 Welcome to Mac Geekab episode 923 for Monday, April 11th, 2022. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show that takes your questions, your tips, your cool stuff found about Apple and all related and sometimes unrelated tech products and concepts and software and all that stuff. We take all of your questions, your tips, your cool stuff found. We add in some quick tips and cool stuff found of our own sometimes. Sometimes even some questions of our own. We're all one community here. We mash it all together into an agenda. And then we go through that agenda together, answering your questions, sharing all these tips, sharing all this stuff with the goal being that each of us, me, John, Pete, you, every single one of us, we each learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include BB Edit from Barebone Software, Collide at Collide.com slash MGG, Trade. Some of the most fantastic, the only coffee that's ever made me like coffee from DrinkTrade.com slash MGG where you can get 20 bucks off your first three bags and HunterDouglas.com slash MGG, Custom Shades and more. And you can go there and get your freestyle, get smarter design guide. We will talk more in depth about each and every one of those sponsors a little bit later in the show for now here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in Fairpole, Connecticut. This is John F. Brown. And you know, Pete's here folks, but mute buttons are a funny thing. They make it so you can't really hear. Wait, what? I heard it. I heard myself. Boy, I'm glad I've never done that before. Yeah. There is a first time for everything. And Lee New Hampshire this week is pilot Pete. Thanks for having me. It's glad to have you back. Remember, I forgot I muted myself. Yeah. No, it's good. Hey, you learned like the good news is like your art, you get to check off one of your five. That's how it is. Trainable. Yes. Hey, being trainable. Neuroplasticity, man, like that. If there is one thing at the core of this show, it is coming in prioritizing neuroplasticity because without it, you can't learn your five new things. So yeah, it gets harder though. I can attest to that. Oh, same. Same. You can remind yourself of one of the things by going to MacEekup.com slash merch though and getting one of our don't get caught logo t-shirts. So you'll check that out. I'm not wearing one today, but I think it was last week. If you check the videos you that we do, you can you can see them again not this week's though. I'm wearing my, you know, about five or six years ago, I bought a t-shirt that's more expensive than ours, a $45 t-shirt at the Apple store in at the Apple Park in in Cupertino, the new one. And so I am dollar cost averaging the price of this shirt down by wearing it as often as I can on the show. Hey, speaking of things that I learned, one that I learned literally this morning. All week and really quite often recently, I have been having a problem where I go to load things in Safari and like websites either just don't let me in or they won't even load. And it's like, what is going on here? And then I would, but I would go load, you know, Chrome Firefox Edge and they were totally fine on the same computer. This is down on my Mac in the my M one Mac Mini in the office, which I think might be relevant to this. And so I this morning, it happened again. I was trying to go to one of my banks. It was like discover.com or something. And so I looked in the preferences and I found something that I had not seen before. And I'm curious if you guys see this. I am on Mac OS Monterey 12.3.1 on that machine and on this one here in the studio, but this is a 2019 Intel iMac. And so if you go to Safari preferences and go to the privacy tab, you will see I saw on my Mac Mini a there is the so again, Safari preferences, privacy. There is the hide IP address section. And there's a checkbox that lets me hide IP address from trackers on this computer. But on my M one Mini downstairs, either I have a different setting or it's different because it's an M one. I get two options with a dropdown. One is hide IP address from trackers only. And then the other is hide IP address from trackers and websites or maybe it's and websites and trackers. It's clear when you read it. I had it. It had it on hiding my IP address from both. So that's using iCloud private relay. I changed it to just hiding my IP address from trackers. And I was instantly able to get into all these websites that I was having trouble getting into. So I'm curious, do either of you see this dropdown on your computers? Dave, I'm looking at mine in Safari and I only and I've got a new M one laptop and I only have hide IP address from trackers. So what the heck in the privacy tab? I've got prevent cross-site tracking. Yeah. Hide IP address from trackers. That's separate. Yeah. And then there's hide IP address from trackers. John, do you have the dropdown? No, because I'm on Intel. I don't. Clearly Pete just proved it's not an M one versus Intel thing. Oh, right. Because Pete's on M one. Yeah. And you are on 12.3.1. Yeah. Just to make sure Pete. I'm on Safari version 15.3. And my sort of looking for my operating system is 12. 12.3. Yeah. Because I'm on 15.4 in both plate. Me too. Yeah. And I'm 12.2.1. Oh, so you need to update. I need to update. I'll do that right now and see you guys. Yeah. That sounds like a great idea. It's a perfect time for that. Or could it just been a discover thing? Because, you know, I every now and then I'll have this happen. No. I'm telling you that there is a dropdown in Safari's preferences. So the question is, why is that? Right. And changing it instantly changed the problem, right? Like it definitely fixed it. So why do I have this dropdown? Do either of you have Safari technology preview installed? No. I do not. Okay. I do on both machines. So clearly that's not the deciding factor. Well, if anybody knows, if anybody knows why I'm seeing this dropdown and no one else is. Yeah. I'm most guaranteed. Mine's because of the, I ain't updated. Oh, okay. So maybe it is an M1 thing, but it only is on Safari in 12.3.1. Okay. Yeah. I'd buy that. So I'll get back to you later today on that. Okay. Yeah. Fascinating. Fascinating. Though I did have a couple of days ago, I got the message that you probably got. You know, I used discover as well for a number of things. And when I tried to go to discover.com, it's like, yeah, the server dropped the connection. And I'm like, okay. Yeah. Yeah, this wasn't even that. It just was like munging on, it was delayed loading and so delayed that it literally wasn't happening. So we might have an answer to this. Brian's comment in the chat room. Exactly right. Brian Monroe's comment in the chat room, he says, if you go into control, you know, system preferences called a control panel. And you almost got me there, Brian. System preferences, iCloud, I do not have iCloud private relay beta enabled on this machine. I need to check to see if I have it enabled on the machine downstairs because I bet that would be at the core of this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That would make that would make sense. I'm looking, I'm hemming and hawing for time to see if I can log in quickly to that machine downstairs and confirm this before we move on. Indeed, I have private relay beta turned on downstairs. So I will turn it off. And now I will go into Safari and go to privacy preferences and the checkbox goes away. So it is very much part of private relay beta. This is what I love. Brian Monroe. Yeah. I love about doing a live show is we're able to actually get to these things. It makes a quick tip and not so quick tip, but that's okay. Yeah. We learned a thing. Yep. Thank you, Brian Monroe. Thanks to everyone that joins us and helps out like this when we do this live. Brian, she has to know a little bit about me. Brian Monroe is a smart dude. No, she really is. Yeah. So macgeekyub.com slash live or live.macgeekyub.com. I think either one of those will get you there. I know that either one of those will get you there. Perfect. I don't see this. We solved it. I had a question. It turned out. I thought it was a quick tip, but it turns out it was a question. Sometimes you don't even know. John Bob has a quick tip, doesn't he? I think so. Yes. Bob says at work with Monterey we have users that