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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

by Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
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Today: #134 in Technology on our combined chart.

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#114#138#162#185#209Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#134Episode released Oct 19: Cool Stuff Made for an Audience of OneEpisode released Oct 26: Wake Up, It’s Time to Go to Sleep
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Oct 27#134#126
Oct 26#199#197
Oct 25#165#162
Oct 24#149#144
Oct 23#153#145
Oct 22#169#163
Oct 21#142#136
Oct 20#124#114
Oct 19#171#166
Oct 18#164#156
Oct 15#168#165
Oct 14#141#132

Latest episodes

  • Wake Up, It’s Time to Go to Sleep

    October 26, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    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 through a thread, and control which direction Photos moves…

  • Cool Stuff Made for an Audience of One

    October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

    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 rough-draft coding with AI is changing who gets to build…

  • Emphatically Kind Requests

    October 12, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    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 single tap. You’ll also learn how to force macOS 27 to…

  • Chromations or Aberrations or a Sheen

    October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    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 without lifting a finger, and ask Safari to describe an…

  • Naked In Public

    September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    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-down layout, where notifications, Siri, and Control Center…

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  • Old Contact, Who Dis?

    September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    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 app while Command-1, 2, 3 hops tabs in Safari, Chrome…

  • It's Not a Crease, It's a Wave

    September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    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 things off with the big question: what are your three favorite…

  • Maybe It's "S-Bot"

    September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

    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 why hybridsearchd is quietly eating your CPU in macOS…

  • SneakerNet Is Real

    August 31, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    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, and turn your scanner and printer into a DIY copier over…

  • Maslow vs. The Finder

    August 24, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    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 cursor, and set exactly how long you share your location…

  • When Your Group Chat Tells You to Fork Off

    August 17, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    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 the result back). If your cross-platform Logitech keyboard…

  • Don't Start Half Fresh

    August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

    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 macOS 27…and hear the theory on why Apple wants that churn…

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About the show

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!