 Here's a great thing about digital cameras. Whether it be your smartphone or a DSLR, almost all of them will embed useful information into the photo, such as the time, the date, and maybe even the location. And that's cool if you want to make an album or share with people or search for that old photo from decades ago that you want to get at. Here's the bad news is that things sometimes go bad. Whether your battery's died or your different time zone or you can't get a GPS signal, the data's not there. How do you deal with it? Well, we're going to tell you with some tips from some of our listeners coming later in the show. But in the meantime, welcome to Mac Geek Gap Episode 944 for Monday, September 5th, 2022. Indeed. Welcome to Mac Geek Gap, the show where you send in your tips, your questions, your cool stuff found. We share your tips. We share your questions. We try to answer your questions. Sometimes we ask questions of our own. Sometimes we share cool stuff out of our own with a goal being that each of us gets to learn, gets to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include Collide at K-O-L-I-D-E.com slash M-G-G where you can get device security that fixes your challenging problems, messaging your users with Slack. It's very cool. And ZockDock at ZockDock.com slash M-G-G, you can sign up for free, download their app and start finding your doctor with appointments as available as early as tomorrow. We'll talk more in depth about both of those and a lot of other things shortly here. For now, here in, it almost feels like fall during New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in Fairfield, Connecticut, this is John and Rob. And here in Lee, New Hampshire where it does feel like fall. I'm sorry, it just does. Pilot Pete, thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, man. Thanks for, I'm glad we're all here. Thanks for listening, everybody. This is a highlight of every one of my weeks. I can't think of a time where doing the show was not a highlight. Maybe when we had like lots and lots of technical glitches in the, in the recording process itself. Yeah, this week's been nuts. I didn't, there was a, there were, there were two days earlier this week where I thought we're just going to punt on this and the only episode for this week is going to be the Apple event episode and it's just going to be okay. And yet, here we are and I am thankful for it. Yeah. I'm also thankful for Steve with his quick tip. He says, a trick I've discovered for all iPhone users. Have you ever taken a photo of your computer screen only to find that you've got a huge moray pattern over the image? That's where you get like those weird like lines because of the way the screen displays things. You don't actually see them on the screen, but you see them on the picture. He says, I have discovered a way to minimize that pattern. Make sure your native iPhone camera app is set to take live photos, then take a picture. Now go into the photos app and under the live photo dropdown, choose long exposure. No more moray pattern. It makes it go away. Amazing. I had no idea about this, Steve. And I tried it and immediately it just worked. So freaking amazing. I love it. This is what I love quick tips for. So have you guys ever, I know you've stumbled into that problem because we've all had to take pictures of our screens at time. So yeah. Oh, yeah. No, that's going to be useful. Uh-huh. I just got to remember. The trick to so many of these and you know, we, we, at the very least, we have all the three of us that do the show have heard every single one of them, right? Because we're the ones sharing them with you. So we see them come in via email and then we share them here. So at the very least, we've interacted with them twice, which is at least one more time than every listener, right? Except for the ones that send it in, but you guys already know the tricks. So it doesn't matter. So I know these things are possible like in the back of my head, but there's been so many times where it's like, oh, dude, I can't remember how to do it. Like for example, and this is a great quick tip to my daughter and I went and got matching tattoos of traffic lights. If you want to know the story, come into our discord channel sometime and I'll share. But we went and did that yesterday and I, the tattoo artist, you know, let's say 30-something woman did a great job. Very nice. At the end, she took some pictures of our, our, our, the backs of our calves together so that we could see the tattoos before they started going through the healing process and they don't look quite as good. And we asked my daughter asked, can you airdrop those to me? And the woman's like, sure. And clearly she is used to training people how to airdrop and receive airdrop because she does this all the time. And she's like, yeah, I was just going to ask you to turn on your phone, wake up your phone so that I can airdrop these to you. And then she said, okay, I'm not seeing it. Please go into settings. And she walked her through going into airdrop settings in the settings app to change it from contacts only, like we talked about last week, to everyone because the tattoo artist and my daughter were not mutual contacts of each other so that she could receive these airdrops. And of course that worked. And as she's doing that, I'm saying, you know, there's, I think there's an easier way in control center and, and she sort of dismissed me because, you know, but what 50 year old guy is going to know more about how to airdrop than some millennial. And I just happened to have my phone like sort of out where people could, they could see my screen. And I'm like, yeah, I think so. And I, I'm like, you long press. She's like, no, I tried that. It doesn't work. And I'm like, I think so. And I go in and I open control center and I'm not going to skip over this because this is the quick tip. And I long press on the, the group of four items that has like cell data, airplane mode, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It does not have airdrop there. But if you long press on that group of four, see, it expands into six. But that's not all, right? But wait, there's less. Wait, there's more. Yeah, that's right. Then you want, once that opens up, it adds two more of which airdrop is one. And that's why Pete had his old dude moment. And, and then you long press on airdrop and the little menu comes up that lets you pick whether it's off contacts only or everyone. And the woman in the tattoo shop, Sonia, our fantastic tattoo artist, was like, oh, my God, that's amazing. I had no idea. I was like, look at the fifth year old guy coming in teaching. Yeah, look at the old guy, possibly no more about technology. How is it possible? It's almost like you do a show about this stuff or something, you know? Yeah. So what are the odds? Yeah, exactly. Pretty slim it turns out. Which do you long press on? So the first thing you long press on in Control Center is the group of four items, John, that are like airplane mode. Yes. Right. So you long press in the middle of that, not on any one of them. And then that will bring up that. Nice. See what I mean. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. If you're watching the video, Pete's got it on the screen, but you'll see it on your phone. Yeah. And then long press on airdrop and you get some granular options there, which is somehow I managed to turn off my everything, put myself in airplane mode. Don't do that. That's right. Yep. I got another one for you that came up in a conversation in our Discord channel this week. And that is one it's a it's a quick tip revisited. And that is if you are in the Mac App Store and go to updates, it sometimes lies to you. However, it is just a web browser. The Mac App Store app is a very customized and feature specific web browser. But it is a web browser. And so if you want a certain page to update, you do the same thing that you would do in a web browser, at least if you were going to do it via your keyboard, because there is no menu item to do this, but simply hit command R. And if you go to the updates page in your web browser in your, well, in your Mac App Store, go up, go to Mac App Store updates, hit command R. Sometimes more updates will appear there. And the way I knew this was through Mac Updater, because Mac Updater will tell me that there are updates and then I launch Mac App Store. And it's like, you know, why does Mac Updater say I have six when the Mac App Store says I have one command R adds those five. So it doesn't lie. It's just not up to date. Yeah, I think on iOS, you pull down and I think that does a reload. Yes. Oh, great tip. Right. Yeah, that happened too, where it's like, are those all the updates? Yes. No, you're out. You're 100% right. Yeah. If you go to the updates tab on in the App Store on iOS and pull down, yep, that's right. Yeah, I love these tips. Love it. Love it. Gene's got one more for us. I think if I can find Gene here and this one, I haven't been able to make this work, but I haven't either. I tried it. Okay, I'm going to share Gene's tip and then maybe we can talk about how we've done it and why it might work for Gene and not us. Gene says, when using the satellite view in Google Maps in a browser, okay, so we're on I'll finish here. Satellite view in Google Maps in a browser, hold the shift key and the left mouse button and drag the mouse to tilt and rotate the view. Google Maps serves up oblique aerial views as well as top-down satellite views. The oblique aerial views are available in many urban and suburban areas. My house is on the edge so I can see my barbecue under my covered patio. He says the free application Google Earth Pro works a little differently than Google Maps and displays satellite pictures in slightly different ways, but tilt and rotate work the same way. So I think it's the area that we are trying to do this in, John. I think that's going to be the difference. Agreed. Yeah, so let's pull up Boston here in Google Maps and Boston Maps, that's fine. And I will zoom in a little bit. I'm trying this out. I will turn on the satellite view and we'll zoom in a little more, a little more. Oh yeah, okay. All right, and now if I hold down the shift key and I drag the left mouse button, well if you were watching along on the video, I'm sorry to have disappointed you, but it ain't there. It's not working for me. However, maybe it's a different browser, like I'm doing this in Safari while we're doing the show right now. Maybe there is, you know, maybe it's a Chrome feature, which I just tried it in Chrome, but again, I have a trackpad not a mouse. So that also makes it. Yeah, exactly. But as Gene points out, the Google Earth Pro application would solve this for all of us. Yes. Hey, if you're like me, Battleship, it was a fun board game that we all played as kids as adults. Calendar Battleship is the most frustrating game you play with your doctor trying to find when you're both free for an appointment like, you know, in three months with our sponsor, ZockDoc, booking an appointment with a doctor that suits your needs, fits your schedule is in your network and in your neighborhood is easy. ZockDoc is a free app which shows you doctors who are patient reviewed, take your insurance and are available when you need them. I've used ZockDoc. It's amazing. You can find every specialist under the sun. 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Welcome to the family, Simon. So Simon asked, what's your advice when buying a new Mac laptops? He says, I have speed and future proofing anxiety. Welcome to the club. We've got jackets. You're in good company here. He says, so I don't really know whether to double the base system RAM or double the base system disk size, either of which effectively adds, you know, 400 bucks to the base configuration. I've never seen reliable measurements of whether there's too little RAM or not. And he goes on to say normally he'd have like Safari messages, podcasts, music, LastPass, FaceTime, and Chrome running. Neither of the browsers would have more than five tabs loaded in a normal scenario. So general use is a fair way to categorize that. And there's the advice that I give. And then there's what I do for myself in this regard, because I know better, but like you, I suffer from the same concerns about speed and future proofing. So everything we've seen says that for what you're doing, your use case, the minimum eight gigs of RAM is enough. And that's it has a lot to do with the way the Apple Silicon system on a chip works, where the SSD, the RAM and the CPU are all in the same, like at the same level. Maybe that's the simplest way to say it. And so if you do need to page out past eight gigs of RAM, you've got the SSD right there. That's a that's kind of like RAM because it's so fast. And it works. However, all that being said, and knowing that I can't bring myself to do it. And so I buy with at least 16 gigs of RAM in my Apple Silicon based laptops. As for the size of the SSD, I would say that 256 gigs is definitely not enough. And it comes with some speed hits in in these because it's a it's a single module instead of a dual module so it can't take advantage of, I don't know, I've told you more than I know. But it does come with a speed hit that's probably negligible in the grand scheme of things. But technically, there is one. So but but I think, you know, and this is a hard one, but I think 512 again, giving general advice, 512 is a good minimum place to start. It has enough to get apps and data that most people use with some buffer room. If you want to have, you know, some are all of your music library on there or some are all of your photos library on there, like that 512 starts to give breathing room to people. And so those are my thoughts. What are your thoughts, John? I would agree. Actually, I was perusing. So here's the bad news. I think my machine is approaching end of life, because when we were at the show, I would only get like maybe two, three hours on a charge. And then I had to dash for a an outlet. And this is your 16 inch Intel MacBook Pro, correct? Correct. