 It's time for Matt Geatgab and Mark M brings us our first cool stuff found for the week when he says look in the last episode You were talking about putting the Shazam widget on your iPhone to determine the song that's playing My watch he says has a complication Which is often easier to trigger than pulling my phone out of my pocket and the added benefit is that if it Recognizes the song it will give me the choice to play it locally on my phone or save it to a playlist We've got this shortcut for your Apple watch linked in the show notes at Matt geek gab comm More cool stuff found like this plus your questions answered today on Matt Geatgab 998 for Monday September 4th 2023 Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Matt geek gab the show where you send in cool stuff found like that You send in your quick tips you send in your questions. We share your cool stuff found in your quick tips We answer your questions. We try to string it together into an agenda that not only makes sense and is entertaining and informative to listen to but along those lines are being informative We try to make it so that we can each hit the goal of learning at least five new things every single time We get together and indeed I we have a bunch of cool stuff found to get through and here in Durham, New Hampshire I'm Dave Hamilton And here in Jolly Cambridge, England. All right, I'll stop with the Disney British accent Greetings everyone pilot Pete from England and I'll be home tomorrow. Oh nice You really don't sound you don't sound any different at all. So to me Pete, you know, the whole the whole English thing, you know Two countries separated by a common language language. That's right And for those watching on YouTube, I did manage to change the banner from 997 to 998 After Dave mentioned it and I looked down and saw the wrong number. Oh That makes it fun. All right. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for doing that. Yeah, I I said we had cool stuff found we do we have a bunch Walter brings us to our next one And he says it's a cool stuff found from our friends that make chrono sync He says I have a home studio Where I do some music recording and then I have an actual music studio about a mile or so from my home where I also Do recording he says I work in logic In both places sometimes multiple times a day ever since Dropbox changed to using Apple's file Provider infrastructure as their syncing engine or their detection engine He says I've been having real issues syncing my logic files Some wouldn't sync or when I would force things the files would be corrupted and that's not so good Of course Dropbox support pinned the blame on Apple, but that's just how it goes He says then I went to a logic forum that I frequent and they said don't do this with Dropbox. It's not gonna work and so They offered some advice. He says but I dug deeper and Once I did I found the answer He says I've been a long-time user of chrono sync from econ technologies and it's quarter chrono sync is $40 he says But they also have a little add-on for $15 called chrono agent that allows you to easily and quickly sync files including a two-way sync directly between two Macs locally or remotely So right so this is like you know, we talk about how Synology, you know running like cloud station is like your private cloud But everything is syncing to your to your disk station, but it is your disk station It's not like Dropbox is server this takes it one step farther where it's literally just syncing between the two Macs It's there is no server your Macs are it is peer-to-peer, right? So kind of like Resilio sync or what used to be called bit torrent sync But but different like that the tech is different and and he says That he's been using this now He says I have it set automatically to two-way sync a folder that has all of its logic files between his MacBook Pro at home And his Mac studio at every morning and he says if I've done work on a session at home Then later that same day. I want to work on it in the studio I only need to click a button and it will run the full sync immediately No weirdness with Dropbox or any of that other stuff and much less chance for things to go wrong So yeah, I knew about so hard. I mean that's the thing it seems like it shouldn't be Yes, but then when you go well if I delete something on this machine and I don't necessarily want it to be gone from that machine and yeah It gets ugly fast. It gets ugly fast. Yeah, it exactly. Yeah. No, this is this is pretty interesting this chrono agent I'd never heard about it before it's 1499 you can get a free trial from the folks and you can use it Yeah, you can use it across the internet you can hit this is yeah This seems ideal for people who have a desktop machine, but have a laptop for on-the-go and need Yeah, I mean for most people I would think that like iCloud syncing You know iCloud drive or Dropbox or Synology would would do the magic here, but clearly It's not the mat like like for certain use cases. You need something that's a little more robust and Chrono agent is the magic answer there pretty good awesome. Yeah, I know yeah, I like it pretty good our next one comes from listener Andrew who He lives down in I think it's Australia or New Zealand I think it's now that I'm saying it. I think it's New Zealand But this does apply to us here in the States and and I think Many other places he says my previous fiber internet service provider provided its own router Which included LTE 4g backup if the fiber went down so similar to the Xfinity Wireless, you know power save it whatever it is that the storm connect that thing that we talked about the last episode There's a name for it. I'm gonna come up with the name does somebody ask the storm ready wasn't it? Yeah, that's it storm ready Wi-Fi. Thank you So this was built in He says I recently moved to a new ISP and I'm using a netgear or be as my router And neither of course has a backup using the cell connections says however I also have a spare sim thanks to my Apple watch and the way we get things here in Australia So I guess it's Australia. So he says so I have 300 gigs per month on his fair shared family data plan Yeah, we definitely don't get that here in the United States not not it not at Podcaster salaries anyway, I get three gigs a month, but yeah, exactly I Says however, I saw that netgear has this 4g will call it a modem device That you can plug into your router and it's it's either for people that just want to use 4g service but it has the capability to do fail over to 4g service and Indeed, that's what he's doing There are two devices that netgear makes there is the L And I've linked them both in the show notes here at Mackie cab calm. The first is the LM 1300 which is USA only meaning it only works with USA carriers And I think it's it will work with Verizon AT&T and T-Mobile That's $85 on Amazon today as of the moment We're recording this and then there is the LM 1200 which looks remarkably similar to the LM 1300 Except that it is for the USA Europe Australia and New Zealand So it depending on where you are you you might need this one and this of course is a hundred and fifty Dollars because it has presumably different radios more radios in it, but but it has a little web interface and you set it up you would put it in between Your Cable modem, you know whatever is coming into your house for your your wired broadband connection you would plug that into this and then this would would sort of be a pass-through device before ahead of your router and It decides whether you have a if you have your primary connection Well, then great it doesn't need to fail over to LTE and if your main connection goes down It fails over and he said he tried it He tested it just by unplugging the cable and it failed over and he even gets a little text message about it That it it did its fail over thing, which I love my Synology routers have fail over in them And I have used it in the past I had to build a very custom notification thing in order to even begin to have a hint that there might have been a failover So I like that this automatically kind of has that built into it But yeah, that's a pretty cool thing like it's not it's not that the data service isn't included like it is with the Xfinity storm ready Wi-Fi, but But it gives you that capability. It's not battery powered, but of course you could battery power it with a UPS and right, you know, yeah, and I one one piece of advice that I will share if you're gonna Do something like this or even if like fiber connections here in the US like they're they're more stable during power outages than say Coax connections are but if the line comes down the line comes down Yeah, the tree hits the line the light ain't going across it. That's right. Yeah, the the physics limitation still exists but if you are going to do this and you want to have your Connection preserved in a power outage, whatever your connection might be I Highly recommend getting a separate UPS just for your router Which probably has a Wi-Fi access point in it But if it doesn't your router your Wi-Fi access point your cable modem or your point of entry device your ONT if it's fiber and That's it right because those things take up very little power compared to say a computer or Network storage device which has to spin discs and fans and all those things. I've had my router and my you know Cable modem or my ONT for fiber run for a day on UPS battery power Be just because that's the only thing on that one nice UPS So yeah, so just bear that like think about that as you're architecting your your network if you if you want to Maintain your your connection and I will say, you know, we have plenty of power outages here So I'm a I'm a decent test case. I Think in all we've been here over 18 years We we moved in here like literally right at the same time that we started Mackie cab like I think we moved in here Two weeks before we launched Mackie cab maybe a week. Okay, so we've been here 18 plus years and I think I can count One maybe two power outages where we lost our broadband connection during the power outage and None of them have been with the fiber, of course No, I need to do knocking on the wood. He done did it now Dave. Oh, yeah, exactly But and that's not entirely true because I had a weird thing with a fiber connection that was sort of surfaced by a power Cycling, but that's that's separate, but But yeah, it was with the cable But most of the time even with coax cable the power would be out for you know hours or sometimes days And as long as I could power the cable modem, I had broadband connection You know, it was only only if the literal pole with the cable line, you know coming in was down and and broken There was one storm I remember where I could see it across the street It was you know 150 yards from my house or something But I I know which path my cable line takes and I like saw it on the ground It's like, yeah, there it is. It's right there laying on the ground, but you know Doesn't matter. Yeah, exactly Nice. So yeah, yeah, so thank you for that Andrew I didn't know that devices like that existed and again if you've got like a Synology router It can do that for you automatically you need that you need to provide the device that will give it the second connection And it can be a USB based like you can tether an iPhone to it Which is interesting via USB. There you go. Yeah, and pay through the nose for the data in the States Yes, that's correct. