Apple Watch, pull a full-quality photo out of any video in iOS 27, and find out…
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1 h 20
SneakerNet Is Real
Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1157 with a rapid-fire round of Quick Tips: find the new Siri option hiding in your Camera app, tame Archive Utility’s settings to streamline your workflow, a…
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1 h 21
Maslow vs. The Finder
Ever fire off a text that never actually sent? You’ll learn how to clear those stale unsent iMessages out of the More menu, move your Dock between displays using nothing but your c…
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1 h 26
When Your Group Chat Tells You to Fork Off
Command+Comma jumps you straight into any well-coded Mac app’s settings, no menu-hunting required, and Option+Return reveals the formula in any Numbers cell (Command+Return puts th…
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1 h 20
Don't Start Half Fresh
You’ll start with a travel charger that swallows 200-plus countries into one brick, then find out that macOS Tahoe 26.6 is quietly rebuilding your Spotlight index to get ready for…
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1 h 28
Take a Photo to Find Your Photos
Your quick tips run deep this week. Learn why snapping a throwaway photo is the fastest route to every picture you’ve ever taken at that spot, then rediscover Libby for free ebooks…
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1 h 20
A Wonderful Opportunity to Get Super Confused
Your Quick Tip arsenal gets a serious upgrade this week: use the Live Text button to make scanning QR codes easier, resurrect Apple Mail’s Predicted Mailbox when it mysteriously gr…
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1 h 20
The Green Light Never Lies
Fresh off Macstock, you get the full debrief on this year’s gathering before diving into a stacked round of Quick Tips. You’ll learn how to disable Summarize Notification Previews…
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1 h 19
Reclaim Your Storage: iCloud, RAM & Space-Saving Secrets
This week on Mac Geek Gab 1150, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton pack an Embrace Your Geekness Day episode with Quick Tips you’ll put to work immediately. You’ll le…
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1 h 20
Save Room For Your iCloud Dessert
You learn at least five new things every episode, and this one stacks them fast. Roll your Apple Watch crown instead of tapping it to keep Sleep mode from searing your eyes, then h…
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1 h 20
There’s No Two Hands About It
Mac Geek Gab 1148 hands you a fresh stack of Quick Tips you’ll actually use. You’ll find out how Mark recovered every one of his accidentally deleted iMessages with Control-Command…
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1 h 17
One Exclamation Point Short
Ever triggered a hidden Mac feature by accident? This week you’ll find out why a stray backtick fires up the Magnifier in macOS Preview, and how a single screenshot plus built-in O…
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1 h 23
WWDC 2026 Reactions, Tailscale Tricks, and Charging Hacks That Work
This week on Mac Geek Gab, you’re stacking up power moves from the jump. You’ll learn how to clean up messy lists in your favorite text editor, discover that any USB-C port on your…