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But I do have, you know, both my machines, I have 16 gigs of RAM and one terabyte SSD. Okay. But I was perusing the so I got to make a decision here. The thing is, I have Apple care in this machine and the battery is at least according to one utility hovering around 80%. And I think if it goes below that and I'm still on Apple care, I think they'll give me a new battery. I don't. Is this normal though? Because like, is this new, I should ask, because I thought getting and Kiwi Graham actually just in the chat room now said the same thing that two to three hours on Intel is good. Is that, I mean, I know you bought that machine, if memory serves, you bought that machine right before pandemic lockdowns began, right? So like traveling this summer is the first time you've traveled with it, right? So you had it for 18 months and worked the battery for 18 months before you knew what a baseline was. I think what you're seeing is normal. That that's what people were getting before we on, especially on MacBook Pros, like like that one, which is sort of built to be more, more about power than about battery life. Although you could use turbo boost switcher to switch off turbo boost and maybe eke out another 20% or something. But yeah, that was a big I remember that being a big reason that people were eager to switch to the the the M ones when they first came out was. Yeah. So I'll have to make a decision here. And also, you know, Apple does a trade in and they're going to give me like 400 bucks for this, which I definitely paid. There you go. Of course, you paid more than that. Yeah. But you also got you got, you know, almost what you got like 20 months of use out of it so far. So, you know, like, yeah, but I was looking in the refurb store and I did find one that I think is a candidate and it had yeah, a lot of them had either 256 or 512 SSD, which which is too small. I need more. I'm probably going to get 16 gigs of RAM and they had one that has two terabyte SSD. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I would offer here's the thing, right? How long are you going to keep the machine? Some of these machines, I've got some laptops around here that are eight years old. Yeah. And they work fine. But I, you know, I went, okay, I'm going to use this for six or eight years, find an Intel machine that's going to do, you know, a Windows machine is going to last that long. These machines will last and if you if you spend the money upfront, they you are future proofing them. And so that's that's what I try to do. I've got 16 in a terabyte. And, you know, after six or eight years, a terabyte is going to be tough to keep under. It depends. I, you know, what you do and what you say, but especially photos, you know, they're going to eat a lot. Well, that's it. Yeah. If the laptop is and as I'm assuming it is for you, Pete, if the laptop is your primary machine that follows you around the world and then your I am of the belief that we all should have at least one full copy of our iCloud photos library, right? You don't need to have one. You can leave the only full copy in iCloud, right? And then just pull down the photos that you're manipulating or the ones you've created are the ones that are local to your Mac at any given point in time. And that's fine. I can't live that way. I need to I need to know that I have a local copy of my photos library somewhere. But for me, that can easily be one of my desktop Macs. I use three Macs routinely. The one in the office is absolutely what I would call my primary one. And then and then this one in the studio and my my laptop or, you know, sort of specific use apps. I know I'm I'm spoiled. I lead a charmed life and I'm a nerd. So it's just how it is. So I don't need like 512 on a laptop is is plenty for me because I don't store my photos library, my entire photos library on my laptop. iCloud photos has opened that door for me in a great way. I can travel anywhere. And as long as I've got an internet connection, I have access to all of that in the cloud. However, if for whatever reason, be it because it's your main machine or just because you have a need or a want to have your photos library offline with you everywhere, then yes, you would need more than 512 for most people and most people's photos library. I agree. Yeah. And I will also add that, man, the battery life on these M ones is just amazing. Yeah, I don't know what code they cracked, but it is amazing cracked it with the iPhone. I mean, think about what the iPhone does and and think about the how little battery there is in the iPhone and it lasts. I mean, unless we unless we really beat on it, it can last all day. So that's that's where the code was cracked. And and wisely so like it needed to happen. Yeah, I think I think your issue, John was timing. You bought a I mean, when that 16 inch MacBook Pro came out in 2020, that machine was like, that was a heck of a machine. The problem was, you know what, six months later, the they announced the whole M one Apple Silicon architecture was coming to Max. And so it kind of took the wind out of those particular sales. But you know, like, it's fine. It's how it works. I forget which one it was. It was like one of the old days. It was a Windows computer. But the ad, you know, the guy gets the new 3000 and on the way home, the billboards for the 4000. Exactly. That's I mean, that's the way it's going to work. Yeah. Yeah. So except next week, you know, it's coming. So wait till next week for the iPhone. Don't buy an iPhone today. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unless you've got some weird way of working the market, you know, like. So so your the machine you're thinking of John is a MacBook Pro is that right with 16 and two terabytes? Is that that's the plan? Yeah. Which which which MacBook Pro like which size screen? I guess it's what I should ask. I like 16 inch. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I I it's a general piece of advice. I encourage folks to go and touch these new machines before you place an order. I mean, even if you're going to place an order on a refurb go to an Apple store and and experience the the two machines, you know, the 14 and the 16 side by side, because with the way the bezels are on the on the new MacBook Pros, that new industrial design, the 14 certainly feels a lot bigger than the 14 used to is is the best way I can say that. And you may still decide that the 16 is what you need. But but you may also check out that 14 or while you're there, you might look at the new M2 MacBook Air and say, OK, wait, wait, wait, wait, that's the one I want. That's lightweight. That's for just bouncing around the house and traveling with I can sacrifice, you know, a couple inches of screen real estate to have this lightweight, you know, super battery longevity based machine. And because it's a trade off, right? You're going to get less battery life, I think out of that, I think. Yeah. I'll consider it. The only thing I don't like about this, the 16 inch is when I'm traveling, it doesn't really fit well on the tray table. If there's like in flight entertainment, I think the 14 would fit a lot better. Your iPad would fit even better. And Michael Lerman put in the comments, remember that the MacBook Pro 16 is an I nine processor. So is that is that not an M1? No, that's an Intel Intel I nine. John's John's 2020 or 2019, I guess is technically what it is. MacBook Pro is Intel for for certain. It was the last MacBook Pro release before they started talking about Apple Silicon. So. Right. OK. So the new 16s have the M1s in them. They do. But I think battery life on those is slightly less just because of the screen from what I remember. But I could be very wrong about that that that there is. OK. Yeah. That's all compared to, I mean, it's still going to be, you know, multiples of what