Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Get answers to your Apple tech questions every week! Dave Hamilton, Adam Christianson, and Pilot Pete share tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice for your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more — all delivered in a fun, friendly way that helps geeks and everyday users alike. Don’t Get Caught without your tech working right!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 1107
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
MGG 228: Neither Geeks Nor Listeners Are Turkeys
John and Dave come straight out of the US Thanksgiving holiday and into your ears, hearts, and heads sharing both their AND your Mac knowledge tips, queries, and concerns. Topics include troubleshoot…
MGG 227: Folder Syncing, Ethernet, Router, Backup, and More!
Dave's back from vacation and he and John have a show packed with info, tips, and tricks just for you. Answering your questions about ethernet, time machine, mail drafts, and software updates they ma…
MGG 226: Magic Mouse, Apple Battery Secrets, Q&A
A special weekend show with tons of great info. Dave shares his initial thoughts on the Magic Mouse, then he and John dig into some more information about MacBook (and MacBook Pro) removable batterie…
MGG 225: Mail Fixes, Open With, Batteries, Renaming and Mac Tips
The mailbags were full this week, folks, and John and Dave do their best to tackle everything that came in. Voicemail, email, and Twitter messages lead your favorite geeks through fixing Mail.app sou…
MGG 224: AirPort Express, Quirky Keyboards, Switcher Questions, and Mac Tips!
Your two favorite Mac geeks come together yet again to share your tips, answer your questions and solve your problems. Regularly voted one of the best Mac podcasts on iTunes, you won't want to miss t…
MGG 223: New Apple Stuff, Snow Leopard Oddities, Travel Gadgets
Recovered (or at least recovering!) from their travels to BlogWorld Expo, John and Dave serve up a healthy dose of gab, geek-style, all the while translating into terms for everyone to understand. To…
MGG 222: Keyboard Replacements, Geek Challenges, and Traveling Geeks
John and Dave are in Las Vegas for BlogWorld Expo 2009 and deliver this week's show together from the hotel. Being on the road doesn't stop them, though, and the show goes through all your questions,…
MGG 221: QuickLook and Font Crashes, Ground Hums, and More!
Snow Leopard's QuickLook crashes: solved. Bad fonts showing up in FireFox? Solved. Wireless passwords? Found! John and Dave answer all your questions, then it's on to sharing your tips about ground h…
MGG 220: Your Mac Questions Answered and a BlogWorld Expo Interview
John and Dave interview Dave Cynkin and Rick Calvert of BlogWorld Expo, and secretly (or perhaps not so!) try to convert Rick to the Mac. After the interview, Dave and John get back to MGG proper for…
MGG 219: Clipboards, Cool Stuff Found, Audio, iLife, and DVDs!
Dave and John talk through a slew of Cool Stuff Found, including Snow Leopard Option Key tricks, the toolbar, multiple clipboards, eSATA and making Snow Leopard more stable. Then it's on to answering…
MGG 218: For a Good Time, Call 206-666-GEEK!
John and Dave are back after a well-deserved one-episode break with all your Mac goodness. Lots of Cool Stuff Found from both your favorite geeks and all of you listeners, plus we've seen updates to…
MGG 217: Snow Leopard Geek and Listener Reports, Questions, and More!
Snow Leopard arrived for everyone over the weekend and John and Dave go through what they found as well as sharing quite a few things all of YOU found, as well. Subscribe today and don't miss another…
MGG 216: Snow Leopard Coming, New MGG Forums, Bad DVD Drives, More!
John and Dave are back at it. Snow Leopard WILL be here this Friday, and John and Dave go through some preliminary steps to help you prepare for the move. There's also a new forum for MGG listeners …
MGG 215: Meaty, Beaty, Big Mac Files
The topics of this week's episode are wide-ranging, including how to deal with the large files created by Mac OS X's unix underpinnings, preparing a bit for Snow Leopard, digging deeper into Time Mac…
MGG 214: A Dazzling Array of Mac Info
John and Dave are at it again, this time discussing boot issues, sleep issues, hardware detection, RAM usage, Network settings, WiFi diagnoses and more. Subscribe today and don't miss another episod…
MGG 213: When Hardware Acts Bad But Isn’t… Is it?
This week a series of seemingly unrelated questions came in all with issues related to bad hardware… or at least seems so on the surface before your two favorite Mac Geeks dissect them and help get t…
MGG 212: Unmounting Disks, Screen Recording, Sync Configuration, Network Settings, More!
Your favorite Mac geeks, John and Dave, are back with a show chock full of questions, tips, Mac goodness and more! Hear them talk through their solutions for unmounting disks on shutdown, manging net…
MGG 211: Login, Sleep, PowerLine, ExpressCard, SSD, Oh My!
This episode is chock full of your favorite geeks talking about your favorite topic: the Mac! First they answer some listener questions and share listener feedback about logging in, sleeping, powerli…
MGG 210: iTunes, iPhoto, Printing Tips and Fixes, SSD Follow-up, and More!
John and Dave answer your questions and share tips about iTunes libraries, iLife and iPhoto support, Resetting Mac OS X’s Printing System, System Maintenance Scripts, and then a follow-up discussion …
MGG 209: The Long and Short of Mac Questions & RunCore SSD
Dave and John answer reader questions about b/g clients degrading 802.11n networks, hard drive troubleshooting, ExpressCard slot uses, stalling downloads, virtual memory on the iPhone, and Dave talks…