 All right a few weeks ago We talked about one of our favorite quick tips ever where you can hold down the command key and then Drag a windows title bar, and it will drag in the background. It won't just bring it forward That's a great tip what we didn't know but listener Allison shared with us this week Is that you can grab the edges of a window in the background with the command key held down? It will stay in the background and you can resize it But there's no visual indicator that this is going to happen. It just happens Adding to that in the pre-show chat Listener Alex said if you then add the shift key Your resizing will focus on the middle of the window instead of the edge of the window More tips like this and your questions answered today on Mackie gab 948 for a Monday, September 26th, 2022 Folks and welcome to Mackie gab the show where indeed you send in your questions your tips Your cool stuff found to feedback at Mackie gab calm We take those questions tips and cool stuff found we share them We try to answer your questions the goal is that we each learn at least five new things every single time We get together Sponsors for this episode include linkedin.com slash mgg where you can go and post your first job for free All the world computing where we'll get to talk about their akidio node Titan and the Envoy pro FX rogue amoeba is celebrating their 20th anniversary visit Mac audio calm before the end of the month and save 20% on anything they make and Visit linkedin.com. It's a fantastic social network where you get to talk with a community of more than 850 million people who care about the same things that you do We'll talk more in depth about each and every one of these shortly here for now here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton And here in relatively chilly here in Connecticut. This is John of Brock In here in Lee, New Hampshire Well, well recording happy first day of fall about the third day of fall fourth day by the time you hear this Unless you're listening live. It's pilot Pete. Thanks for having me guys It's always a thrill to be here Fun stuff. We are also hearing that quick tip that we talked about in the beginning for some people It's actually the option key for some people. It is the shift key for me It's definitely the the shift key as I mentioned in the intro, but are you seeing you have an option shift? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so there you go. Yeah Fun stuff we've got you know, we've got more quick tips to share. I think we should just keep rocking here Let's do some let's do we do some Mac quick tips to start because Right, we've got a bunch of iOS quick tips Obviously, I was 16 just came out But there's some for the Mac and I think this would be like the Mac e-cab if we did that Well, you know, there is something to that. I would like to think yeah. Yeah, that's fair Let's see listener Jamie shares one with us that you know many of us probably know things about but It's always good to dig into it He says, you know, you can mirror your iPhone wirelessly with Airplay to any nearby Apple TV This is especially convenient for showing photos from your iPhone to other people Instead of handing your iPhone around your photos appear on the big screen to do this swipe down into control center and tap Which is from the right hand corner of your iPhone screen and tap the screen mirroring Icon Airplay devices on the same Wi-Fi network will appear in the list Not only will this work with Apple TV boxes But it will also work with many brands of TV sets and Roku boxes and of course this isn't just for iPhones Like we said, it's for Macs. You can do the same thing on your Mac in display preferences You can choose it from there or you can put a you can put the little menu bar widget up And he says it's all happens completely wirelessly and devices And with devices that you've never met before the first time you Airplay to a particularly device You might be asked to enter a four-digit code and then you are good to go Fun stuff. I love Airplay. I don't want it. I don't want to insult anybody but if if that Mirroring screen mirroring icon isn't in your control center then go to settings control center and add it because there's Oh on the phone. Yeah, that's how you get those things in your control center the things you want the things You don't want. Yeah, it's quite granular Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, it's good stuff John you want to take us to Craig? He's got one about the Mac Yeah, this is a good one. It's like thank you and I ran into this once Dave Pardon Craig says ran into an issue when selling a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro had this confirmed as the guy I sold Slash shipped it to had just done similar and had the exact same issue using Monterey's new erase all contents and settings feature The process looks like it works completely correct until final reboot and then the Mac goes into the out of box startup wizard, okay However, the Macbook may not have iCloud activation lock removed You won't know this unless you go through the wizard to select Wi-Fi and it gets to the activation step Then a message will pop up requesting for Requesting credentials for the iCloud account of the prior user it is unclear what exactly caused this maybe it is intended But most would think that any activation lock or find my registration is removed like it is when doing the same on an iOS device Fortunately, the workaround is manageable and I was impressed as to the DIY do-it-yourself solution as Historically activation lock issues can get messy The previous owner can log into the iCloud website and then using find my can click on the device Listed it and appearing offline because it is still associated with your iCloud ID and Then remove the activation lock a message will say the user Will say that when the activation lock is removed it allows another person to activate the Mac device And he sent us a snapshot and sure enough remove from account is one of the options So you and I ran into this day of a while ago. I think not one of my old machines I mean something similar, but there was no find my nor was there activation lock back Nor was there the erase all contents and settings, right? That's brand new in in Monterey. I believe But but yeah, like it the Mac state associated with your account that Like an old MacBook Pro or something that we gave to my daughter or something like that, right? I think I think that's That's what happened in the old days. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, and I confirmed this so Apple has two useful articles One is called what to do before you sell giveaway or trade in your Mac and This is for older machines that don't have this handy new destroy everything feature But it's funny because they link to another article which explicitly shows Dave that If you do this operation It's supposed to remove the activation lock and it doesn't so it's lying to you. Well, it does I mean, I I've definitely done this and it has worked right because I've swapped out Macs left and right and it works at least Some of the time I would venture to say it probably works most of the time But clearly in Craig's case not all of the time So it is worth after you do this going in on another Mac and just checking to make sure that it's no longer listed as part of your account Yeah, because the iPhone has the same feature right and has for a very long time and that turns off Find my an activation lock and all that stuff when you do that and again the Mac supposed to but maybe I don't know maybe if it lost connection at a critical spot in the In the process it kept going but never got the acknowledgement that things I don't know I'm spitballing here. That's what I do. So yeah, but good to check. Yeah, it's good stuff. Thanks, Craig Anything more on that or are we moving on to Joe? What if you near were you spitball? All right, Joe This is a fascinating one. He says I have over 1500 books Almost all e-pubs in my Apple books collection formerly iBooks very few were purchased from Apple Most were obtained over the years from various other sources I'm a longtime client in good standing with Apple But after seeing what happened to the guy who recently had his Google account Cancelled with his loss of all of his data and remembering when Amazon temporarily froze Listener Joe's account and his access to his Kindle library due to a billing misunderstanding He says I decided that it would be better to have those e-pubs backed up and easily accessible away from the Apple Ecosystem, but those e-pubs are not easy to locate in the Finder I found a stack exchange article which