you would get with an Intel machine. So it may not matter, like relative to what specifically you're coming from, John, it may not matter. But just in general. And yeah, I honestly, I wouldn't use a laptop if unless you need to like do work on a plane, I would use my iPad on a plane to watch movies and entertainment because you can put that like a lot of the new planes. Well, a lot of the new planes have the seat back holders specifically built right for phones and iPads. But even if they don't, if you've got a folio case on your iPad, you can often fold it the right way and drop it into the magazine holder on the seat back in front of you and watch at eye level. So. Which brings me to an impromptu cool stuff found. Amazing. So with the with the seat back thing, there's a there's a product out there called Airfly. OK. And you plug that in. Yeah, we got to find that day. Well, fine. I'm on it. So you plug that in and it will create a Bluetooth connection to your AirPods so that you can watch the seat back cordless and plug it in there. It charges it. And boy, is that sweet. The thing you don't want to do, it's about a $40 to $50 product. You don't want to donate that to the seat back. So. Right. But yeah, so be sure to take those with you when you go. But I got those for Christmas gift about two years ago. I love my airfly. You know, what's interesting is I have one of these. It's it's the 12 South Airfly Pro. Oh, maybe I don't know. I don't have one of these. I had something else in the past. But I don't know where it is. I think I probably donated it. Yeah. Yeah. I like it makes me think that that that you would want like a leash for it. Almost. Yeah. You know, but the leash you could tie to your wrist or so it could be like a relatively long leash or even a leash on a on a you know, a retractable line or something. So that as you go to get up, it starts to extend and you're like, oh, I should bring that with me. So oh, yeah. All right. Yeah, that's from 12 South. So we'll put a link to that in the show notes for sure. Ah, that's good. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. I will say traveling. There's two things that have made traveling much better, at least in terms of passing the time. One is having some way of watching my content on a screen that's that's of decent size. So my iPad. But the other is AirPods Pro and their spatial audio. I've used noise canceling headphones for years, you know, in a variety of ways, you know, either passive noise canceling by sealing things out or active noise canceling. And that's fine. The AirPods Pro do both. They have passive with the seal and they have active with the, you know, with the technology and the microphones. And that's great. However, it still gets very the sound is from that is still coming from like inside your head is the best way to say it. And that can be really fatiguing because it's just this constant barrage of sound that's just being kind of shoved at you. Apple spatial audio, which is amazing when you have like at most sound or anything on an audio track. But even if you don't, the feature where you tell it to have a fixed position is on an airplane is it's still and I've been using it for since it came out. It's still mind boggling to me because what happens is you start listening and the sound is coming from in front of you just like you would expect. But if you put it in that fixed, you know, if you turn on spatial audio and you put that, put it in fixed position mode or whatever it's called, as soon as you turn your head, the sound is still coming from your iPad. And every time I have this concern that's like, oh crap, it's coming out of the speakers on my thing. Like I know until I look at all the settings and it's like I'm certain it's not doing that. But the experience is that it's coming out of some speakers in front of, you know, on the seat back effectively. And that just being able to turn my head, which is a bad thing to do when you're trying to talk into a microphone, especially for the listeners. So sorry about that. But if I turn my head while I'm listening, you know, having the audio just remain in one place. And then, of course, if the track has it, you get the rear channels and all that other fun stuff. But just having the audio kind of fixed to the video location makes a huge difference in terms of the fatigue I feel from the sound. And I don't know why that is, but it is, it is a thing. So yeah, it's pretty amazing. If you haven't tried that, if you've got AirPods Pro and you haven't tried that yet, like do it with this show. You can literally do it with this podcast, right? Just go in and do that, I think. Turn on spatial audio. Turn on spatial audio and set it in a fixed position. Yeah, I think you can do it with just an audio podcast, but you could also just go to our YouTube channel at mackeycup.com slash YouTube and watch this video there. And then you can definitely do it. And if you don't have AirPods Pro, well, now you know what to go by alongside your new iPhone on Wednesday. So whenever you let us order them. Yeah, yeah, it's, anyway, I think I've said, I've said enough. I've told you more than I know. Well, you know, I will say I've had several different brands of earbud, Bluetooth, and hands, you know, that the Apple ones are not cheap, but they are hands down, much better quality, much better sound. And then you add in the spatial audio, they are so much nicer than everything else. Did you start? They just are. Yeah, they are. I have some headphones that have better clarity for audio, like if I'm listening and mastering things and that that's fine. But for general purpose, especially video consumption, music consumption. Yeah, AirPods Pro are cool too, especially if I'm listening to an Atmos playlist or whatever, like go listen to Ryder, the doors, Ryder's on the storm in Atmos. There's voices behind you in that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's weird. It's cool. But anyway, but for watching video, it like it's the best sound experience I've ever had with headphones watching video. Yeah. And in fact, John, we've been talking, we're well, well, you can tell people in a minute, because I think we have an H or a home theater hangout coming up soon in our, well, we'll coordinate it in our Discord channel at mackeycup.com slash discord. But one way to experience true surround audio is if you have an Apple TV and AirPods Pro is to just play the TV's audio to your AirPods Pro. And then you get full surround and everything with a center channel and the sound is exactly where it's supposed to be. It's not dependent on where we've each been able to place our speakers in our rooms. Like it's perfectly mapped out. It's a pretty cool experience. So anyway, but, but yes, we have a home theater thing coming up, right, John? Last I checked. Yeah. Okay. What's what's the date on that, John? Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. I think it's I think it's Sunday, the 18th, right? Yeah. Sunday, the 18th at 430 p.m. All right. With Zoom, I guess we're going to use Zoom this time. So we don't limit the number of people. Yeah. Yeah. Discord limits the number of people. So yeah, but we'll meet in Discord with the link in Discord. We'll have the chat in Discord so that the chat is preserved for everyone. And obviously, if chat happens in Zoom, we'll figure that out too. But I'll put the link in Zoom. But it's 430 p.m. Eastern time on on Sunday, 918 or 18 September. Yeah. I'm still having issues. My setup is very picky in that I have to turn things on in a certain order for it to recognize the surround field. Cool. Well, we'll talk it through. We'll get there. But I did order those cables. They're on there. 