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah All right, we have more though and so we do we will do that wait. There's more wait. There's less TN Papa in our discord channel shares that he says my new work from home situation Requires me to use both a Mac and a PC to support the teams that I have to support and Up until recently I was using two keyboards and two mice This was clunky and I did not want to use a KVM switch as the mice and keyboards are logitech wireless Oh, yeah, good point says I came across a really neat piece of software called share mouse Simply insta I it was a simple installation on each computer and the computers self discover each other Now when I move my mouse off of one screen to the next Control moves automatically to the proper computer. That's pretty cool How do it know I know and cross-platform to like that's pretty amazing. I like this Yeah, it's they cut they say that it's similar to a network KVM, but but way simpler. Wow Wow, I think of next that is That's outstanding. I think so. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that. That's amazing. That's amazing. Huh. I love it Same. Yeah Pete I want to blow your mind a little bit here. All right. I Yeah, I And thank you Tennessee Papa for that actually sure mouse is pretty much Yeah, I know that keep it coming. I'm just gonna keep it coming here. Have you ever wanted? You are a pilot. It turns out last time I checked. That's right. Yep That means that when when you're in the cockpit of the plane You get to see lots of data in front of you sometimes perhaps too much but one of those pieces of data that you get to see is the weather and When you're in the cockpit of your car There I have all I don't know about you But I have always wanted to see a weather map when I'm in the cockpit of my car And I finally found a car play capable weather map P. Oh, I know and Yeah, it's it like I if you're interested in this I would recommend going to get it now because I don't know how long it's gonna stay in the store Like I'm I always presumed that there were no car play Capable weather maps because Apple did not want to allow this in the store But I always wondered well, why doesn't some third-party like Navigation provider that can show you a map in the car. Why don't they just add a weather overlay, right? Yeah, and so that's kind of what this app that is called car dot play weather navigation It it's it like it is it shows up as a navigation app But it will show you the weather you can download it for free when you use it for free You see weather on a two-hour delay. So that's how they that's how they encourage you to do the in-app purchase But even that well is just enough to be like, oh my gosh Like this is what I've wanted for all these years if in fact It's something you've wanted for all these years and if if you haven't well, then then no I can see it because I Used case we drove to Florida in early July exactly spent a day in the storms and coming going Is it is it gonna end is it not and it was really nice to be able to To go at least on my phone to go to other apps and look and go, okay Here's where the weather is right and oh, it's gonna get really bad Now's a good time to stop and get lunch and let yeah, let's get lunch before Yeah, so let's just let's not get out of the car. Oh, yeah, exactly exactly. Yeah, Lisa and I were Driving back from somewhere the other day and it just started pouring She was like, you know, I was kind of thinking to stop to pee But I don't want to get out in the pouring rain. She's like forget it. Well, we'll just go home You know, it's like, okay, like fine, you know But um, but yeah having this would have been really kind of handy in those scenarios So but it's it's weird the screenshots show like navigation instructions on it It is called weather navigation for carplay like they're they're very It's janky it appears janky. So like hopefully I'm looking I want to look at the version history So it appeared in the store in May of this year and it's been updated several times without and the updates are the risky part When you're an app developer, that's when Apple comes to you and and says, oh by the way, you're breaking our rules You can't have this app anymore. So With if you update too frequently or not enough. No when you update your app is reviewed again So if you're doing something that might Run afoul of Apple's rules. Gotcha. It's the updates that are the riskiest moments because you're calling attention to yourself to the entire app Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had a thing with the Mac geek app in the store We we pushed and it had been in the store for years, right? We pushed an update and I got a note from Apple saying you're using an Apple Trademark in the the name of your app. You can't do that And it was like, okay, I'm gonna do it fine So I replied to the email and was like, you know, Steve Jobs is the one who approved our podcast who suggested not just approved Recommended that our podcast be included in the directory on day one of the iTunes podcast store I would I would call that an endorsement but if you want I can write to Steve again and ask him And the phone rang And it's weird with apples like app review team You have to put their their phone number in your phone as favorites and like can break through all do not disturbs because When that phone call comes you have to answer it. So sure You know a day and a half later on some random Tuesday afternoon or whatever My phone rings its appleites and pick it up and they're like, hey, we just wanted to let you know You're about to get an email your app update was approved. Everything's fine. We've put a flag on your account We're really sorry. This is never gonna happen again It's like, okay. Great. Thank you. You know, yeah Okay, thanks. So I'm gonna assume this occurred but before Steve passed. I mean could be wrong Yeah, that's a safe assumption there. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can write to Steve again, you know Yeah, right. Yeah. Don't make me do it. Don't make me do it yet. You know, I I couldn't I couldn't pull that card today Yeah, yeah, yeah, but but I you know, yeah You could still say, you know, Steve did approve this correct. I I would I would just word it differently. Yeah, exactly Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, that was another interesting thing like, you know, when we started the show we started the show Uh, two weeks before the itunes podcast store was or that the podcast directory was added to itunes But it was announced in like march, right the march event That they were gonna do it and it was clear that it was steve jobs who announced it at the march whatever event And it was very clear that this was like a pet project to him. He was super bullish on podcasts and So I was like, all right, I I want to make sure that we are in the the directory when it launches like like First of all, I want to be in the directory. Then secondly It's like we're the right Like that that initial audience is the right target for what we're doing here I just want to make sure they know about it And so I started writing to all the friends that I knew at apple and Of course, this was when steve was there and running things and none of the people I knew were the ones that Had were in charge of the directory and therefore Also didn't want to you know Risk being fired by you know, introducing me to the wrong person Because steve was there, you know, and that's kind there was this culture of well, you know, how it is if I tell you the wrong thing I can't but I can't but this is crazy like it's his project And so I got more and more frustrated as I got this same answer for more and more people And finally one day I was sitting here. I was like, this is what a stupid way to run a company the ceo Literally has this pet project and we have a thing that everybody even sort of objectively agrees Would be good for the ceo's pet project and yet no one wants to Risk upsetting the ceo By introducing me to someone I'm like, what if I ran this company? I would never let that happen I thought you know what in fact, I'd be angry about that part of the culture Exactly, but it's his fault right like he created this culture. So, you know So I was like, you know what that's it screw it. I'm right in steve So I wrote steve and I'm like, I didn't complain about his company culture because I I know you get more flies with honey, right? But I just wrote him a quick short email as as every email interaction I had with steve was you know, I knew And so I just wrote him and I'm like, hey, it's Dave from at the time from the mac observer We just launched this podcast mac geek. Yeah, I think it'd be perfect for inclusion in the store Been trying to get in touch with the right person. Don't know who that is I figured you would if you can help great. You might know Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, but and I also know that like If you are that person in middle management somewhere, right? Let's say Uh, a colleague that that I do was willing to introduce me to this person, right? So Uh, or or steve, right? I know that if you're that person in middle management and you get an email from a colleague or even someone who who is like reports to you Uh, that email has a certain level of priority And then if you get the same email from someone above you your boss or in this case the ceo That has a different level of priority I also know that someone who is the ceo has probably learned how to delegate And if they know that this request can be handled by someone else, they're not going to hem and haw about it They are going to pass it off immediately