 This is Mackie Cab episode 914 for Monday, February 14th. I think that's Valentine's Day, 2022. And welcome to Mackie Cab, the show where we take your tips, your questions, your cool stuff found. We string them all together into an agenda so that we can share your tips and cool stuff found. We share some tips and cool stuff found on our of our own and also on our own. We answer your questions or we try to, or at least we share them as geek challenges so we can all answer their questions because we are a community here. And the goal of our community when we get together every week is that we each learn at least five new things. Sponsors for this episode include BB at it from bare bones software thesis at take thesis.com slash MGG where you will save 10% We'll talk more about that. In fact, we'll talk more about all of these things in a minute. HunterDouglas.com slash MGG for your free style gets smarter design guide and the Jordan Harbinger show. So as I said, we'll talk more in depth about each of those in a minute here for now here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in fearful Connecticut, this is John Fron. How are we today, Mr. John Fron? Hanging in there, you know, that's like all of us. Yeah, that's what we do. All right, let's dive right into the quick tip. Shall we Donna has one that I had no idea about. And I love this. In fact, I think Donna's got a couple of quick tips for us. But she says something I discovered recently. I had no idea that you could use markup the iOS functionality on a photo that is already in an email draft. You've already attached it. You've already put it in the email draft. You haven't hit send yet. But she says I've always done markups in photos first and then added it to an email. I did not know that you could do that. She says the option is pretty evident. When you look, there's a little markup icon in the kind of on the above the keyboard in the in the right there. And she said, I just never seen it before. What gets really interesting is that you can hit that markup button. She says when you are not on a photo and it opens a blank page that you can draw whatever you want on and insert into the email. So you can you can effectively mark up from a white background with whatever you want to do. So if you want to draw a little diagram for somebody that's easier to draw than try and tap out, you know, a description of what it might look like. Boom. So that you might have known the first quick tip. I did the second one. I did not. So this is what we love. So I'm already at one. Some of you might be at two. It's beautiful. Yeah. So markup is like Apple's photo editing widget, if you will. Yeah. I mean, there's there's different parts of it right there. I mean, they have their photo touch up thing where you can change the brightness and the contrast and, you know, crop a photo and all that. I don't think they they call that markup. What they call markup is where you're literally drawing on like, like, you know, it's it's the Arlo Guthrie, you know, arrows and circles and diagrams on the back of each one kind of thing. Right. So kids ask your parents if you're not sure what I'm referring to. But and wish them happy Valentine's Day. Yeah. So that's that's what we got. Yeah. So it's where you're literally like doing your your diagrams and such circles. Yeah. I don't use it often because every photo that I take is perfect. And if it's not, I delete it. Well, right. But you might like you might want to take a screenshot of something and draw a circle around the thing that you want to point someone to. Right. Like, like, for example, you know, Donna actually used that in her in her email, which I would do. I would show on the screen for the video folks, but it has her email address in it and I don't have it prepared separately. So I don't want to do that. But you know, she used it to highlight where the markup icon was in a screenshot. So those sorts of things can be super handy. I use it constantly for that. I used to use something called sketch back in the day, but now Apple has added added markup to both Mac OS and iOS. So it's all right there. Yeah. It's good. All right. Next up is it's a quick tip of mine. It's something it's going to be an obvious thing for many of you. And that's the part of quick tips that we love is that they are obvious once you know to do them. I get to my desk every day and I launch several apps. Mail is usually running, but I have Marco Arman's quitter, quit a bunch of apps when they have gone dormant, especially Safari, because it will just chew RAM if you leave it running for multiple days in a row. And then there's other apps that I have it quit or maybe I've quit, you know, the day before. I created a keyboard maestro macro called start my day. And it launches all of the apps that I would painstakingly go through my dock and launch when I got to my desk every day. And it is super handy. I mean, I've had this is not my first rodeo with these. I have built one for each podcast that I do. So I have a Mackie Keb one a gig get some of this, you know, and I have those here in the studio. So I get all of my stuff up that's specific to each podcast, the agenda document, you know, all of the various web browsers and other utilities that I need logic to do the mixing, all that good stuff. And so I figured this is ridiculous. So I set one up on my desk earlier this week and it has been a game changer. Like it's just so much easier to just do that. And I'm trying to think I guess you could probably do the same literally with shortcuts. I don't see why not. Oh, yeah, go ahead. I mean, here's my question for you. Login items is typically where you could put an app that will start it up, but it sounds like you're looking for finer grained granularity. Maybe you don't want to start up every app that you own and log on items. So you so you have a macro that selectively enables the things that you know you're going to need. Yeah, but it's because I use it when it when I when I wake from sleep in the morning. So login items truly only happens when you log in after a restart generally. Right. And so this is I'm already logged in, you know, I have my Mac auto restart once a week. But other than that, you know, and I and I don't I don't like the idea of having apps start at log in. I mean, some some apps, yes, like things that need to be running in the background. Login items is great for that. However, having it launch like the interactive apps that I use mail and messages and Safari and all that stuff. I've when troubleshooting, I have I it always drives me crazy when there's 16 apps that want to launch after every reboot. And that can cause trouble, right? So and I know you can start up at the shift key down. So maybe another quick tip to go into safe mode, which doesn't launch all those login items among other things. But with this, it's just I know that there are certain apps that I want running when I am like starting my work day. And so it's like instead of just going and clicking them now, I just go to the keyboard Maestro menu and I choose start my day. And I could, you know, assign that to all manner of triggers. I just happen to choose it from a menu. But yeah, so that's I'm sure there's a better way. And like I said, I think I think you could do this with shortcuts to it. So no reason why you couldn't. I just I have keyboard Maestro. And so it's it's I especially on my Mac, I do not think of shortcuts first. I think of keyboard Maestro first for better and for worse. All right. What do you got next, Mr. Braun? All right. So I got a geek challenge from this Dave Hamilton guy. It's true. Imagine that. So the challenge was so we're we're kicking the tires on a new platform now called Streamyard. Yep. Just to give us options and give you options. But you were like, how do I get an iPhone to send its content to a window? Or just how do I get iPhone content on the screen integrated with our video broadcast? And I'm like, that's a really quick question. Great. It was great. Yeah. Elmer. Elmer. Elmer. So so I did a bit of Google food when I found something on Tech Insider or Business Insider. And there are two ways to do this, Dave. One is new and I'll mention it, but it won't work for us. But I'll mention it because it's new and I like to talk about new things. But so if you now in Maverick Monterey or Monterey. Sorry. Yeah. Go to sharing. There's a new item that I had not seen before because it never was there before. And it's called AirPlay Receiver. So if you activate that on your Mac and then you take, for example, your iPhone and you go to screen sharing in the control center, your Mac shows up as a destination. The problem is it's all encompassing that it takes up the whole screen. And that's not what we want. Oh, interesting. Right. No, that's