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While you can change the date time location from within photos now, I haven't figured out a way to do multiple images at once from within photos. My solution is an app for iOS and iPad OS called Hash Photos. Hash Photos accesses your real photos library but let you do more with it than Apple does. You can select multiple images then using the share sheet icon in the bottom left. You can choose the set location and just date time amongst some other fun things. With Apple Silicon, they came out with a Mac version, but oddly when you select multiple images on the Mac version, the adjust date time and set location menus are gone, which is the main thing I use Hash Photos for. So you really do need to use an iPhone or better or an iPad to make changes. Steve's been scanning at our photo albums and being able to change the dates using Hash Photos so they sort properly has been great. So cool. Yeah. But even cooler. Yes. Is let's go to Peter because Peter gave us a heads up at something I didn't really realize you could do. I just listened to 942 and unless I'm missing something photos on the Mac makes it easy to change date time of a photo. I use this often when traveling outside my time zone and mixed photos from a DSLR and my iPhone and want to sync up the dates. I'll make a smart album with the name of my DSLR and the dates of the trip and then select all and change the time by the number of hours needed to sync. So that's very cool. Oh, that's it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then finally, Darren let us know that and I confirmed this. I was surprised that this greetings chaps must be from across the pond. Just listening to the latest episode regarding editing photo dates. Apple Photos Mac app has this built in works on batches too. It's pretty good. And sure enough, in photos, if you go to the image menu, you can say a just date and time dot dot dot. And here's the secret that I assumed would work, but and it did. You can highlight multiple photos. Oh, so you can change them in a batch. So you would you would you would highlight the photos first and go to the image menu and choose a just date and time. Is that? Yes. Okay. And then it has date, time and actually a location field. Oh, oh, do you have to change the date and time? Like, could you leave the date and time alone and only change the location field? It looks like you can. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's okay. That's interesting. I like this. This is why I love doing this show. I will add the other thing and I think a lot of people don't use them, but it's an easy way to make a smart album is the keywords and photos is a feature that's available to you to put in. For instance, you know, I'll put in aviation. And if you take when you create your keyword, go to your keyword manager. If you drag something from the bottom up to the top, it becomes a favorite and you can put keywords in with just one. So all for instance, I'll highlight 14 photos. And I'll pull up the keyword manager and you can drag the keyword manager off your screen. So it's not covering up your photos. And then I'll just type, hit the letter a, and it will put in the aviation tag on all of those photos at once. And then you can create a smart album using keywords. Oh, that's brilliant. Yeah. So that's how I do it. Yeah. Oh, dude. No, that's this is one of those things that like this is a this is the right. I've been doing it for years. Don't you guys do this too? No, no, I certainly don't that like that's one of those mind blowing kind of as soon as you said it, it's like, oh, I like that. So it's under photos, window keyword manager or command K. And then you can highlight a bunch of photos. And in fact, I'll pull it up for an example. I have two, four, six, eight, about 10 keywords. And generally speaking, they're people, you know, and I know that does face recognition and all that. But it's people, it's aviation. I have like the the tail number of my little airplane so that I can tag those and I can keep all those. Then I create a smart album using the keyword. Yeah, no, that the I never thought about I suppose I never knew because I never cared to know that you could create smart albums based on keywords. And so as soon as you said that, that's sort of what unlocked it for me is wow. Oh, man, I love this stuff. Can you do how much of this can you do on iOS? He asked almost none curious. Okay, yeah, it has to be done on the Mac OS. Unfortunately. Yeah, it would be nice. Hey, Apple, if you're listening, put keywords in the iOS app, please. I'm tempted to I will look while we're chatting here because I am running the latest iOS 16 beta, at least as of Friday, September 2. So, you know, can I go to a picture of our new tattoos, for example, and add keywords here? It doesn't, it doesn't. It does photo people places, you know, but it's not the categories, categories, airplanes, you know, yada, yada, yada. And you get the option on iPad OS. I found that a lot of features will be on the iPad OS version of phone. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I don't have an iPad in front of me. I don't think any of us do. So perhaps someone in the chat room at macgeekup.com slash discord will share before the end of the episode. But otherwise we'll follow up when as we can because that's how we do it. And if you aren't listening live, which if you're listening after the fact is because we live in a world where we have accepted this construct of linear time, you can't be doing both. You can have done both. But you can't go back and listen live if you didn't at the time when we said we did it. I know it's it's this mind blowing thing, not quite unless you haven't been at the time machine and haven't told us or you've just adapted your mind to see time for what it really is as opposed to what we've agreed to see it as mostly I think that the whole thing of linear time is just a construct that that serves our feeble human minds where I think most of us anyway, perhaps all of us are me, I am incapable of experiencing time as it really is. And so thankfully we have this linear time construct. However, if you want to contact us, you can transcend linear time by emailing us feedback at macgeekab.com. Did you say feedback at macgeekab.com? That's what I heard way back when he said that a few seconds ago feedback at macgeekab.com. But if I said it, you should have known I was going to say it because all of time already exists. If you I have a question, I have a geek challenge for us. Because as you might be able to see, it's not uncommon for me to not be as productive as I would like to be. And so I have lots of tricks in my life that I've used to make sure that I stay on task and I get things done. One of my favorites, by the way, is not just having a to-do list, but having a to-did list. And that is making sure I've logged all the things that I do because at the end of the