 It's time for Mackie cab and listener PC Unix in our discord brings us our opening quick tip of the week. He says I have been annoyed for some time by the five minute increments for setting the time in reminders. I knew I could create the reminder with my voice and say at six oh two a.m. But I didn't know how to edit an existing reminder more precise minutes and every five minutes which is what the little roller gives me turns out it's easy. Double tap on the time and type what I want. Why do I want this to get certain reminders just before another more tips like this plus your questions answered today on Mackie cab 972 for Monday March 13th 2023. Reading Sparks and welcome to Mackie cab the show where we share tips like that one. We share your questions and answer them as best we can. We share your cool stuff found. We put it all together into an agenda. The goal being that each and every one of us learns at least five new things every single time we get together. 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Yeah, I I know the feeling we're still recording here on eastern time speaking of eastern time. We like to do these hangouts every now and then. We're trying to do one a month and I want to get ahead of alerting you all to the next one. It will be on Sunday, March 26th at 4 p.m. Eastern time. It is in our calendar. Excuse me. You can subscribe at Mackie Cub dot com slash calendar. You can join our discord at Mackie Cub dot com slash discord. The zoom link will be in there. We can't post it publicly on social media because otherwise we spend most of the hangout just fighting off the script kiddies. So I don't know what the topic of this one will be. We're still working that out in discord. Mostly it's up to you. So so join our discord. We'll chat about whatever it's going to be. But the hangouts are it's nice to have a topic and we will have a topic. But really it's just nice to get the community together. So so that's that's coming up Sunday, March 26th. And with that, I think it's time to dive back into the quick tips. John F. Brown, how about how about Adam? Sure. Excuse me. Adam says, I just discovered something I don't think has been mentioned on your show. I have many screens full of apps on my iPhone. So I wasn't sure where a newly downloaded app was. I figured searching would be the best way to find it. So I do the pull down to activate search. I type the name and find the app and then on a whim I tried this. I press and held on the app as I would in a normal app screen to make it pop and get larger and prepare to move it to another location. The search screen went away and took me to the app's location on whatever screen it was located. I could then drag it as normal and relocated it to where I wanted it to be. This would be great if, for instance, you have your apps organized a certain way and you download a new one that you want to add to a folder of apps on your first screen. Was this common knowledge and why didn't I ever try this before? No, I don't think it's common knowledge. I've never tried it. Yeah, no, it's a good tip. I found that the place that apps go when you download them isn't as predictable as it used to be. I always looked on my last screen and it usually would put it there, but even I downloaded an app recently and I couldn't find it. I could have searched like this here, but here's another one that worked for me. All right, if you keep scrolling to the right, eventually you're going to get to the app library, right? Yes. And there's a recently added bubble. So that's another way. You know, your most recently added apps will show up there. So either one will work. I like it. Yeah, I guess it was two years ago. So I might be due for this again, but when the 12 mini came out or when the 12s came out and I got my 12 mini, I decided to start fresh on my phone, right, not preemptively, like not migrating stuff over and certainly not preemptively loading apps that I thought I might need, right? I would only load an app that when I when I actually was going to use it. And it was a good thing. Like it was an easy process, it mostly painless and it allowed me to kind of re-experience the phone interface as it currently was or is. And one thing I found was having my own bespoke app folders and you know, the endless home screens, like I have no time for that in my life and no need for it. I have one home screen and the second page is the app library and I launched things by searching. I don't, I don't, you know, dig around on my phone for stuff. So when new apps are installed, they appear nowhere for me other than in the app library, like they don't appear on the home screen and I've found that great. I mean, obviously we're all different. We all use our phones differently. But if you haven't started from scratch on an iPhone in many, many years, I recommend letting yourself go through that process. I mean, don't, don't like stop everything and do it right now. But the next time that opportunity presents itself, you get a new phone or you've got to, you know, you've got to wipe it for some reason, think about just let it ride. So yeah. Thoughts on that? Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. Richard, Richard A. in the, in the discord asks, he says, do you have any shortcuts on your home screen, Dave? I don't. There are really on my phone. There's only one shortcut that I use regularly and it's my naptime shortcut. The part that really bothers me though is that Apple installed their own shortcut called naptime and it with iOS 16 and it, it's a very different shortcut than mine. And so when I tell Siri naptime, it loads apples. I tried deleting apples. It came back. I tried renaming apples. It came back with our app. You exactly. Right. And, uh, and so I had to change mine. And now I call mine catnap because, uh, because it had to be something different. Like there was no way that my shortcut could be called naptime anymore. And I got no, obviously no notification of this. But, but that's the only shortcut that I use. And as you just heard, I invoke it with Siri. So, uh, yeah. No, I don't have any shortcuts on my home screen. I, I, I have a lot of shortcuts that happen via automation, not via like me hitting them. So, yeah, I don't know. I, you're, you, you're making me think about this because maybe I do need, maybe I would benefit from using shortcuts on my, on my home screen, but yeah, I just use them as automations. So, yeah, I do all my shortcuts. I think mostly through Siri, you know, what's the letter today? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. All right. Um, next, John, do you have more on that? No. Nope. There it is. Perfect. All right. Rannell, uh, brings us to the next quick tip. It says, uh, just listen to episode 971. In terms of spam filtering, filtering, I use a simple rule that searches for the word unsubscribe in the body of the text of the email and then moves that message to a folder called unsubscribe. When the mood takes me, I can sort through that folder quickly, deleting unsubscribing as I like and occasionally while listening to the show. So yeah, I like that. That's, uh, that's a good tip. I like, I would think you would, if I were to do that and I've thought about this, like as soon as the tip came in, I thought, Hmm, wait, wait, like this could, this could be life changing. The only issue is if it, you know, if like, if one of you guys sends me a message that has the word unsubscribe in it, well, that's now a problem. Right. You know, so I might make the Dave ghosting me. Exactly. Well, there's, there's a lot of reasons for that. But it, but like, so I like, there's a world where you could build this filter for yourself and clearly for Rinal, that the, you know, this works, I don't know that without having a few asterisks in the, in the filter, it would work for me, but I like this idea. I've got a question about that. Yeah. So the problem with unsubscribing anyway, in my mind is often you are confirming your email address is live, right? Yes. No, that's true. I mean, to a degree, like they're going to send you the email anyway to, to, to believe that they don't already know that your email is live. I mean, unless you are bouncing messages back to them, they know your email address is live. Oh, okay. So is there a script or a way to bounce it back to them without replying? Right, right. So a way to set your, if you like, for instance, I ran a domain, therefore I have a server. Yeah, way to get in there and set some kind of a script that bounces to these chocolate. You know, there used to be, I'm looking in Apple Mail right now, there used to be a way to in Apple Mail, there was a bounce command and it would phony up a bounce response. But no, it, it, well, it's gone because it, it would only fool a human, not a computer. And by that, I mean, it would also not fool a human if the human stopped and looked at the headers. You read the headers, sure. Correct, because you'd see where it came from and you'd be like, no, that's a phony bounce. Like now I really know a human interacted with this, right? Like it made it worse, not better and gave you a, a false sense of, of, of importance or security or both. I have several filters that when they come from this domain delete it, but I would much rather bounce and let them go on. Yeah, you would, that would have to be something you, you did with your mail host. And I like, I, yeah, I don't know of any service. Someone in the audience, help us out. Exactly. Yeah. Feedback at MacGeekGap.com. Yeah. Wait, Feedback at MacGeekGap.com. Feedback at MacGeekGap.com. That's what I said. What did Eduardo say, John? Here's what Eduardo said. Just listening to MacGeekGap 971 in the tip of the week, Paola Pete talks about a tip from listener Todd about option right-clicking a folder to open a new window. That's great. I decided to try option and down arrow to see what happens and it opened the folder in focus just fine, but I noticed the change the size of the window. I found that weird and decided to go option up arrow to go back to the folder I was before it didn't go. Instead, it opened a new window and every time I hit option up arrow, another new window opens. At first I thought it was the recent folders, but it's not. I tried to find out where these windows come from, but was unable to. And yeah, there's, there's a reason you were unable to find it because it's, um, so after doing a little research here, Dave, I found out Dave and Pete, I found out that this is actually a shortcut introduced by default folder. Ah, okay. And I found that out by, I found an article over at Stack Exchange titled, What do option up arrow and option down arrow do in the finder? And they pretty much explain it is that it's not the finder. It's default folder. So got it. Yeah, that's a good, a good find. There's, it's not uncommon for, you know, I mean, I run into it myself, but of course I don't notice it right away because I get, I get lost like, like we all do, but for someone to ask me a question like, why does the app switcher look totally different? And when I hit this key, like it doesn't work right. Like, well, that's not the app switcher. That's like keyboard maestro's app switcher or something like we have these third party apps that we rely on for the things we rely on them for and it's easy for us to forget that they do other things too, that we might sometimes run into and cause some inconsistencies if we're not aware of, of, you know, of what's going on. So yeah, third party apps, they're like, they're great. I couldn't live without default folder or keyboard maestro, but they do make changes to your system that especially when you're on a different system can be a little, you know, a little disconcerting, if you would. So yeah, cool. Do you use default folder to Pete? That's one that I'll use. Pete's muted, but that's okay. I'm sure