lose Wi-Fi connections even when their Mac is on power and is set so it does not go to sleep and system preferences, battery, power adapter. It seems if the work users do not set wake for network access, the Wi-Fi radio shuts off when the Mac is idle. The users at work suffer from the VPN into the work getting dropped, but if Wi-Fi is turning off when attached to NAS storage, it could be responsible for losing access to your time machine storage. Okay. And of course, where you want to go to set this up is system preferences energy. And you'll see a little checkbox wake for network access. So is it is it system preferences energy saver on a laptop? I think he's right that it's system preferences, battery on a laptop. I think so. Pete, you have a laptop. Yeah. I do. Okay. Because I'm pretty sure it there is like energy saver changes to battery when you're when you're on a laptop. Yeah. So I think and it's possible this would also need to happen though on a, you know, on a desktop machine. So it would be either or system preferences powered. What do we even say? Energy saver. Thank you. System preferences, energy saver or system preferences, battery? It would be easier if it were just power. But that's not how it is. So, yeah. Okay. Thanks for catching up. Yeah. Perfect. Nice. Nice. Thank you, Bob. Good stuff. You want to take us to Patrick, my friend? Yes. Okay. Hey, if you don't use overcast, the first tip is to use overcast. Agreed. For your podcatcher player. Yeah. I'm not a current user myself. Oh, dude. I like Patrick's right. Mm-hmm. All right. And then he gives a little tip here. If you use overcast, go to the settings by touching the gear icon and go to nitpicky details. I got a sense of humor. There, set the seek back and seek forward to times to a different amount of seconds. I set mine to 30 seconds forward and 15 seconds back. It makes it much easier to fast forward through sections you don't want to listen to, but still find the parts you want to listen to. Once you try it, it makes more sense. Yeah. Overcast, there's a lot of things that overcast does. This forward and backward thing also will map to your, like if you have steering wheel controls, either with car play or with Bluetooth. I've had it work with both. So whatever you set to the back thing, if you hit back on the steering wheel, it would normally change the radio station back or whatever. If you're Bluetooth in or car played into your phone that's running overcast, it will send that signal through and it will go back to 15 seconds. The other thing that overcast will do, very specifically for this show that I heard from, I'll call them an anonymous listener, sometimes there is a little bit of dead air on this show. For example, we just had it. You were pulling up the next question. I do it too. The nice part is you can set overcast if you use smart speed. Marco Arment is the programmer behind overcast. He was also the first programmer behind Tumblr. So, you know, he's been doing this for a while. He built this audio playback engine that is entirely overcasts and smart speed will find those gaps and just shrink them. And somebody was saying they have been listening to the show for years on overcast and then wound up tuning into the live stream and they're like, wow, the dead air is super frustrating when it's in real time. But overcast makes it go away. It's like, ah, there you go. So, yeah. And overcast will keep the, it will speed things up and slow things down just really to make the listening experience better. So, yeah. It's good stuff. I never heard of this. Wow. Yeah. I'm stoked to try this out. Oh, it's the only way to listen to podcasts in my opinion. Yeah. Yeah. Audio podcast. Yeah. I have a feature request. We had somebody write in and I don't think we had an answer. Someone wrote in and said, is there a way I can get ums out of an audio stream? And I'm not aware of a way apparently the person that wrote in watches videos. I don't know if they're self help or whatever. But how do you get rid of the ums? I don't think there's a way to do it. No. I think, I don't think the AI has gotten like, that's one of those things where a human is better than a computer currently with. Yeah. I remember when we used to do the union podcast, I think he went in and manually took the ums out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's because you particularly when you're dealing with people who have never done it before or once or twice spoken into a microphone, the nervousness comes through and it gets ugly. Yeah. They don't want to sound like that. I mean, I hate the sound of my own voice personally, but some people will argue with that. They think I love the sound of my own voice, but to hear myself recorded is, it's no fun. Yeah. You have to get used to it and you also have to, and I'm certainly not perfect perfect at this I am all the time as as you listeners know. I have learned, though, that it is OK to have some amount of silence between faces like it's natural when you're having a conversation with another person, there is natural silence that happens when you're talking and hitting microphones like I am. Your brain says all space must be filled. So while you're thinking, you say, that's what I'm thinking about. You know, it's like, yeah, it's extra. I notice it all the time. You know, we pre-record our ads for this show mostly. And I will, you know, I edit them. Things like my verbal tics, like, you know, things like that are the things I use to fill space while I'm processing what to say next. And I chop them all out of the ad reads. It's like, perfect. Yeah, I just don't have time to do that for an hour. Likes, you know, like, you know, as an OMS, yeah, there's a couple others that I use that I'm constantly taking out. It's like, yeah, but it does get I do. It does make me aware of them. So I in theory have gotten better over the last couple of years when we've been doing the ad reads. I don't know. One thing got better for me, though, recently. And then and then maybe we will talk about a couple of our sponsors after this is I use my AirPods at my desk. Currently, my AirPods, Gen three at my desk. And I hate it when I leave them in because I know I have another phone call coming up in, like, you know, five minutes. I use them as my my AirPods are my favorite Bluetooth headset. So I leave them in between phone calls sometimes. And then when I get a text notification, I see the notification. I'm sitting at my computer. It's fine. But I do my phone calls from my phone. So my AirPods are linked to my phone. All of that's fine. But the notification comes in. I see it. And if I don't like go to the messages app immediately and like read it so that messages knows that I've clicked and read it, even if I've previewed it, it will begin speaking the message to me in my ear, which is sort of distracting. If I have five minutes in between phone calls and I'm trying to get something done. So I figured out how to turn it off. You go into settings, notifications, announce notifications. Now, you can turn it off for everything or you can granularly turn it on and off by app. That turns out there's somebody making noise in the background. I don't know who that is, but when for me, it was the feature was enabled, obviously, but it was off for every single app except messages. So I think it's on by default for messages and off for all others. But there you go. So that's my that's my tip settings on your iPhone. Notifications, announce notifications is the feature and you can either, like I said, turn it off and mass or individually for different apps, super handy. Yeah, I had recently turned mine back on. In fact, my long story, how I got it. But I got my AirPods Pro back. I love them to my daughter. I got them back. Yeah, that is that's that is the amazing part. But some shows back, I recommended the skulls, skull candies, air, air candies, I think are indie indie airs. That's what they are, which are amazing earbuds, particularly for the price. But oh, my gosh. And then I got the AirPods back in and the spatial. What's it called? Spatial audio. Yes, spatial audio, where if you turn your head, it sounds like it's coming from your iPad or your iPhone or even your Apple TV. The sound is fuller and richer and oh, my gosh. Yeah, they just, you know, you get which pay for in life, right? You do. Yes. Yeah, there's a phrase that I that I like called cheap and worth it. Yes. There are many times and sometimes, like, you know, like, that's OK. I learned it from actually from the reading the travel books of Neil Peart, who is the drummer from Rush. And he loved to ride his motorcycle between gigs. And they would he would have a riding partner with them. And, you know, he would tell his travel stories. And they loved to stay in cheap motels because they could park their motorcycles right outside the door of their motel. And they didn't care to spend lots of money on hotels. They might spend money on a dinner here or there or whatever. But, you know, they didn't give the hotel was a room to sleep in. So many times he would, you know, write about, oh, you know, we were between these two cities and we stopped at this motel in my travel log. I remember writing cheap and worth it. Yeah, we've all experienced those motel rooms before. All right. 