not what I even tried on my Mac mini. And when it mirrored, I then got a little selector in the upper left-hand corner of my screen. And it's like, do you want to put this on the screen or that screen? So it's smart enough to know that. But the thing is you have no other control. Got it. At least I haven't figured out how to do it. OK. Yeah. And then it's pretty much, you know, if you want to watch a video, for example, on your iPhone and do it on your fancy, big screen, then that works. But for our purposes... Just like you would with an Apple TV. I got it. Yes. OK, yeah. But you're right. With what I would like to do with StreamYard here, I need it in a window. Yeah, exactly. And so here's the other and, you know, you'll see the article. Here's a trick that I think has been in macOS and iOS for a while, but I've never really used it. I never had need until now, but now we have a need. And the thing is, if you take your phone and plug it into your Mac, and then you run QuickTime Player. Yes, QuickTime Player. In a nutshell, you say, do a new recording and then you'll get a pull-down menu showing the potential sources. Well, hey, guess what? If you plug your iPhone in, that's one of them. Yep. And it works perfectly. It's amazing. Yeah. So at some point, I'm sure one of us is going to go up on an iPhone thing. Maybe you will in this episode, Dave. And you can, with most of the screen sharing apps that we have, they give you a choice to display another window. So there you go. That's great. Perfect. Yeah, no. We've shared that tip on the show in the past. It just did not dawn on me, which is why I sent out the Geek Challenge to you. So, yeah, it worked out. It's good stuff. Fun, and we will. Hopefully, we'll be incorporating more of that stuff in our YouTube videos that you will, that you see the little clips. And it's not just YouTube. We put them on Twitter and Instagram and everywhere. So, yeah. And even TikTok. You can follow Backbeat Media on TikTok. All right. Henry has three quick tips for us. He says, here's a quick tip for the Apple TV with Siri remote. If you use restrictions or have a Netflix passcode set up, you will occasionally be asked for a four-digit pin. Well, you can enter that four-digit pin simply using your voice. Hold down the Siri button on your Siri remote, which is the button on the side. And then say the four digits. This works faster than swiping to the numbers with the remote or getting out your phone to type them in. It seems to work wherever the standard four-digit pin interface is used. Unfortunately, Amazon Prime Video uses its own five-digit interface, so it does not work there. I like it, though. That's good, Henry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Next tip from Henry. I love and highly recommend Spatial Audio for watching movies with an Apple TV and AirPods Pros. It is my preferred way of watching now, and I still get fooled into thinking that the sound is coming from the TV speakers for all the year. So the thing that I talked about doing on an airplane with an iPad for AirPods Pro and having that sound oriented spatially, you can do with your Apple TV. And so, and I can see why Henry would like that. Especially, perhaps even if you have a, you know, fancy surround sound system, but certainly if you don't, well, your AirPods Pro, the cheapest surround sound system you're going to get. And it is tailored perfectly for wherever you are sitting, and that is key. He does ask, and I was, I only saw this earlier today, and Lisa was not home, but he does ask if Spatial Audio works with two sets of AirPods Pro paired to an Apple TV. It could, but I couldn't test it because, A, I didn't have two sets of AirPods Pro at home, and I also didn't have two heads at home with which to test. You know, they do say two heads are better than one. I tend to agree. So, OK, Spatial Audio only works with the AirPods Pro. Is that correct? AirPods Pro and AirPods Gen 3, the latest non-ceiling AirPods. So. OK. So they're all inner things, like, so I'm not going to get it on my HomePod Mini. Well, no, because you don't have, you would need, you would need a HomePod Mini surround sound setup, right? And that doesn't exist yet. Right. So, right, yeah, yeah. But it would also work with AirPods Max. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that, yes, you get it with that too. So, yeah, that's pretty good. Oh, and I said, so I will test that, but if one of you knows Feedback at MacGeekGab.com, that's where you can send in answers to our questions to you like this, but also you can ask us questions or share tips. That's how all of these people thus far have gotten in touch with us. And if you didn't hear them the first time, Feedback at MacGeekGab.com. I said Feedback at MacGeekGab.com, for sure. Believe it or not, we have a new listener, and I need to queue up. I believe it's a him. It was John R., but I can't remember the question, who joined us because they heard about us on the Jordan Harbinger show and said, I wasn't sure how to get in touch with you. So, for all of you who think that, you know, our little shtick with the Feedback at MacGeekGab.com doesn't work, well, we skipped it last episode or we didn't do it until the end. And boy, didn't we pay for that. So, there you go. One last one from listener Henry. He says, iOS 15s do not disturb in focus acts differently from earlier non-focus versions. In earlier versions, do not disturb could be set to silence notifications and calls only when the phone is locked. But now that option is gone. Notifications and calls are silenced even when your phone is unlocked. So, you might be missing calls or notifications that you are expecting. He says, this happens to me when I was logging in to do my credit card balance. They called my phone to give me my two-factor code, but my phone didn't ring because of do not disturb even though I was literally using it. Took me a day to figure out what was going on. Yeah, good little tip. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah, I think I tweaked mine. You would let me know this, I think, in the past episode where I was like, I hate getting notifications, so I silenced them all. Yeah. And you were like, well, dude, you can't see my messages. So if you dig in, there's a way to allow select apps or individuals to get through. That's absolutely correct. Yeah, that's right. I thought we had a question about this later in the episode. And I'm looking. Yeah, Ben, and we'll do Ben's question right now. Ben asked just to set it up the right way. He said, I was helping a client troubleshoot a notifications issue on her iPhone running iOS 15.2.1. I don't have much experience with focus yet. So I was mystified when she reported that messages was not in the list of apps to follow. That's a weird bug. That's there on all of the devices I've checked. So we'll work with Ben separately on that. But what he did say was we created a custom focus so she can limit notifications to only those connected to her partner, intending it to only ring her phone at night when her partner calls. However, with this focus enabled, calls from me still came through. And the reason was that in focus, you can set people or apps or both, right? And so, you know, for example, I talk about the nuclear focus that I've created. That's for my family. And in my nuclear focus, I have no apps listed. In fact, I have it set to allow time-sensitive apps to show, but nothing else. But I do have three people listed. It's my wife. If you're looking at the video, you'll see that it's my picture. It's because of a weird thing with the way contacts relates our home phone number because we both have the same one. But I have my wife and two kids in people. And that's it. But because it knows that they are there, it lets their notifications through in the phone app, in the messages app, in Slack, in Skype, if it has already assigned their contact and linked it to their matching contact in those apps. So that's the trick is if you want to let people through, only add people to your focus. Do not also add, if you add, you know, for example, if I added the messages or the phone app to this nuclear focus, then anyone trying to contact me with either of those two apps would get through. And that is not what I want. So that's the key to this is making sure that you are, that you understand the difference. It took me a minute, too, because I first did that. I'm like, well, I want him to be able to call me and I want to be able to message me. So these three people and, you know, those two apps and then everybody got through and was like, ah, because I said for those apps to have carte blanche, that's what that means. So just FYI. Yeah, good, Mr. Braun. Good. Yeah, the other thing I like is, I don't think I had it enabled initially, but silence calls. So if they're not in your contact list, it's just going to show a notification saying, well, yeah, this phone number was, was, you know, I'll give you notification, but I'm not going to ring your phone. I'm like, thank you very much. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right. We might have some more quick tips to share later in the episode. We do have more of your questions to get to. So I definitely want to make sure we do that. The next thing that I want to do, John, is talk about our first couple of sponsors, if that works for you, my friend. Um, let's, uh, let's do it. 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Now, there's notes in there. Amazing. You've got to go check this out. Go to barebones.com, download BB Edit, test it out for free. You get all the features free for 30 days. Even if you've tried it out before, BB Edit 14 resets that clock for you. You get to check it out and then you choose whether to buy or not. There's a lot of features that just remain available for free. Some of the more powerful features, of course, you pay for. Go check it out. Barebones.com, our thanks to BB Edit for sponsoring this episode. All right, John, let's go to Dr. Mack. He's got a question that I think is going to have an answer that many of us are going to want to implement. He said, this one's been bugging me for a while and I hope you have a solution. I like the mail window to fill most of my screen when I have things set up. But when my Mac awakens from sleep or when I reboot, as often as not, the window shrinks and moves off to the left and towards the bottom. I've tried all the usual stuff. Wacking P lists, Safe Boot, Disk First Aid, Onyx and more. But the issue continues intermittently. Help me, John F. Dave and Pilot Pete. You are my only hope. John, I have an answer because I too am very particular about where things are, especially here in the podcast studio. I have to have our video window right up at the top so that when I look, I see us. I'm also looking at the camera. But I then need our chapters document off to one side and the other things on this monitor. We all have our spots. I'm a human, it turns out. And I'm a creature of habit. I use something called Stay from Cordless Dog and I couldn't live without it. What you do in Stay is you run the app and then you get your windows positioned where you want and you say, all right, remember these and it will remember them for your particular layout of monitors. So you could have locations when you are on just say your laptop, right? And then also a different set of locations when your laptop is plugged into a monitor at work and then another set of locations when your laptop is plugged into a different model of monitor at home. It does it by model number. So presumably you could get it confused if you had all the same but maybe you'd probably want things in the same spot if it was the same monitor. So I love this thing. The only time it drives me crazy is if I swap out monitors. Like if I upgrade a monitor in the studio and it's like, oh, hey, look, it forgot everything but it didn't forget. It's just there but not there. It's the way to go. I think it's, I don't know. I'm gonna say it's less than 20 bucks. I think it's far less than that. But whatever it is, it's worth it. So what do you use to solve this problem, John? Move the window. Move the window. Yeah. Or resize it. No, but you know, I'm thinking about this though is that I hadn't, I read the question but I didn't have a really good answer. You did, but I wonder if at the base level somewhere it's a corrupted cache? Go with me on this. I mean, that could be wrong. But I'm like, but because obviously data is being reloaded from somewhere that screws it up when you start up the app again. And it's like, why are you doing this? It's saving it somewhere, clearly. Yeah, right. Yeah, but you know, so having a third party app which I assume has its own prefiles and stuff takes care of this. Yeah, right. And I see it. Like my, when my windows launch, they go to the wrong place and then stay immediately grabs them and like, you know, right? Yeah, it's cool. But you're like, you're right. It shouldn't have to happen. The finder is, suffers similarly, right? Like when I open a new finder window, I want it to be a certain size and I want it in a certain spot. And you know, we've talked about this on the show over the years. The way in the finder that usually works is you open a new window, you put don't change the folder that it's on, change its location and size and then close the window. And somehow that is like the magic of getting the finder to remember that that doesn't seem to work with. That's not a universal thing. So I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I think the file that stores this, I think it still does this, Dave, our old friend dot ds underscore store, I believe is where that. So that may be another suggestion is whack that file and maybe I'll be okay. I don't think it is for new windows. Okay. I think that controls the layout inside the window. But I don't think it stores the location of the location of the upper left corner and the size of the window. I think it's just what, like, do you have, is it an icon view? Is it in list view? Is it, you know, I'm pretty sure. Because I dug into this pretty deeply a while back. Okay. I mean, I could be wrong. I mean, you know, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I see some stuff online that suggests that the store, yeah, let's see stores custom attributes of its containing folder, such as the position of icons or the choice of and then. Yeah. So. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, stay. It's 15 bucks. So there you go. You want to take us to listen to John. John. Not John. John. I'm not calling you John. You're both name. All right. So John has some commentary and then a question. So his commentary is interesting. Thank you for sharing. I just purchased a new Mac Air M1 16 processor. Everything is working great. Migration assistant work rate moving my apps and files from my old Mac Air 2015 to the new one. Before using migration assistant, my i7 Mac had 90 gigs free on its SSD and 10 gigs purgeable. After migrating my apps and data to my M1 Mac, it now has 195 gigabytes free and 124 purgeable. Any idea why this happened? The other thing I noticed when I ran manage storage on my i7 Mac and the system data size had decreased from 134 to 69. Why did this decrease? All right. And let's see. So he still parallels. Okay. And he's running Linux and that's cool. But my question is when I was using DisplayPort to drive a second 4k monitor, my monitor has both HDMI and DisplayPort, which is better. USB-C to HDMI or USB-C to DisplayPort? So as far as the first thing, all I know is APFS, I don't trust it. As far as telling me how much space is available. Yeah, fair. I wanted to make sure we clarified that. I trust APFS. It's report of free space is, let's say that it lags behind reality. I call it easy. I like it. And it doesn't kick into gear. Like right now, I actually looked at my MacBook Pro and I have like 30 gigs free and I'm like, how'd that happen? Yeah. But I think I told you if sometimes running disk per se from recovery gives it a little nudge saying, oh yeah, free this stuff up, dude. Come on. Yeah. So I don't know the answer to the first question. The second question, Dave, is my experience personally has been, I don't use HDMI. Because I've just had so many problems. So I much, my preferred connection and I found it's a lot snappier. And you typically I think get better resolution too is, so right now I have for my primary monitor, I'm running a USB-C to display port cable that I got, I think from Amazon. Okay. But the responsiveness of a display port connection versus HDMI at least on my Mac mini is like night and day. And that it's like, dude, wake up, wake up. Interesting. Nothing's happening. So that would be my suggestion. And the cable's not expensive. I think it's like 15 bucks or something or maybe even less. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. We got an interesting email from listener Neil who was talking about connections with his, it was in response to our conversation about monitors last week. And I think it supports what you're saying here. He says he's got the 34 inch LG 5K monitor, which people call the 5K 2K monitor. And he's using it with an M1 Max-based MacBook Pro. So M1, but different M1, because we're talking about an air on the first one. 16 processor, though. I don't know about that. I don't know what that means in listener John's email. Anyway, he's got this 14 inch M1 Max MacBook Pro. And he said, when I first connected the monitor to the Thunderbolt port, he connected it to the Thunderbolt port on a OWC hub. The hub was connected to the right-hand side of the port with the laptop open. And that resulted in the monitor's firmware reporting that it was not receiving a full 5K signal. He found that the monitor was being detected by the Mac as two monitors, one of the correct size, 34 inches, but at a reduced resolution, and a second monitor that was smaller. The second monitor did not allow me to view its details or relocate its position relative to the others in the Arrangement tab or anything like that. He says that the image on the monitor was clearly reduced. He said he then reconnected the hub to the left-sided ports and it worked just fine. So he said he shrugged and moved on. After about a week or so, he says I moved the MacBook Pro to clamshell mode and also hooked up a second monitor, a 27 inch 4K monitor. The second monitor was hooked up directly to a Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Pro, and all that worked fine that day. He says he then disconnected the 4K monitor the next morning and when he woke the laptop, when he woke the laptop via the external keyboard and mouse, so still in clamshell mode, the monitor would only detect in that reduced resolution, regardless of what port it was on. Multiple reboots, forays into displays, preference, power cycling, all that didn't change anything. And so what he found was that with the monitor connected either directly to the MacBook Pro through the hub, laptop open works fine on the left-hand ports. Right-hand ports get that two-monitor thing. With the monitor connected directly or through the hub in clamshell mode, if there is a second monitor connected, it works. Fine. If there's not a second monitor, it doesn't work. However, he says thanks to a suggestion from the Mac Power Users Forum, I switched to the DisplayPort input on the monitor using a Thunderbolt to DisplayPort cable, and boom, it has worked without a hitch since then. So that's bizarre. So he was going Thunderbolt directly to the monitor, and then switching to DisplayPort changed it. But that doesn't even make sense to me because I thought a Thunderbolt connection would send DisplayPort over the monitor. So clearly there's weird things going on in Apple Land with all of this. And we've got multiple reports of this. It's bizarre what's happening. And I think part of it is whatever Apple is doing with the integrated SoC on the various flavors of M1. Clearly there's something about that. I mean, the other reflection here in our chat room at live.macicab.com slash... Nope, that's it. Just live.macicab.com will get you. Ah, okay. No, it's okay. macicab.com slash stream is the same place. They both put you in the same spot. Right. So the other thing that occurs to me, some of the folks in our chat room indicated that HDMI has this thing called HDCP, and it just screws everything up. High definition copy protection. And I actually had the other day, Dave, I had this and I couldn't explain it. So I went to my Apple TV and went to Disney Plus and it's like, yeah, there's an HDCP error, so I can't show you anything. And I'm like, okay, reload and that fixed it. But just that that error came up aggravates me. I'm going to assume that DisplayPort is straight digital and they don't have any copy protection, but I could be wrong. No, I think you're right. There is no copy protection there, but it shouldn't slow it down. Gosh, yeah. Who knows though? Who knows? Who knows? I think there's a flip side effect on the... I could be wrong about this. There's something on the Intel Mac Minis, which is what you have, right? So you connect, you skip HDMI, you just connect DisplayPort and that works better for you? I have one. So my main monitor is DisplayPort and my auxiliary, I think I have that connected as DVI. Your Mac doesn't have a DVI port, so what's it connected to on your Mac would be the question? Oh, I have a... It might convert to DVI. USB-C to DVI adapter. Okay, so you're going to effectively DisplayPort to DVI on that one. Because USB-C would be, I think, would be DisplayPort. I think. I mean, if you go into system preferences, displays, maybe that's not where it's going to tell us this. No, I don't think that's going to be where it tells us this. Oh, no, it'll tell us in a system report. Exactly. No, you're right. That's the place to go. Yeah, and system information. Yeah, so where would it be? DisplayPort displays, and it will tell you... I don't know that it'll tell you. Oh, yeah, yeah, it will. Like on my iMac, it says, on the iMac's monitor, it says connection type internal. And on my external monitor, it says connection type Thunderbolt slash DisplayPort is what it says. So, yeah. Yeah, I only see one monitor, which is weird. In graphics slash displays, you only see one? It shows Intel USB graphics, which is what the... or UHD graphics, which is what they have in this mini, but it says DVI or HDMI. And that's in... But it's not showing my internal monitor. Why not? You don't have an internal monitor. No, no, no, I have two external monitors. I don't know why it's only showing one of them in System Report. And that's in the graphics slash displays section? Correct. I wonder, is it possible, John, that your second display is using something like USB to display link? Let's go to Thunderbolt. Yeah, that won't... That shouldn't show you a display. This is connecting to my dock. Very strange. Okay, well... That is very strange. I'll have to figure it out. Yeah, because it's definitely showing the model number of my secondary monitor. Interesting. And it says it's connected via HDMI or DVI. All right. Well, don't restart your machine now, but I'm curious... No, no, no, no. I'm curious if a restart like surfaces more information there. That would be interesting. All right. Let's see. Let's go to Donna, shall we, John? Yeah, Donna has a follow-up. So, back in Episode 912, we were talking about Apple Maps Suggestions, and Donna sent in a note. For quite a while, I've received Maps Suggestions about where I might want to go. I typically notice it when I get in the car and car play connects. It's a little weird, but it's often correct. There are some restaurants that we go to on regular days for dinner, and I usually visit my mom in the evening. Interestingly, Mom's Suggestion is for the high school around the corner. Not her name and actual address, even though she's in my contacts, and I often use Maps to guide me there. So, thanks for the feedback. And I think in this case, yeah, it is kind of creepy. And that these suggestions coming up, it's like, you know, I do this every day. I don't know if I really want you to remind me of it. Like, you know, go to the store or go here or go there. I kind of like it. I mean, when I get into my car, I don't mean to discount that it would come across creepy to some. But, you know, like, when I get into my car on, you know, Wednesday afternoon, which is when I usually go for a quick car practice adjustment, my car says, you know, hey, or Apple, I mean, it's Apple Maps via CarPlay says, hey, you want directions to your chiropractors? Yeah, that's perfect. Great, you know, because I don't even put my chiropractors address in my calendar. I know where I'm going. I do it every week. I just put it. I just write Cairo. That's it, you know, and it gets me there. But it's because it knows, right? From my habits as I understand it, if Apple is to be believed. And I think we can I'm choosing to believe them in this regard. And I think that's a safe choice. All of this information is stored locally on my phone. It's not like the cloud is involved in any of this. But I and I don't know how to turn it off. But I know that there are things we can do to turn it off. And the reason I don't know how to turn it off is because I don't want it off on mine. But if we go in to shoot, where's my where's my iPhone here? If we go in to settings on the iPhone, right, and then go to Siri and search. This is one place that we could do this. Right. And so if you go, you have suggestions from Apple about halfway down on the sort of on the first screen there. And you can have it show notifications with suggestions. I'm not sure if this is what it's going to be or not. You're going to need to do some testing on this that because that's just because I don't want to turn it off on my phone. So that's one place to do it. But also you get to go down and tell Siri what apps feed it data that it would then suggest from. So if we go down to maps, we can say that we can turn off the learn from this app option. Right. Right. And and then we can turn off granularly suggestions for this app. Right. So my guess is that this is where you're going to want to turn this stuff off is there. There's one other place that we might want to look. And that would be in settings, privacy and location services. If you scroll all the way to the bottom and go to system services and then go all the way to the sort of the bottom of that and go to significant locations, you can go in there and then turn off significant locations. My guess is that this also is part of what feeds that little data. So or that little those little alerts and those little notifications. So that's going to be my guess on this stuff. I don't know for certain, but that's going to be my guess on this is where to look. So I don't know. That's how I do it. Or how I would do it. But I like the notifications and I like I the reason I don't find them creepy is because I trust Apple when they tell me that this data doesn't leave my device. So I knew I had my iPhone with me when I went to all these places. So it makes perfect sense that my iPhone would know that it was with me when it went to all these places. So there you go. That's how that's how I get to sleep at night. Thoughts on anything? There's a bunch of I'm finding like multiple things here. I mean, one is like go to maps, settings, Siri and search, Siri suggestions, maps. That's where we were. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. And here's the other one. Let me see privacy. That's where we were. So those are the two places. There we go. Okay. All right. Good search there. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of a pain. You have to go to both places. Well, I don't think I wouldn't. I mean, it depends on what you want to do. But I think if you just want to stop the notifications from coming up, then I think just going into the the Siri settings for the maps app specifically, it would be the trick there. Yeah. Yeah. And you're right. You can get there both ways, right? If, you know, I got there by going to settings, Siri and search, but I think you can also get there by going to settings, maps. And then I think, no, there's no Siri and search there. You have. Oh, no. Yeah. Right at the top. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be the same dialogue. There's just two different ways to get to that same dialogue. So yeah, that would be the way to do it. Cool. All right. Listener Ben actually has a question that flips the script on this far more than I ever expected that we would have on the show, but it makes perfect sense for what Ben wants. He says, I'm going on sabbatical this summer and we'll be cycling across the United States on the website. Besides blogging about my adventure, I'd love for my followers to track my location along the way and would be happy to broadcast it on a public or maybe private website. Is there a website service that I can connect an app to on my iPhone to provide this info and show where I am on some kind of map? I'm assuming, of course, find my wouldn't permit this permit this level of transparency. Fair. My API, I think it would be perfect. I would happily embed such a map on my own website and share the link. So first of all, I'm super, I rarely experience envy because I lead a pretty charmed life and I just like am able to create the things that I want to do. The idea of a sabbatical, however, Ben might have left me a little bit envious. So you are, you are an inspiration. Let's put it that way. You are inspiring me. Maybe someday I too will be able to take a sabbatical. And I totally get what he's looking for. Like this makes this use case makes sense. So I did a little bit of Googling, John, and I found a website called locato web, L-O-C-A-T-O web. And it looks to do exactly what he's looking for, which is kind of amazing. It's an app that you would install on your phone and you, it shares your position to the web in real time. In fact, that's what it says on the screen. And it's available for Windows phone, Google Play, and or Google phones in the Google Play Store. And of course, Apple phones in the App Store. I looked at the app, the website for the app and checked the updates. And it was most recently updated on December 28th of 2021. So it's not like it's, you know, it's an active thing. Right. It's not like your, the picture of, oh, I guess it's just an Android phone on the site. It looked like the oldest iPhone one could imagine on the site, which is what made me think, oh, maybe it's kind of old, but, but it's not. It's, it's all very up to date. They have a 2022 copyright on the website and it all looks good. So that's where I would start. Of course, if somebody out there knows a better option than locate to web, let us know. Feedback at MackieCub.com. Yeah. All right. What else is good for that? Go ahead. What did you and I used to use? Glimpse, is it? Glimpse, but that was very much a, you know, share to a specific person. Driving. Yeah, but, yeah, but it could, I, well, yeah, you might be right. It was just a driving thing, not a, like driving a car thing, not driving a different motor vehicle thing. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah. Now, but Glimpse has been certainly for us Apple Glimpse has been end of life or usurped, replaced by Apple's just share my thing, right? Because like that's perfect, right? And the car play interface, you hit, you know, once maps knows where you're going, you hit share and it shares your journey and ETA with, you know, with, with whoever you tell it to. And it's actually a great little interface. I'm assuming it exists without the car play interface too. I'm just, I've never used it that way. So, yeah. But yes, PJ in the chat room also says Glimpse. So we will, we'll put that out there. Maybe that's the, maybe that, maybe they, they would do that too. Yeah. It may be sad when you sent me a notification and I couldn't control your car. It would show me your car, but I couldn't actually influence its behavior, which I think would be a cool additional feature. I agree. I want to be able to give you control the car so that I can maybe take a nap or, you know, catch up on my email or whatever it is. Maybe watch a movie. That would be great. Why don't they let us do that? That'd be amazing. All right. You want to take us to Roy, John? I'm going to take us to Roy. So Roy asks, is there a way to make a shortcut to turn on and off Bluetooth on the iPhone 2? I think he's, he means iPhone 13. Okay. Sure. Yeah. I think he means that iPhone 2 Pro. I think he means the 11 Pro is what he's asking for. Oh, 11 Pro, okay. That's how I would read that. But he used like, he didn't use numbers. He used Roman numerals. He used two I's, that's right. Yes. There we go. We're the ones that can see it though. And Dave, the answer I have for this, so again, I whipped out the Google foo and I found something I didn't know about. So my first thought was, well, just go to Control Center because there are Bluetooth and Wi-Fi icons in Control Center. So why not turn them off from there? The problem with this, Dave, is I found this magical video. Who is, hold on, here you go. Eddie Wu will link to the video, but he did a lot of homework here. And the thing is, Dave, did you know that clicking on the things in the Control Center doesn't actually turn the radio off? It's true. Yeah. I did not know this. And he actually, in his video, so it's an excellent video and he shows this. He's like, yeah, check this out. I turned it off in Control Center and then I go to the Settings Control Panel and it's still on. What? But it's not connected to anything. And that's what it says in Control Center. When you tap the Wi-Fi icon in Control Center, it changes to not connected, not disabled. However, as you said, yeah, and you can get to the Wi-Fi settings in IOS just by tapping holding again on the Wi-Fi icon and then tap Wi-Fi Settings. That brings it up and you're right. But then you can turn it off. And then if you go to Control Center, you will see Wi-Fi off. That's right. Yep. So he has a dandy video that shows how to build a shortcut to do this properly. Really? Oh, so you can wait. So a shortcut can turn... Oh, right. Of course. Yeah. I have one of those, John. Believe it or not. Because I want my Wi-Fi to be off while I am using... while I'm driving in my car. And so I have it set to use CarPlay and I swear I'm going to find it in here. I'm looking on my shortcuts here so I can find the one. And it happens all the time on my phone. Why can't I find this? It's crazy. But I have it set using CarPlay as a trigger to turn off my Wi-Fi. And for some reason I cannot find it on my phone. This is amazing. It does it every day. Or not every day because I don't get my car every day. But this is bizarre. Oh, you want to know why? Because I have it as an automation. That's why. So, there you go. But yes, it would be the same thing and you can set Wi-Fi and turn it off which is very different than disabling or disconnecting from your network. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Cool. I like it. Very good. Very good. Very good. All right. We have... I don't know if we have... I don't have time for another question or two but we certainly have time for your favorite section which is cool stuff found. So, we will do that next. But, well, we'll do it next next. The next thing that I want to do if we're good here, John, is I want to talk about our next two sponsors. Fantastic. All right. 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He found a website called printattestpage.com and it is exactly what you think it is. It's a web page that generates either a black and white or a color test page for your printer. But the cool part about it is that it like the black and white one and just you click on it and it pulls up a PDF but it'll have like gradients and different text sizes and things like that so that you can see what's going on. The color one has red, green and blue lines and then also the same black and white gradients and then a couple of pictures of like fruit and different colored bottles and things like that so that you really get a feel for what it's like to test your printer. So printattestpage.com Thanks, Larry. Good stuff. Poor Larry was having trouble getting his printer to print right and he found this along the way which I think is great. Pulls open a PDF and you're good to go. Fun, huh? Indeed. You want to take us to Todd? Yes, Todd helped me solve a mystery. All right. So let's see here. Because we were talking in the last episode you shared as a cool stuff found from Todd Devin's Word Service app, right? To show some different services in the Mac OS services menu. Yeah. And I was like, well, I'm not too impressed because it only showed two options and he's like, no, no, no. Here's what you got to do. And I didn't know this and I don't know if this is default behavior with apps that go in the services menu or not, but in my case, yeah, I only saw two of them. As it turns out, Dave, there's like probably like 20 or 30 tasks that it can perform. But here's where you got to go. So here's the preferences, keyboard shortcuts, services. And then you're probably going to see or at least I did only two of them are checked. That's why I only saw two of them, but there's tons more. So if you install something that resides in the services menu, here's a tip look in this spot and says the preferences and you can expose all of the functionality. I like that. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think it, I think it is and is correct that it is the default behavior because if an app, you know, like you said, it adds 20 services. You want to just narrow down that menu to the one or ones that you use so that you could have 10 different apps that provide you with services, but you don't want to, you know, 200 items. You just choose the ones that you like and you're off to the races. That's pretty good. I like it. Yeah, and actually I should clean mine up because I have like a, I use graphic converter and it has like a ton of things there. And I'm like, do I ever really use this? No, not really. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I need to clean up mine too. Yeah. It's good. That's a good little tip. That's great. Thanks, Todd. Thanks, John. Let's see. Mike found something. I don't know if any of us will wind up buying this, but its existence is cool and it is Fairphone at Fairphone.com. This is only available, I believe, in the EU right now or yeah, yeah, in the EU. Well, throughout Europe. I don't want to say EU because there's some political line strong that don't necessarily fit. They are no longer the same, but he says it's an Android phone and the concept is that all the parts are user replaceable and it comes with a five-year warranty. So it's built to be this sort of environmentally friendly phone that, you know, and guaranteed for five years, right? So, you know, and my guess is that I think five years is, the insides are going to, like the CPU and stuff is going to, you're going to want something new after five years, but being able to replace it or not replace it but repair it, I think that's pretty good. It's a neat idea. We don't get it here in the US for you and me, John, but our Europe listeners certainly could get one. Yeah, UK, Netherlands, Austria and everything in between. So, fun stuff. I like it. It's good. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate you sending that in. Yeah, so let's talk to Barry here or let's let Barry share his thoughts about external monitors and such because there's things for us all to learn here. So Barry says, I listened to episode 913 when listener Jim had a question about his favorite or our favorite 27 inch monitors. He says, I've had a 2015 iMac for quite a while, but it's been in storage since the M1s came out. It's unfortunate since there is no target display mode that would allow me to use it as an awesome external display. Yeah, that's true. They target display mode went away with retina screens because there was no way to get that amount of bandwidth in to the Mac to the display or so we were told. He says there is a solution that I've tried recently that's working very well. It's called LUNA display from Astropad.com. One of its primary purposes is to allow an iPad to be used as a second screen for your Mac. However, that has been partially Sherlocked by Sidecar, of course. LUNA display also works really well Mac to Mac or even Windows to Mac. Both Macs need to run Mac OS 10.11 or later and it will run software on each side to display properly. Note that the displays can be a bit slower to refresh than native and at 5K there is the caveat of only 45Hz refresh rate. But it looks gorgeous to me and is really nice that I can still use this machine as a great big high-res second display. So yeah, that's pretty cool. We'll put a link to LUNA display there in the show notes. That 45Hz I think it's and I'm speculating here, John but bear with me on this. I don't think the refresh rate of the screen gets lowered to 45Hz. I think the refresh rate of the image being sent to the screen is maxed out at 45Hz. So I don't think you're going to get like weird issues with your lighting conflicting with the display. I think you still get the display's native refresh rate but you're just like you're not probably not going to be happy sending games to it or things like that that would need faster refresh. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm almost certain I've seen an ad for this in one of my Instagram and it was like, oh, remote display, that's cool. As long as you can keep up. Yeah, exactly. Well, and that's it. It can keep up with simple things but probably not what you're going to want to use for gaming or things like that. Look at what I use my secondary monitor for. Like my chat apps. I'll put some like, you know, if I have activity monitor open or something, I'll have that over there. I use the thing called garage pay to track our PayPal stuff. And so that sits on my secondary monitor down in the office. You know, so it's it's super handy and I definitely like to have messages and slack and all that stuff open. But it's I'm not I don't like 45Hz like fine, whatever. It's all good. As long as it works. Yeah. No, they don't really go into detail about the wireless technology they're using. No, no, they don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, all they say is yeah, available for USBC, HDMI and mini display port. Okay, that's nice. Yeah, it's good. Right. Yeah, exactly. Or maybe it's buried in there. I'll have to poke around because I'm curious what are they using their own thing or I think it is their own thing. Yes, I think the way that it works is yeah, there it's their own thing. Yeah, it's cool. You want to you want to take us you have a cool stuff found that you found, John. I have a cool stuff found that I put it on my wish list, but nobody bought it for me. So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to buy it for myself because I got the gift card and I'll tell you about the other thing I ordered. But dude, this device is so cool. So I don't know about you, Dave, but over the years I've accumulated shirts where one or more buttons fall fall off. Say it ain't so. Yes. And the thing is, you know, I mean, you don't want to, you know, be flashing people and stuff like that. So and yes, I have needles. I have thread but I find it a chore to to sew a button back on. You know, my eyesight's kind of going and I can't get the needle in there and it's like, what if somebody made a machine that does this and somebody does the singer button fast quick fix button replacement tool. All right. And you literally so you so it comes with these little dookies I'll call them. Sure. That you put in the gun, it has a needle you then put it