 It's time for Mac GeekGab and listener Bob brings us our quick tip of the week by reminding us that Apple put into macOS the Wi-Fi or wireless diagnostics You option click on the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar and choose open wireless diagnostics and then from that you select window and scan to find all the Wi-Fi access points around your Mac And that'll include the network name, the signal strength, the noise, the channel, the band, the channel width and you can then We go to wireless diagnostics window performance and get a real-time graph of your Wi-Fi connections with Transfer rate and all the other stuffs you can walk around with your Mac And watch the signal change and all of that stuff Check out wireless diagnostics window and see all the entries there and there's some cool stuff More quick tips like this and cool stuff found today on Mac GeekGab 992 for Monday July 24th 2022 2023 Greetings folks and welcome to Mac GeekGab 992 in 2023 I don't know what blew me up. Look a year and a year. Don't tell me what it is. Yeah I don't know it doesn't matter. This is the show where you send in regardless of the year You send in your questions your tips your cool stuff found we usually answer your questions but today we're really focusing on a few quick tips that are key and Some cool stuff found that we've been piling up for a while The goal is regardless of how we organize the agenda that each of us me, P, you, all of us together we Together, which is usually weekly Sponsors for this episode in food Hello fresh comm slash MGG 50 where code MGG 50 gets you guess what 50% off plus free shipping and Notion comm slash Mac GeekGab where you can go for a limited time to try notion projects for free We'll talk more about both of those in a little bit for now here in Durham, New Hampshire before I head off to Mac stock I'm Dave Hamilton In here in Pensacola, Florida, it's pilot Pete Dave You actually broke up for about 15 seconds there in the middle not to the people listening discard. Yeah, not this course Not to the people listening. Oh, no, I'm telling you because I get to hear what people That's right. The podcast the actual podcast is totally fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I saw a little hiccup with them So for the video folks we were aware of it and we're moving on pilot Pete here in Pensacola Dave I want to Take a minute here and say On that opening quick tip folks when you do that the window comes up you click on open wireless diagnostics There's a window that comes up that's continuing all that ignore that Dave talked about it The menu says window go click on that and pull it down. Yeah, because it's so tempting That's why I never found it for the longest time. It's so tempting to click on that continue And this is gonna take time and and so yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, right Pempting to go on there. So it's the menu at the top that you want to go grab window and pull that stuff down There's some amazing There's a plethora for the fancy word of the day of options in there to find your wireless settings Yeah, cool. Cool. I love it. I love it. I love it We do have more quick tips to go through and Yeah, Tony says It took me a while to notice that I could do this but first in watch settings So this is on your Apple watch you go and enable dictation So that's step one then when you're looking at a message that you've received on your watch Tap in what looks like an empty field with a faded I message like the word I message faded in it That's where you can start doing like the little, you know palm Scratchy kind of thing that you know, you start sort of scratching out letters but in the lower right corner is a microphone icon and you can dictate Your response right there on your watch. So you don't have to like, you know, draw out the letters and Yeah, there you go. Great. Great tip. Thank you, Tony. Yeah. Yeah I State out I say out Dave comma Thanks, period. I will get right on that Period starting with the list in this order colon. Yeah, one period, you know, that sort of so Serious good about not having to do that, but I find it is much more accurate when I do that Yeah, I remember I guess it was iOS 16 where Apple said we didn't need to do that anymore And I stopped doing it and then realized I still kind of want to do this more So I I continue to do that now. Yeah, I I it's really not a terrible habit to be in where Where I noticed that I do it is if I have someone else in the car with me And I'm replying via carplay because that's where I'm doing most of my dictation Especially for like replies to messages and they're like, wow, you're really anal about the commas and the exclamation points And this that and the other thing and I'm like, yeah, you know, it can change the entire meaning of a sentence Absolutely, situation is wrong as I referred to in the pre-show. There's a book called eats shoots and leaves It's about elephants, isn't it? It's a panda bears Panda bears, that's a bear at each you that's the joke the panda bear walks into the bar and each shoots and leaves and Everybody's dead. Yeah, because of the misplaced comma. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, the Oxford comma has hopefully he has no place in that phrase Exactly Yeah, hey, I've got another quick tip this week comes from me from a self-inflicted stupidity wound okay What happened was I I was flying my drone and I wanted to clean everything off of it and Reformat the cart so I did and I did it in the drone itself It gives you an option to do that and then when I put the Micro SD card into the adapter and then put it into my computer I found that it was named untitled. I'm like, well, that's not what I name it But okay, and then I tried to rename it and it wouldn't let me rename it I'm like, what's going on tried disc utility and then it hit me The micro SD card does not have a little switch on it But the SD cards do and the SD card adapter does it as well So at some point I managed to slide the little slider that locks Your ability to rename the volume name in this case the SD card So I put that back to unlock stuck the card back in right-click it and was able to rename my SD card Yeah, yeah, I okay. Yep. I got yep. That's Rename was great out. I'm going what's going on. Why is it great out? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, know what I'm doing Stop it. Yeah, stop it right. Yeah. No, that makes sense. I Yeah, that makes sense. I like it. I like it. That's good, man. Yeah, okay. All right. Yeah, I'll have to remember this That's good. Yeah I have another I have a quick tip that that is it comes from my own From a bad habit that I developed. It's really the right way to say it I noticed recently and I mentioned this on business brain last week So my apologies for the for the duplicate if you listen to both shows But I figured it was important enough to share here because it's it's been Truly like life-changing in not a massive way, but in a you know, meaningful way I noticed a couple of weeks ago that Because I have an iPhone I have lots of times in my or lots of opportunities in my day Where I use my iPhone to keep myself from being what I'll call bored, right? waiting in line doing all those things and I know the value of Having Downtime I call it brain percolation time right like when you're in the shower or you're driving right any of those sort of routine hypnotic things you wind up Your brain winds up working in the background and and and like solving problems and coming up with ideas and this is valuable Brain time and with our phones. It's very easy to To take away take that away from ourselves, right? Yeah, and and what I noticed is I was and for years have been missing out on what I call urinal inspiration and That is every time I went to pee I'd grab my phone and I would be looking at my phone while I was peeing because listen I've been doing this for you know over 50 years. I kind of know how to how it works and you know I don't necessarily need You know to be like fully focused on it, but that's the beauty of it is In those moments and I just in the last couple of weeks I have had so many great ideas and like worked out so many little things I'm actually finding that like my overall like general well-being. I'm