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You can create notes from any convenient source, clipboard, etc. I was certainly guilty of this because Bear Bones is a fantastic place to put your text. It was sort of this ancillary use case for it. Well, they've embraced that and notes are now automatically named and managed by the app. And now BB Edit 14 supports creating multiple notebooks in any desired locations. This is fantastic. Of course, this isn't what you're mainly going to use BB Edit for or maybe you are. I use it for all kinds of things. That's one of them. The other is simple things like counting the number of words in a document or comparing two documents. My goodness, it is so good at that. On top of that, of course, you're able to edit all the code that you need to edit. And BB Edit is smart about when it opens up a file that has code in it, it starts highlighting things, not on disk, but just on screen so that you can really see what's going on. You can twist functions open and closed. It's amazing. 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Once you have the PPD file, it can it can be put basically anywhere, except for documents or desktop folders synced with iCloud. The easiest way I found is to create a folder in the public folder inside the users folder. Name the folder something descriptive like brother printer PPD or, in my case, GCC printer PPD. And then just copy the printer into that folder, then go to System Preferences, Printers and Scanners. Then click on the plus sign to add the printer, select the printer. But instead of lighting the Mac, select the printer software to be used. You manually set the input field use to the option other. This will bring up a dialogue where you can navigate to the PPD file. And Viola, your unsupported postcard printer should now work on your modern Mac OS. And I haven't tried this yet. But I think I think people be in Paris next week and help us pronounce. Voila. Oh, some people like music from a Viola. Yeah. Viola is Viola, Viola is Voila. Did that work for you, John? I haven't tried it yet. Seriously, it's just assumed that this would have been a topic of conversation. All right. Well, give it a try and let us know. But I tried. I tried something similar. It may have been where, you know, I tried this, but the folder was on my desktop. OK. She said it can't be there. So I think that's the mistake I made. So put it put it anywhere else except the desktop. And I think it'll work for me. But yeah, I tried this and then when I tried to select the PPD, they were all grayed out and I'm like, bummer. Interesting. And is it that it can be anywhere else? Or does it have to be in your home folder inside a public folder with a capital P? Because that was Henry's advice. Yeah, I think that was the. Yeah, OK. So it's not magic. That's the magic. OK. Well, let us know. Give it a shot, man. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, because it's always nice to have those extra options. You know, you can sell it. I mean, I can print with the printer, but I don't get any, you know, fun things like, you know, use. Like, for example, this printer has a real paper tray, but. Sure. Which every now and then I use that feature. But now I can't because it doesn't know it's there. Well, if you put something in it, it won't. It doesn't treat it like a manual feed tray, where if it senses something there, it just prints to that anyway. No, no. OK. As far as I know, yeah, it just assumes it'll take the paper out of the main paper tray. Right, right, right. All right, all right. Steve, on the subject of printers, Steve had a great little quick tip for us. He said, I found this helpful and I thought others might, too. I got a new multifunction printer recently by default. It chooses to print on both sides of the page for my workflow. I don't always want to do that. And it would be better if single-sided was the printer's default. But I couldn't figure out a way to do that. But I have found that there is a way to set default printer settings inside Mac OS. It's not anywhere in the GUI that I can find. But I may have missed something. Is there a way to do it without having to edit individual settings? And I think there might be. There is in Mac OS, there is the printing system at its core uses a Unix standard called CUPS, the common Unix printing system. And you can access this via a web page. It is going to be at local host colon six thirty one in Safari. Now, when you first do this, though, it probably will tell you that CUPS is not turned on. You go to the you go to the terminal and you will put this in the show notes so you don't have to think about it. But you go to the terminal and type in CUPS CTL and then Web Interface. Yes, you can just copy and paste it. But it will say it will also tell you that right on the screen. And and then you pull up this this CUPS interface and it will show you all kinds of things. And you can pull up a you know, a list of your printers there and then you can go into each printer and you can start going in and changing like things like the defaults and, you know, set default options. And on my printer, I can go in and I'm showing this on the video for those of you that are watching. But, you know, I can set how two sided printing on my printer works right here in the defaults. I have it to do the long edge portrait, but you could set it to short edge for landscape or off. If you want one sided printing, you can set the default media size and all of these things. And it's right there on the web interface for, you know, for that installation of Mac OS. So super handy little little trick that that lives inside of all of our Macs. So it is it is you go to HTTP, not HTTPS, colon slash local host colon 631. But, you know, we'll put that in the show notes for you too. So fun stuff. I love this. Thoughts on any of that, guys, before we move on. Do geeky for me. Yeah, it is. I know. No, I know. I've got I've got one pair in the basement and everything looks to it and it just it just works. Keep it up and yeah, it just works right now. That's the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When it doesn't work, that's when I have to go back to this show and the show notes. There you go. The other way to the other place that you can do this is if the printer itself has its own web interface, meant all almost all network printers do so that they are configurable over the web or over, you know, over the local network, not over the web. Right. Well, there's a configuring your printer. You want you configuring your printer? Maybe. I don't know. Maybe you do want me configuring your printer. I don't know. But yeah, that's you can. That's another way to do this and actually set defaults on the printer. And that that's actually where the next question with Eddie was was going was that Eddie says. At work, I print to an Epson printer. The problem is that under the media and quality selection, it defaults to auto for both media type and feed from. For some reason, the printer always thinks I'm printing photos and picks the rear tray and photo paper. So this has been sort of the opposite of your problem, John. Then the printer gives me an out of paper or jam error because there's never anything in that theater. I can manually select the correct tray and paper type, but I have to