because that's great, right? So like all of these things are true So this is why I sent this email that I you know, this is informed me In in many interactions since then so maybe there's a tip in here for for us start at the top Um, because that person knows how to delegate Chances are with the chain of command, right forget the chain. Well, I don't work for the company So I don't need to respect the chain of command. You're exactly correct, right? Like I'm not company works for us We pay them money. So exactly that. I'm a customer. Exactly. So, uh 20 minutes after hitting send on that email my phone rings and it's like, hey, this is Keith In the podcast directory, we got your email here as the way he said it was as though I sent it to him We all know how it got to him. Like there's no bones about this He's like, yeah, we got your email here And uh, I just wanted to let you know we already had you included in the directory But taking another look here, we're going to feature you on day one and yadda yadda And and that folks is the reason that I'm the host of this show And not someone else because my initial plan was to get like everything else we did at tmo Was to figure out how to get it launched launch it and then let somebody else run it Delegate correct. Well, we went uh the day the itunes store launched with podcasts We went from having about 500 to a thousand listeners, which already was great Uh to having about 25,000 And then we started doing this q&a thing And questions started coming in and it was like, oh, this is awesome with one And I call it a caveat, but I'm really thankful for it. Like I love hosting the show But it was like obvious that was like, oh, I'm gonna need to be the host for a little while longer here. So I was 17 and a half years later. He's yeah thinking about sticking around for another two years I'm thinking about sticking around for a little while at least. Yeah, that's right. Yeah So anyway, so that's uh story time with davin p. There you go. There you go. Yep. Um I didn't get that banner up. Sorry speaking of Speaking of interesting things and bringing us back to cool stuff found and really kind of nice things about our community here um any developer alex hay passed away back in march, uh after a long battle with cancer And and he was he made a bunch of apps Many of them focused on shortcuts, right? He had toolbox pro Which was indispensable for people developing shortcuts logger for shortcuts that makes development easier because you get You know easier debugging Not a mate. Well, those three apps have been taken over by Um by snailed it development, which is uh rosemary orchards company You know rosemary from all the other podcasts that she does the automators being one of them I couldn't be happier about this that that these not only that these apps are going to be Tended to and developed and all of that but but like I can't think of a better person than rose to do this So, uh, I'm I'm super stoked and and she worked with their family With alex's family to you know to to make sure that this is handled the right way and all of that good stuff So, oh, that's awesome to keep that legacy going. Exactly. Yep. Yep. And uh, and I of course, uh, love the name of Rosemary's company snailed it Yeah, I love it. Yeah, it's good. So speaking of legacy Yes, there's her next school stuff. Oh, yes. Nice. Uh, nice little uh segue there. Yeah jeep jeepster Brings us to our next cool stuff found. What's happening with my uh, my my my shortcuts weren't working there for a minute But now they are. Okay, great. Um jeepster brings us to the this cool stuff found called Uh open core legacy patcher He tells us this lets you install newer mac os versions on max that don't support that version officially from apple He says i'm pretty sure I tried something like this called dosdude years ago and I don't remember it working very well Today he says I have an extra 2017 MacBook pro that I use as a non essential machine around the house when out and about I wanted to take the beta of sonoma for a spin. So this is like super advanced, right? But 2017 is the cutoff. So it won't support sonoma. I now have with oclp open core legacy patcher I now have dual boot enabled Uh with ventura and sonoma I tried both a clean install and also it upgraded a clone of my ventura when the latest beta of sonoma release came out a few days ago it updated successfully the oclp app that supports sonoma is also a beta, but it seems to work very well This is amazing. I I'm stoked about this. Wow Yeah, so I I've used I used dosdude when we first heard about it a couple years ago a number of years ago And I agree with with the jeepster's Assessment it was like janky. I would never have bothered to like Do it more than once, uh, but this sounds amazing amazing amazing. So yeah So now it sounds to me like you have to have an operating operating system On on board in order to install this or does this I don't know. How do I get started the boot? No, you got a question later in the show about someone who has a machine They're trying to get I think it was snow leopard on and we'll get to that. Yeah. No, this is Well, I'm reading the instructions here and it says Check our supported models page. That's page that's step one. So okay, great fine Step two is download and build the mac os installer. Okay, then Run the patcher on the installer. So it's it's the installer that's being Modified modified tricked to oh, yeah. Hey, don't worry about the what model just go on just go right Yeah, exactly. And then and then you reboot into the installer and do its thing and yeah, okay Interesting Huh Yeah, because because because jeepster said they did a clean install. So yeah, you didn't need to have this there That's really fast. I have an 11 year old mac book pro at home that yeah, you know, it's limping along right now Shall we say right right and this sounds ideal? I'll say Huh I like it. All right. The uh, the next one up that I have is a Continuity camera mount. I Long have used an iPhone here long before continuity camera was even Announced I think but certainly before we could have it I've been using an iPhone as my webcam here in the studio because it is the best webcam you can get for Your money and potentially the best webcam you can get like I Great I like yeah, but certainly for your money Don't don't waste your money on like if you're if you're gonna buy a $75 webcam Great, but anything else that you buy like if you if you want to spend 300 400 on a webcam In my experience the quality is going to be exactly the same as that $75 webcam and You know a used or a refurbished iPhone se is going to blow all of them away because it comes with apples camera smarts I use camo from re incubate To do it because I like the control that I get but of course you can use continuity camera because that's built right Into the us and it's a fine place to start and it might be perfect for you but you need to get them out and I have been I actually found a mount that I really liked years ago Uh, I'm trying to see if I can find these running around. There it is. No, no So this this I had this this like Goose neck style mount that I would clamp on to my the stand of my iMac and then it had a grip mount for my phone That would hold it This doesn't work all that well with my new setup that I don't have an iMac anymore And so I needed to find a continuity camera mount That works with the monitor that I have now this view sonic monitor that I have in front of my new mac studio Because my iMac is across the room dead And I found it. It is the sody sodi continuity camera mount and what I like about this Is that it lets me angle the camera Down I can tilt the camera without it falling off the monitor It is well balanced and it's magsafe So I'm using it with my iphone 13 mini And with it being magsafe I can also tilt it in that direction. I cannot swivel it So it is you know oriented the way the monitor is facing Uh, but but I can I can control it in the two acts the two most important axes There are moments where I wish I could also swivel it, but you know, I'll I'll live But if you know of a mount that it can swivel Spin and tilt let me know, but uh, but yeah, I I bought this SOTI continuity camera mount What two weeks ago? I'm looking at it on amazon right now as we're talking about it on the show I bought it for about 25 bucks. It is Currently unavailable. So of course it is of course it is. Yes The cottage industry of continuity camera mount strikes again But there are a few showing in the like also related to this that might work for you The stouchy continuity camera mount is slightly different But looks like it would probably do the same thing and that one might actually answer my other question I think this one will this one will tilt. Will it spin? Do it? I don't think it spins. Okay. No, it doesn't spin now But it does tilt. So there's another one there. I'll I'll put this one in the uh, in the show notes too because you know Because that's how uh, that's how life works. So yeah, right I am not seeing mine. I have one and I know we've shared it on the show before but I'll try and get to it again I know I got it on amazon Minds it's just a little three-legged flex tripod with that comes with an iphone mount And I think I paid 15 or 20 dollars for it on amazon. I'm not seeing it right now I just for whatever reason my amazon foo is dead today. Yeah, yeah, exactly But that that one obviously swivels and it will mount in all manner of ways to A table lamp to the tv to you know, all right. Yeah, when you find that when you find that in your amazon search history Let me know I'll add it to this. I'll spend some time looking during when we talk about the show swap come Yeah, okay. Cool. Yeah, cool um The I have we have a couple cool stuffs found left the next one is from paul I've heard a lot of people talking about this since paul sent it in paul says uh We were talking about apps and ways of finding details about movies and shows in in our discord channel at mackeykev.com slash discord and paul conaway in discord reminds us that casey lis from the accidental tech podcast has an app that he creates created And continues to maintain called call sheet Which is uh built for exactly this trying to find out, you know, who the actor is the liner notes if you will for uh for movies and And things and you can have it hired spoilers and all sorts of stuff So, uh, yeah once you told me about this paul, I downloaded it and I've been using it a ton. It's it's great Like it makes life way easier than trying to search the