we will link to in the show notes He says from that article I learned that I can open the books folder on iCloud with a terminal command and it's in It's in your mobile documents folder. So it literally is in your iCloud folder. You just won't get to see it When you are in the Finder you have to open it From a terminal command and we'll put that terminal command in the in the show notes for you He says but once you do it's it's in your mobile documents iCloud folder in the Tilda Apple folder in Tilda iBooks and then it's in documents, but we'll put that out there He says from there You can simply copy the e-pub files to your preferred location and he says I'm considering using something like chrono sync or carbon copy cloner To keep the protected location synced although I'm really trying to resist getting more books until I can make some inroads in the ones that I have thank you for that show Yeah, that's I'm guessing that it would be Backed no it wouldn't be backed up as part of time machine would it I don't think so I think I think it would live on the cloud only so You know so yeah, I don't know I think Pete's trying to talk to us, but I think Pete's also muted Yeah, there you go. We're gonna we're gonna let him talk now What were you what were you trying to say Pete we can hear you well what I was gonna say There was actually a comment in there that That blew right by and I went oh I I already have a solution to that which was there was a billing dispute on his audible account And he lost access to his audible Yeah, I use an app called open or Now I got to look forward it's I think it's called open audible. I mean just okay Yes, open audible is the name of it I it may be 20 or $30, but I use that and I convert all my audible books to mp3 I've paid for that book. It is mine. I don't share it. I don't Torn sure anything like that, but open audible converts it from the audible proprietary format to an mp3 that I can listen to and I first did it when I Couldn't easily listen to it on my devices before the audible app on your phone was any good Right, right But but that will prevent them from taking your audio books away from you And if you cancel it see if you cancel your account, I think you've got a year and then it all turns off But okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Right, right. Ah smart. All right Well, yeah. Yeah, thanks for thanks for sharing that These days every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business And you want to be a hundred percent certain that you have access to the best qualified candidates available And that's why you've got to check out LinkedIn jobs LinkedIn jobs helps you find the right people for your team Faster and for free. 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That's linkedin.com slash mgg to post your job for free Terms and conditions apply and our thanks to linkedin jobs for sponsoring this episode All right, let's do some iphone quick tips David shares a fantastic tip on twitter You know how you you can Take a photo or a screenshot really is how I often use this and then use markup to To you know mark up the picture you draw shapes and arrows and diagrams on the back of each one Well, you could do it on the front of each one Our load still hasn't gotten his wish that it can happen on the back, but we'll get there someday If you draw let's say a square Hold your finger down after you finish drawing that square And your lazy square at least my lazy square your late your square might not be nearly as lazy as mine But my lazy square then turns into a perfect square The phone knows and you can do it with triangles. You can do it with circles or ovals like it's not going to take an You know, I mean if you draw a circle, it's mostly a circle But a little bit lopsided it will turn it into a circle But if you draw an oval and hold down then it will turn that into a very nice oval It's pretty amazing. This has existed for a while. This is not a new thing in ios 16, but uh I I I think I had known it and forgotten it and that's why I wanted to include it in the show So thank you, David for for sharing that with us. Great stuff fun What's next john? Uh ben is next, um So ben says the first time I deleted a conversation in messages after upgrading to ios 16 I learned that messages now saves recently deleted messages like photos Conversations hang around for 30 to 40 days before getting permanently deleted This filter is always in edit mode. So you can't view a conversation while it's listed You can only delete or recover one or more selected conversations or all Using the buttons at the bottom when nothing is selected And yes, that's true. Yeah, I checked it out nice Cool. Um, yeah, if you hold down edit one of the choices is show deleted Show recently deleted And you can also get there in the if you go Uh, if you have your filters up you can go and see that in the list Right, so if you're in messages and this was a quick tip that we did a couple of weeks ago About ios 16 where if you go into messages and It is settings messages filter unknown senders So this is on your iphone in the settings app go to messages And then I don't know Probably most of the way down the settings screen there is filter unknown senders Once you do that you get a little filters button in the upper left hand corner of messages And if you tap that you see all messages known senders unknown senders unread messages, which I love and recently deleted so Uh, so you can you can get to them there too. Yeah, and the cool thing is if you really don't want it You can go into recently deleted and delete That message you can get rid of it now Now here's one thing Though I hadn't experienced I had a while ago. Uh, here's one thing that doesn't delete Um, and that's your phone voicemail Uh a friend of mine, you know, I called a friend of mine and left him a message and then he called me back And he's like, oh, yeah, by the way, did you know that um your voicemail is full and I'm like what? And sure enough there's a deleted messages category, but none were deleted. I guess I guess it's I don't know if the phone decides when to do that or You know, my my uh carrier didn't do it, right? I don't know. But yeah, so your voicemail can get full Huh interesting Yeah, it is so here's the other Yeah Yeah, no, go ahead Pete. Yeah, I'm I'm okay. Well, you guys are looking at that Here's the other thing that you do if you go into unknown senders if you go to the filters and you get And you go to unknown senders. This is back in chat not on the phone app Um I get uh, you know, you get the political ones and all that kind of stuff if you if you then take that conversation You've deleted it or no, I'm sorry. It's unknown senders If you take that conversation and you swipe it to the left You get an option to flag it or delete it and if you click click on delete If the bottom it'll come up and say uh, you are you sure and then you can report it as junk as you do After you say yes, I want to delete it. It will say report as junk or don't report So I like to do that too Um, I don't know what what do you think that does does that help if you reported as junk as does apple and the carriers You know feedback at mac geek app.com if anybody knows the answer to that I certainly don't okay, so feedback at mac geek app.com and tell us That's right feedback at mac geek app.com Pete you blew our minds in the pre-show with a quick tip that I think needs to be shared my friend It wasn't me. Nobody saw me. You can't prove a thing. All right. No in all seriousness So here's the cool thing and and they showed this during the ios event back at wwdc when they did ios 16 It was again. It was something that just kind of went in passing But if you go into ios 16 photos app You can select it and take a photo and get full screen on it If you long press on the object in the center of the photo and it could be an airplane Could be a person it could be a dog an airplane and a dog a person and a dog whatever if you long press it will automatically Pull that person or that object out of the photo and leave the background behind So you've just got the the Individual like in the old days used to try to erase the background and half an hour later You are almost there and it was kind of raggy. This is amazing magic So then what you do once you've got that object You slide your thumb a little bit or your finger and it will take the object on the screen And you can see that the background has been removed Then take your other hand and finger and swipe up from the bottom and you can take you know then select messages Select the message and drop that person right into a message drop that object