do it every time I print. It seems kind of silly. And so that's where potentially going into the printers settings via the printers web interface might let you install or let you set those defaults for the printer itself. So, and Dave, how would you recommend someone find to get their printer IP? I mean, I know it's going to be different for everyone, you know, 192.168 or 10.10, that thing, you know, whatever. Yeah. But where is that going to hide? That's a great question. It sometimes the the if the printer has a little display of its own, well, first of all, it has a little display of its own. You might be able to set the defaults right there and not even worry about the web. If it does have a display, oftentimes, if you go to the network section of that display, it will show you the printer's IP address. Another way to get it is if you can trigger the printer to print one of its own status pages or test pages, it will show you that. And then finally, the last way I can think of is to look in your router's DHCP table and and see if you can deduce. And often the printer will show up with like Epson or something as the name. And then you'll know, OK, that's the that's the IP address for the printer. And then you plug that IP address into your web browser. So that those are the ways I can think of, John, do you have any other ways of of deducing what your printer's IP address is? Thing. For sure. That's great. It's a nice utility, which will survey your network and tell you what things are hooked up. And it usually does pretty good about guessing what type of device it is. Another one could be. Yeah, like you said, your router, like, for example, Eero will also show what type of device that thinks it's talking to. Sure. Yeah. But yeah, you know, that's actually another thing I thought of is that my my ancient printer actually has its own web interface. Now, I don't think I can use it to select the paper tray or maybe I can. You might be able to change the default. Oh, yeah. I bet you could. Yeah. So it's like you said. So so the IP address of my laser printer is 172.16.1.100, which I sent manually ages ago and. And that is a good thing to do. That was going to be my next piece of advice was setting the IP address of your printer as a DHCP reservation so that you can so that you always know where it is and it never winds up just randomly changing on you. So yeah, that that's how I've done it is. Leave it or not. Last I checked this printer does not do DHCP. What? No, you have to set the IP address statically on the printer itself. Yes. I mean, well, it's I mean, it's 20 what four years old or something. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh? Well, yeah, all right. Yeah, yeah. And then he we Graham says, go to system preferences. Printer show web page and it says only work if you have the printer installed. If you don't have it installed, then then finger I net. Yeah, get you there. But if it's installed, there you go, go. There you go. Yeah. Where is it? Where? Yeah, where is it? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Fascinating. Cool. All right, you we've got some photo. I think we're done with printers for now. But if you have your your printer questions or really anything else to add, feedback at Mackie Kev dot com. Wait, wait, wait to find a feedback at Mackie Kev dot com. Yeah, Pete, I think he said feedback at Mackie Kev dot com. Indeed, although that will never go away. I mean, I say never, you know, let's hope you done did it now. Fingers crossed. I'm going to knock on some wood for the people listening to so that you all know. I did the things I'm supposed to do. Why I am 100 percent certain, in fact, that we will be opening up a discord for all of you to because it is obvious to me. I was talking to a bunch of other podcasters. We had a backbeat media podcasters just hang out where we all sort of share ideas. And I very much attend as Dave, the podcaster, not Dave, you know, from backbeat media, then it's awesome. Like these meetings are great. I say we should have started doing them years ago. And one member of my staff has been saying we should have been doing them for years. But, you know, it takes me a little while sometimes. But anyway, speaking of taking me a little while. Many of our podcasters are having great success with building a community or giving their communities a home in discord. And I think we're going to we're going to do that, too. So we will we will we will have more to share on that as it as it develops. But it'll probably happen real soon. Might even happen, you know, before the next episode is up. You can't promise that. But I think the more we overthink it, the worse it's going to be. So it might just be one of those things we pull the trigger and and let it evolve and see what happens. We'll let you know. Now that we're done with printers, though, you want to take us to Bob and start a little segment about photos. Mr. Braun, for some reason all day, I've been wanting to call you Dr. Braun. So I think I'm just going to call you Dr. Braun, because it's going to be easier for me if that's all right. Everybody's getting a medical degree here. I forgot. I totally forgot about my whole. I think I'm a doctor now. In my corporate days, some people actually did call me Dr. Braun. You know, I'm not quite sure why. But sure. Yeah, I also have no idea why I'm calling you Dr. Braun, but like, I'm pretty sure it's going to stick. Well, there's Werner Vaughn, right? Oh, yeah. I don't think we're related, though. Yeah, he made rockets or something like that. He did. He was a rocket scientist, right? Yes. Yes. Yeah. All right. Surgery. He did rocket surgery. Thank you, Pete. Yeah. All right. So here's something. Here's something else that Apple screwed up in my humble opinion. Starting on or about March 22, this year, her new photos shot on my wife's iPhone have stopped automatically clouding to her iMac, yet they still automatically cloud to her iPad. What she really wants to do is for all new photos from her iPhone to cloud to her iPad and iMac, but doesn't particularly want all 35,911 photos on her iMac to be on her iPhone or iPad. With no option for photo stream, how do we accomplish getting all the new photos onto all three of her devices automatically without having to have all her photos on all three devices? Again, all she wants is for new photos to sync on all her devices. We have turned off then on again iCloud photos and restarted the iMac. You know, I don't know if I have a good answer to this. He did what I would have done, the dreaded turning it off then on again. But that didn't seem to work. I did find that Apple support article, Dave, and it makes some suggestions. So that that's the best I got. The title of the article is if my photo stream isn't updating, which it sounds like that's what's happening here. So. What suggestions do they do they offer there? That that would be the, you know, the place to look. They say. Sevens make sure it's turned on, turn it on and off again. Yeah, OK, so nothing. Nothing spectacular here. One one place. Well, wait, before we even get to this, I definitely want to make sure we all acknowledge that perhaps the most valuable thing we've gotten out of this question is clouding as a verb. Like this is what a super efficient way to say what he said. You know, the uploading to iCloud, syncing with iCloud, like that whole. That's a lot to have to say and type clouding. I love it. Love it. We're going to. It's good. No, it's it's a fish language efficiency. I love it. The one thing I would do and I don't think he said that he did this, but it's possibly did, of course, is. To check iCloud.com itself, you can see, you know, what I call the truth, right, of of the database there, because that's what iCloud has. And you get to see the photos that are on iCloud.com. So that's the first thing I would do for the next thing I would do. Actually, the first thing I would do is exactly what he did. But going and seeing which devices are actually syncing properly and which aren't, because you may not know, right? Depending on the symptoms you're seeing, it might it might be hard to tell. And then, you know, making a change on iCloud.com by deleting a picture, moving it into a different album, something, right? So see if that triggers a push back