we'll hear him. I knew it. I knew that. I was seeing if you would notice. I was shouting really loud all the way from Germany. Yeah, I was going to say Germany to Vegas. It doesn't really doesn't work. Well, sound travel is slow. It'll take a while to get there. No, I don't, but I need, I need to look into that that that sounds like, like quarter handle utility. Oh yeah, no default folder is great. It, it, I will say this. I started using it, you know, maybe a decade ago, maybe more. It was very necessary then because there was no utility in open and save dialogues to jump to a favorite folder or something like that. Like you had to manually navigate every single time and that for me is sort of the killer app of default folder. It's, it's basically its primary purpose is, is that now that Apple and this has been there for a long time. Once Apple added the finder favorites that also then now appear in open and save dialogues, you know, on the left hand side, you can see your desktop and your documents and any other favorites. They just naturally are there. That makes default folder less necessary. I, but because I had started using it and it's in my workflow and in my fingers, I keep it. One nice thing is I can set a default folder for a given app. So and hence its name, right? So it works, you know, it adds to that functionality, but it's, it's, I will say that it's not. John Kotel be unhappy to hear me say this, but it's not quite as hippie. I'm sure he knows this. It's not quite as mandatory to have default folders it once was, but I still put it on all my Macs because because I like the way it does things better than the finder. All right. One last quick tip. I believe from also from PC Unix in our Discord says listening to the 9 to 5 Mac happy hour podcast. He says, I learned that if you power off your watch OS nine watch, it doesn't really power off. It's actually in power reserve mode and a three second hold of the crown will display the time cool and handy. So that because it's, you know, works on any watch running watch OS nine that that will go a few models back. So yeah, interesting that it's not off. I wonder I wonder if that's I wonder what the the driving reason for that is, is it for for this little utility to have the ability to see the time or is it for find my, you know, that's my conjecture. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I bet it's fine. My I think that's great. I mean, you know, and I wonder how far off the phone is too, right? Because it's findable after it's off. That's an option now. The phone is also findable after it's off. Yeah. But that may be in the chat. No, I think the phone is findable, but Richard A. In the chat shares a good question. He says, is the watch part of find my it might not be. I'm pulling up find my on my phone, which I just cannot do. It doesn't want to let me type the word find I can't do it because my phone is my camera right now. Yeah. I am certain. Oh, yeah. My watch is my watch is there and find my for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And that's that's a series five watch that's there and find my so yeah. Yeah. So what you're telling me is I wanted to look for this, but if you go to settings general where on what device on the watch. Okay. Yeah. Settings general. There's a shutdown button. Are you telling me that doesn't really shut down? That that's exactly right. Yeah. And you can also shut down the watch by holding the the crown in I think and then you just like on the phone you get a little slide over to to power off. Yeah. Powered off and it won't it won't stay powered off. I had an interesting experience with find my that that happened on Tuesday when I was flying to Vegas. I because I'm going to be away for a while maybe I'm obviously here for podcast movement. That's why I'm here in Vegas is for podcast movement. Evolutions and then next week in Austin for South by Southwest. So there was no point in flying all the way back to New Hampshire only to turn around you know 48 hours later and fly back to to Austin halfway across the country. Pete would do something like that. I hard roll. So I chose not to park my car at the airport. I had Lisa drop me off at the bus terminal locally and there's a great easy bus that takes me to the airport. Great. So on the bus the bus has Wi-Fi. It's about an hour ride. I am like knee deep in what I'm doing. I got a ton of work done on the bus. It was like super productive ride. I was almost like dang it. We're at the airport already crap. You know I got like that was in a flow state right. So I pack up my stuff. Obviously it's fine. You know I pack it up and and I get off the bus terminal B2 and I go through security and thankfully I may check my bag because I brought a lot of crap with me because we're doing the show and all this stuff and and then I went through security and thankfully I have both clear and precheck and they are integral parts of the story because without them I don't think I would have been able to do what what I'm about to tell you that I did was about 45 minutes to my flight. No about an hour to my flight but I was on Southwest Airlines. So I needed to be there when boarding started so that I could get my seat. So this is all relevant. So I go through clear and precheck nobody in front of me which is great. You feel like you know a diplomat or something going through. It's awesome. And as I get to the other side oh my my phone I got like randomly selected for the we need to swab your phone you know any guy asked phone your iPad. I'm like well here's my phone like it's fine you know. So he swabs my phone. He says I'm not a criminal today gives it back to me and I'm rearranging my bag and I realize where's my iPad. Oh yep. And so I like dig around in my bag for it for a minute and then realize it's OK it's not here. Pull up find my and I can see it's on your favorite bus right. It is on my airport favorite bus and it has not