right into a message And you can send it and share it that way as well But you can use it to other apps as well I imagine you could take it to some kind of a photo editor or even I know what I take it back I used pages on my ios I was able to take an object out of the photo and drop it into pages So it's sans the background. It's basically like a dot p and g file with an with a transparent background as well Right. Yeah, it's okay. So it it it just removes the background And and leaves you with either the people or the objects or both like I've I had um I had taken a picture of my family earlier this week and when we were going through it I tested it with that and I when I held on one person The other two people came with them as I as I dragged this out. Yeah, it's pretty amazing And and you're right We used to fight for hours with photoshop or whatever To do this and and now it just happens literally With the flick of a finger or the someone at apple listening to these sorts of things that this is what we want to do And then they mathematically apply it and yeah There's a bunch of math geniuses somewhere at apple. I have no idea where um, all right PC unix shares a quick tip in our discord About uh deleting apps on the iphone And says I don't know if this has always been true But I've often been unable to find an app that I want to delete this gets especially true when we like only use the Crap what do we call that thing where we don't use home screens anymore with the app library? Thank you You know if you don't know where an app is you can't delete it Well, he says I accidentally notice that if I search for an app I can press and hold on the app in the search results and I get a dialogue box that will let me Delete this I think This is new to ios 16 because I I am certain in my heart of hearts that I've tried this in the past Now I might be fundamentally wrong about my certainty here, but uh, but when he when I read this I'm like no no I've tried this before it doesn't work and then sure enough obviously it works So I think it's new to ios 16, but even if it's not if it's new to you It doesn't matter when apple added it. That's the beauty of all of this And when you do the search Yeah in there it tells you what folder it's in if you want to go to that specific folder assuming you use folders on your If you still use folders. Yeah, I gave up on that when I wiped my phone To yeah two years ago or whenever whenever app library came out I was like that's it I'm going to have one home screen that I organize with the important things and then the rest i'm just going to search for Oh, I should consider doing that then because I've been using folders for years Same and it got unwieldy Like well, I don't know I what I found was I created so many different folders that all I was doing Was searching for the app to launch it and it was like wait wait apple I feel seen You know at that wwc keynote when they were like stop doing that if you don't want to you're welcome to keep doing it But if you don't like that just use search, it's amazing. Well, and thank goodness the developers at apple At least wouldn't let you put folders within folders or imagine how deep that would go Yeah Yeah Yes, thank goodness for that. Yeah, because I've almost done it. I was like, oh, I want to put it Oh, it's already in a folder. Okay. Yeah And to be to be To sort of tug on this thread a little bit I used to You know search has gotten so much better Then it used to be and I know that I'm saying I'm stating the obvious But I'll I'll share a specific example and it's mail when I first started using email And you know long before apple had a mail client long before macOS 10 I I found this graphical client that I think we all use john I know I certainly no used it called eudora and it was great, right? It would connect to our pop servers because this is before we we used imap even though imap predates pop technologically speaking, but anyway You couldn't you could search in eudora, but it would take forever to find anything, right? So all I would do was file things in folders and subfolders and I had I think over 100 folders where I stored my mail and that migrated with me And you know, I still have those folders But I stopped using them maybe 10 years ago And I have one archive folder that I save to and once a year I will go and take like when when january 2023 hits I will take all of the like 2021 and prior and put that in like an archive archive folder just to Really to keeps me from using too much space on my imap server is really where that comes from You got to tell me how to do that There's only a show to talk about that so if only there was um, so It gets tricky On the surface, it's not tricky at all On the surface it is simple. You just create the new folder I create it on my mac it like in that section called on my mac and mail Yeah, and then I highlight I go into my my archive folder and I select all of the messages That are from say, you know 2021 or whatever year whatever time period and I Right click on it and I say move to the new folder that I've created And or you can drag too, but I get I get nervous. Yeah, don't don't drop them in the wrong place Correct. Yeah, because this is going to be an ordeal No matter how you slice it and then you let them move and you and It will take sometimes hours for this to happen Mail's activity window isn't entirely clear with you about what it's doing and how You kind of need to just trust that over time it will work I confirm it by checking on whatever server I'm using so if you know, if I was using gmail I would log into the gmail web interface. I use fast mail. So I log into the fast mail interface and just make sure Okay. Yeah. Look all of those are there. Okay, great. It's you know, good to go I suppose I could do it if the web interface Oh, no, the web interface wouldn't allow it because I'm moving to an on my mac folder the whole idea is to get it off of the server It works and that part all works. So here we are The problem the only Asterisk that I should add and it's a huge one is if you use gmail And I mean gmail as gmail or google apps for domains or whatever if if if google Is in charge of your mail server It doesn't really do imap. We've had this conversation on the show a few times And this is one of those times where it really matters Because what will happen is Google treats what your mail client sees as folders Google treats as labels And so when you move something out of a folder google just removes the label of that folder So it doesn't put it in the trash. It just leaves it in your all mail folder on google And so I had to come up with a secret not secret I will I will I will put an example of it out here But you've really got to craft your own search carefully to make sure you're excluding The boxes that you don't want to delete But I I came up with a a an advanced search and that's a google term For finding all of these orphaned messages if you will that aren't in an archive folder They aren't in a sent folder unless you want to remove things from your sent folder But I think you should archive those before you remove them So finding all these orphaned messages and then identifying them so that you can Select them and delete them So if you're using google you have to do this extra step because otherwise you it won't it won't clear them off the server They'll just be sitting in like purgatory somewhere. So Does that make sense? Am I am I making sense with any of this? Okay, I have never I've got in my archive inbox messages back to 2003 Yeah, right. I've never considered archiving that away to so that my search would even go faster Yeah, I don't know that search goes any I mean search is super efficient now Anyway, it's building indexes. So this the only reason I do this Is because I only pay for a fixed amount of space on the the mail servers that I choose to use And I choose not to run my own mail server. We've we've had that conversation Yeah, I am running one as a test I'm using a domain that nobody else knows about And I do have mail coming into my Synology just so I can speak to that as if as questions come in If you want to hack Dave's mail server the address is Yeah, exactly. 