day, the story I want to tell at the end of the day is that I've done all the things on my to-do list. And so by putting things on my to-do list or on my calendar, I'm actually hacking the brain of Future Dave. That's how I go about this. That way it doesn't take any discipline to do all the things that I need to do because it's like, oh, I want to tell the story that I got my to-do list done today. And so obviously therefore, I have the desire to check things off. It doesn't require any discipline. With that in mind, I was listening to an episode of The New York Times the Daily a couple of weeks ago, and they were talking about workplaces monitoring their employees for productivity and putting software on their computers, especially as more and more people are like, nah, dude, I don't want to go back into the office. They're like, fine. But the tradeoff is that we get to monitor your computer so that we know when you're working. And there was one person who even said that they were hired to do a job and they're paid by the hour for some type of work. I mean, it's like high-end accounting work or something for this firm or something. And they got their check and it was far less than the hours they had worked. And they realized that their employer was looking at 10-minute slices and randomly choosing a moment in those 10 minutes to take a picture of what was happening at the person's workplace, I should say. And also, were they using their keyboard or mouse and all of that? And if the answer was no, then you didn't get paid for that 10 minutes. And this was all very creepy. I mean, it was done with the person's knowledge. It was done with consent, but still was like, ooh, I don't know that I'd want to do that. I get the desire. I've managed remote employees for 23 years, so I totally get it. There's times when I'm like, where the hell is that person? Why haven't they answered me in 30 minutes? Why is their slack light not green? Those sorts of things. I've had those moments. Usually, they're fairly fleeting. And if they aren't, then I have a conversation with the person. I always tell people who work for me, I have a tendency to be a terrible micromanager. If either one of us notices me micromanaging you, that is indicative of a trust problem that we both need to work to solve. And all of that said, rewinding back from the tangent, I heard this and thought, well, I don't want to monitor my employees. I don't want other people to monitor me. But what if I want to monitor my own productivity? Because that's a thing. I strive to be self-aware. And in doing so, the first thing that I learn every day is that I fail at this. I just hope to fail less than I did yesterday and also in my mind, just to keep it competitive, I aim to fail less than anybody else I know. That's the goal. I also fail at that, by the way. That's how it goes. But part of the reason I fail is because I'm unaware of the things that I'm unaware of that detract from my productivity. And so if I had something that I implemented that monitored me and reported only to me, that would be really handy. So this was a super long way, a four-minute way of asking, hey, does anybody know of any productivity monitoring apps out there? If so, let us know. Feedback at MackieCub.com. That was a lot. I had one and the name escapes me. Okay. Okay, it's fine. If I can think of it, I'll let you know. But there was one, yeah, it monitors everything you do on the computer. It's attorneys use it for billing. For billing, yeah. There's that app by, I want to say Daniel, somebody or other called Timing that I think is built for exactly this purpose. It's called TimingApp.com. So I'll put that in the show notes. In fact, they've been a sponsor in the past. And it really is built for that. It didn't work for me when I, it didn't stick for me when I tried it back then. But maybe I have a greater intention now than I did then of being focused and productive. So who knows? It wasn't timing, but it keeps track of everything you do on your computer. Okay. Yeah. How much time he's been on any given task. And yeah, that's not something I think I want to see how much time I waste. I mean, listen, that's a big part of self-awareness. The quest for self-awareness is the first step in it is being willing to look in the mirror with all the lights on. Right? Like, you know, the psychological mirror is what I mean by this. I don't necessarily like to look at myself in the mirror with the lights. Robert Burns said to get the gears to see ourselves as other seers. Exactly. Yeah. And we never can succeed at that, but we can attempt to succeed at that. But yeah, that's the hardest part is being honest with like, oh, there is that, you know, okay, okay. That's all the hard edges. Yeah. Why is it that that's all I have though, Pete? Anyway, that's a different show. But I don't know. Do you have any thoughts on any of this, John? You've been quiet for the last five minutes. I'm just soaking it in. I use a whiteboard for stuff that I really have to get done. I have a little mini whiteboard and I'll make a list there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, whatever system works. It's always in front of me. So it reminds me how I'm failing every time I don't check something off. That's the key. Yes. I love. I'm definitely going to, for a little while, I will credit you for that phrase. It reminds me of what I'm failing at. And then I'm just going to steal it from you eventually, John. I don't say this with pride. I say it with self-awareness. It will become mine. My kids hate this when I do it and steal their phrases, but I will try to credit you for as long as I can, John. And then eventually I will stop. But I love that. I mean, back in the day, I think they make electronic version, but have you ever used a Franklin planner? No, I know what it is. That paper never worked for me for this. It was when I found Now Up to Date and Contact in 1992, I want to say I was working at Citibank. I went to Macworld Expo and the folks, the principles of that company, which then became the principles long, long, long years later for Busy Cal until they sold it last year or two years ago. But they built a thing that I saw and it was like, this works for my brain. And they had a calendar server. So we actually implemented it at Citibank for a while, at least in my department, not company-wide. But that was great. And then years later, John, I found out that our our high school ish that time frame friend who I will refer to as the Griffin was one of the chief software architects of the original Now Up to Date and Contact. And now the Griffin is often mentioned on this show without being mentioned because he makes other things that we use and love. So there you go. Uh, yeah, what's... I should talk to my old IT buddy. So when I was working in a defense environment, one of the guys in IT, they would ping your computer every now and then. And if they didn't think you were there, they would come to your desk. And if you were still logged in and not at your desk, you got a warning. And if you got three of those, bye-bye. Oh, just for security reasons, you shouldn't stay logged in if you're not sitting at your desk. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Right. And also, you know, lots of people had security clearances and there was secret and top secret and all that. I didn't have a clearance. Sure. Yeah. 