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 208: iTunes Library Management, Migration Advice, Bandwidth Monitoring and Tips!
Should you keep iTunes on your boot drive? If not, then where? How best to migrate from a PowerPC to an Intel Mac? How do I monitor bandwidth that each application on my Mac is using? Why won't image…
MGG 207: Automounting, Default App Launching, Repartitioning, and Cable Modem Signal Strength
John and Dave are back in the TMO Towers East this week answering listener questions, sharing tips, and more. Topics include automounting disks, setting default apps for documents, starting to progra…
MGG 206: WWDC, Snow Leopard, MiFi, and iPhone 3G S
Dave and John chat for you about the WWDC keynote, Dave’s travels, and the hardware released from Apple today. Subscribe for free and never miss another episode from your favorite geeks!
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MGG 205: Live Questions, Battery Health, DOCSIS 3, and More!
John and Dave took the show back to Talkshoe, this time incorporating some pre-prepped material along with the live questions and comments. The live aspect brings some additional spontaneity and yet…
MGG 204: Cool Stuff Found, Wi-Fi Followups, Battery Maintenance and More
Dave and John start with some cool stuff found that they just couldn’t get to last week, then move on to continue the wireles network setup discussion with some great tidbits of info. After that, the…
MGG #203: Mac OS Upgrades and WiFi Network Design
Dave and John talk about the latest Mac OS X 10.5.7 update (and the path it took John to get there!), then move into a valuable and entertaining discussion about planning and setting up your wireless…
MGG #202: Tech Support Techniques, Cool Stuff Found, and More!
Great advice from your favorite Mac Geeks starts out with a discussion on best practices for dealing with Technical Support reps, then dives into a virtual pile of Cool Stuff Found by all of you. Sub…
MGG #201: Cool Stuff Found, Booting, Wireless, Upgrades, USB, and More
John and Dave do their best tonight to keep up with the overflowing mailbag by answering your questions and sharing your tips about wireless access, booting from external drives, RAM upgrades, USB de…
Mac Geek Gab #200: Live On The Net!
Your favorite Mac geeks celebrated their 200th episode by “airing” the taping of the show live on TalkShoe, complete with listener interaction. Great stuff here, as always, and the show has an intere…
Mac Geek Gab #199: Hard Drives, Networking, Older Macs and More
John and Dave, live (to tape, er, hard disk!) discussing your tips, questions, queries, concerns, and favorite Mac apps!
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Mac Geek Gab #198: Backups, Wi-Fi, AppleCare Experiences, and More!
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…
Mac Geek Gab #197: Dock Customization, Cool Stuff Found, RDC, WiFi, and More!
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 epi…
Mac Geek Gab #196: Mac Questions Answered, Tips Shared, and Cool Stuff Found
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 w…
Mac Geek Gab #195: WiFi Tips and Tricks, RAM Upgrade Truths, SXSW Stories and More
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 Sout…
Mac Geek Gab #194: Troubleshooting AirPort, Full Drives, Upgrades, NTFS
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 s…
Mac Geek Gab #193: Safari 4 Beta, Switcher Questions, Buying External Drives, Podcast Management
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. …
Mac Geek Gab #192: Time Machine, QoS, Drobo, Syncing, DVDs, Dock Hiding and More
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 …
Mac Geek Gab #191: Drobo, DroboShare, Podcast Playing Tips, and Shared Volumes in Finder
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 liste…
Mac Geek Gab #190: Macs to HDMI, DropBox for Sharing, Syncing Calendars, Migration
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 t…
Mac Geek Gab #189: Macs and TV, File Sharing, and Networking
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…