internet in that moment When we're trying to just be on the couch watching and or enjoying a movie or something So thanks for sharing that paul. Yeah. So hey, dave. I found mine and I will uh I want to mention it now because yeah today only if you're watching on youtube with us. It's it's 44 off It's $11 and 29 cents. Um the tripod. Let me uh, oh, I guess I could present my screen But oh, just tell us about it. It's fine. Most of the people are listening anyway. Yeah, there you go. That's true So it's the r a day a u red a y phone tripod flexible tripod And iphone and android cell phone portable small tripod with wireless remote Oh, I forgot it came with that and clip for video recording What is the wireless remote do? Uh, it it's actually a bluetooth remote that comes with it that will work with iphone and android to snap your shutter Uh, because you know, yeah, because you don't have an apple watch, which you can do that by the way Amazing you can control your there's a camera on your phone Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry a camera app on your watch to control your phone You can do selfies from across the room with that Fascinating but yeah, so you just you just you just grip this on this. Yeah, this is like those Oh, there was a there was a company that made these these tripods that had like, um They were like socket ball and socket and they came apart on me Well, but this the legs of this are are like like goose neck style legs where you can wrap flexible But grippy they will grippy and you can wrap them around things. Oh, that's interesting Yes Yeah Nice Nice nice nice cool. So you may remember at max stock. I showed that time lapse video Yeah, I was shot with an iphone that was hung from the ceiling behind my head Interesting in the cockpit and it just it was a place to put it up. Yeah, you just you just gripped it up Oh, I like that. That's pretty cool, man. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah fun fun fun Uh Awesome. All right One last one from listener rod who says for the people using microsoft edge Have you tried its new split screen view? He says I rolled my eyes when microsoft announced it However, after using it almost daily on my macbook pro I have to give microsoft credit for this one when you only have one screen This is a game changer I have not used this yet, but I I definitely understand feeling hampered when browsing the web with just one screen Which is part of the reason I travel with an extra screen Because I like to be able to split things out This is fascinating and you can really have both of them kind of active Huh Fascinating. Oh, that's a great idea. Yeah, I use it all the time on not not this but right. I use that function all the time on the ipad Right, you can do this on the ipad. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's built into the os for the ipad. So yeah Yep. Yep fascinating. Thanks for that. Thanks for that. The cool stuff found everybody. This was uh, I love these these segments, of course um I want to take a minute our We had several of you this week that reminded me that it has been Oh, we got out of the habit of specifically thanking premium sponsors premium members not nuts. 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Thanks all that's great um, the next thing I want to do pete is We talked about the new operating systems in the pre-show a little bit I do want to get to some questions. So I don't want to go too long here my friend, but um, But there there are a couple of things Well, I know us. I'm not that long winded But I you know, I it sounds like in it. I am running the the the betas on my juice and watch this Yeah, I I'm I'm running the betas on my on my phone my daily driver phone my 14 pro and my watch, which is a series five I'm not running it on any of my max yet. We can talk about that in a little while, but um But I am running it on my phone and and my watch As of last week. I am too. Okay. Yeah, and and so about the same time you and I you and I did this Yeah, and I the I In general and very happy with things my seary voice changed the it's a different set it now It's a different woman that answered me the other day in the car in syria, and I was like, who dad, you know, uh I the I am on seary voice two or I was on seary voice two The classic seary voice, which is what I had previously is now seary voice four So, uh, I don't seary voice one is a guy I yeah, I don't know. So I don't know if this keeps changing with different betas I think it did I think it changed with the most recent beta that I just put on like two days ago. So Uh, but anyway, I just share that because I I noticed it you might notice it too You might like the new voice I I kind of did but it was jarring because I'm very habitual, you know being a human being and all that Yeah, yeah, yeah I noticed the layout at the bottom of the phone for phone calls changed a little bit That has evolved during the betas the the hang up button didn't Was moved for a little while and now the end call button is back where we would expect it in the middle Back where god meant it to be in the middle Exactly. Yeah, exactly. So Yeah Okay, yeah, but and I noticed, um The the it changed the Picture that's allowed. Well, you can your profile picture and info is you can go nuts with that. Yeah, it's it's spread across it and and Yeah, I I figure I I've been I've been logging I didn't prepare a whole lot for the segment and like I said, I didn't want to go too far with it but I I have been preparing things for a segment like this that we can do sort of just before the releases come out where we can Just sort of detail that not only the things that have changed But the things you might not notice have changed but for now I just figured we'd talk about our initial impressions I like both That like the generic the general list of changes and UX enhancements Uh, both for the phone and for the watch. I am I am here for all of it, especially on the watch now Pre-show Pete. I I think you feel differently about the changes to the watch. Yeah, not a huge fan because the Well, there's they did a couple things. Um, first of all, I used the wayfinder face But I have the apple watch ultra, right and what what I used to swipe up to do I know, uh I'm sorry, what I used to yes what I used to swipe up to do I now have to hit the side button to do and what I used to hit the side button to do I have to swipe up to do okay. Yeah, that's fine. I'm good with that what has Driven me nuts is that when I turn the watch crown up It takes me to a a list of apps And what I used to get when I did that was changing my watch face from full color to a a muted red For a night mode. Yeah, because you get your your widgets now when you when you roll the crown, right, right So, um, but if I and I'm trying to do it. I don't we won't do it now because of the room I know it's too light But uh, if I if I darken it if I put my hand over the watch and darken it No, it's still not doing it. But yeah, it automatically goes to a muted red mode at night Interesting. Okay. That's cool and thoughtful except apple Did you ever think that maybe there's times during the day when I want to be in the muted red mode? Or at night when I want my full color because I you know work often at night in the cockpit I would like to be able to look at my watch and see a color Yeah, yeah, yeah, your yeah, your full colors play interesting. That's a little frustrating. Um, but I can see that Yeah, I would what I haven't done and it may be possible to go into settings and modify that and modify. Yeah I I will say that I find I always found it confusing I could never get to control center when I wanted to I could never get to the things that I wanted to get to I had to like swipe in six different ways It like it just never became even though I've had a watch since day one It never became part of like my fingers never knew what to do That changed when I put the new oh, yeah, you said that last week. Yeah You know so I get that yeah, but the other thing is like if I push on the watch crown It it shows me the icons for all the apps Except it doesn't it only shows me the top. I don't know half or thirds. I have a bunch of apps on my phone So I have to then turn the watch crown to scroll down to see them all I used to have them Almost all available But I knew where they were relative to the clock position and the you know I had one up here at about 10 o'clock was my altitude and over here at 9 o'clock was my time Those are now I have to search. Where are they again? I will learn. I'm trainable. Sure I I I've been in list mode for my apps for a very long time. I can't I can't do grid mode. It's that was too That's too much. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, I can see why people don't do grid mode I probably should go to list mode and yeah simplify my life because at least I know alphabetically roughly where it is Yes, that's it and you can have it surface favorite apps to the top and which is really nice So yeah, so that's good to know But so I found it to be frustrating. But you know, as you know, Dave Change is bad. Change is terrible for us humans. Change is absolutely. Yes, of course, of course Of course All right. 