happier Believe it or not because I'm giving myself those moments Periodically throughout every day. So I know this sounds weird to say look prioritize urinal inspiration But I think it might help so it certainly has helped me so I share And if you if you want to experiment with it, I Absolutely encourage the the experiment so here you go this closest. I'm gonna get to saying should Pete Yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah all those little moments. They're they're good for us I think you know the the downtime moments. Yeah, it's a screen time We're all guilty of it, right? I'm totally the best majority of serve very guilty of too much screen time Yeah, yeah, and it's it's changing how society interacts and we'll make make the AI takeover of the world that much easier That much easier, right? Yeah, and it's not just changing how society interacts. It is doing that It's also changing how we interact with ourselves like that's the part where I'm really I mean I'm trying to be aware of all of it And I fail at it constantly like I and I will say that even this little little change It's been a couple of weeks. It's only been the past Couple of days where I don't actively have to remind myself. Hey, put your phone back in your pocket Like this is the moment where you're not doing this anymore. Remember, you know, like it's just the habit is so strong Yeah, so it is and we've gotten to the point where it's someone I finally said all right No more phones at the dinner table. Yeah. Yeah, you know mean It's let it go for 30 minutes someone text you you can get back to my you know. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's good All right, Ben has a quick tip for us He says once in a blue moon, I right-click the trash and empty the trash, but nothing Happens the quick fix is to quit the dock. I've never I never even knew that this would fix the trash Emptying issue, but yeah, I learned you'll learn something new every day and that's the point of the show to do so Open there you go open activity monitors search for dock Select and quit the process the quit process command is in the view menu Which is odd to me. I would have put it in the file menu the keyboard short But it short put short cut is command option Q The dock will quit and relaunch automatically and then the empty trash command works for me again Fascinating Ben. Thank you for that. Again. I that's news to me and I love it at the risk of inflicting this on myself And angering the gods. I've never experienced that. I've had the trash non-empty. I've had things say You can't access that file because it's in the trash or the trash is emptying right now So you can do something, but I've never said the trash ignore me Interesting Interesting, huh. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah At least not the Mac trash. I've had other trash ignore me, but that's a different show. Well, I've also ignored the trash too And Lisa will remind me of that sometimes. So, right? Yep. Yep Bob has a quick tip it sort of harkens back to episode 990 Bob says We were talking about remembering ideas and and Bob says before PDAs and smartphones I carried a small shirt pocket sized book that I could write ideas into because I found that I would forget them or forget some key detail, etc I would also capture ideas from computer books. I was browsing in a bookstore. Interesting I kept the book in pen on my bedside nightstand for those middle of the night inspirations I abandoned the book when PDAs came along My first was a handspring edge in 2001 nice then I moved to the iPod touch for a while And now of course the iPhone and Apple watch I get ideas in the middle of the night And I'll write it down generally by sending myself an email when I'm riding my biker out for a walk I currently use my Apple watch and say hey, yes, lady Remind me when I get home to whatever whatever and the watch sets a geolocation Triggered reminder that shows up in my iPhone reminders app. Yeah And he says of course. Yeah, same as you not all my ideas are great when I review them But that's that's fine like that, you know that the idea is you captured it But yeah, I like the they'll remind me when I get home. That's I yeah, that's to be buried the headline there Yeah, exactly exactly because I will frequently hate tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock remind me Yeah, or you know something along those lines. I hadn't thought about geofence in it Yeah, I you know, I hadn't either until a couple of weeks ago I was driving to a gig and we were using the house drum set so I had room in my car our guitar player and I went together because it was about two hours away or whatever and He he got in the car and you know settled in because we were gonna be in the car for four hours You know to their to back and he's he like put his keys into like the pocket in the door of the car and all that And he's like hey man Help me remember to get my keys out of your car when we get back to my house And I'm like well, you'll know you'll need to unlock your door He's like yeah, but I'll mess around in the in the studio shed for a little bit And then you'll be long gone before I realize I don't have the keys to the house. I'm like, ah, yeah Okay, I'm like well use your phone and set a geolocated reminder that when we get back to your house You know and of course he didn't have home set. He didn't have a my contact record set He didn't have an address that so we had lots to do over the two hours where we were driving together So it was fine. I just kind of you know coached him through it or whatever while I was driving It shouldn't take you two hours to set your home and you know, it's it's it's not But it gave us father for conversation. Yeah, so But yeah get it and so that's sort of the bonus quick tip is go in and set a my contact record for yourself If you haven't done that already now, you can do it on your phone or on your Mac And and then that way will you know, you can do these sort of geolocation things Without having to then go through the trouble that our guitar player went through. So yeah, yeah Beautiful yeah, I got one last one that I realized recently not everyone knows about it It's came up at our our zoom hangout I mentioned that I was leaving my therapist's office and he says hey, I've got a question for you I was like, yeah, it's like how come there's no app that I can use to like call 911 and send my Location if I was in trouble He's like I was just having a walk with my wife or whatever and we were talking about this and you know We were both like why doesn't this exist like these devices have this and I was like Yep, it's right there in your phone and So I showed him and figured I would share here too that your phone does have this capability you on sort of Current and and late model iPhones. I think anything from iPhone 8 and forward You hold the volume up button on one side of the phone and then the button on the other side of the phone whatever that we were supposed to call that and It will put your phone into the emergency mode where you can see someone's medical ID But you can also just swipe to call or you can swipe to power off But you can press to call 911 and and of course it has your location and all of that stuff too, so Just wanted to make sure everybody everybody knew about that because I Think it's important, right? 