it has left the terminal but the bus is sitting in one spot. So immediately I call the the bus line and they're like yep we'll let's see where you know then we call the driver and see if he has it. If he has it he will be back. He's going to be sitting in the cell phone lot for you know about a half hour and then he's going to come back through to do the pickups you know for the people that are going back to the airport and so he'd be at terminal a five minutes before my flight starts to board like OK fine. So I pull up find my and I look and I'm waiting this is I'm waiting for the phone call back from the bus company and I look and I can see that it's stable and where it is and it's like 50 yards at Logan Airport isn't it. It's out the door to the left from there 50 yeah but I didn't know if I could walk it like I didn't know if I would hit a brick wall trying to walk from the terminal to a parking lot that's not at the terminal right and so so it was like all right what does it say it's going to take me to walk this seven minutes from terminal a like all right I got to get to terminal a which I can easily do from terminal b at Logan and I just start walking right I'm like I got to make this like like so I leave the secure area I walk I get to the I finally I had to like cross the street I probably wasn't supposed to cross but whatever I made it there it was fine there were no brick walls I made it there I knock on the bus and the bus driver says and they had called me while I was walking and said yes he's got he's going to bring it to you you know it did whatever 12 10 p.m. or something like OK great I didn't tell them I was walking because I you know I didn't know if I'd make it and so I made it knock on the bus the guys like can I help you and I'm like yeah can I have my iPad and he's like yeah he's like you found me he's like that did they tell you where I was I'm like no my iPad told me where you were and the best part was I was like this is great thank you and I'm like I'm going to make it back in time he's like what time's your thing and I told him he's like why don't I just give you a ride he's like I got to go back there in like 10 minutes anyway he says I'll just be early and I'll wait for my passengers and take you around so he didn't just take me to Terminal A he took me all straight to Terminal B and then did another loop of the airport to get himself back to Terminal A which was amazing how that was cool I gave him 20 bucks for that yeah for sure yeah yeah I find your iPad and the oh and give you a ride that's give me a yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah no it was it was it was an experience so you know so that brings me to a question that's that is interesting I used to get notifications when my daughter would drive me or something that said hey you got an air tag following you but she's right there with her keys or whatever I'm wondering why you don't get this is a technical term now a crap ton of notifications when you're on the bus because you know there's other air tags on the bus so you should be getting the device if it's with your device it won't notify someone else I don't if you're right if you have whatever your you can set and it's somewhere in iPhone settings that I'm not going to try and get to right now because it'll it'll distract me but I think it's in find my on your iPhone you can choose which device is the one that determines you like your position on the planet right and if you are in theory and this may not be the case with with your daughter but maybe it is maybe if she leave if she left her phone at home but had her keys with her which had an air tag hush your mouth as I'm saying this I know that this is an impossibility but it is possible that like maybe her iPad is set to be her you know this is my my human being device kind of thing I don't know but I also think that that would be incorrect like you know that was also a year ago or more two years ago so right that's changed over time what yeah that's that off they've changed our security yes curious why we're get all these notifications because you know there's a ton of air tags on the bus oh absolutely yeah I mean I had I had no less than three air tags with me the one in my backpack and the one in each of my bags so yeah yeah for sure yeah fascinating stuff oh hey that means I get to tell you about our sponsor factor you can power up for springtime with factor America's number one ready to eat meal kit with factor you get nutritious chef prepared meals delivered straight to your door leaving you both time and energy to tackle everything on your to do list too busy to cook that's great with factor skip the trip to the grocery store and also skip the chopping 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to bill bill says hold on I went to forward an email with attachments today on my iMac and Apple's mail stripped out the attachments hmm I tried multiple emails multiple times and honestly tried to forward emails from my MacBook Air nothing I rebooted the air but still nothing both are running Mac OS 13.2.1 I can successfully forward these emails with attachments on my iPhone and iPad that also use latest OS I've looked for a setting on the max they impact this behavior but I can't find one spoiler I did are you experiencing this behavior did I miss a setting this is new behavior I didn't have a problem with before it isn't working with a message with the single attachment so it's not the attachment size that's the problem and again it works in iOS and iPad OS all right so let here's the answer Dave yes sir I think all right here we go so I've run into this before Dave and I think updating the OS which often upgrades mail some settings may have gotten scrambled the best place to look to solve this one Dave is in mail edit include attachments with replies and there are various settings there mine is set to always but I bet his wasn't and while looking into