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Shall we john? You want to start us with Sushil I believe right Sushil Yes, Sushil says I hope all as well me too Um, I have been struggling with it with an issue on an iMac retina 5k 27 inch 2020 at work running macos 12 6 and opening the app store app When I do I get a blank screen I have looked at several online forums for advice which included make sure macOS is up to date Try to say free boot to clear caches Reset the smc reset the p-ram and v-ram Signed out of iCloud on this computer then reboot and signed back in I did that too none of these work and I still have a blank screen Any advice you might give it's frustrating as I was able to download software from the app store previously Um When I hear this happening Dave, um, I blame caches And I I've I've had to do this before I've had it where the app store gets confused and Nothing nothing appears or you know, there's an update and and you don't see it um I mean, yeah, safe boot does clear out some caches, but I don't think it cleared out the cache that you need to clear out So I think you got to target the app store caches Um, and I found various write-ups to tell you how to do this, but I think the best one is from macpaw And they have a nice article that says, okay, you can do it the easy way or the hard way Okay, what what's the what's the easy way? um, the easy way is to use, um Clean my mac. Oh, no great surprise. They make clean my mac. Okay. Yes fair Of course. No, that's fair. What but I'm glad they give the hard way. So what's the what's the hard way? Yeah, what are they doing in the background? Yeah, right. The hard way is a good question. Yeah to go to the terminal And then they give you um various paths that you need to clear out. Okay Oh, yeah, that's it. So um, it's basically chucking select folders that all have The word app store in them So if you want to understand what's what's you know underneath the covers then uh, this It'll teach you It'll teach you, uh, how to do that in the terminal if that's your thing Amazing. I like that. That's great. And and you know what? I I mean, I'm a nerd Obviously I need to say that out loud So I appreciate knowing what's happening under the hood Even if I choose to let something else handle it and to macpaw's credit They give you the hard way first they tell you how to do it and then they say or If you'd like to do it the easy if you'd like us to handle this for you We have clean by mac which I mean, I think that's great. There's nothing wrong with that In fact, there's a lot right with that is what I want to say and that is one of those apps that is just that's an essential That's like one of the first one or two apps. I make sure I have on a new machine Which you can do with set up That's right. Yeah, we didn't set up. So yeah, yeah Uh, we have been getting Inundated in a good way with questions and comments and thoughts about e-sims Like we've gotten piles of email into mac ekeb about it Many of you have been texting me or emailing me personally about it. It's fine. You know, it's like it's great You all know that I will take the text that you send me and and work them into the show if it works that way In fact, those of you that have been doing that already know that that's the answer But it is better when they come into feedback at mac ekeb.com because that way everybody gets to see it and We get to, you know, kind of work on it together Lots about e-sim Robert asks a question He says I know you've talked about your own experiences and mentioned using the iphone outside the us a few times But could you do a deeper dive or maybe answer the questions I have? Let's do the latter Uh, if I'm only going to one or two countries, uh, should I buy a local country specific e-sim or just buy a global one? Anyway, and I'm gonna I'm gonna sort of I'll let him ask it I'll I'll read his questions and then we'll we'll go through it He says do I have to sign up and load the e-sim company's app? Like true phone or whatever just to see the actual prices It seems like not consumer friendly or maybe even bait and switch and most important since these e-sims are data only What do you recommend for VoIP app service to make telephone calls? Many of us don't have the luxury of only using our email contact for iMessage or text messages So how do you handle the reality of people not being able to reach us by the phone number? They always use does this mean incoming telephone calls are not feasible unless some kind of hack work around with call forwarding Or third party service is put into place. Okay, so to answer the first two questions Which is which sim should I buy and what is the price? I know I've said it a million times and that might not even be an exaggeration But e-sim db.com is An amazing resource You if I'm only visiting one or two countries, let's let's take a specific example when we went to Greece Earlier this year. I knew that we were flying into Athens Uh, we were going to spend some time in Athens and then take a cruise which wound up in Venice, Italy Well, really it wound up in Ravenna because Venice since COVID has decided they don't want big cruise ships coming into their town anymore Their city anymore. But anyway, I needed Italy. I needed Greece turned out I also needed a few other countries Because the the cruise was stopping at ports that weren't just Greek islands. Okay, great I knew we were going to Croatia and a few other places fine. I knew I had my list I went to e-sim db I knew how much data I wanted to buy and We all will overestimate how much data we think we use right so And and you know within reason the prices aren't going to be terrible So I I think I bought three gigs per person On our e-sims which was more than enough for us because we were mostly on wi-fi in different places But you know just having some some data and I don't think any of us even got close to using our three gigs but uh, and then I looked at I knew how long I needed it to last for which is another parameter you can set with e-sim db and Finally, I knew what countries I needed it to be in and so I narrowed it down by countries and was able to select uh a family of e-sims that all Uh would have fit my needs and then I just chose them based on price or speed or whatever I mean, it just gives you all this data and then yes Once I selected one e-sim db doesn't sell sims My guess my hope is that they get an affiliate kickback from the places that I do choose to use Because I want e-sim db to make money. Maybe I should just send them some money. In fact, I think I might do that uh But you know, then they they say okay, you're gonna go with red phone for this one like okay I've never heard a red phone before and it's like yep Sure enough I download the red phone app in there is the e-sim for exactly the price that e-sim db Told me it would be sometimes There's even a coupon code on e-sim db to get the price down to Something and probably give them their their kickback, which is great. You know, I love it and uh, and then I just and then using the app is sort of the magic That installs the e-sim on your phone and and then while you're using it You can use the app to see your progress and all of that stuff. So Yes, e-sim db will answer all of those questions And I got to say of the emails and texts and all of that stuff that I got this week I I think like 75 of them were answered by saying visit e-sim db.com You might just see all of your answers on the screen in front of you So I will continue saying that but proactively visit e-sim db.com folks To answer. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I'll I'll get to a second question or minute here Okay, uh, so I I guess I have a couple comments and questions. I'm not sure which The the one in there was about the the calling and I think I've just used wi-fi calling When I'm on my data overseas Usually it works every now and then it'll get hinky and says hey you have to turn off airplane mode To make a call and which is very frustrating. It's like no no I've got wi-fi connected to the internet And I've had it fight me I don't know I don't know why it does that to this day. So maybe someone doesn't could tell me That only works when you're on wi-fi though Right. So if you are out and about and you want to get a phone call and you're on your your data only You know international e-sim or whatever it is you're using. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, okay Because I uh, I you know, I use that it's called a poke fi Which is $15 for five gigabytes and it's global Global data and and that works out pretty well as well, but I'm excited about the uh The e-sim db, but the question the other question that comes up in my mind Isn't there a number a limit to the number of e-sims and just going to a different carrier replace one of those e-sims All right, so you you've added a lot of questions to this which is amazing No, it's great. Oh hold my beer and watch this. Here come more Welcome from pilot beat everyone. This is no. This is why we love having you on the show. Uh There is a limit to the number of e-sims that can be Installed on your iphone at any one time and then there is another limit as to the number of e-sims that can be Active on your iphone at any one time So the number that can be installed ranges from somewhere between four and ten And it depends on which model phone you have and apple's even sort of vague about this too But the the reality is For what most people are doing You're like the there's plenty right so you've got plenty of of of space for e-sims on your phone Where things get interesting is the number of active e-sims on phones that support dual sim Which I believe is the 10 r and later Uh You can have as the name might imply Two sims active at any point in time Up through and including all iPhones 12 That is one physical sim that can be active And one e-sim that can be active But you cannot have two e-sims active Unless you have an iphone 13 or later the 13s the 13s are sort of the At the moment anyway, the most flexible iPhones in terms of sims because they have a physical sim tray, which we don't have in the us version of the iphone's 14 And they can support having two e-sims active or one e-sim and one physical sim active so Uh, I highly recommend that if you've got a 12 or earlier You do not move your primary carrier to an e-sim So that you leave that that active that could be active e-sim slot for Uh, you know your international needs on on a whim, right? And and then you just use the physical sim for your for your uh, you know for your your man stuff Almost did that last week. So i'm so glad I didn't now I have that option to use db.com John took one for the team He did convert his Verizon sim right over to an e-sim But you say you might get an iphone 14 so that would solve that problem Otherwise, you just go to the Verizon store and get a sim from them and convert back, right? But before you do any international traveling, which I would highly recommend one or the other Yeah, but one thing I did find well you and I found So the thing is I now have two e-sims installed on my 12th, but as you pointed out only one can be active Uh, so I decided After I converted my Verizon physical sim or they call it a p-sim to an e-sim I'm then like, oh, you know what? Let me try t-mobile again And I was able to install it Um, but the thing is my other line was then marked as inactive Um, no no need to panic that that's fine. Uh, I was able to switch back. Here's the bad news um, if you switch On the 12 for one e-sim to the other messages Will lose Um, will not be bond bound to your cell phone number You have to manually reinstate that Which makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, good. Yeah I guess you determined that because in messages my bubble was the wrong color Yeah, you went back to sms. You were you were you were no longer an i-message. You went green, man All right, so uh, this is great This is why I wanted to have this conversation because I I knew there were a lot of things to share To answer Robert's question, which then also became your question pete What do you recommend doing for phone calls when traveling because he's right People that are s people that are i-messaging you will get through because that happens over data, right? Even if they i-message to your phone number i-message knows to send it to your i-message account and everything's good uh But people who sms you and people who call you Will not get through Uh, if they call you they'll get through on wi-fi calling sms might get through on wi-fi calling it happens sometimes not all the times But generally speaking you will be in a less reachable state if you turn off your Uh, your primary sim, which you can do right you get the ability to do that in phone settings Once you have two sims active at a time or two sims installed you can choose which ones are active You know and and which one is used for data and all that great stuff however What I do is I add like five bucks worth of international credit to my International calling an sms credit to my primary phone number for me. It's mint, but it doesn't matter And that way when i'm traveling abroad I can get inbound phone calls and inbound sms to my primary number I turn off data on my primary number because I don't want to use the it's expensive international data I use data on my data only e-sim and I get the best of both worlds And I think with with mint inbound sms is free internationally and it's only outbound sms It's not but you you know, I wanted the ability Yeah, yeah phone calls are certainly cost money coming in and out and I wanted to be reachable So that's what I did and you know for five bucks and on my carrier again mint I'm able like that five bucks lives with me until I burn it up. It's not like it's it's time limited or something so So that works great for me I haven't used it for a while and again This may not solve it anyway because someone like my mother who's 96 would never use it, but i'm wondering it Is it whatsapp somehow tied to your phone number? Would that be a way to have that running and get a call? As long as the person calling or texting you is using whatsapp They have to use whatsapp too. Yeah, but that's the yeah, there's no bridge between whatsapp and your phone number You're right that it's tied to your phone, but only for authentication and identification not for the actual calls It's yeah, but that would be a way to make international telephone calls to your phone But the person has to know like I say my mother would never use whatsapp Correct, you know she uses the ipad for email and that's about it So I think if if your mother or my mother or anyone who would generally not use whatsapp I think if they didn't live in the u.s. I think they might use whatsapp whatsapp is extremely popular Internationally, especially in europe like anyone that we dealt with in europe was like, oh, yeah I just you know send it to me on whatsapp and I wonder if that has to do with them getting Data plans or phone plans that you know only have data when they travel or something because that you know I mean we we travel from state to state like they travel from country to country You know And so I I I wonder if that was part of the driving force of of making whatsapp so popular because whatsapp is And i'm i'm glossing over a lot of things But whatsapp is essentially cross platform i message right where it's a data connection That can do voice it can do text it can do images, you know, so it's it's but it's cross platform So if your android friends want to talk to you you just use that because iMessage obviously is mostly apple only so yeah Fun, but i will mention i just so you can mark it at About 10 seconds ago your video and audio was delayed a little bit and then it actually broke up. 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So with ios 15 and prior There was no way to dictate the uh An emoji right you if you said You know winking face emoji that would literally be what was texted those words to the person on the other end And they would have to intuit that this was You with a winking face, but now with ios 16 you can say I can say siri send winking face emoji to pilot to pilot pete if I have you in as pilot pete And uh And it will do that and you will get the actual winking face emoji now Of course if siri if you're hearing my messages with siri you will hear the same thing back It'll say winking face emoji Uh, but it will be there in all its glory that emoji The question is how do we know what these emojis are called now listener re sent us a note showing that apple will I believe once share with you what that is and The way arie did this the way arie got messages to show this is he was using dictation So not siri but dictation where you hit the little microphone on the keyboard So he was he went into the messages app hit the little dictation something And I did the same thing. I said, you know out loud. I said, hey, I'm just testing something And then while dictation was still active I tapped the emoji button and hit that winking face emoji and a little tooltip popped up And it says emoji at the top of it while you dictate say winking face emoji So we now know one of them We don't know the rest of them and there are hundreds of emojis. So I tried this again I wouldn't happen. I couldn't get it to show me again with winking face emoji I couldn't get to show me with the crying cat or whatever that's supposed to be Nothing So that's rude. Where's the list? Where is the list of all of the emoji names that apple is using? It's got to I I I was about to say it's got to exist somewhere. I know where it exists. It exists inside our phones But how do I see it? That's the key. All right list for you No, alex s might