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I want to recommend another show We all know Leo Laporte, right and he is the host of a show called this week in tech Which is probably one of the longest-running tech shows in the world They started this week in tech in 2005 just like we did here with Mac geek gab and in the 18 years since they've covered Every major tech story with some of the biggest names the smartest people covering technology every week It's a different roundtable a different panel of experts talking about the week's tech news And they have a lot of fun while they're doing it and I've joined them for this sometimes it is a blast They deal with the biggest issues in the world not just computing and windows and Mac and Linux But AI and Twitter and search and social and on and on and on and on of course It's all for you every week this week in tech You can find out more by going to twit.tv and subscribing to this week in tech and our thanks to Leo and the team For doing this swap with us Alright Well, we got some cool stuff found coming your way now and David wrote to us about show 980 says I noticed that you asked for information about a chi charging mouse I purchased one a couple years ago that I really like it's called the Corsair dark core RGB Pro SE that's Sierra Echo Available through Amazon and we'll put that link in the show notes one thing. I like about it is it has RGB LEDs inside so you can customize the look you can set a single color or change its color depending on which mode it's in You can also map custom functions to the buttons through something like keyboard maestro or presumably better touch tool It's currently listed on Amazon for $81 though. He got it for a little less when it was on sale He says one weird and frustrating quirk is that it won't connect to an iPad, but he was able to do so I think for the USB dock Later in time so but it doesn't do it via the Bluetooth got it. It's not a Bluetooth mouse It's its own wireless Dongle type mouse got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so and and I'm seeing it today for $70 yeah, no on Amazon, you know these prices change every day folks Obviously, we'll put a link in the show notes so you can see what the price is the day you get to hear about this Yeah, what is it? I think honey is the one that will track prices dropping for you, right? Something else to put in notes. No, I'll put it in there I they were a sponsor here for a while when they were doing some brand building So I'll put the the MGG link in I think it gets you something extra. They're not they're not a sponsor now But I think it's I think it was joined honey comm slash MGG Yeah, I'm not if I'm not honey has saved me dollars over the totally numerous occasions They'll watch for price drops and then other times still put in coats when you go to check out Yeah, you have that extension put into your browser. Yep. You'll get those codes. Yeah, it's interesting with honey I I certainly am a fan of it and I install it, but I Also remove it at times or turn it off at times Well, because it it does like intentionally sort of gets in the way and sometimes like when I'm booking a flight or something It's like dude. I need like go go go go go like I wish maybe and maybe I can I wish I could tell it Go away for 15 minutes Like that's all I need is just give me the next 15 minutes without you and then I want you back You know like like like Michael Jackson and his brother saying right, you know, I definitely I want you back Sheer seems to me there's some way to script that but that's bigger brain than mine Wait a minute. Can you script Safari extensions? Yeah, that would be the trick, right? Yeah, I should look at that, huh? There might be Yeah All right, you got me hey chat GPT. Yeah. Yeah, actually that's not a bad place to start with that Yeah, we've got some chat GPT and AI cool stuff found coming up the next one though is not that but it is Something I never heard about before from listener Matt who says He tells us about Expans so which is a free github hosted text expansion tool like text expander And others but he's hosted on github free but open to donations and cross-platform Mac windows and Linux You can see it at expans so org. I haven't installed it yet But man, it sure seems like if you haven't if you aren't already committed to a text expansion tool I would I would jump and check this out Yeah, it looks yeah, it looks very not only does it look like what he says But it also like even just a website for it is very well fleshed out. It feels like a commercial product Yeah Yeah, oh, yeah and shell and script support in other words, you know, it can take information as to you know today's date and yes Yes, yeah, right. Yeah. No, it's yeah, it's it's it when he says it's like text expander I you know, I see why because text expander has a lot of these sort of scripting ish things in it So, yeah, yeah, it's worth it's worth checking out So right and then and then of course you just because it is free doesn't mean you don't have to it doesn't mean you can't pay Right, you don't have to pay but but you can you could choose to pay and that's not uh, that's not a bad thing So, uh Yeah, I know I'm stoked about it. Yep Donna brings us our next one Assuming we're done with that one. Yeah, Pete. Yeah. Yeah, okay Donna brings us our next one and it is the all the she founded at Aldi. It is a wood grain wireless charging clock and this is one that's worth clicking on and if if If for no other reason these cool stuff found episodes are a fantastic Uh, a fantastic way to experience them fantastic wallet drink. Just kidding. No, no I don't mean wallet drain I mean a good reason to go and subscribe to our mac geek up newsletter at mac geek up com Because you get all the links that we are putting in the show notes delivered right to your email box And we really don't spam you I I know I say that all the time I I I'm happy to say that I have yet to be a liar on that so You know, I'll let you know when we've changed our minds on that So the neat thing about this and I know the vast majority of you are listening and not looking but this wood green clock Looks like a block of wood with the time and the temperature printed on the front of it Yeah, and then it's a cheap pad on the top of it. Yeah, exactly That's the other thing is it's hard to see until you look at the photo where the phone is on top of it But right, right? Yeah, that looks great. It's always like when I'm watching the nfl game It's like man, how'd they get out there and paint that you know eight yards to go, you know second eight Yeah, yeah, right, you know, right. Yeah, it just it looks like it's there in the middle of the wood for no apparent reason Yep Yeah, that's a neat display. Yeah, I agree uh the uh The next thing speaking of watching the nfl or watching anything p you got one for us. Yeah, I do. Um, we Uh We're looking for outdoor movie screens back when code was big and we couldn't go anywhere very much and and I I didn't get one then because they were hard to get but recently Put my hands on a codec giant inflatable projector screen I got mine at Best Buy from the bottom corner of the stand to the top corner of Diagonally of the screen it's 17 feet the screen itself is about 14 feet diagonal It comes with a pump like, you know, like a kid's bounce house All right runs quietly in the background. Who's gonna say is the pump quiet enough that it doesn't bother you when you're watching tv It is now that being said what we did use was the sonos move For the speaker which was okay for two or three people, but I need to find a better sound system for To you know to really thump us When we're watching, you know top gun maverick or something like that or a slap shot Were you connecting to the sonos move over bluetooth? Is that right? Yeah, so I wonder if it would drive it faster or harder with well I mean, you know, I um, I had it later in the list, but I will jump it up the I was going to talk about the jbl flip Which I will now talk about. Um, but it uh, all of the jbl speakers are able to be like paired together And so you can just over bluetooth, right? Sort of kind of like you can do with with sonos, uh, but You know, but not over wi-fi right like this is um, and so the flip six is the sixth gen of their, um Their, you know portable bluetooth speakers. This is a small speaker It's like the the you know the pill shaped if you will speaker and I've been messing with this and it's great It's it's you know waterproof. It's ip 7 I believe it's got a ton of battery life It sounds great, but it has what jbl calls jbl party boost And so I wonder if for your outdoor movie viewing and I haven't tried this because we have an outdoor screen We bought two on amazon for like a hundred bucks. It was like a hundred inch screen or whatever it works great um But I've thought about doing this where you get like a few of these jbl speakers and put one next to each person Or in between each pair of people Oh, yeah, and if you've got them all linked up together Well now you don't have to broadcast sound to cover your You know entire backyard you just kind of give people it's like oh you need a speaker