this I found one of my settings was off Dave okay so bonus step edit attachments had the always insert attachment attachments at end of message checked which bothers me because when I was replying you may have seen some emails that I replied to some questions I replied to my attachment was always at the end and like no no put it where put it in line yeah right right so that's that setting I didn't even know that setting existed there have been times when I want to do that with a specific message because I know that the recipient like if there's been problems with it or whatever like I want to send just essentially plain text with an attachment and that's kind of what what that would like open the door for me to be able to do I yeah these are interesting settings I I knew about the the first one you mentioned the include attachments with replies but looking at that I believe that's gotten more granular than the last time I saw it because there is a there's always never ask and when adding recipients and what a smart little option that is so don't bother including attachments if I'm just replying to the person that sent them to me in the first place there's no reason for us to bounce this file back and forth or maybe there is but like you're saying that no but as soon as you add a new person to the chain well they should get the attachment so yes make that happen kind of automatically that's I like it it's good yeah and he found a couple of others you can tweak it there's an ask setting okay so ask you if you want to attach and then yeah as you pointed out when adding recipients yeah I like it sounds good so yeah alright thank you Bill thank you John let's let's go to Steven here and Steven asks us about calendars he says I'd like to create a calendar to my golf league on its website so that that people can subscribe to it similar to what we do with Mac Kika MacKika com slash calendar I'm a little confused about ICS files and Apple's I calendar what I've read is that or calendar as we call it now what I've read is that calendar or I calendar is an Apple format and people that are not Apple users have to purchase iCloud com access that's not entirely correct and that's good news not Steven asked Steve asked is there a way to create a calendar that anyone can access for free I've looked at the calendar up on my Mac and it seems pretty straightforward but I don't know how it works on cross platforms your guidance would be appreciated yeah so that geek up here and I say that with an asterisk we had there was a weird problem with the calendar server that we're on so we had to do some extra caching to make sure you folks can can get stuff but I don't think that's going to be a problem for you Steve so create the to share a calendar the first thing to do is to create the calendar on your Mac then and you can do this this next step on your Mac or you can do it at iCloud I don't use Apple's calendar app so I'll give you the instructions for iCloud but it's very similar so the icloud.com slash calendar where you see the web calendar you're going to click on the little it looks like a radio icon or maybe you know Wi-Fi bars or something like that to the right of the calendar that you want to share and then you have two options or two check boxes one is for private calendar and that would be where you have to invite iCloud users to be able to edit the calendar but the second box is to create a public calendar and once you do that then you can copy the link to that calendar and that link will direct anyone with any calendar app to subscribe to your calendar and so that's that's what we do with with Mac keycap is exactly that is we just grab that link we again we redirect it through a little cache that that lucas built for us but otherwise that you know it just it just works yeah so and need to use the cash I bring it up only because we talked about it on the show recently and I didn't want people to think we had changed anything but but for you and for anybody else don't you not going to need the cash and if you do ask us I'll I'll share the PHP code with you it's fine but yeah no it's great to be able to do that and then you then you just take that link that you grab from Apple's website for the public calendar and just link that from your website just make a hyperlink to that and that's it you don't have to host the calendar you don't have to do anything just say if you want to subscribe the calendar is available here and you know make the available here the the click the clickable link to that and technology should take care of the rest no matter what calendar software people use so do you use Pete do you use Apple's calendars like for shareable stuff with with any of the organizations you're part of or anything like that no actually no I use that busy cows my main app yeah which is available in set up so I I use that but I actually use calendar formerly I cal yeah I do use calendar for or when my when I get my schedule at the end of the month and it comes out I can export it to a calendar well I can only export it to Apple's calendar and then busy Cal goes and grabs it so that's the only reason I use it for you can skip busy you can skip Apple's calendar on that because I do this because you're probably getting a dot ICS file downloaded right for with your schedule it it just exports it automatically to the calendar there's no nothing it just shows up when I say export to I cal or to Cal yeah right like okay yeah it's one of those I think you're right I'm sure there's a it's doing it by a link but I never see it to my now what you want to do is go find an ICS file that you have downloaded yeah and right click on it or get info and change the app that it opens in from calendar to busy Cal got you and then and then click and then click change all so that it does it for all future ones perfect yeah makes perfect sense right yeah that's yeah it's just a file type it's just a file type