have the answer in the chat or at least one of them He says on a mac the help text that you can float over will show you What that is so if I pull up the emoji window And I float over a thing. I see face with tears of joy uh, I see Rolling on the floor laughing face. I see Oh, let me float over this one because that should be the same as apples. Why am I not seeing it? uh skull And then yeah winking face. So this is it So you say okay, so the the mac will show these to us if we bring up I bring it up in a text field with uh control command space is how I bring up the emoji uh list And then if I float my mouse over them It will show the name of it. So we just say you know, uh Siri send Uh, what did I call it? Uh Rolling on the floor laughing face emoji to john and it will do that. So yeah, all right. Thanks alex That's that's one place. So it it exists on our macs as well as our iphone Interesting. I can give you another one Amazing. Here we go. All right on the mac Hold down control command and space bar john that's literally what we just told everyone to do Oh, sorry I was fiddling with it trying to It's yes Yeah, so no we were saying you can do it through dictation and you hover over something. So this is a little different And then alex it listen back to the show. It's all there Okay, but it's it's we went through exactly this and and that's how we're finding the names of these It's it's command control space which in and of itself is its own quick tip that brings up the emoji Thing and then you float your mouse over those and that's where you get those names. Yes And I found that I uh because I do it all the time accidentally if I tap my function key on my macbook pro Uh 2021 macbook pro. That's that's when the emojis pop up for me if I just tap the function key all by itself Oh interesting Okay Um There comes a function key. Really? Yeah So, uh, it's got a little globe on it down in the bottom left corner So I have a different keyboard than you Okay, and I hit the function key and nothing. Oh, the it's not the function key. It's the emoji key your keyboard has The it has the alternate keyboard key is what that globe means. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, there you go So that's what's going on there. So but I don't when I use Hey, hang on because kiwi gram in the chat says Uh, the function key is now the globe key and paul franz follows up with that and says try it twice So I tapped it twice and unfortunately nothing happened But you know, there you go. Some of you might do it twice. It goes away comes up goes away But that's you know, that's my keyboard again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah If I'm if I'm on the ios keyboard and I and I hit dictation and start going and then I tap the globe key It just brings up I have to uninstall. I think swift key keyboard because that's what I've been using for years Before you could swipe I used swift key to swipe Rather than type out each individual character in ios. Yeah And so I couldn't get I can't get the emojis up on my iPhone With uh with the regular ios keyboard. So I'm gonna have to uninstall swift key. I believe Um, that's the only place I have that key. I'll double check but I think when I'm in Yeah, I don't have any way to get to emojis on my ios keyboard Except hitting the alternate keyboard and that's when swift key comes up then I can put the emojis Wait, wait, wait if you're on apple's normal keyboard on uh ios 16 certainly The key next to the left of the space bar for me Is a little smiley face and I can tap that and it brings up the emoji keyboard right away. I get one two three Wait, wait, you're not using apple's default keyboard. Are you you're like swift key is your default keyboard? No, uh, that's probably it's probably defaulted to swift key. Yeah So if I default it back to the apple key, then it would come back to me that way Yes, that's right. All right. I'll I'll putz with that later and get back to you next week. I promise Yeah, yeah, but but as we're digging here kiwi gram shares correctly that if you tap and hold on the globe It will show you a list of all active installed keyboards and you can choose the emoji keyboard from there This is on your iphone. I know we're going back and forth very quickly between the iphone and the mac here folks But uh the command control space That's on your mac Tap and hold on the globe that's on your iphone the globe key on pete's keyboard on his M1 macbook air, which I believe what you have that's its own special key. So yeah Whoo, lots lots of balls in the air. Yes, but I like it. It's fun. Yeah Yeah, at least it didn't change us What's that at least we aren't juggling chainsaws Wait, I'm also doing that pete. Yeah. Well, I always do that during the show That's with your feet. It yeah, well it helps keep me calm. That's right Only drummers can do that. Uh, only drummers. Yeah, you know, I was thinking the other day We've gone like the technology is amazing because I heard someone In I was in a bar last night seeing my friend tim mccoy's band as well as the supersuckers And I heard somebody say What I now know is move rings But what I thought I heard them say was mood rings like we've gone We've gone right. That's how all we are. We've gone from mood rings to move rings and And that's that's pretty interesting. So That's You know, it's just like from mood rings to move rings. That's the the story of our lives Generation separated by a common language Yes, exactly. Right. Yeah, exactly. These are the things we care about. I have to share something Probably irreverent In retrospect And I I will think it was a reverent in retrospect after I share it here, but it was one of the funniest things I've ever heard on stage I was playing a macworld all-star band gig and I will not share which musician Said this to me, although he probably would appreciate the credit. I I don't want to out him in this regard, but We were in the middle of a show and The concept of I don't know something came up I think he he had never played the song in a gata divita before which we've never played And he what he said to me as A way of emphatically sharing that he was would was never going to play that song It might have been in a gata divita But it doesn't doesn't matter The phrase he used that I'm taking a long time to get to was one of the My favorite things I've ever heard on stage and it was he's like he said dave I went from lsd to viagra without playing in a gata divita I'm not gonna start now, but that whole that that was that said it said so much in Such a efficient way and of course I took a very inefficient path to get there, but yeah from mood rings to move rings That's perhaps the um less irreverent way of saying the the other phrase. Yeah, so anyway And possibly a show title and possibly a show title there you go Yeah, yeah, and I will have to make sure to share this segment. I I think this person still listens to this show So, um, thank you for that. You know who you are. All right, john save us. Will you take us to gary, please? Okay Gary says Or writes I do basic help dust support for a bank and the employees who do web design marketing or anything graphics related They're typically issued macbook pros and we cannot mode in and take over their machines since we all have issued del Lenovo or microsoft surfaces I received two calls this past week past week where the clients are reporting that their company issued max are going back to december 31st 1969 At a time of 7 a.m. Hmm. Um that jumped out at me because Um, that is very close to and I think it's a slightly adjusted Version of what many of us call the epoch Which is where unix clocks start So it is exactly epoch time john the because epoch time for unix starts january 1st of 1970, right? But but it starts january 1st 1970 at midnight utc time Which when translated to say pacific time, which is pacific daylight time, which is where this listener is backs it up to Uh december 31st 1969 it goes it goes back. How many hours p. Thanks seven hours seven hours. There you go Yes, the utc daylight. Did you say daylight or standard? I said daylight. Yeah, so that should that should be seven minus seven utc minus seven There you go. So that's why you're seeing the december 31st 1969. Yeah. Yeah, I thought that's what I said But you said slightly adjusted, but it's not adjusted. It's that that is the epoch It's just when you're in a different time zone. The epoch is actually at a different different displayed time. Yeah, right. It's adjusted I I understand fair. Thank you for explaining that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, you you were not wrong. I just added clarity or confusion