over here Here's a speaker here's a speaker and I mean these aren't super inexpensive. They're 99 bucks So, you know, you're gonna like it does add up But if you've got a few of these and and it might be the kind of thing like we each keep a A flip in our cars right because it's great the batteries last forever And then if you're out and about you find yourself at the beach or you know some kind of picnic type scenario boom You're good to go. You just you know Oh, yeah, you want some sound great. We'll just bring the speaker. It's it's awesome So, you know, if you've got a few of these anyway Then you can you know pull them together. So, yeah, I know the the flip six is awesome All right, okay, but yeah that party boost mode might solve your Um, great. Yeah, your issue there. Yeah, I don't know. It's it's worth There's always a way to solve these problems. That's right. Absolutely. So Yeah, so there we go Yes, uh Let me see who and what is next it looks like listener greg is next With another piece of software called make pass Uh, greg tells us that oh no, I gotta get back to my notes. Um, he says, uh, it's it's a piece of software That makes passes that go in your wallet. He says, uh, it requires a subscription I bought the 16 dollar subscription for a year Uh, because I wanted the full features, but it works great and appears that the privacy is good with this app too So basically you can take your membership cards your tickets anything with a bar code And load it into your apple wallet on your phone so that you don't have to carry the paper thing with the bar code Or even like the card like if you've got a membership card like he said, you know That you would put like literally physically in your wallet Take this bar take its barcode and turn it into A pass that lives in your apple wallet and now it's always with you as long as your phone is with you and charged Obviously, you know, but um, but yeah, it's a pretty cool I Like that a lot. I love the idea. Yeah how many times, you know when you I use uh, now here we go another cool stuff found. I guess I think we might have talked about this one time before um Genius scan is an app that I've used to make, you know Take a photo of a document and it turns it into a pdf or as a jpeg or anything along those lines. Sure Um, but there are many times when I put something in a genius scan I would much rather have it in my apple wallet and having the ability to do that with make pass I yeah, I like this idea. I'm putting the barcode into your apple. Yeah, I'm into this. Nice. Yeah. Yeah for sure Yeah, yeah, it's um I know I never I never even thought of it. I mean, I I'm sure I have thought of it in frustration in those moments of like Gosh, I wish You know this one thing that I use occasionally like my library card How often do I go to the like I rent books or I borrow books from the library using liby, right? But if I'm going to go into the library, it's like, oh my gosh, where is my library card? Like, oh, I have no idea Like I got a it's probably in like the wallet that I keep for all of the things that I never bring with me Yeah, you know and yeah, so to just be able to to you know load those all into my phone. I love it. Yeah, yeah So there you go. That's um, yep. That's where we're at with this um, the next one comes from blake and It is sort of started as the result of a conversation in discord uh, Blake in arizona Was having we it was really a conversation that that followed on from our How do I remove things and clear up space on my apple tv? Which seems now clearly to be a recurring topic here It's affecting a lot of us My guess is it's affecting way more of us than already know Because if we haven't looked we don't know uh, or we haven't had symptoms. We don't know So blake says, uh, I did further digging it and uh for me the apps didn't save any You know removing apps didn't save much space because I didn't have many apps to begin with But it stopped it saved enough to stop the freezing But the overall experience in field was still laggy further research suggested screensavers. Yep Uh, which we talked about in a previous episode and after digging a bit more I saw a recommendation for an app for 99 cents called space reclaimer And I ran that app and was able to reclaim over eight gigabytes of space on his apple tv My guess is this would work on your iphone and ipad as well as the apple tv because we have seen All of you know where it just fills up and it it won't It won't clean itself out, you know the the garbage collection that we as users would want to happen on our iOS based devices. So I you know iphone ipad apple tv does not happen the way we would like it to and so It's kind of a bummer to have to pay 99 cents for something that apple Yeah, there's my should for you Yeah, but but they they're not doing it. So 99 cents is a small price to pay To have this and so I I have not bought it yet But I I fully intend to the next time that this kind of thing comes up for me and I know it will I should remember after this show was over to go into discord That was actually a thread in the mgg help desk and discord this morning talking about that very thing How do I free up? Yeah, find out what space is being used and free it up Again, something that should be native to the apple os Apple tv os is not and there are a couple apps out there one I guess is now defunct, but there's another app in there that I was trying to answer the question On the fly without going in and playing with it in my apple tv So I gave him a link to an article that was a few years old one was dead one is not but right, right, right? Yeah No, let's hope that works as well on ios because I would love to clean out photos from two years ago on my phone The in the in messages in particular. Oh, yeah, you know the cruft in there is just for sure mind bottle Yeah, yeah Yeah Pete I promise that we had some a i chat gpt Uh things and listener tony kicks us off with this with uh a shortcut that's been around for a little bit a few months Um, it was published. I believe it was over at max stories was kind of the first place that that I heard about it It's called s gpt is the um the the shortcut and uh And it it's pretty cool it like It it's it's a shortcut for your phone that uses chat gpt to take your tim text input Prompt it into chat gpt and spit out its response. So you get chat gpt Via your shortcuts and you get access to it that way And you know the people that have been using it say that it is a game changer so, uh Yeah Yeah, I I I have not put it on there yet on my phone yet, but I but that's really just an oversight It's you know, it's been on the list for a while. Um, yeah, I forget what I do. You know, I pay the Chat gpt fee so I get the premium and sure Was there not a shortcut for putting it in messages to What was the you have to leave it in somehow though? Do you remember what that is? Yeah, it there it's like a a text expander type shortcut I think I use slash gpt or something but it only works on my mac But in any text field on your mac it it's just sort of there But there might be an app now for the phone. I don't know send in your stuff It's been a little while since we talked about chat gpt um Just because you know, we try to we try to you know Dig into topics and then sort of let them breathe for a little bit And then we'll come back to them and and we pile this stuff up that you send in like we're doing now So, um, but yeah, no this uh, this s gpt thing That you know, it takes a little bit of time to set up Because you need to go and like fetch your api key one piece of advice I know that someone's going to tell me that this violates all kinds of uh security practices I don't think you're violating any terms of service, but it does violate good security practices When you get that api key from chat gpt or anywhere else Um, you know, they will show it to you once the idea is they show it to you And then you put it into whatever the app or services that you want to give it to and then you never get to see it again And that keeps anyone else from ever seeing it again because it essentially bypasses your password, right? That api key lets someone use your account Uh, as long as they have that key. So so there is absolutely a security uh, you know, um Reprocussions security