thing correct yeah it's like it's like telling Word documents to open in pages versus Word that trick works you know with any kind any file and of opening that type of file and apps will register with the system and say like I can take these types of files so in that list you probably won't see anything other than calendar and busy Cal would be my guess I mean I don't know and so what you got still yeah right and along those lines I have kind of kind of a quick tip and then maybe another avenue along calendar lines the quick tip is we have calendars for everybody in the family to include the doc so she gets her heartworm medicine and that kind of stuff smart but it doesn't yeah it doesn't you know we get the reminders through there and dogs got a vet appointment whatever the kids have a vet appointment hahahaha you know then they're animals I tell you they're animals uh Oh did we lose you Pete I think we lost Pete again man he teed that tip up perfectly and then somebody in Germany decided to close the intertubes and so we aren't going to get Pete's calendar tip right now I don't think John we will we promise that Pete's pal calendar tip will come back either this episode or in a future episode depending on well I would say the Germans for now though John you want to take us to Brian sure Brian says I'm leaving on a trip to Antarctica and internet access will be minimal for several weeks we can pay for Wi-Fi on the boat but it's very slow and very expensive data is sold by the hundreds of megabytes no not gigabytes I'd like to be able to stay in contact with just messages is there a way to limit the data coming across Wi-Fi I've been searching for ways to limit data but only only options seem to be around limiting cellular data ideally I'd like to have just messages or what's app getting data and I'd like to stop many pictures from coming through similar to the data we often get for free on airlines I've got private internet access but I don't see any options by how to limit data coming through the VPN would love to hear your thoughts I'm told there are some options on Android but I can't find anything thing for iOS excuse me I found something for iOS Dave I thought low data mode was only for cellular is as he did but apparently you can set up your Wi-Fi connection to also be in low data mode yep yep so I think that's the best you're going to do on iOS I was surprised can't get granular like with with a cellular connection you can say only allow these apps or don't allow those apps like you can do it on an app by app basis and say yeah this app will never have access to cellular you can't do that on Wi-Fi that you're right that the best you can do on an iPhone is just turn on low data mode sort of generically for the connection would do two things so now that I'm thinking about it I would definitely do the low data mode thing I would also put and keep your phone in low battery mode because we're a what's it called power mode thank you I knew it I knew it when it came out that it wasn't correct but I couldn't think of what it actually was I would put the phone in in low power mode too because part of low power mode is that it doesn't go and do all that background of data in order to say power and I say all it's it's most and but it will do it while you're charging so if you really want to be aggressive about this I would only turn on why Wi-Fi when you want to do something on Wi-Fi and at the very least I would turn off Wi-Fi while you're charging because low the low power mode restrictions don't apply while you're charging the low data mode restrictions do charging but low power mode restrictions do not so that would be that's just you know if you really want to kind of ride herd over it I would I would you know be aggressive about when you turn on Wi-Fi so that you're not burning up those those valuable hundred megabyte chunks yep yeah I do remember I'll have to dig up the article but on Mac OS last I recall you could incantation with if config to limit the band with yes well whatever pipe but I don't think you can do that on yeah that that would only limit the the the speed of the pipe not the amount of band with the loud through it I mean it's a function of time at that point right the longer you leave it it will you could download a terabyte of data and if you cut it to half the connection of terabyte of data right right so but the the Mac also has low data mode for Wi-Fi connections if memory serves me and I'm I'm I'm pretty sure I have it hopefully I I'm sure right yeah okay yeah I was pretty sure that it did yeah low data I can see it right there I'm not going to turn it on for the connection I'm on right now for for well I'm back from the ultimate low data mode you might call it the no data we figured Pete so Pete do you do you have a minute would you you got I mean you you teed that up perfectly and you're you dropped off like the moment you were going to share the punchline so you you had something you have calendars for everybody including the dog everybody including the dog when the kids have that that appointments because they're animals I tell you and I tell you we heard that part you know we got we got well and that was good is that everybody's got it so that was my kind of quick tip and then but the other thing was I think and I could be wrong sorry to circle back to a previous topic but for he he mentioned wanting to host that calendar on his site and is Google calendar you can embed a calendar into your website can you not do through a frame in there like an I frame or Oh there might I don't know of this but that I mean I think a lot of things I don't know about yeah last time I was poking around in Google calendars there was a way to embed it into your site and host host a Google calendar appearing on your site yeah so it doesn't send someone off site to go get it right right I'm sure there is yeah yeah that I mean that as you say it that makes sense yes so