through the shirt you put a button on top of it and then you pull the trigger on it and it injects a thing on one end. It's like a little round thing so it doesn't fall out and the other thing it's like a little T that it pushes through but it's just so brilliant. Huh. Yeah. It gives you the mechanical advantage you need. I like it 20 bucks on Amazon. Yeah. I'll put a link in the show notes to that. I like it. That's good. Yeah. I was just so sad because I have some really nice shirts Dave, you know, I'm still I mean, even, you know, for those that are watching a video, I mean, check this thing out. I just put the button back in. Well, we're glad that this shirt that you're wearing has has has been granted new life, my friend. Yes. That's outstanding and you don't have to flash us for that to happen. Yeah. This is this is outstanding. I like it. Yeah, well, I don't flash you. I don't want to flash you either. Right. No, no, no. It's it's appreciated all the way around. This is a win win. That's right. Yeah. All right. I have I have a couple more quick tips depending on how quickly these guys will probably wrap it up for us. But I've been using a very quickly installed iOS 15.4 beta when I found out that it had the unlock with with mask without Apple Watch required to be on your wrist. Now, this is amazing because almost exactly a year ago, I installed the iOS beta whatever it was at the time so that I could get the Apple Watch unlock with with the mask on, right? And that was a game changer. I mean, a total game changer. But I like wearing my mechanical watches and I basically stopped wearing any of my mechanicals over the last year because of exactly this, you know, and so I was super stoked to to, you know, to be able to to dig in and see how this works. Plus it's not just unlock that this now allows. I can use Apple Pay with this. It'll work for one password, right? Because it's a it's a face ID unlock and it you go through a process of setting it all up. You don't have to wear a mask while you're doing it, but it will do sort of a secondary look at your face and you can do it with and without glasses. So I did that because I wear glasses when I drive is really what it is that and watch TV. But, you know, so I went through that whole process and it took me a couple of days to get it to where I can reliably get it to work. And the trick is, of course, this makes perfect sense as soon as you hear it and you probably already figured it out, is it's all about your eyes. So if I make sure that like my eyes are open and I'm looking at my phone, the unlock happens as seamlessly as it does when I don't have a mask on. But if I'm, you know, if my gaze is distracted or my eyes are maybe squinted or something, it like it takes a little extra longer. It still works. But it's that whole like I'm going to intently stare at my phone and then boom, the unlock happens. And it like I'll say it works. Like it's now to the point where I don't even think about it, even if I happen to be out wearing a mask or whatever. So which is great. I mean, so good. No, I look forward to that because the thing is, so as of late, you may have noticed that, you know, I got a little more hair on my face here. But my face ID was not working reliably. And the thing is, face ID, at least on my current OS, has an option of you taking one picture and then another picture. And I'm like, well, let me take one with my glasses on and one with my glasses off and maybe we'll figure it out. But consistently, if I try to log into my phone and I'm in bed and I don't have my glasses on, it probably fails about 75% of the time. Interesting. Huh. Well, they have the ability already to have multiple profiles. Why aren't they smart enough? And then when I'm out and about in the store, it almost always automatically when I try to do an Apple pay it almost immediately says face ID and then it's like, nope, give me the passcode because it probably knows, OK, you're wearing a mask. Well, you should. I recommend putting the beta on. I know that sounds crazy, but like it has been up until I came across it in my notes for the show here. I forgot that I was running beta software on my phone. It has been super stable. Nothing's been weird. Of course, I say that now and like this weekend, my phone's going to be a disaster. Yeah, right. But but no, it really has. Like it's been completely fine. So yeah. So my guess is, of course, by the time this gets out, most of the masking requirements, I don't know how quickly Apple is going to get this out. They took him forever to get the version with the watch out like that was months. I remember because I started, I put it on the first day of rehearsal. I did a show called Next to Normal last winter and I was like, well, I'm going to be in the theater like four days a week. So, you know, we were wearing masks except when I was like literally sitting at my drums. This was all pre-vaccine and all that stuff. And and I knew that like having my phone unlock with my watch would be huge and it was. So that's why I put it on like I said last year. And I think the iOS, whatever version it was that had that feature wasn't released until that like two and a half month run of that show ended or right near the end of it or something. So I don't know how long they're going to take with this. If they take two and a half months, I think most of the masking requirements are going to be gone, but maybe that's just wishful thinking for me. But it certainly seems like a lot of places are targeting into March for as the sort of, you know, last the ones that are holding out. But anyway, we'll see. The the next thing is an interesting thing, John. There's a conspiracy. I know. But I have a theory here and I'm pretty sure it's true. No one has been able to confirm it for me. And this is the even weirder part. Our most recent example of this actually led to us. You mentioned earlier in the episode we changed and for this episode for the first time, we're using a platform called StreamYard to do our call between us for the show as well as streaming it to, you know, YouTube and Facebook and all of those things. And the reason we moved to StreamYard I think we're going to stay here because it it is a way better platform than what we were using for Mellon. But the reason we moved to StreamYard is we were having a problem with Mellon and we submitted a support request and we got no answer. And this was the case like we've been with them for six or seven months now or whatever maybe longer and I've submitted other we have submitted other support requests and nothing like just no answer. It's like, well, that's not cool. But this most recent one was about video quality and it was really something that we wanted to get to the bottom of we found some very specific weird things you couldn't upload to them like it was obvious there was a major problem and so I like I reached out on Twitter I replied to them and finally got a DM from one of their support reps who was like yeah look we you know what's your case number you know what's your email that's attached to and I'm like oh it's our feedback at Mackie Cub dot com email and they're like okay yeah look here's the they like copy and paste it in a DM and Twitter like here's the reply you got I'm like no we didn't and I checked everything and what's interesting is to log into the service you have to you give your email there's no like we don't even have a password for these things right we type in our email address it sends us a link to click or a code to type in or something you know it's one of those deals and then we log in so clearly they are able to send us email but not their support system and I told them I said well you know send it to my personal address and boom email came through instantly and so I was like okay wait a minute I've seen this before in my in my you know personal life because I have one of those I years ago standardized on I thought I was really smart and for a while I was until I outsmarted myself I decided I would use you know I have my dave the nerd domain so I thought I'll use an email address of orders at davethenerd com as the address that I use for like all of my accounts like my you know if I like things like Amazon I don't even know if I use it for Amazon but you know that sort of thing like Amazon or when I'm making a purchase and like my all my hotel like websites I use orders and stuff and it was just a great way to know that if I wanted to you know compartmentalize things I had it that way ticket master was that way and ticket master was the actually it wasn't Bob Marriott was the first one where I just stopped getting email receipts from them and it was like what's going on guys and they're like no we're sending them out we show that it sent and I'm like didn't make it and