repercussions to this right? I take those api keys because I know they're a pain in the neck to generate and I don't want to have to like Expire one to add a new service and then have to go to another service and re add it back in I put those api keys in one password bingo ditto. Absolutely. So that's I you know, again I know that there's probably it's secure in there. It's secure in one pass. That's the thing I trust it. Yeah, exactly if somebody gets into one password. I'm screwed in every way So it's it's totally fine, right? You know, I'm just I'm just in I it is it is, you know a deck chair off the titanic To have the uh, you know the api key for chat gpt in there. That's all I'm gonna that's kind of my feeling on it. So Yeah, uh The next worry. I the next. Yeah, AI thing I have is opera now has Aria which is opera's browser AI all fully integrated In to the opera browser. So you get instant access to chat gpt and all of that stuff and it's web connected Because it's right there in your browser. So If if you are someone who finds yourself using chat gpt often Using the opera browser to do this is um, it's gonna is gonna be a an easy way to to make that happen So, yeah, just like to yeah, it's cool stuff down. I like to share. It's how it's how it works. You know, so nice, um Then robert wrote in yeah robert AI tools more all the AI tools in fact he found a link for us That has all the AI tools and chat gpt prompts in one article and And I promise as soon as I can copy the link I will put it This is my one issue with notes is it makes it really difficult To to do anything out with links. Yeah, it's um, but I I swear We will we will get it there Yeah, yeah, yeah, so but um But yeah, yeah, he's got you know, all of these I got this this really bumming me out that I didn't um Couldn't prep this the way I wanted to prep it there it comes. I think you've got it now I think I've got it now. Yes. I got it now. He's got it Yeah, so it's this article over. I mean it's at artificial corner dot com but it's a reposting of a medium article that lists all of these tools like chat pdf And uh all kinds of things over there at uh at medium So we will link to this and now that I have the link on my clipboard I am putting it in the show notes as I speak because by golly No one needs to go through what I just went through and you dear listener can have it in your email If you subscribed to that is correct The mailing list the mailing list. Yeah at kekeb.com. That's uh That's that's uh, that's all you gotta do. The next thing is from rawl 605 which is uh heads ups or a reminder That zappier the I call zappier the glue of the internet. It's it's like shortcuts um That that live in the cloud right and it but it's it's it's platform agnostic or I don't want to say platform agnostic It works with pretty much every platform out there. It's certainly not limited to apple devices by any stretch So zappier is great. Like I we use zappier for all kinds of things. Uh, I take the show notes As after they've been sort of finalized and I have a zappier thing that grabs them and saves them to a folder It like it does all these things and and uh because we do the show notes in google docs So it grabs the google doc show notes and saves it to a file on my dropbox actually Which then syncs to other places for me And so I'm able to keep them even if you know google docs goes away. I know I've got the Archive show notes in a special folder. That's just a drop in the bucket for what zappier can do and rawl 605 Reminds us or tells us that open ai and chat gpt Can be linked Via zappier to all kinds of other things So, you know, you you've got these different services Like, you know, uh google docs and dropbox don't work together, but zappier glues them together That's why I call it the glue of the internet So now you've got open ai can be one of those pieces that zappier can glue to other things and so If you haven't messed with zappier That's a cool thing. You know, we just did that shortcuts hang out and zappier never never came up We wound up talking about a bunch of other things and and yet we probably could have done 90 minutes on just zappier Well, there you go. There's your topic for your next hang for the next one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah It's it's really that looks really cool. Yep Um, you know, we did one on uh video and and I became a channels user out of that Which is now my primary means of watching television. There you go. But uh, this looks like a primary means of Yeah using ai Yeah, one of my primary means of using ai is to write blog posts and listener arie Wrote in and when I say blog posts, I mean very specifically the mackey cab show notes. Um, uh, and arie wrote in and asked You know, how are you writing blog posts with chat gbt and how good is it? Um, and I would say for me The wetlump The the the quick answer is it is good enough to do a rough draft is is really that's as far as I've found I'm comfortable trusting it today but That rough draft creation is something that I Don't generally take the time to do Which means then I have nothing to edit and therefore nothing gets published You know, I would I would put together for you know, 18 years almost 18 years I put together Very very sparse descriptions of what happened in the show And I know that that's not great for people searching for things even just searching on our website But also potentially seo, you know bringing in new listeners. Uh, it's not good for anybody And so now what we do is we take the transcript of the show, which is of course ai generated And then we feed the transcript into chat gbt and tell it to Distill that down into two paragraphs Actually, we have an engine called offonic that distills it down into about six or eight paragraphs I then take that feed it back into chat gbt and again, you can be transformative with this So it's fine to just keep telling chat gbt to continually transform your results So I feed that back in and I say, all right great Hey, and I have a text expander snippet for this, but it could be uh, what's the other thing called it was expanso snippet so I um I feed that back in and my my snippet is says take this um And summarize it down to two paragraphs Of the mac ekeb podcast hosted by and I list whoever that, you know, is the the people that were in the show You know, it's for this one. It'll be by you know pilot p and dave hamilton Keep it punchy keep it interesting and omit all mention of sponsors, right? Because it the sponsors of course in the the transcript and of course we link the sponsors in the show notes and all that But I don't need the narrative to include the sponsors It it just it sort of breaks up the flow and I wound up editing it out every time So I was like, well, let's just skip that that's fine And uh, and it comes up, you know, that gets me really really close and then from there I do some minor edits, but I guess I guess it thinking about this now The advice I would give is come, you know, figuring out what those prompts are and then Really honing down your prompts so that you get yourself to a point where you're not editing as much and one way to do that is to be aware of what you are editing repeatedly As you do each of these things and like for me, I knew I was taking out the sponsors every time So I was like, well, wait a minute. I can just tell chat GPT don't include mention of the sponsors And then I don't have to edit that out But you know add that to your to your prompts and it will start you will start to build a prompt that really gets you there so Just sort of paying attention and honing it down and then I'll tell it once it does that I say great now build me 120 character meta description because you know wordpress wants that and it does that too And then it's just like I'm good to go And it takes a little time but it doesn't take a whole lot of mental energy Which is kind of the key and so I can you know leaves me time for uh journal inspiration pete Great and it and it also does it um Grammatically correct So that's that's a nice thing but mostly well mostly but yeah, I find I do the same thing For for my show. Yep occasionally. It'll get something wrong It'll put like the interviewee in first person as opposed to Those are the things that you