using the Caldav protocol is that it well I mean you're probably not but maybe I mean I don't know I don't know the mechanism I'm going I'm definitely going into territory about which I do not know realistic that that someone would have built that functionality for Google calendar so you would need to publish to go you know put your data on Google calendar and then do whatever that embed is I yeah makes that makes sense yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah all right um shall we uh shall we go to uh Steven here John sure okay um Steven says pop up every couple of minutes on my Mac mini 2018 that I cannot get rid of uh see a scrap attached screenshot and basically what he's getting are two dialogues that prompt for a username and password okay hmm wonder what that could be um and then he says I have two time capsules um that I can access with passwords that doesn't uh work at least pop up windows um I've also tried my Synology NAS name and password with no success can you give me advice and before I could give him advice he said I was able to fix my problem somehow and I didn't know this was part of the equation Auto Mountier was trying to connect to Steven's time capsule dash 20 local rather than DS 1918 NAS which is his Synology um that makes sense okay so the problem was and so I'm like oh what's Auto Mountier so Auto Mountier is a program that I guess is very persistent as we saw demonstrated here um in mounting network drives yeah we've mentioned Auto Mountier a few times on the show it it's been cool stuff found I think at least once but also just part of the solution to keeping a network drive mounted all the time because they they don't like to stay mounted after say return from sleep or you know things like that so yeah I've been more often as of late yeah and then a network drive that I had mounted you know I put my machine to sleep overnight and then when I fire it up sometimes it's still connected and sometimes it's still not that's right no rhyme or reason to it yeah so I'm wondering in this case though if Auto Mountier is using its own database or if he had looked through keychain access he could have seen this um well the problem I think the problem was that the error message wasn't clear it wasn't telling him what what login it needed right so yeah yeah interesting yeah stuff I like it yeah but I wonder if it would have been because I I looked at my keychain and there is a login passwords category and then it'll this network passwords so I wonder if he had looked there if that would have also oh yeah good point yeah yeah yep yeah because I looked at mine and actually I had like two entries and one was like 10 or 15 years old Oh yeah it used the newer one yeah so yeah yeah yep all right uh Allison has a follow up from episode 970 when I was talking about turning off auto capitalization which as mentioned I did not last for me Allison says the way I deal with iOS making the first letter of things capitalized like when you're typing HTTP or HTTPS she says if you type a character and it's capitalized when you don't want it to be hit delete once and then look down at the iOS keyboard the caps key will be black hit the caps key once and it stops being black a.k.a. stops being active now type whatever you want the first letter and it won't be capitalized so describing it more quickly she says just toggle the caps key to disable caps for the character and retype so that's interesting so I probably have done this without even realizing it because all of these things to become so habitual but when it decides to auto capitalize the keyboard reflects that that's going to happens and you can you can override it essentially so maybe this would be the real trick is you type a sentence you hit period you hit space or whatever and it now knows okay this should be capitalized before you even type the next character go and disable caps slot like very caps I don't know there you go I don't yeah I don't there's still virtually no way to type the letter I by itself without it being capitalized I mean you can do it but you really have to fight the fight yeah do it but I don't know if it was my connection or yours so I'm just going to clarify that was the letter I no you you right at that letter but I knew where you were going with it yeah yeah yeah so yeah good stuff you know let's have this conversation here we have we've been talking about this whole low memory error message that happens on macOS we talked a little bit about it this week John you've got to think from Simon here like we got a note from Allison about it too I would love to get to the bottom of this but let's let's let's share go ahead and share Simons and and we'll have a little bit of a conversation about this John so yes Simon got this dialogue that we're hearing about more and more often so Simon's sorry I'm punchy guys no we get it Pete you're all good and here's the dialogue that comes up it says your system has run out of application memory to avoid problems with your computer quittering applications you are not using and then it shows a list of currently running applications and alright here's a whopper acrobat is taking up 11.62 gigabytes that's a lot excessive yep that's a dopey so yeah I don't think you need that much memory to run acrobat I'm wondering I mean reinstall the app well I don't I don't know I don't know he has the latest then maybe it's having you know problems with translating an older app I don't know Oh okay like dealing with a Rosetta style thing or right issue oh yeah is just what my gut tells me yeah I that's interesting you may be right my my first thought was he had opened you know 14 PDFs in acrobat and closed them acrobat was still sort of caching resources from them and so just quitting and relaunching acrobat much like quitting and relaunching a web browser it will solve a similar issue because web browsers are just known for you know leaking memory like crazy I