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I think you're gonna love it You can find and listen to midnight burger anywhere you listen to podcasts or just go to I love this We open at six.com. That's six spelled out. So w e o p e n a t s i x dot com Thanks to the folks at midnight burger for doing this All right, p Yeah, uh, greg has a question for us He says how do I move to the very first or last email in a list? I'm running an m1 desktop on ventura I have a smaller keyboard with touch id in the upper right hand corner and the function key in the lower left I've manually scrolled to the top every day when I check my email, which I know is a waste of time How do I get to the first or last email in the list? Well, there's two ways to do it greg and the way you're doing it is is certainly one of them and you know Depending if you have a few thousand emails. Well, that isn't is efficient. You are correct. It is a waste of time so your other option Pun intended I guess is to hit option command and then your up arrow or down arrow In the mac mail client that will take you to the very first or the very last mail I like it in the list. Yeah. Yep. It's great. Cool Uh, mr edd had I have nothing to add to that. So mr edd has the next question. He says, uh, I am trying to boot a 2006 macbook pro from an external usb stick So I can get all the personal info off of the drive before recycling The internal drive won't boot the folder icon with a question mark in it I have found several websites that offer a full os download of mac os snow leopard, but they seem sketchy Do you know of a safe place to get the download? So, uh, I think dave may have that answer My my initial answer is a safe place to get a download is you're gonna have to buy it somewhere Snow leopard I believe was sold and I think that's why you're not finding free downloads from apple But but keep going Snow leopard may have even been back in the days when they still charged for the operating system. So that's what I mean That's why you can't find it. I think you were saying they sold the the rights to that or something. No, no, no It was sold by apple. I'm I was gone for a while dave. I'm back So, um But the thing that you said in your letter is that that you want to get the data off this thing Of this machine so that you can then recycle it which tells me you are not looking to use this machine going forward. So Uh, a Simpler version to do way to do this. I believe would be to disassemble the machine Pull that sata hard drive out of there and then use I put a link in the letter back to him For a product that is a sata to usb cable that's available on mono price. I think it's for about 20 dollars Okay That then you can then plug usb into one end and and plug the sata connection into the other end of that hard drive And it's just a usb drive just mount on there and pull the pull the data off of there assuming That you weren't using file vault and then this drive is encrypted in which case Your mac os may recognize and ask for a password. What do you think dave about that? um Yeah, that I mean it if it's encrypted That file should come up right away When you start up even before the operating system loads or doesn't load, right? Like the file vault decryption will happen Yeah, especially but but i'm trying to think how file vault worked with snow leopard like i'm not I think it's not to say like there's no t2 chipped and there's no like I don't I forget it's been more in a couple weeks back So yeah, no no telling um, but I also I did put in a note to ifixit.com Which you can go in there you can fix your washer your dryer all that kind of stuff But ifixit.com and I then searched for tear down of a I think it was 2007 mac book And And uh, it took me right to it here. Here's how you take this machine apart Yeah, that's I guess it does a nice job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other way to solve this problem would be to um Boot into target disk mode because that makes your mac book pro the case For your external usb or thunderbolt like depending on you know what the connectors are And so and it does not require an operating system. That's built into the firmware So that was my I was going to suggest target disk mode, but I thought well if you can't boot Then you can't boot into target disk mode. So hold down the option key when you power up It's been a long time. Come on. Dave. You should remember this. I think it's t No, my my fingers say that it's either t or command t But I think it's just t hold on t and boot it up And that uh, would get that machine into target disk mode. So and then you can just usb to usb across the Correct. Yeah, then you just then it then that mac just becomes a a previously very expensive, uh, usb You know case external drive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So and if you have a fairly new machine You probably already have the cable laying around which is an old usb a to usb c Right. Otherwise, you're looking at usb a to usb a which is a very uncommon cable Yeah, we used to we used to keep them around for that reason But you could also do it over the thunderbolt port, which I think that computer has and that would be way Way faster. So sure, but yes, I mean, you know one way or another like just trying to drive some data off it before you go and then I uh, and and then the other thing is I would destroy Well, you're gonna cycle I would pull that hard drive out. Anyway, if you're gonna recycle it I would not send that back with data on there Here's why I don't know. I'm not saying anybody's doing anything nefarious, but you've got social security numbers bank records bank account numbers That sort of thing destroy hard drives. I found an 80 gig and a 60 gig hard drive this week when I was cleaning out a closet And I went I'm not just going to throw those away. I so I smacked them a couple times with sledgehammer in the in the driveway And that's fun and then sent them off, you know, it's just that's fun. Yeah Yeah, fun Seems like a security thing to do I don't disagree. I don't disagree at all. All right You want to take us to cure it pete? I can do that right cure it wrote in and said Dave and pete after the last show I got very excited about Xfinity storm ready wi-fi internet backup for network and power outages So I went to the Xfinity store and bought it after coming home. I tried to install it Which is to plug it in To power it on and it is supposed to show up in the Xfinity app and you have to follow the instructions However, my Xfinity app did not show the device menu After all the troubleshooting attempts, I contacted Xfinity tech help Finally, I found out that because I use a router and have a modem in a bridge mode This will not work. They want Xfinity to be the prime gateway It's too bad because it was a great deal and or a great idea. Well, it lasted My question is can we have both use Xfinity box to transmit its radio and also connect that to the router for for that network Uh, I suppose not it's one or the other But I can I get another modem from Xfinity and run that as a gateway for a second alternate internet in the house Your thoughts. Yeah, love the show never miss it. Yeah, you can do this cure it. Um, you would have to You're right that like the Xfinity gateway would need to be the first thing And it would need to be in router mode not bridge mode bridge mode essentially means that it's just passing the connection through And it's not doing any routing. It's not assigning IP addresses It's just kind of in dumb mode if you will so you need to put it not in dumb mode It needs to be in smart mode because that's Xfinity's they that's what they've decided Once you've done that you could then take your existing router you don't need to get anything new and Leave that right where it is hanging off of the Xfinity gateway And let your existing router Route your network what will be happening is what we call a double nat scenario nat being network address translation But really what it means is you've got two routers running on your network one behind the other this used to be Very much something we did not advise it's still something that if you can avoid It's not a terrible idea to avoid it But it's not as bad as it used to be network gear has gotten a lot smarter The way things get to pierce firewalls and like do all of that stuff is a lot better now And most people running what we call double nat scenarios have zero trouble at all Even if they're running, you know, like a Private cloud server like a Synology drive or whatever things find their way through that the real issue is your router That thinks it's a gateway is actually not the gateway, right? You know your your Xfinity router is the gateway So it talks to the Xfinity router as though it's talking to the internet at large And it's not talking to the internet at large, but again things have gotten a lot smarter It's not as bad as it used to be You can you can and I would advise trying this to see how it works and test all of those kind of servery things that you do the If you if you have a disk station if you have You know, whatever people a Plex server running make sure people can still get to that one thing that you could look into doing And I I think the Xfinity gateways support this. It's been so long since I used one so forgive me if I if I've got this wrong, but The Xfinity gateways or most routers allow you to set what they call a d m z Stands for demilitarized zone It's a terrible term because it doesn't really describe what you're doing What it really is is it says take all of the inbound packets that you would normally ignore And send them to this specific device on my network I'll deal with the security from there, right? And so if you d m z to your router, right from the Xfinity gateway Everything that comes into that that it doesn't know what to do with Send it to your router that will really help deal with any of these things because your router thinks it's going to be the one Fielding all of those requests and by d m zing it you are making it the device that's fielding all of those requests So that might that might get Okay, yeah, that actually brings up a quick personal scenario what you started talking about double Matt. Um, so I went down last week to move my daughter into her apartment Okay, and they have open wi-fi and she asked would you please bring my sonos speaker that I could never get to work in my Doorm room. I would love to have that and so I did Well, there's open wi-fi. Guess what doesn't work on an open wi-fi system With no password Really sonos requires a password for the wi-fi network Yes, and I guess it's so other people can't jump in and start using your speaker or something interesting It's the only way I can think about it. But yeah So what she does have is an ethernet port in the wall So I I said go and I was going to do it for her but they were out of stock that day So she bought a 40 router and I said, I think you just plug that into the wall create your wi-fi And put it in the bridge mode And it will pass through or yes, should she oh, okay, it will pass the ethernet It's going to create a little wi-fi network This wife. Yeah, she's going to plug in ethernet right into the wall And now does she need to put it in the bridge motor? Can she leave it in the Oh, no, I definitely wouldn't put it into bridge mode I would I would I would leave that in a double NAT scenario and then connect to its wi-fi network You're connecting the sonos to its wi-fi network and then also it Like the phone to that wi-fi network and control the sonos that way. Yeah, yeah, that's what I did And I actually had told her once she when she did that It wouldn't be a bad idea to use her laptop on that cute little network that she creates as well Now she's not out there Correct with the firewall open on the on the company so to speak. Yeah, no that that's yeah I would I would use that router as her only wi-fi