down. I just I had a thing I created as I've mentioned on the show. I created a podcasting focus for all of my Apple devices so that when I am like this doing a podcast, I only allow notifications from you two people and Pete and John and Paul Kent and who does giggab with me and Shannon Jean, who does small business show with me. And that's it. Well, last week, I mentioned I added Alison to that list, which might turn into be a huge mistake. But because I need to take that out with that. I don't think I have. But, you know, that way, I'm not disturbed. But if you folks text me in the middle of a show like, hey, dumb, dumb problem. You know, I'll know, which is great. I also then built a keyboard maestro action. We'll call it or no, sorry. Yeah, I built a keyboard maestro action to set up all my podcasts. And I wanted it to set up the, you know, the whole. I wanted it to turn on focus to it launches all my apps. It sets everything the way I need it set. There is no way to set a focus in keyboard maestro. But there is a way to trigger a shortcut from keyboard maestro. And so that's what I did. And I built a shortcut to turn on my podcasting focus. Well, the one device it didn't sync to is this one. I built it on another device. It was on my phone. It was on all my other Macs. It was on my iPad. It was not here. All I did was go into shortcuts on this Mac. And I I decided it was a good opportunity to organize my shortcuts. You can put them all into folders now, which is great. Maybe you could always do that news to me. So bonus quick tip for at least one person, me, maybe another. I built folders. I started moving things around as soon as I did that. Boom, the turn on podcasting focus shortcut appeared on this Mac. So it's, you know, sometimes just making a change, turning it on and off again. There was no way with shortcuts to turn the syncing on and off again that I could find, but there was a way to make a change and making that change forces it to then like launch into doing something. So making a change in different places when you're having a syncing problem can sometimes be the cure. The boot in the backside, the boot in the backside. You know, I noticed it. If you go to MacGeekeGap.com, you'll get the show notes from this. And I noticed that you guys put in the support apple.com is the is the primary place to go. And I would certainly go there first. But that being said, I also put a link in the show notes for a site called the Mobikin, M-O-B is in Bravo, I-K-I-N dot com. And they have an entire article with 15 ways to fix photos not showing up. And some of them are, you know, plug your computer in, dummy. Well, practice, you know, practically to, you know, check if iCloud has enough storage space left to but 15 different ways and certain methods to cover those. So that that looks like a pretty thorough resource as well. Brilliant. Thanks for putting that in there, Pete. That's great. Yeah. Thank you. And they may have mentioned what Bill is bringing up to us. So here's Bill's problem. My photos syncing on my iPad gets stuck every day and I have to unstick it manually. This didn't always happen. Is this an iOS bug? Is there a setting I can change? I really want everything to sync always. So I got two suggestions. One would be, look at the article that Pylopete has just a link to. The other one, Dave, is that I had run into this in the past. I couldn't find an article outlining this, but the thing is, in order to sync photos, you have to be on Wi-Fi and you cannot have the camera app running. Because I had this happen once. You know, I looked on, you know, I took a photo on my iPhone and I looked on my Mac and it wasn't there and I'm like, why isn't it there? I couldn't find the article, though. So that'd be the first thing to try. And the second thing to try would be the thing that Pete pointed us towards. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah, I don't know why they made that decision to not do it. I mean, you know, take a picture and they should beam it, you know, to the cloud. They should cloud it for you. They should cloud it for you. The camera app running, though, I hadn't even thought about it. Yeah. I, you know, I have found battery level to be a thing that keeps some. Photosync operations from resuming, right, or causes them to pause. But I've also seen it on my Mac before, too. And, you know, like a desktop Mac that's if it's not plugged in, it's not running. So, yeah, I don't know. That's a that's an interesting that's an interesting thing. Huh. Yeah, I don't know. Several people, you know, are keep it in the what is the low power mode? Yeah, it won't do it in the background if you're in the low power mode on your iOS device. That I wouldn't be surprised to find out that that's the reason for this. Do iPads have low power mode to or just phone? You know, I don't know. I didn't think iPads did, but maybe it's just because I've never thought to use it because I, you know, the iPad battery is massive. So I happen to have one right here. I'll see if I can get the problem is it's not mine. It's my wife's. So if I don't know, there it is. OK, you can if you can unlock it. That's the key, right? Right. Sorry, honey, water through your iPad. I while you answer that, I am curious. It's that Pete's saying he used his or is using his wife's iPad, you know, which can be a personal device, a private thing. I got into my car is in for, you know, routine service or whatever. So I dropped it off at the dealership and my wife followed me down and picked me up. And when I got in the car with her, she was listening to some podcast, right? Like, you know, on her way down, she was alone in the car. And I felt like I was walking into her private sanctuary. Like it felt weird. And I didn't say anything about it. I was just like, oh, right, she's listening to a podcast like that's her thing. And and then, of course, she immediately just turned it off. And, you know, we drove actually drove somewhere else. We drove to do an errand together. But I'm curious. I know some of you listen to this show and either other people with you choose to listen to it or they are indoctrinated by force or by just not by force, but, you know, by by association by osmosis. I'm curious just in general, not necessarily with this show, but it would be interesting to know about this show, too. With for those of you that listen to podcasts, is it a thing that you share with others like a radio show that's just going on? They happen to get in the car and there it is. You might turn it down a little bit. You wouldn't turn it off. Or is it the kind of thing where it's like, oh, no, like I'm paying attention to that. You're now here. We're probably going to talk. So I'm going to turn it off. You know, is the is the podcast a a one person podcast, listening at one person activity or a multi person activity? I guess that's going to be my my question to all of you. And that's a weird question. The answer is it depends. Yes, I'm sure it does. So yeah, for me, like this one, everybody should be listening to together and sharing with more and more and more friends. I don't disagree. Right. That's ought to be state law. State law. Yeah, we're we're working on that. We've got our lobbyists hard at work down and down and we're we're going to make it federal law. Pete, we figure we just do it once. We don't have to do a 50. There you go. Right. Yeah. But I have an answer at least on the 2013 iPad that my wife is still running nine years and it's still. Wow. Wow. You know, I mean, you think they're awesome. No, no low power mode in settings for the iPad battery. OK, that's not surprising. But that's not surprising. But yeah, no back to your question. Hey, everybody, share this with people. I share this show with three or four people last week out on the road, you know, because I keep asking them how do you do that? Why are you doing that? Yeah, I want to share quick, quick tips and yeah, would you learn that? Go funny, you should ask funny, you should ask. Yeah. No, I see her BSD junkie in our chat room says iPad will also pause syncing when on battery power and turn it on when charging. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I've definitely seen that on my my iPad, like it's, you know, yeah, the and and your phone will, depending on how you have things set, your phone will also only do it when it's on Wi-Fi, not on, you know, cellular or things like that to save data. But but yeah, for sure, it's a you know, the photo syncing is generally for me a nightly thing when I plug my phone in, that's when it like all of those activities sort of, you know, spring to life, if you will. So yeah, which goes back to that whole age old question. Is there any way and I don't think there ever will be a way to fully share a photo library? I guess the danger is we could both have it open at the same time. Yes, well, but it could be synced, Pete, like you're right. Like trying to do it with the photo libraries as they currently exist would be a disaster. You know, you'd have to really coordinate with the other person and you couldn't use iCloud because iCloud always has the library open. Right. Yeah. And that's that's a big bone in contention with my wife. She you have those pictures of the kids that I want. And I want to put it, you know, like, yeah, sorry. You know, you can do shared albums. Yeah. But that's a manual process. Like I wish I could share a smart album. Right. Right. How cool would that be? That that would be an interesting solution. But really, I don't know. Yeah, this whole there are a lot of people. I understand the privacy thing and my pictures are my pictures and I don't want them shared and that like that's fine. And I have no doubt if Apple were to implement something like this, they would make privacy like the first feature. That's fine. But there are a lot of people who say I want a family photo album in every picture I take. I want to be in that album with my, you know, with the people I've already pretrusted. You know, right. So when she goes to a Christmas card or something, you can find that picture of the kids that was taken at the waterfall or. Yeah. Yeah. But here's a thing with family sharing. No. No, it's horrible. No. Oh, OK. No. No, it's not. I think did Google photos have the answer to that? I was using them for a while. And I forget why I moved away from it. And then actually, here's another option. And Dave, you may be doing this. The Synology. Yes. Photos, right? So you moved away from Apple photos to Synology photos. No, I we still use Apple photos because it's super easy. It's built into every device we have. It works well other than this, you know. And we we already pay for our Apple one subscription, right? So, yeah, it's it's totally. There we have all the storage we need, etc., etc. So we use it. But I also sync all my photos over to my Synology. And then there you do have this option of sharing your entire library or parts of your library in lots of flexible ways. So I've backed mine up to Synology, using the Synology Photos app. But I haven't gotten anything beyond that. So I need I need to dig into it. Yeah, yeah. No, it's one thing that I just thought of as we were having this conversation, perhaps a reason. Well, it's a solvable problem, but it would be a problem. Let's say the three of us decided to share our photos, right? OK, we're all one happy family here. So the photos John takes show up on our devices and vice versa. OK, great. How do we let now? Let's say we want to add one of us wants to add a fourth person. OK, like the family expands. OK, how? How do we all? Like if you, Pete, decide, OK, I'm going to add my wife to this because I want her to see my photos, too, in addition to John and Dave. Well, for all seeing the same library, now are you sharing the photos you take and the photos we take with your wife? Like, did we just become a family of four instead of a family of three? And I think so, because the photos she takes are now going to jump in there. Right. So did did John and I consent to this? Because now my photos aren't just shared with you and John. They're shared with you and John and your wife. Right. Like, right. So they're like that starts to become a tricky comes to privacy. Absolutely. Absolutely. And a family less of an issue. But right. Well, maybe. Like, I think, well, every family's dynamic is different. I'm not here to judge. Absolutely. But I know some people that would absolutely not want to share their photos with their spouse, right, like that, you know, and it's like, OK. So it's just an and that's fine. I don't say that judgmentally. I mean, there might be a scenario that I would happily judge. But in a general sense, it's not judgmental. It's like, get it. Yeah. So. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. John, you're a bachelor. You got it easy, man. That's right. John John Green in the chat suggests using Plex to manage and share photos. And that is another good way to do this. You know, that's a that's a great idea. I've got Plex. I've got some photos up on there. And yeah. Yeah. So she could go look at them on the TV at any time and I assume she could go grab them right off the. Oh, you can sync your phone to the Plex library, too. Like, Plex is not just for the TV, right? So, no, photos is a thing on. I've never used Plex for photos. But I, you know, I've done when I when I was doing a lot when all of my Apple user group sessions moved online because of, you know, COVID and quarantining and all that stuff. I finally that was finally my opportunity to teach Plex to people because teaching Plex at the front of a room stinks because you need to see the little things on the screen. And when I'm in front of, you know, even 10 people, let alone 100 people or 200 people, not everybody can look over my shoulder. Well, on Zoom, guess what? Everybody can look over my shoulder. It's amazing. And so I started doing Plex and it was fan. It's been fantastic. I probably do it again. There's some groups that are still not getting together in person. During those, it became a bit of a jam session. Most of them where it wasn't just me teaching about Plex. It was all of us sort of teaching one another how we use Plex. And I encountered quite a few people who are using Plex for their photos and would share their libraries with us. And it's like it's a pretty powerful thing. So, yeah, yeah, good call, John Green. I like I love Plex and I don't know what their. They have a lifetime subscription. They do 10 or 12 years ago, 75. I think it's a little more than that. It's 120 or something now. I think you're right. I think it's yeah. But it's worth it. Oh my gosh. That is that is the one app that I am so glad for for 10 or more years now. Yeah, all my movies, TV series that I want to see and share like my wife and I watched watching the Yellowstone now together, even when I'm overseas. Yes, so cool. It's cool. All right. Well, we have I have a cool stuff found. There is a there is a new Plex feature in the wild. And I want to talk about it because I've messed with it a little bit. The next thing that I want to do is talk about our next two sponsors. If that works for you, Mr. Braun. OK. All right. 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It's definitely in beta. What the weird part about this, guys, is that Plex usually rolls out beta features to beta users and lets them sort of come to fruition. The whole new sinking downloading thing that that now is the default for Plex was in beta for probably a year before it ever came out of beta. But the beta was a very public thing. I think with this, they wanted to make a splash. They saw this as a big feature. I mean, I see it as filling a huge hole, but whatever, potato, potato, they decided to do this and. So the beta is in the public releases of Plex. It is not ready for primetime yet, in my experience. It has gotten better since the day it was released. When it was released, I added a bunch of shows to my Plex library or to my watch list that were already in my Plex library. And what's cool is it's the reason they call it Plex discover is because you can add things that are not in your Plex library. You can tell it. I have Netflix and Apple TV Plus and Hulu. And then you can add shows that you don't have the downloads for. And it will say, oh, you can go when you say I want to watch this. It says, oh, that's available on Netflix. You say you have Netflix and depending on the device you're on it will even link you to that, which is amazing. So I added a bunch of the things that Lisa and I watch. And then I went in and I marked episodes that we have already