have to fix. Yeah, that's one of the things I I put in my prompt now is make it third person Yeah, oh, there you go. Okay, right, you know, yeah So I found that but it does a really nice job about hitting things that were even briefly mentioned But we're very funny. I was like, oh, okay. Let's emphasize that and then I tell it make it very persuasive for someone to want to listen or Um those things along those lines and I've often also found it useful when I write letters All right. These are the three points. I want to cover. Give me a letter that And and I found that it writes wonderful letters. Yeah No, it's it's uh, it's such a useful tool when you start Starting point at play with it a little bit and you'll find that it does such a nice job Yeah, let yourself play that I think that's really the advice that I can give is it's you're not The first time you use it You even if you use it for a purpose that chat gbt is good at and you might not like you might find Oh, this is a terrible way to use chat gbt. Great. Don't give up just because you tried away and found it to be terrible Know that that's terrible try something else Um would be the kind of the thing or let me offer this you should write to us At feedback at matt geekab dot com with a way that you find it's very useful that we haven't covered here Did you say feedback at matt geekab dot com? I did say feedback at matt geekab dot com That is one way the other way is you could join matt geekab dot com slash discord. We have an ai Uh channel there where we discuss all this stuff. So you would get to learn from each other Which is I that I love learning from each other like this is this is my favorite part of the show as As i'm sure is like painfully obvious at times. So uh speaking of learning things, uh listener jamie has a Travel hack cool stuff found thing to share ap Yeah, he did he wrote in and and I found that I had uh already Done one of these things, uh, it was it's basically this um, I've not seen jamie's letter But I'll tell you what it is he he sent us a link and and we put it in the show notes It's a hotel thermostat hack and he used one for what's called an amana Cooling heating unit that is usually it's it's it's like a split usually under a window is the the amana ones Yeah, um, I the other one is honeywell slash income in thermostat. I put a link in there for the hack on that It's great. He likes to turn on the amana and make sure that it has the fan on all the time So that he's got white noise that he sleeps through the children running down the hall and that sort of thing Which is great and he does put in his video by the way, be sure to put it back the way you found it when you're done You know, that's that's kind of the courtesy thing to do the honeywell one in there is also under the brand income incom and ncom and I put that hack in there That's the one that's been most annoying to me over the years Yeah, I I want to hear about this hack Pete because I that one as soon as I saw the picture of it I knew that I needed to know what we're about to talk about so yeah So what frequently these hotels will do is have they have a motion sensor on their thermostat Yes, well, guess what you don't do a lot of when you're sleeping Yeah, right some people do something doing good on you if you can do that and sleep But some people don't I'm one who doesn't so I wake up in the middle of the night either freezing Or in a sweat Yeah, right because the thermostat has decided well, there's nobody in here I don't need to cool the room or heat the room to the desired temperature and as soon as I get up to change the temperature It's like It kicks on it kicks back on. Yeah, you don't have to do anything. Yeah, right So again, well, I'll be up again in two hours or I can apply this hack and in this case it's It's in the video, but you touch the display hold the display button touch the on off and then hit the volume or the temperature Down I think and it'll go into a VIP mode or an le n. I don't know what le n stands for but Then you can set it to override. You're setting it to override the motion detector What? Yeah Oh, this is great. This is the best tip you've ever shared p. I love this Wow But again, don't be a jerk put it back the way you found it when you're done Yeah, yeah So but there's the links in there in the show notes to Get to these two different types of thermostats to make the room more comfortable For you you're paying for the room Yeah, yeah use it as you see fit and then put it back when you're done and everybody's happy I I um I walked into a hotel room in new york. This was 15 years ago and It was you know, a july or august day. It was hot and I walked in and the room must have been 90 degrees, right? And but I knew I was going out for the night. I was in new york to attend an event So it was just like I'm gonna throw my stuff and and literally walk out the door because I gotta go You know meet these people for dinner at this event or whatever and uh, but I was like I can't get back here with it being 90 degrees And and because I know when I get back I'm just gonna go straight to sleep like I'm I'm in this room for One reason and it's like I'm barely gonna use the lights So you set the thermostat down and left no that I started to And I looked and it was already set down and I was like, oh crap like this is How it's like there's nothing I can do because the motion sensor like as soon as I walked in the room It kicked on because it you know sensed my presence. Oh, there's somebody okay All right, I gotta think about this and I saw where the like the the air vent was I'm like, okay So and don't do this at home or in a hotel, but I'll tell you what I did Uh I saw that like the where the vent was it was blowing sort of you know across the the bed And there was a sprinkler hanging, you know over the bed. And so I was like, all right Well, wait a minute it and and uh the line of fire from the motion sensor also sort of aimed over the bed And the reason for all of this is because it was a new york city hotel room There was room for the bed that was it, right? So obviously everything happened over the bed because that's all that you get in the room You like you have to shimmy along or climb across the bed to get from one side of the room to the other and so I've thought about this in a long time. So I grabbed I had a shirt that I was going to wear the next day I took that out of my bag. I grabbed a Uh clothes hanger from the closet and I hung the clothes hanger from the sprinkler again I was aware of the risk of coming back to a soaking wet bed, right? Yes. Yes. I knew this I took the chance. Uh, I hung my shirt Light weight just a t-shirt From this hanger, but what would happen is when the air stopped that like when the air was blowing it was strong enough to put the t-shirt at an angle And when it stopped blowing the t-shirt would swing back and forth trigger the motion sensor Kick it back on it would hold it still until It's kicked it back off again, and then it would start swinging kick it back on and I'm like, all right This is got this is good. It's gonna get I gotta go. Hopefully this works and I came back to a really comfortable pleasant room Good for you. Yeah, man. Yeah, there's always a way to uh, when there's a will there's a way I was pretty proud of myself that night. Uh, I'm assuming it was a regular hanger not one of those anti-theft hangers You know, I don't know but it didn't matter. It was a very small little thing to hook it on Yeah, I got it. Whatever it was. I got it in there the column this george will used to say he was so insulted by those anti-theft hangers he would take them That's awesome You know chuck joiner. I'm sure this is a tip that many people know and I know chuck From mac voices learned it from somebody else years ago, but chuck posted a picture of a tip And blew my mind probably 10 years ago I am someone who likes it to be dark in my hotel room when I sleep Yes, and the the curtains are rarely engineered such that you get enough overlap To hide the the the light gap that I'll call it's not an air gap But it's the light gap and what chuck does and lots of people do this is you take the hanger That has the the clips for your pants the pants clips And you clip those to you to to to clip the the