right? I mean if obviously if something goes wrong she can connect to the other one But but yeah, that would be the primary wi-fi network would be that one Because she won't be able to control the sonos and yes Absolutely put it in router default mode. Okay, not yeah, you don't want to in bridge mode. No. Yeah, you want interesting. Okay. Yeah Yeah Yeah, interesting. I did not know that sonos would not work on a passwordless network I mean, I've never tried it. I you know, but we've talked about four failed attempts I've I finally gave up and called sonos support and talked to a nice gent over in the Philippines and he said no You can't do that. I'm sorry Fascinating Fascinating. Yeah, but it makes sense because that way people can't jump on your speakers and start controlling them. No, it makes perfect sense I I'm just I'm more so it like The logic here is sound. I'm I'm impressed that they did it I just am surprised that how long have we been talking about sonos on this show? Like and how have we like this is never came we never got somebody It was like I can't get my sonos to connect to my network. You know what that tells me That tells me every one of you out there that at least those of you that are using sonos Has a password on your wi-fi network. And so I feel like maybe we've done our job Hardly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. But speaking of unsecured networks. Yeah, man So my another personal story here, but my wife had a void phone for her for her work And last week they decided to do some firmware updates to it and guess what doesn't work So in in the process of dealing with it, she gave up You know her screen joined this support session and they're looking at a million different ways trying to fix this phone and he's looking at our ip address and Okay, you're you're with fitium fiber or a no couldn't figure out why you know, are they doing something or you Did you change your network? No, no, this happened. And then just for grins He put in my public ip address on fitium sure and lo and behold My sonology router responded on port 15,001 But actually responded on port 80 And redirected to port 15,000 or whatever it's set to yes Because I moved it to from 5,001 to 15,001. So it would at least be you know Someone would have to be hunting for it. But what i'm shocked is he didn't put in, you know Dot xxx colon 15,001 he didn't put the port number in my router just responded. Hey, what's your username and password? And i'm like, whoa, he started typing in admin. I'm sitting there watching him do it I'm like, oh no I said, guess what? Yeah, I said I I can get you the into the router so you can look at the dhcp tables and the port forwarding and all that stuff I said, but but there's no admin account on this router and boy am I glad because that takes away one piece of information First of all, I was not aware and all this time I wasn't aware that my router was just going to respond to my public ip address without a specific port number being typed into it Um, well, it's because it answers on port 80 and and then redirects. But yes, that's correct. Yeah. Oh, you're right Yeah, yeah, yeah That surprised me but that years ago a couple years ago now sonology came out and said, you know We would if I were you I'd disable the admin account. So I followed their advice and I did So now To get into my router you have to have both my username and my password not just admin and my password. So it's it's Double hinky and I want to I want to step further. We've talked about this before as well I set my router up to Automatically deny any ip address permanently that has three failed attempts in 24 hours. Oh nice. Yep So yep Yeah, it's good. Yeah, you could also go into The firewall of your router and block requests on port 80 if if you don't want it to do that redirection Right. Well, the question then becomes if I do that can I still get in via my? quick connect ID Yeah, yeah, you can it like, you know quick connect will get you in but you could also get in with the port directly You're just like what what surprised you I think if I'm hearing this correctly is that He tried on the default port 80 or maybe 443 But you know one of the the normal ports that you would connect to a web server and what your router did Which is which is the default is it took that request it answered on port 80 Told it redirect to port whatever you've got it set to 15,000 or whatever and then You know showed the login page You're and again, I I think I'm understanding this right your expectation was that You thought that people needed to know the port number in order to get to that login page So you could you could go into the router's firewall and block all requests on port 80 And then it would not do I don't think I haven't tried this it would not do that redirection But your point about disabling the default account named admin whatever the default accounts are If you can and not every router lets you a lot of routers have just a Hard-coded username and that's the end of it. But yeah, yeah Yeah, and if you do that if that is your case then have a really strong password Yes, people can wreak havoc upon the change it regularly. Yep. Yep. And uh, brian or sorry Mark m bryman row has given a lot of great advice during this episode And I don't think I've I've thanked him yet. So thank you brian Mark m for this specifically says yes, it's good advice to change your admin account names on a lot of things Your router if you can your your network storage devices like at the disk station if you can and also your wordpress By default it used to be it's no longer this way But it used to be that your default wordpress username was also admin. So change that too. Yeah, that's right Yeah, I forgot about that. Yep. Yeah, they they fixed that that's no longer the case with new wordpress installs But if you've got an old one, I do have one where I still log in as admin and every time I do I'm like, I know I got to change this but Pain in the neck. I don't want to have to do it. So Yeper Gary has a question and we still have some time Gary writes I brought home a business card from an event last night On it is a qr code to sign up for notifications for the life of me I cannot figure out how to turn on my max camera on my iMac I don't want to fire up FaceTime and I don't see another path. It's likely right in front of me, but I'm stumped Can you help? I can help but I want to before that mention that gary got a hold of us through Feedback at mac geek gab dot com. That's how he wrote to us. That's feedback at mac geek gab dot com That's what I said feedback at mac geek gab Dot com don't yeah, man talk too fast Uh, my suggestion was photo booth app Is uh native to the mac. That's how I would turn on the camera. It will do all kinds of cool things for you I'm not sure I understood completely wanted to do maybe take a picture of the card with his mac or will Will the camera I hadn't tried this just thought of it now Will the camera on the mac recognize it as a qr code and let you go to no No, it won't you need to use an app that will do that and there is one. I found one Called qr scan. It's available. I believe for free in the mac app store And uh, and it will use your max camera to read and even create Uh, some qr codes. So yeah scan read generate qr and bar codes So, uh, I'll leave that link in the show notes at mac geek gab dot com. Okay And then almost a maybe a bonus cool stuff found. I may have talked about this one before or not I use iq r yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah to create my qr codes and it allows me to embed Little pictures in the center of them and that sort of thing. Oh, nice Cool And that's a mac app. Is that right? No, I'm sorry. That's an ios app qr. No, I'd take that back It's a mac app iq r is a mac app. Yes. Yeah, I'm Again, I was gone. I'm back. It's it's the time zone differences. It's all good, man. I can barely hear your accent It's totally fine. It's uh, it's almost 5 p.m. In in the united kingdom. Yeah um I'm trying to think of where to go from here Andrews is good. Yeah, let's do andrew. I'm just looking at the amount of time we have So andrew uh, andrew right, but we'll do it. We're gonna do it Andrew says i'm having issues with my apple tv and I wonder if it needs to be replaced or if there is some External issue I was watching my apple tv and it seemed to become unresponsive and glitchy I restarted it when it came back and could not access any media or content from my apple tv plus nor anything from any other Application, okay? I restarted it once more same outcome went to the network In the settings on the apple tv and the error showing up was that there was a problem with the network and try again later Okay, the ip was self assigned beginning with 169 Okay, I disconnected it from my euro network and then reestablished the network connection Still no success. I rebooted my euro no success But other devices in the home were accessing the network without any issue iphone ipad You know max no issues whatsoever I reset the apple tv and went through the setup process again Uh, make sure you know the passwords for your network and apps so you can log into them again. Yep, okay Uh, he says that did the trick and the apple tv was functional again But wait the next day the same thing and the same process and the same outcome This is a uh, this is not the latest version, but it's the one just before it So it's a 4k apple tv, but not the 4k apple tv version 2 or whatever we're supposed to call that Pete do you have any thoughts? Yeah, well, I my first thought was I was wondering if there's the same sort of thing that was having my my iphone would not It's a similar ios. Um, it would wouldn't join my home network at least not my 5g one. It's like, uh so, uh, I Tried I would say tried Logging the apple tv off taking it off and leaving it off for 24 hours and then logging it back on that was um Okay, one suggestion and What I wound up redoing or doing with my phone to finally make it work because the several attempts at that didn't work I renamed it from uh, the capital letter at the beginning of the network name to the network name in all caps But then that of course led to its own issues right you have to log all your internet of things Onto the new network don't do that. So yeah You hate doing that if you don't have to right But um, but then I found an article now this article is 10 years old So it is a previous issue a same issue with another version of an apple tv and he brought it to the apple to the apple store and they said, oh, yeah, it