watched as episodes we've already watched. And the first thing that happened was it removed those series entirely from my watch list. So I was like, that's cool. I'm like, I know that there are episodes we haven't watched. They should still be here. And I went and it was like, do you want to add this to your watch list? Like, yeah, just like I did five minutes ago. Cool. But that's fine. They they were able to fix that within hours. Like so that part was great. So that's fixed. You mark things as watch they they still stay in your watch list. The problem is, at least as of the last time I checked when you go to like if I go into my watch list and I say I want to play this show, it doesn't tell me what it first of all, it doesn't tell me which shows have unwatched episodes. So I have no idea whether there's new content for me or not. My watch list just contains everything, which is better than it containing nothing. Like I guess is that's improvement, but not the kind of usefulness that we want. They are working on this. So I think, you know, we have to treat this feature as beta because they call it beta, but it truly is like feature incomplete is what I will say. So maybe even alpha, right? It is not to the point of what I would call M.V.P. Minimum viable product, right? I think you've got to track and and surface the status of whether things are watched or unwatched, especially when you start comparing it to what Netflix does or what Apple TV does with its watch next thing and all of that. But it's great to see this, so I'm I'm stoked about it. In fact, really excited. Just want to set everyone's expectations. Like it's you're not going to turn it on and go, yay. Or maybe you will. Maybe it works perfectly for whatever you folks want to do. But it's fantastic. They finally started this. So excited about it. Interesting. What a little plane I've done with it. It found it. But but I had hadn't tried any of the, hey, I've watched these shows and I haven't watched those, which Plex does a very good job of that, which is in your library going, hey, you've watched 20 minutes of this. Do you want to resume? I mean, you'll take your right to your your last point. It's yeah, it's great. If I if I know that I like if I have an entire season of something in Plex and I just go to that, forget about the watch list. If I just go, it will tell me, oh, yeah, you've watched, you know, 11 of 14 episodes. So, you know, next up is episode 12 and that's still there. I just don't know why my watch list won't show me that. It's it's weirdly disconnected, but it'll get connected. I have no doubt like they're, you know, they're on this. So the latest. Oh, sorry, John. You're going to say. Oh, no. Quick tip with Plex. Don't access a friend's Plex server when they're encoding stuff. Well, well, that happened to me when I was accessing yours, Dave. And I got the message I never saw before. It was like, sorry, insufficient bandwidth. And I'm like, what? And I checked my connection. Connection was fine. And I'm like, yeah. Yeah. Well, so I don't know if you need to get a beef here. I do my I do my Plex on Synology. What I would recommend assuming like for for me, I have a fiber connection, right? So lots of, you know, I have a gigabit upstream. And I would recommend. And every time I go to an Airbnb or a hotel or whatever, Plex defaults to transcoding when remote. So it will say, oh, yeah, I'm only going to send the, you know, four megabit per second or three megabit per second file from my server at home to, you know, my Airbnb and wherever I am, you know, it doesn't matter. And I have enough bandwidth to send the raw file upstream. So make sure you set your Plex client on your Apple TV or your iPad or your computer or whatever to get the full speed thing because then you don't have to worry about my server's ability to transcode because it's just going to send you the data and you'll get the full 4k if I happen to have the, you know, if I've if I've ripped the full 4k thing with potentially with Atmos sound, although getting Atmos sound from Plex via Apple TV to a sound bar is nearly impossible. But that's just because of an Atmos, you know, how Atmos works. Yeah, so. Right. And John, you brought up a feature there with the people may not be aware of, which is you can share your server with you can invite friends to watch your movies, your TV shows that you have and and vice versa. So yeah, that's great. I love that part of what Plex I love that I can just be anywhere. And as long as I can watch your stuff, access a Plex client, most TVs have them. So it like even when I was I think in the hotel I was in, I was able to add a Plex client to my TV. It's great. One piece of advice, though, if you do that while you're traveling, whether it's Plex or Netflix or Apple TV, if you log into something, I make a checking out of whatever, you know, checklist in my Apple notes and I share it with people that I'm traveling with. So if I'm traveling with the family or just with Lisa or whatever, I'll I share that note and I make it a checklist. So when I sign into Plex, I put on the list, sign out of Plex. And when I'm it's ready to check and when I'm ready to check out of the room, I go through and it's like, ah, yeah, OK, I got to sign out of Apple TV and I got to sign out of Plex and, you know, Netflix, if we happen to use all three or whatever. So don't forget, because you don't want to leave yours. I can't tell you how many Airbnbs I've gotten to. And it's like, oh, yeah, it's signed into the account of the last person or the person that was here six months ago. Yeah, it's great. Hey, speaking of traveling and not traveling, Apple's WBC has been announced. It will run the week of June 6th and it will be online as we have seen in the last two years. Except the first day, there will be some amount of seats available for humans at Apple Park in Cupertino to gather together and watch the pre-recorded live streams of the keynote and the State of the Union, which I always call keynote part two. So I'm not sure how one will procure a ticket for this. I don't know how in demand they will be. There is value in being together with other humans for sure. You know, especially I can. I've always maintained that I can say it experientially now, having been able to go to South by Southwest in person last month to go to podcast movement, Evolutions in person last month. It there is so much more to a conference than just watching the speakers speak, right? It's the the hallway. The hallway track is what we always call it at the conference. The people, you know, we we were both interested in that session. And now let's let's communicate with each other and meet each other and and, you know, form relationships, but also just learn together. So I'm curious to see how that will evolve. But it's interesting that they will not be, at least for this year, returning to a live presentation. It will be people in gathering in a room to watch the pre-recorded presentation. Now, will Tim Cook come on the stage before the thing and welcome the people that are in the room? I'm sure like I would be surprised if that kind of thing didn't happen. But it sounds like the meat of the presentation will no longer be a live thing. And I I'm not. I don't think that's bad. Like they're they're they're can't they're pre-recorded productions for these presentations over the last two years have been so much better than the live ones, although the energy of a live demonstration and all of that. There's some value to it. But in terms of being able to efficiently communicate this stuff, nothing beats the the pre-produced things that Apple has been doing. So I don't know, just the something I wanted to share. Yeah, I don't know if either of you guys have thoughts about any of that. I've never been to one. I would like to go, but not this year. Not this year. That's right. You walked me to that's right. I remember that in San Jose, right? A Steve Jobs event in San Jose. Yeah, we couldn't we tried to weasel you in. I'm like, I have one of my other Mackie Kepkoos with me. Can we they're like, is his name on the list? I'm like, you could put it on the list. They're like, yeah, we're not here's a pen right at that. Here's a pen. Yeah, but at least Pete knows the way to see on Jose. I do indeed. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes you have to even fly the plane there. I bet I do indeed. Yeah, that's what the current plane doesn't go there. Well, there's the runway too short. Probably not, but you just, you know, it's. Triple triple seven is limited the number of, you know, we do Seattle and Los Angeles, Phoenix, OK, Houston, Atlanta, Newark and Memphis. Oh, and any but that's that's it as far as I know in the domestic US. A triple seven can't land at SFO. Could it could. It could. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But I'm just saying those that's our current route structure. Your route structure. Oh, OK. Those are served more by seven sixes and got it. MD 11's. OK, but yeah, wait, the 777 is too popular. Oh, it's an amazing short field takeoff and landing airplane. You know, it's got so much power, you can't see straight. It is it is over. I think it's over 100,000 pounds aside now per can or per engine, I should say. Yeah. If you guys, I'm telling you, when there's times I've never seen anything like this in my life, we do reduce thrust takeoff to save the engine, because, you know, if you went max power every time, you'd really smoke your engines. OK, yeah, we take off with the engines frequently in the eighty two eighty three percent power. Really? Yeah. Fascinating. Yeah. And so when you go to climb power, the engines actually throttle up, not down to go to climb power. Really? Every other heavy airplane I've ever flown, you take off, you know, 98, 100, 110 percent. Don't ask me how you can get to 110 percent power or thrust, but you can. It's it's engineering. It's magic. It's engineering. But not math, right? That's not math. But then when you get to 100 feet for climb power, you you actually throttle back to 95 percent, 98 percent. This airplane, you take off at 82 percent and you get climb power and it throttles up to 90 percent. It's a lot. That's that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Crazy. Amazing. Amazing. OK, there's our little aviation detour for the day. No, I love the aviation stuff. That's that's fun for us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where are we on time? We really should end. One hour, 10, 12, an hour and 14 is where we are right now. I do want to do a little bit of show and tell. I mentioned that my most recent travels, while we're on the subject, were greatly enhanced, especially my ability to work during my recent travels, was greatly enhanced by having and traveling with a portable monitor. And I wanted to talk about another one that I've been checking out, which is the Asus Zen screen, which is a 15.6 inch monitor here. It is portable, flat, super flat, super lightweight, comes in a little case and it it's amazing. It it all is powered by USBC driven, I should say, driven and powered by USBC. So you just need one cable from, you know, for me from my laptop to the device and that's it power. Everything else goes right along with it and it's it's fantastic. For those of you watching the video stream, it's got you can see, but it's got this little kick out stand that sort of comes out the back of it to let you set different angles for how you want it to, you know, to sit. And it's just it's like super simple. There's nothing there's nothing to say about it. Plug it in and it works. And that's the part I love about it. So yeah, it's the Asus Zen screen. It's 15.6 inches. It's the MB 16 AC, they call it. But yeah, I'm super stoked with it. It's such a game changer for traveling. Or honestly, I'm thinking of setting this up at the desk in the house because I don't really have a computer station at the house. I have, you know, the the office in the studio. But if I set this up at the house and I can just plug in if I. There are times where it's much. All right, hey, you know, who doesn't love to live well to be perfectly at ease and comfort. It's an in style here. Our sponsor, Hunter Douglas, can help you. You just started playing the ad there. Innovative shade designs, but gorgeous fabrics. Not really. I didn't touch nothing. Wouldn't mean no one saw me. It was you, Pete. It was not me. No. No, I was not touching my computer. Well, it wasn't me. John, who's that you? Who's I was entering a password and a dialogue. So I don't know how that. What's been awesome? All right, we'll blame Allison. Yeah, I just started playing the ad video. But yeah, no, it's this. It's I am used to working on two screens. So things like I don't know. Most everything I do, I like to have two screens. I like to to see two full windows up and often I like to have two browser windows up looking at something in one and and working in another because there's so many web apps now that having that second screen is really handy thing. So I like the price point on that. So two twenty nine two twenty nine. That's it. Yeah, exactly. It's yeah, you're not going to break the bank with these kinds of things. So yeah, it's good stuff. Good, good stuff. A little cheaper than an iPad pro, you know, a little. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And bigger, bigger screen. Yeah, if all you're using it for is a big screen now, obviously. Well, there's an iPad pro has a little bit more a little bit more to it, but, you know, there you go. All right. Well, that does bring us to the end of things here. That's one one technical glitch. I'll take it. We were for those that watch either the video stream or the the little snippets of the video stream that Sadie chops up to do just a quick tip or a review segment or, you know, a question segment or whatever. We are working to do a lot more real time video production. So those of you that we're listening wouldn't be aware of this, but we were constantly moving and Pete, you were a huge help with this today. Thank you. You shouldn't have given me the keys to that technology. It's fine. You know, things. Worse things have happened than jumping into an ad read midstream. But you were, you know, we were focusing on different the speaker at different times and showing more spanners screen grabs and banners and showing questions from from the audience. But I will say that these things really are mostly for post production stuff. The little snippets that we're creating, the show is an audio show and will remain an audio show by by definition and by priority. So when when we start talking about something that's shown on the screen, we will be continuing to describe it for you so that you don't miss out if you are just listening and I and even saying just listening is wrong. If you are listening, there's there's certainly if you want to watch us do this, then there's the video stream. It's at Mackie Kev dot com for every episode, but it is still very much an audio show. All right. Well, I think that brings us to the end. The band's playing. I'm ready to go get lunch. It's all the good things. Yeah. Speaking of bandwidth, there's the band. There's the band band with that would be a funny name for a band like a geeky band like, you know, you know, that would have been like a good name for the Macworld All-Star band, you know, band with. I don't know. It would have it would have described what happened to each of us members of the band over the years. We would gain with eventually become the wide band. I see what you did there. Yeah. You do weddings. Could be the wedding band. I'll stop now. Yes. No, this is great. This is I love the back and forth. It's it's so you say we're banding it about. Is that we're man, the banding about. There you go. I like it. It's good. It's great. All right. Thanks for hanging out with us, folks. Thanks for checking out our sponsors. Make sure to visit Mac. Key Club dot com for everything you can sign up for our mailing list so that you get the show notes delivered to your inbox every week at right after the episode comes out. I've actually changed the timing of that. So if the episode comes out Monday morning, you get the show notes Monday morning. I I didn't have it that way in the past. And now I do. And I'm really happy about that small things. But go there. You can see the show. Get the show notes and and you can also go to Mac. Key Club dot com slash sponsors to to see all of our sponsors. And that of course includes the ones we mentioned in this episode. 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