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I use iOS and their integration works really well. They're working on the Siri integration right now. Oops, sorry. But I was able to get it to work easily by using Homebridge tied into HomeKit. I just asked the S lady now what the temperature is in the backyard and it works. I also have a pie weather console that I built. I upload the info to multiple weather sites and I even have a listener that grabs the data and builds a webpage with info. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So you report in as well. Okay, that's neat. Yeah, that's one of the things I liked. I had that Netatmo weather station for a little while and it worked. It was somewhat, I used it to report into a weather underground and the weather underground community kind of hated me and every other Netatmo user because they were like, that's the least accurate thing we could ever imagine using and you're polluting the data and it was like, yeah, but it's cool. I want to participate. And then that weather station died anyway. So it was like, okay, maybe I should get something better. Yeah. All right. I like it. Thanks, Rich. Yeah, accurate. I don't know. I have multiple sensors that are off by just a bit or it's like, which one do I trust is the right answer? Yeah, yeah. Use a use a infrared thermometer to figure it out. I don't know. I mean, that's okay. Yeah. Yeah, I got one of those. I got one of those cameras. Oh, no, I mean, like an infrared thermometer gun, those real real time. Those are that that is one of the best like $20. Well, now they're probably $30 tools for the house that I've ever bought is one of those infrared thermometers. It's great for cooking things. My wife started, I mean, the reason I say that is my wife just started experimenting with making kombucha and you have to like, let it get down to 92 degrees before you put the scobian and close. I don't know. There's more. I've told you far more than I know, but that thing is great for that. We use it all the time. I use it when we're boiling lobster to make to see how close I am to the boiling point before I before I drop the lobsters because I get impatient, you know, and it's nice to see. It's nice to see the numbers changing even though the water is not rolling yet. So but I mean, we use it for all kinds of things. I use it to check the delta on our air conditioner between the line in and the line out. And I now know what that delta should be. And when that delta gets gets lower, then I know it's time to get a service call done so I can get a recharge. And like, yeah, it's anyway. Yeah, great thing. Yeah. And anything more on that one? Chris? Well, actually, I'll add more. Chris shared that he also uses the tempest weather station. I'm trying to think if he has any anything specific to say about it, I don't think so. Steve also had thoughts about the Oh, yeah, he had a different different one to talk about. I don't know why my sound is being weird. There's something what on my computer is running so fast in the back. You actually sound good to me earlier in the show. I was having a lot of difficulty with. No, I'm like getting like little clips in my audio. And it says that it's happening from from Microsoft Edge, which I'm not even like running as a thing. So I've fixed that. My apologies. If you folks are hearing it might only be me, which I hope it is. Anyway, Listener Steve suggests the ambient weather station from ambient weather dot com. And he said, I had an Oregon scientific weather station from 2014 to 2020, which I like, but it was hard to maintain as it got older and has little support. Currently, he has this ambient weather station. He has the WS2902B. It was very easy to set up the issue I have with it is all the data goes to the cloud so I don't have the ability to review the history. So I use a an app called weather display at weather dash display dot com, which captures all the data to my computer. I don't use it with home kit because I'm still learning about it. Okay. All right. That's another one. That's great. On stuff. I like it. I like it. And there's there's one more on this subject, right from listener Ted, John, is that right? Yes. So Ted, I think it was a Mackie 941 who uses weather and bends software. I use it for one of my cameras to upload pictures to the weather pages. And it's a software. My weather station had DSL for years. Now I just got fiber, so I should fix my weather reporting. Yeah. Huh. All right. I like that. Yeah. We've talked about Ben software is like home security software in the past. And I like the idea of using it to upload those pictures. Because it when you go and see pictures on, you know, the various weather sites, a lot of them are just uploaded from, you know, people like us. That's that's how they do crowdsource it. Yeah. Huh. You think as a pilot, I'd be more of a weather geek and I kind of am, but I haven't had a station in years. Yeah. I am surprised that none of us are like geeky. You're about weather and logging and, you know, tracking it to our like using our synologies as the database for whatever, you know, like it kind of shocked me when I brought it up, you know, a couple episodes ago that none of us are, John, you're the deepest. I think with the, I mean, it's not a Wi-Fi weather station, but you've got, you know, you've got, you've got more than the rest of us, I think. So yeah. Yeah. There's a temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure. Yeah. Which it then uses to predict the weather. And it's pretty good at that. I think basically, if the pressure is going down, it's going to, there's going to be a storm. Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can see it on the weather maps. Speaking of, I've long been and still am a fan of using Weather Underground's app that it shows up as Wonderground and then the companion app called Storm Radar that also, those two are, as far as I'm concerned, the cream of the crop for weather apps on the iPhone. And I will put these in the show notes for all of us to enjoy. However, the deeper, the further deepening integration of dark sky into Apple's weather app in iOS 16 really creates a compelling argument to use that. It's not quite what I want, but it's really close. And when I say it's not quite what I want, it's just Weather Underground. Living here in New England, I like to be able to see at a glance the number of inches of snow and rain as well that I'm going to get on any given day. And I like that in the daily forecast view. And I get that with Weather Underground. It just, it shows me right there on the view, you know, how many inches of rain we're expecting. Apple's app, I've got to dig a little bit. And I get the percentage of rain coming. I don't see the number of inches of rain on Apple's app. However, I don't know what it's going to show me when it snows. And I hope to wait at least a few, maybe a month or two before I learn the answer to that with iOS 16. Although, I guess I could set my locale to somewhere that it's going to snow soon and answer that question for myself. So, too quick doing iOS apps then. For you aviation geeks out there, there's Windy. I use that with my small airplane for, you know, winds and temperatures and pressures, that sort of thing. And then Arrow Weather Pro, I do subscribe to that. That's a nice one for getting, it will not only do weather, but it will integrate notums and you can even pull up ground, airport maps, that sort of thing with Arrow Weather Pro. But it gets you all the notums, notices to airmen, air missions now, to be politically correct. Sure. And so, yeah, Windy, W-I-N-D-Y and then Arrow Weather Pro are both excellent weather apps for the pilots in the audience. W-I-N-D-Y, you said, correct. And then when you say, are you saying Arrow Weather Pro or just A-E-R-O? Okay. Yeah. Let me just double check. You know, I just did. I know. I know. Yeah, Arrow Weather. Yeah, A-E-R-O, weather. I got it. Pro is the subscription. Yep. Got it. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Fun. That's nice because it will, here's the thing is it will translate, pilots know that there's a lot of really geeky abbreviations and it will translate your notums to plain English. So. Oh. Oh, I like that. Because even, you know, after 40 years of flying airplanes, they still hit me with abbreviations and I just scratched my head and go, I had no idea. Okay. Okay. I was going to ask, like, do you need, I would need that, but do you need it? And the answer is sometimes. It's nice. It's nice to have. Yeah. I mean, something, you can read it and just go, okay, I get that. But every now and then, you're just kind of going, what was that one? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. And develop those abbreviations were on develop to IntelliType was the only means to transmit those things and it needed a few couple letters. And now, you know, they should do away with it in my humble opinion and just go to plain English on all of it. Right. Because, you know, like, you'll find that the ones that it still screws up on the translations that for the San Antonio airport, it's SAT. So everything happens on Saturday at the San Antonio airport in the translation. But other than that, you know, we'll find a few of those translations to plain English don't translate well. Yeah. Yeah. That's yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Only on Saturday. These notams only apply on Saturday in San Antonio. Yeah. That's probably not correct. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, one, maybe two last things. One is that Xfinity Mobile now they added so Xfinity Mobile is the cell phone service that you can get if you have an Xfinity cable plan at home, either internet or TV or both. You need to be an existing Xfinity customer to get Xfinity Mobile Xfinity Mobile is they don't have their own towers. They use Verizon's towers, right? So they're on MVNO on Verizon. But if you fit the criteria required that you have an Xfinity plan, they added their pricing has been mildly expensive for people who have moderate use for a while. It's been great for people who have minimal use. But as soon as you start getting up, it started getting a little pricey. They now have a $30 a month unlimited plan, which rivals and might even beat Mint Mobile's unlimited plan. So I wanted to share that because yeah. Mint is $30 for unlimited because it's the same price. I was doing yeah. I was doing the 15 gigs. Yeah. And then when I exceeded it, I'm like, ah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What I what I my plan is because I have this actually, I think I'm on the 10 gig a month plan with Mint, which most of the time is enough, including when I travel. However, my plan and or I should say, therefore, my plan is if I if I exceed my 10 gigs and things like slow way down, I can just go for, you know, 10 bucks and buy data on a data only eSIM to use in the United States while my plan runs out. You know, my plan turns over to the next month on Mint. And so that's that's my I haven't even had to enact that plan. But that's my plan because that way because it if it if it were to happen to me and nothing fundamental in my life changed that made me use more data, you know, if it was just an overage, like a one month overage or something. That's all it would be. So it wouldn't be worth it to me to pay more per year, you know, for an unlimited plan. I this is my second month. I've just looked I'm I've used 14.82 with 13 days left. That's really unusual for me. So I must have used it in Florida for when we were down there last week. Yeah, without realizing I wasn't on Wi-Fi. Yeah, yeah. Well, it makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Lastly, unless John, you have anything else. In 942, we were talking about different browsers to different ways of securing your browsing experience. Private browsing came up, all of that stuff. One thing that I'm actually surprised I didn't bring it up, surprise none of us did, but it did show up in the live chat at Mac.com slash discord was using the brave browser for privacy reasons that and the brave browser is it's fantastic for that because it's built exactly for that. You it's it's like it's it's a privacy first browser, even more so than Safari. It really, really makes that easy. So we will put a link to that in the show notes, but it's just brave.com. Yeah, I use brave all the time. I forgot about that. I know that's that's why I'm saying I'm but thank you for whomever it was that put it in the in the chat. So I think that's what we got for today, guys. Do you have anything else, John? Did you get super quiet? Okay. No, I was muting because there's there's some catastrophe nearby. Sure. So all the sirens were going on. I heard that was weird. You were on mute, but I heard the faintest of arms when you mean for it. It's not a mute. It's probably a the 40 db reduction. And the reason you would do that, it's I think he has a hardware mute button, but the reason you would do like a reduction as opposed to a true mute is because a true mute is going to cause a click as opposed to turning the volume down and turning it back up. Oh, that's what this does. Okay. I think so. I mean, based on the evidence we just assembled here. Yeah, it's it's a it's a reduction, not a mute. Okay, because I've been on mute a lot of this show because I had a dog wandering all over the place and the toenails clicking on the wood floor. Yeah, yeah. She won't stop. If you use software mute just like by clicking the mute button in StreamYard, John, then that would that's a true mute, right? Because it's a software mute, so there's no no need for a click. But anyway, my question still stands. Anything else? Yeah, I I don't know where I found this, but it's kind of a neat little tool if you do Twitter. Okay, chirp tea chirpy.com. You put in your username and it generates a graphic of your circle. If you want to know who your circle is. Do I want to know what my circle is? I don't know. That's interesting. How does it define that? Like the people chirp tea with with a C. Oh, C H I R P T Y, which I'm sure is what you said. Okay. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah, I think it just looks at your history and see who you've been on. Oh, wow. That's cool. Cool. Fun stuff. This is what I love about this show. Learning things every day. Thanks for getting nice little collage. Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody. 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I know that's true. There it is. We'll give it to everybody in the chat.