was a firmware update that we did and we're seeing this issue and We can't seem to fix it with The engineers working on the new firmware updates. Here's a new apple tv Wow Yeah So even though it was long out of warranty Yeah, yeah, you know that he got a new this guy got a new apple tv out of it And it was and I said would that link we can put that there in the show notes as well That's that was a macworld.com article uh back in 2013. So Fascinating it's been a week or two since that happened But yeah, apple when they do something when they break something Even if your things out of out of warranty, they'll fix what they broke. They will it's true. Yeah, it's true Yeah, yeah, yeah Fascinating Huh the other thing you could do And and this is more of a sort of punt Uh, it doesn't fix the issue it bypasses it. You said that you have some eros around If you have an ero close to your apple tv Many ero models have ethernet ports on them that we forget about but you can plug into those Even if it's your satellite era right like, you know, you got your router euro that's across the house And you've got some satellite ones because that's the mesh points doing their thing those mesh points If they have ethernet ports on them, which most of them do you can plug into that And then that device is just connected to the network via the the, you know, eros backhaul So it's not doing wi-fi But it's fine and it works and it can even make your network a little more efficient theoretically, so By passing the wi-fi issues just plugging an ethernet cable from your apple tv Into that ero could just solve the issue entirely and bypass Yeah, and I like my son just set up his uh His new apartment and he has his own wi-fi network We got him I gave him a bunch of eros because you know, we had to get him set up So first of all, you know with great power comes great responsibility. This is his first I told him I said well, you're really sort of graduating into adulthood here Lucas I said, you know, you're you're managing your own wi-fi network now And as soon as we got to his house, we joined his network, of course Lisa and I went over to visit him on Sunday and uh And then like I don't know we were we did a bunch of stuff helped him around his house Helped him try to put this air conditioner in I got a big lump on my head from the window falling on me We did all this stuff and uh We were talking about where to go for lunch and Lisa was like I was just having trouble pulling up the menu and Lucas is like, oh, I might have uh I might have disabled your your wi-fi access He's like I just went through Lucas. He's like I just went through and turned off all the unknown devices And I'm like, man, you please he's like, well, I don't want my neighbors getting on my wi-fi I'm like, you know, that's not how it works Lucas like they need your password the only devices that are on the wi-fi are ones that you've given the password to He's like, yeah, but they weren't mine. So I just turned them off Like in the last 90 minutes while we've been helping you with your stuff For a small fee mom and dad you too may join Exactly but I did tell him like look if you put one of these zero mesh points on your tv stand Plug everything into it and then that way you're not dealing with because he's in an apartment building And so there's going to be some level of wi-fi congestion. You know, he's in a downtown area So like I'm like just put you know Use that and I even gave him a switch like an old gigabit switch or whatever a non smart switch because it turns out We have a bunch of those now that I've replaced all my smart all my switches with smart switches I'm like just plug them all in. He's like wait. That's a great idea. I'm like, I know that's why I gave it to you like like There are like it turns out. I I'm not entirely clueless all of the time, you know, yeah Well, you know dad But yeah, I couldn't believe he just sort of silently went through and just disabled all our devices I like like thanks, man, you know next time you're at the house I can do that too, you know You'll notice I have yet to But uh, yeah with great power and actually he has a sign on his desk that says i'm just here for the free wi-fi Yeah, yeah, well, that's why I was at my son's apartment was for his free wi-fi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, it turns out it wasn't free. I uh, I had to buy him lunch So uh, there you were yeah, it wasn't free. So there that's why he let you back on And I still have this lump on my head from the uh from the from the window, man That's extra. You're lucky you didn't charge you extra for that. Yeah, no kidding. So hey, here's one that That was in there and we won't read the question But if you're getting a notification on your watch that you have health issues get it checked out Save the guy's life. It did it saved saved a Mackie Kebler listeners life. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that story with us Kenny for sure. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm glad Obviously, I'm very glad that it worked out. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, you're you're watching probably isn't erroneously telling you that you're having Irregular symptoms with your your heart And it's easy if it's easy for you to get that checked out. Please do. Yeah. Yeah You know what even if it's hard get it checked out. Oh, yeah, that's fair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah Because the The alternative may be permanent and not in a good way and not in the way that we would want right. Yeah, exactly All right. Thanks for hanging out with us folks. This has been a fun one Uh, the next episode that you will hear from us will be episode 999 because of course this was 998 999 will be the episode that we do after apple's keynote on the 12th So there will be no there will be one episode that week and it will be the keynote reaction episode And i'll tell you the reason we're doing this pete can't do the keynote reaction No, if he didn't screw it up apple screwed it up pete can't do the keynote reaction video with us because of timing, right? Yeah, and We want to have pete here What when we do mackey gabba thousand so uh, we're gonna have a special guest or two with us a thousand's coming up I know so uh, so pete will be here for for episode Episode a thousand he will not be here for episode 999, which will be the keynote reaction video that we do after apple's Uh announcements on the 12th of september But uh, so instead of releasing we'll release this on the fourth as you're probably hearing and then uh, We will not be releasing an episode on the 11th. We will be releasing an episode on the 12th So yes, we are playing with the schedule to keep the the numbers these arbitrary numbers Some of which are important to us 999 is also important to us. We were thinking about it before the show It will be 112 episodes Before we get to do the that again where all of the digits are the same But we get to do 999 which is cool in and of itself And then we get to do a thousand also cool and a fantastic milestone And then we get to do a thousand one which is like a very cool palindrome that we get to do so, um, you know, so yeah Yeah Yeah, all ones and zeros and zeros and ones zeros and ones and a couple of nines Well, three three nines thrown in well in that now i'm saying in thousand and one and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right Right, right, right. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, we will have a couple of those but um, but the palindromic episode numbers that will be I don't I don't want to sound like we're we're speaking permanently or whatever here, but that A thousand one might be the final palindrome episode of mac e-cap because the next one would be Oh, no, no, no, no the next one would be one one one one Yeah, right because it which is 112 away Yeah, but it would always have to be ones ending in one. So that yeah that one that one will happen Yeah, so it won't be the last one. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Okay. All right. Yeah. I don't think so anyway I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what the heck yeah 10-1 11 11 12 21 Right, right, right. But those are starting to get up there in the that's many more years a few hundred away But yeah, but a few hundred away is is is like I can I can imagine that we would still be doing this then You know to think I was for whatever reason. I was incorrectly thinking that 2002 would be the next one. It's like, oh man. I don't know if we're gonna make it to that like maybe who knows I have no intention of stopping other 18 years, you know, yeah, right another 18 years Let me move my walker out of the way so I can Yeah, that's right. That's you know, I used to When we first started the show I stood up when we recorded and really the old because I found my my energy and attention Was was better when I was standing The only reason I stopped is the alcove when we moved upstairs once the the construction on the studio was finished The alcove that I record in Uh, there is no I could I can stand in it But I can't have a desk up high enough because it's in like if you've seen the videos It's like there's there's the the ceiling like a dormer. It's in like a little dormer That's exactly like I'm gonna mess with my camera if I try and show it But anyway, uh, I did mess with my camera Okay. Well, anyway, it it is like a little dormer kind of thing. Yep. This is great. I really did a nice job You done did it now Dave? Yeah, sure did twice today. That is, um So I I haven't stamped but I even behind me I have an adjustable desk like I could I I I like the idea another another 20 episodes I I I might want to be standing then so there are another 20 years of episodes Not just 20 episodes because I keep the blood flowing and all that good stuff Anyway, yes lots of fun numbers coming up. Thanks for listening folks Thanks to the folks at cash fly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you Thanks to everyone who sent in questions and cool stuff found this week Thanks to you for listening and as Pete said earlier in the episode Share the show that is our ask for this week Thanks for hanging out Thanks for checking out our sponsors. You can always do that at mackeykev.com slash sponsors Thanks for making the time work with the the the craziness and uh in in in england there, pete Yeah, and uh While you're there traveling home and all of this stuff. I I want to make sure that uh That that you take care of yourself that you have all of your your