two ends of the curtains together And you're good to go So if you didn't already know about that tip that might be even more important for you than messing with the The thermostat so all right back to um Back to you know Tech-based cool stuff found not travel based cool stuff found That was helpful though the travel based cool stuff found. I hope it was helpful for you folks. It's certainly helpful for me rob uh, tells us about something called shortery that uh We that allows you to automate your shortcuts on your mac because the mac app for Shortcuts does not have automations in it like The shortcuts app on iphone and ipad does and shortery fixes that problem by letting you automate your shortcuts on your mac It is available for free with some in-app purchases Um, I have not messed with this largely because I automate my shortcuts with keyboard maestro but uh, I figured it uh, there were several folks in the discord using this and I figured That's the beauty of a cool stuff found as we get to share it. So thank you for that. Absolutely. Yeah, I hadn't heard of that one before No, same It solves a problem, right? That's you know, my guess is this will be solved at some point by Our friends at apple, but you know, I've learned to not apply a an expect an eta to those um to those guesses Yeah Yeah, tony has a I don't know if it's a cfsf or if it's a rumor, but it seemed interestingly enough interesting enough that I figured I'd put it in that uh Earlier this month ours reported that apple might be launching a monitor that stays on when you shut down your mac So that you get like smart home displays and things like that on your monitor think Um, whatever that mode echo Yeah, kind of like the echo but also like your iphone in in bedstand mode, whatever it's called the new thing that's coming in ios 17 Right where it's going to show you the weather and the time and all that while it's on your you know Yeah, well, it's charging. So that kind of thing um, you know, it's and and it's the always on display kind of uh idea so Yeah, I thought that was I hope they release an improvement to the s lady to At least compete with the ailey If you're gonna have a smart home display making smart for goodness sakes. Yeah Yeah, I've messed around I have ios Um 17 on a test device. I'll um, I know I said I'm freshly this is coming out right after max stock, of course I'm I'm about to go to max stock. We're recording this a little early. Um, we also also We'll be doing a live mac geek ab at max stock or by the time most of you hear this we'll have done a live mac geek ab at max stock I don't know the dummies Including something dummies, but also we'll do the mac geek ab caucus is the idea Uh, where we go through a bunch of issues together. There'll be like six of us on stage. It'll be a blast But uh, I don't know if the audio from that is going to be like good enough to call an official episode Or if we need to just release it as like, hey, here's something that you might want to listen to so, uh, I don't know if that'll be uh, 993 or not, but we'll we'll find out Yeah, yeah um All right Let's see. What else do we have here? Oh Speaking of travel We talked about this after ces. It's the snap 3 pro I have had this on my phone since ces and I take it for granted every single day. What it is You've never taken it off. I've never taken it off and p You were gonna you were gonna I was gonna put these things on my phone. I don't like them. I don't want them Pete is not wrong folks. He did not he goes all right So we can record the video of installing it for the review. I'll put it on my phone, but it's coming right off Yep, it has not left my phone in over six months at this point either. Yeah, I love these It is it is if you know what a pop socket is That's the function that this snap 3 pro from osnap.com That's what it provides however It is Much better than a pop socket because it's so thin that a I don't notice it in my pocket My mag safe charger works going through it So I'm able to leave this on my phone full-time. I put it on my case, right? So I've had the same case on my phone too, which uh, it speaks to the case. I think it's the yeah, it's a spec case It's the clear prosidio grip, which is I love it's awesome And and it the back even though the back has grip the grip indentations on the on this case and I'll put the model the specific model number in the show notes The indentations go down In it so it still works with mag safe and obviously with the uh with this snap 3 pro thing It's awesome. If you're watching the video, I'll I'll pop it up But just go and check it out on osnap rotates freely. You can spin the phone while holding it Yep, I can I can hold my phone with it. It like I love this thing So much and I I've had it queued up to mention in the show for quite a while now because of how amazing it is And uh, and so I am super happy to find it in my list I completely forgot that I had it in the list. Oh, there you go. I'm so excited about it. I do remember that you can take It's got both it grabs your case through both magnetic and yes glue And it but it's a reusable glue in other words if you take it off You I think you just wipe it off and the stick in stick them reengages That's what they say dust off it. I've never taken mine off to find out exactly Yeah, I I guess I guess when the uh, iphone's 15 come out that will be the day that I want to move it So I will I will move it move it. Um, but you know, there you go All right, um home run there. Yeah. Yeah Steve Hammond speaking of phones in a sense Tells us about a thing Called You get signal. He says, uh, I wanted to It is an open port check tool to check your your network It says I wanted to make sure that port 80 and ports 443 were open on my router And I used this tool called you get signal And we've got a link in the show notes, of course And it's at you get signal dot com and he says uh now I know What ports my isp is blocking and not letting me use and all of that stuff. So yeah, thank you I love tools like this super super handy. Thank you for Sharing that. Uh at the risk of mentioning something else that needs to go in the show notes. Is that similar to shields up? Probably but okay, I think with a different Intent, okay Shields up will tell you what's open and and and its intent is to help you secure your network This is its intent is to tell you. Yes, you've got your port forwarding set, right? I can get through into your network both are gonna tell you the same thing Just with a different uh different color different approach to it. Sure, correct. Yeah, but I'll I'll put I'll put Shields up from grc in the show notes too. That's a great tool. Yep. Yeah for checking out your network. Yeah, exactly. Yep Yep You got one for us. I do so I stumbled across this not long ago when my daughter asked me Is there any way that you can take the watermark out of this photo for me? And I said, you know, I'm thinking I'm gonna take something like acorn and and you know smudge and work all that and I'm like, yeah But no, it just didn't gonna work and I so I did a quick little search and I found watermark remover dot i o Interesting it comes with a hole at the coast. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is this is this is a um a tool with very limited Uh morally acceptable use cases. Yeah, but there's no doubt. It does an amazing job of taking the watermark out of the photos Um And the problem was she had this photo that she wanted for she liked this photo of herself She wanted to keep one copy for herself on her iphone They wanted a hundred bucks for a photo set to get to get any of it. Yep. And it's like so to To me, I want to say to the photographers. Okay offer something else Yeah, besides the hundred dollar package give someone a five dollar or a ten dollar or a twenty dollar package for that one photo of themself Didn't she offer that to the photographer because that that's the other side of this is saying hey I just can I get a low res version of this just to use on my phone It she she did ask and they said nope. That's it. Okay. Yeah, and it's like so, you know I don't know. Is it theft. Is it intellectual property theft? Maybe it is technically. I mean, yeah If you're gonna ask that question, I will answer it Yeah, yeah, I think I think it is technically. Yeah by the same token photographers offer something to somebody for For what they're asking make that possible. Yeah Because yeah, just because because otherwise you're gonna lose out on a hundred bucks and someone's gonna go remove the watermarks and Or you're gonna move. I'm sorry, you're gonna lose out on the five or ten bucks or 20 bucks for the one photo Yep, that they want and that's money you could have It is fair, right? I mean it this that the the conversation is interesting to have because With these kinds of tools out there the only thing stopping people from doing this is a there's two things right ethics and b Ease of use, right? So as the tools get easier to use, you know friction, right? So there's ethical friction and then there's there's sort of logistical frictions. Yeah, yeah technical friction, right? You got to go find one of these tools either probably 16 of them and And 14 of them don't do a great job and right like you you know, you're you're gonna spend some time going through a headache and all that And it reminds me as I'm sure it reminds many of you of like the days of say Napster, right? and then Apple Music showed up and Napster as the service that allowed for Peer-to-peer file sharing of songs Saw a huge decline the day that Apple Music started its, you know buy a song for a dollar service because people were like Oh great for a dollar. I'm not going to go through the headache of Dealing with Napster, right? Right, you know, but I don't want to buy An album for for 20 bucks just to pay for one song songs off it For 14 songs that I don't want for the two songs that I do want. Yeah, exactly And you know, I that really hit home for me when my dad I was at my dad's house And I'm like dad, you're running Napster on your computer. He's like, oh, yeah This is how I get um my friends and I share music with each other and I'm like, okay Yeah, your friends right got it Uh, yeah But he said listen, you know all my life I've had to buy nine. I've paid for nine songs. I didn't want to get the one song I did want now. I'm just recouping that investment You know like but Obviously he knew that that there was a you know that legally that was not Actually, what would that would not hold up in court But it was an interesting thing to see what did Apple do they offered what I'm saying they offered something Legal bingo at a better price. Yep better. Yeah Because people most people will take the moral ethical route That which is quote-unquote right If you make it easy for them to do that and that Like so, you know, it is what you did hear morally wrong. I mean, I think objectively. Yes Um, but like I said, it brings up an interesting conversation. Yeah, yeah Yeah, and it's here's the thing and I don't whether or not I did it The fact is watermarkroommover.io is there and it will swipe your You got clean photographers. So yeah, and I'm not here judging by the way. I'm I'm being objective about this It's a fair conversation to have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah that uh You know people make good money as photographers and I think it's getting harder and harder in this digital age for them to continue to make good money and not have their work Ripped off. Yep for lack of a better word. I agree. Agreed. Um, yeah, I agree Be flexible in your packaging and people will pay people. I think I know I I think so I I think so for sure. Yeah, I got uh, at least two things I want to mention number one I talked about the eave weather device the one that I'm hanging outside and I said that it was wi-fi It's not It's matter and thread Matter correct. So I was like, oh, yeah, it's connecting via wi-fi to my network No, it's connecting via matter and thread to my network. And so that that was an important distinction I wanted to make I I need to I I need to do I like From a technical standpoint, I think I could describe what matter is but from A like I don't grok it. I need to work on that So I I will and then I'll come back and and explain it to you and if one of you like has already groked it I'm sure you're out there. I like I'm sure I'm probably in the minority at this point I just it doesn't it's like ready to go regular expressions. I I'm not my brain doesn't like it Um, doesn't want to let it in but it will I'll force it to let it in Uh feedback at mackey cop.com. So thank you for for bearing with me on that and then the next one I wanted to mention while we're here is a service that's probably not gonna Seem like it's gonna hit my 20 percent mark, right? I have this 20 percent rule that things I like to have them hit at least what I believe would be 20 percent of you This one might not but it's a service called sm tp the number two Go sm p sm tp to go com sm tp is the protocol via which we send email, right? If you have your own domain and you want to send mail with it But you're just getting it say forwarded from your isp, right? You know, you got a domain You're just saying forward everything from this domain into my gmail account, right? And there sometimes are ways that you can convince gmail to send as your domain But not always it sometimes will ask you for an sm tp server and if you're You know Domain host doesn't offer that or you're not paying for that then you don't have that enter sm tp to go What this does is it becomes your sm tp server for you? And what's really cool about it is certainly, you know, you can send lots and lots of mail and pay, you know Anywhere from You know $15 a month all the way up But if you go to sm tp to go and this is something rod l pointed out in our discord So thank you rod And you drag the little slider all the way to the left to the thousand dollar thousand Not the thousand dollars. That's the other way thousand emails per month Slider it is zero dollars per month So if you're not sending very much from whatever this custom domain is you have this might be your magic answer So I wanted to put it out there Um, it is sm tp to go and of course it's linked in uh in the show notes And as I said free for up to a thousand emails per month, which every now and then intermittently with pia vpn I will get the hey, I can't send mail from this sm tp You know can't send it from this server and if I turn off the The firewall or the the vpn then it'll go. I'm wondering if I could use that See and here's so rod, uh is is actually in the live chat as we speak and rod says It's a great solution for Synology notifications Right because you need to send through an sm tp server. What are you going to send through bingo? Here you go So, you know, like I said hearing it you might not think it applies to you But now that you know about it the next time you hit that little hurdle You're gonna be like wait wait wait the guys talked about this. What's it called? It's sm tp to go So, uh, hopefully that helps hopefully something in the episode today Has uh has helped. Oh rod l also points out sm tp to go for those scanners that want to scan to email Right, you know, you scan something and it sends you an email. You need to put an sm tp server in here you go So The signups free no credit card. They're obviously not sponsoring the episode if that's not clear only a thousand dollars a month Only a thousand dollars. Yeah, you could slide actually, you know, can we slide the slider over and get it to a thousand dollars a month What's the uh, what's the number? So at a million 20 professional a million emails three million customer Yeah, three million goes to custom so I can get it up to to five twenty a month for a million emails That's really not that bad to be to be to be candid No, you're you're sending some serious traffic downrange at a million emails. Yeah, but but but if you're spending somebody Well, or if you've got a mailing list of of millions of people, right? Sure. Oh, yeah, I mean be huge enterprise Yeah, yeah companies Absolutely. Yeah, I like it and pretty soon, Dave We're gonna have that many listeners. I know that's correct. That's correct. And you're gonna need that We're gonna need it. That's right. Yeah, sign up at our make us pay make us hurt Sign up at our uh for our email at mac geek up.com. We want we want to feel that pain Um, absolutely share the show with your friends. 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