To continue this prevents them from logging into the bpn and other items We use a curated app store on those max call self-service and apparently there is an app in there The temporarily fixes the bug but apparently comes back as one of the callers Uh stated it happened another time the client has to either get it swapped out with a replacement Or come into the office and have the level two supports them how fix it They have to call us so a ticket which serves as a board order can be issued I don't know what year these max are only that the company leases all of its computers from inside the com If it were their personal max, I'd suggest zapping the pvm and smc But i'm wondering if the keyboard commands would be blocked by my employer Or if this would not fix the problem since apple devices can only use ARd to take control of each other all we can do is screen share through ms teams and watch We use windows road assistance for the other computers Is this a known issue is their security software they have to use to comply with hibba ferna fennra And so all causing this This is something that I ran to a long time ago. So I don't know how old these machines are and I'm not sure when apple stopped doing this Uh, the only time that I've seen this happen um Is for older max that use the button cell battery to maintain the time and date and once that battery died um You would see The same thing the machine would typically warn you it it would say something along the lines of hey You know the time of date is I think is like really off You may want to do something about this um So I think that value is still sort in some memory location um Oh, I mean you're you're you're mac is a unix computer, right? So if it if it and and yes it will Uh, it will revert to epic time if if the clock is is reset It's just yeah counting the number of seconds since december or january 1st 1970 so um Yeah, yeah, I it's odd to me that this is happening with modern max, but I guess if they I don't know if you'll wipe out enough It's got to go back to somewhere How does it do it now? Remember as someone put in there in the in the discord that you know, it used to be the CMOS battery Right, how do max do that now? There's no CMOS battery Or is that that i'm not aware of there's gotta be As part of my answer here, I can tell you one thing p um If you go to settings date and time there is a set date and time automatically and it points to a working ntp server I think that's how the problem fixes itself Yeah, but but like your mac even disconnected from the internet retains time Somewhat accurately even when it's off So there's got to be a there's got to still be a battery in there. I mean for sure I Where where do they hide it? I mean like not in a in a laptop. No I mean well in a laptop. There's the obvious battery Yeah, but uh in a desktop there's got to be completely dead. Does it reset or yes? Okay. Okay. Yes Then the settings would kind of take care of that. I leave my settings. I'm always on eastern time My home time zone on my laptop just for clarity. Yeah, it's the one place that I can Yeah, yeah, so both alex and kiwi-gram are pointing out that that desktop mac still have cell batteries For sure button batteries if you want to call it that. Yeah um So maybe like if we go to iFix it and say Uh replace iMac battery. All right. That's I mean I like this is only yeah Yeah, there it is So the intel iMac pram battery replacement kit and it looks like this one's a br2032 So yes, the the answer is just a little little hearing aid button batteries. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's more like hearing aid What we would call watch battery p.m. Watch. Yeah, well watch Some but but really we would call it a seamos battery. The 2032 is the classic Seamos battery. Yeah Yeah, so yes, they are still in there bearing. Okay. Yeah Yeah, the portables on the other hand. I remember actually yeah the the vintage machine that I have It was like gee, where should we put that battery? Oh, let's put it under the cd rom drive I'm like, are you kidding me? So I had to like tear the whole machine apart Including removing the cd rom so I could get to that battery. Yeah I think in my case what happened is actually the wire had broken To the battery because the machine was kind of old sure this is interesting because the um The mac i'm looking to see if there's a replacement for the mac mini because that was the first of the desktop apple silicon max and I'm not seeing an iFixit article to talk about that Uh, I don't think yeah. No, so Yeah, I'm not because there was a question in the chat Do the apple silicon max have those batteries? So there there's I mean, there's it's gotta be somewhere. 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Okay, um I've been investigating the difference in printing as follows many may know this already But for those of us who need a reference to the url when writing or composing this is really helpful Uh, I may be less than the planet to figure it out, but who knows? No, I don't think you are. Um Scenario reading information in safari in the reader mode, which I do often to save it Go to file export is pdf And it gives one a good printing of the article without url or references in case it isn't needed Um, but if one needs the url references You instead go to file print PDF save as pdf and that will print out the same reader format but with the urls Oh Oh, that's a good tip. Yeah. Oh, wow Yeah, it's interesting because they're both making pdfs, but they're a little different and I wonder if one Well, probably isn't saving much space. I'm not having the uh Yeah, that's pretty yeah, exactly Huh, I would have thought I would have presumed they were the same obviously That's why we share these tips so that we know fascinating Oh Cool. Yeah, and every now and then I found like us. I've tried to print a website and and I find that uh The ones that would otherwise have to scroll it would cut off on a page Yeah, that frequently they'll have a print icon somewhere on the page and I find that to be useful So look for that as well. I guess that's what I'm trying to say Don't just don't just try and print the page and if it scrolls and cuts off Yeah, right that's what they're doing somehow. So I guess that uh, that's called like frames or something then in technical, right? Yeah, when you're building building someone's build a website in frames, you're only going to print what's visible on the page Oh, yeah, I mean Yeah, it gets weird because you can when you're building a website you can Set a different css a cascading style sheet for Print layout versus You know desktop layout and so but this is not even doing that This is taking the reader layout, which is its own thing that apple is sort of cooking together in safari Yeah, so but then giving you the links. That's brilliant But then giving yeah, the links are handy in a pdf like that for sure Like if you print the the macky keb show notes from macky keb.com You would want all the links because we painstakingly put those in there We also have chapters in there, which you can not only see But if you're using a podcatcher aka podcast playback client that supports them and apples does overcast does Uh Then you can jump around to chapters for example If you wanted to get to the next thing while I was already telling you this You could have just jumped and now you'd be here talking about ken because ken asks Uh, I am heavily entrenched in the apple world, but my 65 inch sony 4k tv is runs android tv When I google my question I can never find the answer. Uh, he says so Right now I have a subscription to the disney bundle that I started on the web at disney's website If I cancel that and switch it to an apple subscription Will I be able to log in to the disney espn and hulu apps on my non apple sony tv? Does apple provide us with a username? And and password and yeah, the the answer is yes Um, I don't have my disney subscription with apple actually my disney subscription is paid for by my daughter This is amazing. This is one of the best like it was one of the uh, yeah It's like wait, I pay for all the subscriptions and you guys use them. This is amazing. I'm getting something back I love her. That's all child support Dave. You're getting child support That's right. I am getting support from my child. There you go. That's uh more of that, please Uh, no, actually I I'll I'll take care of myself. My kids will take care of themselves That's a good path to head down But I do have my netflix subscription subscription that I pay for on via apple, right? And largely because For a time I was getting apple gift cards at a discount and then using