stuff and and all of that but For the most part the the most important thing I want to make sure pete is that you Don't get caught Made so I just realized I don't think I did the little whoosh at the beginning of this episode. I don't think you did No, you could probably uh, I'm not gonna I could probably splice it in I could easily splice it in Yeah, you're not wrong. Maybe I will maybe I will. Yeah, it's it's just for consistency's sake. Yeah, yeah I found That uh using a phonic to do my shows It it will if I put the wrong filter on it will take them out of my ads Oh Oh, you know because I use a swish going in and a swish going out and I found I take them out and then uh Actually started using the a jet flying by to start the ad and the jet landing to finish the ad That's cool. Okay. Uh, what are these? I forget what model these are I I'm I'm trying to answer Orthose John's question Oh had it right. I'm pretty terrible about being on discord. No, I'm pretty sure this is right. Yeah It's it's these I I need to share that I lead a very charmed life And I did not pay for these. These are a A a press media consideration. So yeah, they are the jh audio Layla's they are um Built to be reference monitors. Um, so they they have like, I don't know 14 drivers per year 12 drivers per year Yeah, it's crazy. I mean retail they retail for 22 hundred bucks. It's crazy. Yeah. Wow. So these I got to show you these then So these are my Lenovo travel buds. Yeah, it's not going to work because of my face So they you've got to turn off your thing to show people they retail for 22 hundred Sense, yeah Exactly. Yeah. No, these are maybe the jh audio Layla's Um, I will I will zoom in There you go So I I just had him put the jh audio logo on him here. I can't hear Pete for the for the moment, but now see them Yeah, so Now I can hear Pete again. Yes Okay, I'll quit talking bad about him now But yeah, I kind of like the red it's it's fun Um, I don't like these for gigs like they're they're good for the show Once I learned how to listen to them for the show Like they've been great for us. Uh, it took me a little bit to learn how to how to tune them. So yeah And uh, I just assumed Dave do you do you turn them way down? No, no, no, okay, because I know yeah, I mean how many how many uh radio DJs over the years were were the in-ear monitors and just Oh, you know deaf after doing that for 20 years. I know. Yes. I I do not have them terribly loud Yes, I mean and I'm used to on stage like, you know, it's interesting when you talk to like the the hearing Association I forget what they call them the American Hearing Association or something They list earplugs as a form of hearing protection for musicians They do not list in-ear monitors as a form of hearing protection Interesting and I was at one of their sessions at South by Southwest Uh, I think it was this year And they kept saying that and I understand why because with a volume knob You can make it louder You can you can hurt your hearing just to your point But I I went and asked the question. I'm like look Will you please? Articulate that better for everyone in the room. I know why you're saying they're not good. They're not officially hearing protection But I also know that when used properly, they are fantastic for hearing protection. I'm hearing myself bleed through Yeah, no, you were and because I was seeing I was just checking something for you got it. Yep, but yeah, yeah, yeah, but um Like it like and they and they did they're like thank actually Thank you for bringing that up there like and they went they sort of went through it and I'm like, okay good Because if you tell people these are bad for hearing protection Musicians, especially they're going to be like, well, why I'm not going to go to those. I like wedge monitors I'm just going to do that. It's like nope. Nope. That's Really the the wrong way to interpret what they're saying to you I on my on my Most of my gig rigs. I have an inline limiter as well for my in-ears to keep the any transients from like blowing me out to Because you know Especially if I mean it well, even if I'm controlling the mixer like I don't get to control What the guitar player is doing and if the guitar player, you know reaches down and and cranks it up You know, it's it's not so good. So yeah, and I am using camo Eden Eden is on on youtube. So yes, I am absolutely using camo You can probably tell that both Pete and I are because we're putting our our little Our little things in here. You can do so many cool things with camo No, and so the reason you heard yourself is I was just trying to see where I was at there are 16 Well, if you include zero 17 volume notches on the mac volume setting. Yeah And I am down I when we do the show I am down on two or three. Yeah Yeah, it is I keep it really low in my ear. Um, I've got enough tinnitus or tinnitus that I I do everything I can not to make it worse and in a quiet environment. I'm fine I can hear a voices and that sort of thing What really gurus me and I don't know to what degree you experience this If there's any sort of the background noise like a television or something like that Then I find that I'm actually rigging lips along with Conversational interesting. No, I I'm pretty particularly hard as people wear masks. I couldn't hear a damn thing Interesting. No, I'm my hearing is still pretty good. I mean, I started wearing earplugs when I was like 15 14 so Like I got I got ahead of the curve. I'm I'm I'm definitely fortunate in that way You know, I always thought I was Dave I always wore double hearing protection, especially around the the Harrier jet is an extremely loud jet and a really high frequency wine at idle And loud Yeah, and I always wore double hearing protection. I was very jealous of keeping my ears in good shape And everybody I know that that flew the Harrier with me is all experiencing that the constant ring in the ear That's It's frustrating and I never even took when I got out. I didn't notice it So I didn't even get any disability for that. So I'm told you can go back and get it. I'm like, yeah, you know Yeah, what gets it going to do me? It's not going to get my hearing back Yeah, right. No, um, there there are some like there've been some studies. There was there was a a a group of Conventional wisdom at some point that was like oh sleep next to a ticking clock that will help You know bring backs and and I like anecdotally, I know some people musicians who Said, oh, yeah, that really helped, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know but certainly Regardless of where you are in like we all are on a journey of hearing loss, right? Whether whether we're exposed to loud sounds regularly or not. We're all on this journey just because of the way our bodies work, but We uh You know start protecting now. It's it's better than waiting until tomorrow. So absolutely Absolutely and any earplugs are so cheap and they do so much good and and Even noise canceling airpods and that sort of thing to a nice job Of protecting you in a loud environment. Yeah fair. Yeah. Yeah All right Well, this has been awesome. Thank you. This has been fun. Yep. No problem. Yeah, I'm glad we I'm glad we did this when we did it too So yeah, yeah times isn't local in here 16 20 here. All right. So so you get to go I'll have about I got about two hours before alert call and then fly to indianapolis tonight and then jump seat home I'll be in the boston area by 7 a.m. You're operating tonight. I am okay So do you would you like have dinner before the flight or do you eat like mid-flight? Um, so I I got up at noon ish and went to went to lunch breakfast at 1 30 12 30 sure and um, I will probably not eat again until on the airplane because we are catered You are catered. I was okay. I wondered about that. Yeah. Yeah, okay Yeah, it's it's anything over. I think five hours. We get one meal anything over eight hours. We get two meals All right. Okay. You know that sort of thing. So that's great. Okay. All right Yeah, I mean actually now that you say it it makes sense like there It you know oddly enough it wasn't almost the case though right back in the day Um, well when I first got hired it that had been fixed but but it wasn't until after flying tigers was bought That all the flying tiger pilots came and said, what do you mean? I'm not brown bagging it on a 10 12 hour flight Yeah, you nuts. Yeah, and and they kind of went. Oh, okay. I guess, you know, we're we're no longer a local You know two or three hour overnight delivery company. Right, right, which is you know, right? Yeah It's it's been fascinating to watch that evolution Speaking of FedEx my my view sonic screen that I'm going to be reviewing is now. Um, Even though it was it was sent over nights It should it should have left Memphis Uh early yesterday morning. It left late last night. I'm like, well, it's not Pete's fault. He's in europe. So Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, man. Yeah, I'll tell you what though, you know I still don't know how they do it with the hurricane and that sort of thing Those things they work around them and they do an amazing job to keep the system get the system back up and keep it going And you know, there've been a few nights since since I've been here that I can recall that and one happened not too long ago where you'll have You know, we're probably running just shy of 200 flights a night in and out of Memphis and another 150 in and out of Indianapolis And every now and then you'll have a night where you know 70 jets will go to Birmingham Yeah, or Nashville or and and now Trying to get those airplanes fueled trying to get crews rested and back and trying to get the airplanes back into Memphis and get the freight recovered It it takes a monumental effort and and to watch them do that It's a fascinating process. I have no idea how they do it Yeah so but Well, this is awesome a lot of viewers and and people are still watching this. What are you people? I know it's crazy No, we're glad you're here. This is this is great Really feel very honored that as many people join in to to hear and see what's going on here Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. All right folks. We are going to start Turning off the stream. So we'll uh, we'll turn off the audio streams here. Thanks for hanging out with us And uh, yeah, we'll be back here on the 12th for 9.99. Yeah, I will miss that. I will see you in a thousand I'll see you. Yeah, exactly. All right. So that's done And now we will see say goodbye on the video. Thanks for hanging out everyone. Look at my hand behind