they're like check your spam filler I'm like it's not the spam folder you know and went round and round with them and I said hey just change it instead of orders at send it to dave at literally everything else is going to be the same right because it's the same mail server it's going the same way like same domain all the same filtering and all that instantly it came through and I'm like aha okay weird why are you blocking that why don't you know that you're blocking that and then about a year and a half later ticket master same problem same address had them change it from orders at to dave at boom I started getting all my ticket confirmations and all that stuff again you know they were working in the past and they stopped and now this one feedback at no dave at yes I have a theory that there is some heuristics database it actually it's heuristics is the wrong thing it's just a list where if you have a word like a dictionary word to the left of the at sign in your email address it filters it out thinking we don't want to be spammers and the only people that would use an address like this would be you know spammers or honeypots or whatever so we're just not going to send it but the problem is now three different companies one of which is like melon like they're a super geeky company with everything they're doing they have no like none of them are getting notifications in anywhere that anyone knows to look that these addresses are causing things they don't bounce because they're not getting a bounce back it just goes into a black hole and that's not good so these people will never know that this is happening to them you have to suss it out so my advice is my quick tip that definitely is not quick because it just took me five minutes to walk through all of this is do not use an email address with words to the left of the sign that's my that's my advice and that's why I don't know that's what I got right you're gonna avoid that so you're saying is that suspect words so words that are spammy like I mean orders the some server along the way says no but I don't think it's some server I think it is the outbound I don't even think it's the mail server I think it's the engine that would be delivering the message to the mail server right like so ticket masters because ticket masters customer service their email gets to me right melons to a two factor authentication gets to me but the customer service doesn't right same with Marriott the customer service gets to me but the order confirmations don't and like I get it that the especially big companies but all of us if you are running a mail server you need to be very careful that your server your outbound server does not flag too many of your messages as spam or get reports of your messages spam because if that happens then you get shut down and if your email if your business relies on getting emails out to people like say ticket master Marriott's does then you don't want to get caught that way I know as of late I've had a lot of things so for example Dave are the invite to stream yard was put in my spam folder I'm like but it got to you that's very different yes no I understand versus some server just deciding to dump it and it's like well that's not cool dude you know yeah you've been there this is just a black hole like no you know and and like our Mac geek up email we use mail route as a as a front door for that before it ever gets to google which is what actually manages our email and one thing I love about mail route it's it's crazy right but it's it's cool is you get to see everything there is nothing hidden from us so if it makes it to mail route server we see it now mail route may decide ah this is spam we're going to put it over here or put it over here like they've got three buckets but we get to look in those buckets and see yeah you can recover it if you want to you're like exactly like let's this yeah that one I want yeah and I listen to human is in the chain to make a human decision not correct yeah throw it all away yeah yeah so I Brian Rowan the in the chat is saying yeah you know it seems like there's a blacklist on certain keywords and I think that's exactly right of course if I'd read that you know seven minutes ago we could have shortened this whole segment but you know but I didn't he says he's seen something like this before where emails just never get there and that's what it is and the problem is like I said the I'm sure someone at these companies it chose to implement this stuff right but no one knows that it's been implemented so like the support staff like I remember dealing with ticketmaster I got pretty high up at ticketmaster so I'm like I bought I'm buying a crap ton of tickets from you and I'm not getting the the email confirmations which I like because I put it I use those and I put it into trip it like it makes my life way easier and and you know they like I got pretty high up and they're like yeah it's like we're not seeing a bounce I'm like I believe you but you you know I hope you believe me too and then when we just changed it you know we just changed the the word or the letters to the left of the at sign as soon as we did boom they got through so fascinating stuff now I'm exhausted now we're so I don't know where we got speaking of email now we're we're at yeah we're way past we have some email headscratchers we do coming up in the next exciting episode yeah yeah we'll queue those up for the next one for sure alright yeah I thought that last we're at like an hour 20 I thought that last tip would take like a minute but obviously I've been wanting to get this off my chest for five years you have to explain it I agree yeah no it's good to it's good let's go alright but I'd be curious to hear from any of you if you've experienced this kind of weirdness because I think it's happening pretty widespread but again I don't know how many of us are using my guess is more and more of us are going to start using our own email you know custom addresses at custom domains because things like Apple are making it easy and all this stuff this could explain Dave why I'm not getting the emails that I used to from a Nigerian prince who wants to give me millions of dollars dude that's going to be like that's your retirement that's the key to unlocking your your huge future of financial freedom no it's not speaking of your financial freedom check out macgeekyub.com and use some of your financial freedom to get yourself a nice t-shirt that says don't get caught on the front and has our macgeekyub logo on the back very exciting stuff I'm super stoked about it yeah every the ones that are coming out now are good and these shirts are soft and cushy and cozy I love it it's great yeah I wish my order didn't get put in my spam folder which it did Dave I'm like oh come on man I'm like of course it did where did I get they're like we'll send you a confirmation email I'm like okay cool I'm like where is it oh it's it's there yeah but at least it got to you so there's that they're not filtering it out craziness alright that's what we got folks make sure to check out our sponsors at macgeekyub.com slash sponsors John you got anything else to share with the fine folks out there um the twitters are always fun I am Jonathan he's Dave Hamilton there's also pilot Pete who we've been seeing more of lately which is awesome because pilot Pete is awesome I got a text from him about 30 minutes ago saying he was just available and it was like oh man just on stream yard for the first time I probably would have just said yeah join in it'll be fine but we don't know that it'll be fine um you know so I didn't want to interrupt the flow of the show so I mean I like the interface I mean it's uh similar to the other guys um I don't see anything like you know earth shatteringly different between them but the earth shatteringly different thing is that you and I both get to be co-hosts right right troll before you gave me control and you know that's just a terrible idea well you didn't do anything with it so it was like well we gotta we gotta get things rolling here but yeah I like it I and I like the consolidated chat interface and uh it's nice it's good I linked up a bunch of their key they have keystrokes that's also different to change things and I linked them up to some keyboard maestro macro so I can like change the view of things just on my keyboard there it's great I love it I know man I'm telling you I send you the keyboard maestro script and you have a license for keyboard maestro if you don't just ask I do yeah we have a we have a license so use keyboard maestro yeah man I'll send it to you when we're done with the show how's that sound great let's wrap the show up first shall we alright check out our sponsors I told 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