those to pay All of my subscriptions, which is a great way to sort of get an effective discount, right? But Regardless of how I pay for it the account is Connected to a An email right like it's the payment is happening through apple But my netflix account is tied to my email address And in fact, I had to change my email address because I had it at my mac observe address and you know Obviously I changed that one after we sold the site And that it was no problem, but i'm still able to pay for it there So you're going to have the same thing with disney you will have a login And then you will choose to pay your bill Inside of the app on an apple device and then boom you're good to go. So Make sense, right everybody. Yeah good to go with that. Yeah, okay cool I know it's good stuff. I like it Uh, the next thing that the chapters are going to bring us is to cool stuff found We've got a little bit of time left and I wanted to share a few of these the first came from brian in discord we were talking about time zones earlier in this episode and he Linked us to and sent us a link to an app called else when And this is uh an app that you can run It's in the mac app store, but I believe it also exists for iPhone and ipad so it's available for everything and else when Makes it easy to pick a date and time amongst multiple people from different time zones Because it will just start showing things right there in the uh in the app It's actually looks really cool. You got to just go check it out. It's a it's a fun one so Related to that I had like I don't even think it was an email It might have been just a maybe it was an email or text message or something But somebody said I'll see you at you know, let's meet it at 2100 utc and I held on that in uh, ios 16 And it showed me that In eastern time because I was in eastern time when I held on that Nice Yeah, oh, that's awesome. Right. Yeah, it's pretty good stuff John you want to share what Greg's got there for us? Yeah Greg's got a cool one This is a this is fantastic for those monitors that don't have a good way to control monitor brightness And the sounds especially if the monitor controls don't show up in the system preferences displays Also, whatever screen the cursor is on you can use the apple keyboard to also change the brightness Uh, and we'll link to it. It's something called monitor control And I installed it on My uh mini while I installed it on both my machines Uh, and you can access Uh, the various monitor settings either through a menu bar shortcut thingy Um, and it gives you sliders for brightness and volume and maybe some other things Uh Or you could yeah So you can use the that or you can use the keyboard and the function keys to do it And I was very impressed. So when I put it on my mini so I have two monitors on my mini If I did f1 and f2, which are typically the keys assigned to make it brighter or not or less bright Um, I actually got on my screen the brightness icon, which I've never seen on this machine before Um, apparently they're using something called D d dc control is a protocol that lets you tell monitors what to do Um, it's beyond me why apple doesn't include a brightness slider in the displays. Yeah. Yeah this machine So this is how you get around it Oh, that's fascinating man. Huh. Yeah direct digital control Interesting Huh Yeah, so I've heard about a new standard and but I'm still confused as to why apple Doesn't do this. Yeah, right. Well, you know, I mean Yeah, we could speculate all we like it's we're never going to get there Uh, the so the next thing we will do though is go to the next cool stuff found Which is the riot power cloud gaming controller for for ios xbox xbox edition, right? This is a You can connect to your xbox with your iphone And play games on your and you see it happen on your phone From remote or however you want to do it And what this riot power controller does is it lets you mount your iphone In an xbox controller And it's a seamless experience. I was messing with this thing and it's wired So you get like no latency You know, you're you're it it happens as fast as it can It is a standard xbox controller, but it's got like a little grip for your iphone and your iphone Almost sits over your hands So it's right there like you don't need to see the buttons. You know where the buttons are And your iphone sort of sits in a perfect spot. They're clearly well engineered And uh And you get this whole kind of latency free experience with your xbox So if you're if you're into doing this with your iphone, I highly recommend checking this thing out It's uh, it's a it's a cool little thing and I i'm looking at the price on amazon at the moment It is $69.99 on amazon. So I mean get it Get it delivered right away. So Fine. Oh fun stuff. Yeah, I I love these kinds of things. It's uh It's good Anything else on that? I have one last cool stuff found I want to share Because I because I love pixelmator and pixelmator 3 just came out um This is this is a uh If you don't use pixelmator, we were talking earlier in the show about the all the magic that you can do with your phone and You know with the pulling the pictures out. Well pixelmator is like well, it's like Photoshop but better and way less expensive like it's not there's not even a comparison there, right and uh It does it's so easy to use I use pixelmator to to build all the episode images that we do now This is a super simple way of doing it Uh a super simple use case for pixelmator. It can do so much more than that But it really makes life easy and this new version adds all these design templates to it Uh and a bunch of mock-ups so that you can kind of mess with things It's uh and it'll pull out the colors in your documents so that you can sort of keep a color scheme consistent And it just sort of makes it all happen automatically. I don't know. Do you guys use pixelmator? Is that a thing for either of you? I use acorn Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Oh, yeah, it's just you know, it turns out. I guess I think it's you know, what you learned to use first Yes Yes, for sure. You know, and they've done a nice job keeping keeping it up. That's flying meat.com. I think yeah, right Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'll link to acorn in there too. Yeah It's um, I yeah, I Pixelm I tried learning photoshop years ago and and photoshop's hard. I'm sorry Yeah, but I guess it's too confused. It's too powerful, but it's hard. Yeah, it's not intuitive It it is powerful But I from people who I know who actually have learned photoshop and then have you started using pixelmator Tell me that pixelmator is more powerful than photoshop. Oh interesting. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I've never I've never putched with it I would like to you know, I'll There's a free trial you can go get from the yeah from the website and then I mean I think the purchase is 40 bucks So, you know compared that to photoshop So right, you know, yeah, yeah 40 bucks a day for a couple weeks and then you've got it 40 bucks a day for a couple weeks. Yes, John for me preview does most of what I need but um Another thing that I do is stay at it with preview though Like you couldn't make the you can't put images together and and lay it out Uh in preview you can mark up and you can you can you mark up and yeah, you could crop and stuff like that Yeah, yeah The what you may want to look at and apparently it's still out there is gimp Oh, man Hey, it's still out there man and the price is right. Sure Yeah, gimp for mac it is it it was it was like a photoshop clone, right that open source Yes, she knew image manipulation program. I think is what it stands for. Yeah, I wouldn't call it photoshop clone. Sorry I'll call it a uh photoshop Um replacement. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So All right. Yeah, we'll put uh, we'll put gimp in there and we will put um We will put um acorn acorn. That's the one. Thank you. Yes All right, it's bad for your memory. Oh, wait a minute. You are getting old It's what happens. Hey That's later this later this week in fact by monday dave will be older than he is today That's true. Yeah, saturday. Can you hear this? Yeah, that's right. Saturday either is or was my birthday and i'll i'll i'll let you Enjoy the linear time exercise that is involved in that Uh Processing that data so from from this point in the linear time happy birthday tomorrow day. Thanks pete. I appreciate it man It's good stuff. Yeah, that's i'm happy to get older because uh, a i'd lead a charmed life and b getting older is As far as I can tell much better than the alternative. 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