have to have safari quit once a day on my computer otherwise things get things get weird so that that would be my thought was now there another thought is if I remember correctly and maybe started up and look but I'm I'm pretty sure there's an application cash category that okay something may be stuck there there are a bunch of caches in that that Onyx can clean up and so that's and another thought is it's just confused so get rid of that cash data yeah yeah interesting I mean that you know this one from is probably a correct error message in that you know acrobat was taking up a gobs of memory and and needs to release that memory in order for the system to have what it needs to do the sort of larger issue where you were you know we answered question last week and your comment John was you know the about your just your system has run out of memory without any specifics like Simon is mentioning here and and your comment was is I don't like I think that is probably correct in that the error messages language is inaccurate because we're we're seeing this more and more when you you still have plenty of memory you found that you had an issue John right where you were out of storage space on your device right so like clearly that message is coming up I'd like to just dig into this and and see if we can figure out what that message is trying to tell us because again the words on it are wrong clearly you've had a scenario where you saw that message and what it was telling you was I have run out of space to swap to on the disk so that is a form of running out of memory right because if it if your computer doesn't if what you're running needs more than the physical RAM on your computer it will page out to disk most of the time in your case it couldn't page out to disk so that's what it was telling you but we've heard plenty of reports of people getting the your system is out of memory message when they've got you know terabytes free on their on their boot drive they've got you know plenty of RAM available for the app so like there's something more that it's something that triggers this and I think again the the language on the message is is misleading or inaccurate but I think it means something I don't think it's just coming up for no reason I just want to figure out the reason and so this is I don't know it yet the more data we can sort of collect on this so send in your stuff if you are seeing this message I'd love to know sort of what led up to it and I don't know what questions to ask yet but I know some of them so the ones would be what we've already discussed the the space on your hard drive and also what activity monitor says about like memory usage and memory pressure that would be helpful the other one would be how long has it been since you rebooted your Mac I'm I'm curious to see if that's part of the equation here I know in theory you shouldn't have to reboot your computer on a regular basis I also know in practice that my Macs are way more stable if I reboot them once a week so I reboot them once a week and I've never seen this message that could just be an anecdote that you know the plural of anecdote is not data but we do want to get anecdotal reports so please send them in feedback at MackeyGab.com I I know that we are getting them in processing them even if we don't necessarily talk about this for a couple of weeks while we're just collecting but yeah Pete you have you have a thought on this well I'm looking in the chat room Dave on MackeyGab Discord yeah the SM Richard A says SMB is still broken in Ventura for me a known issue apparently if relevant and there's apparently a specific setting in Acrobat to an to enable native OS mode and then he puts a link in there for for that and then Tennessee Pappas says I found that SMB failure somehow related to have time machine drives showing up as shared and once I took those drives off shared it worked for him so I think I want to make sure we're not it's a separate issue I think yeah I don't think this SMB failure I mean it I don't think it's related to to this issue but it's an issue yeah yeah yeah yeah I was I was thinking the back to back and okay yeah okay I'm sorry that yeah that's a separate issue okay I was reading it is again I'm tired sorry you're all good I was reading there's a memory thing but yeah no SMB is a protocol there for yeah yeah for file sharing yeah but but the specific setting in Acrobat to enable native that would be important for them when Max that's what drew me into this yeah I know it makes sense suckered me in Richard A I I will put I will put a link in the show notes to that article about that specific issue with Acrobat again I think what what Simon had is is a legitimate issue with a correct error message right but it does bring up this discussion and and I that I want to keep having so I I just wanted to kind of throw that out there so yeah where are we on time here Oh I think it's time it's time to go to the old cool stuff found bucket because we've got some fun things there for sure the first one comes from porthos John in our I believe in our discord and I'm I'm vamping here so that I can find it yeah he says that I am obsessed with this new screenshot app called shotter right he says it he doesn't know if it's new it's new to him SHO T T R some of the best features can set a default screenshot folder so that you keep your desktop clean you can set hot keys for screenshots like native macOS including a direct screenshot the active window I can see that being super handy says if you take an area screenshot you can assign a hot key to repeat the same area man when we were doing like keynote coverage at Mac observer a lot of times I would grab screenshots from the the stream on my you know my computer and making sure the little floating window isn't exactly the right spot this would to solve that I like this and then and how many times have you tried to get the screenshot and then the the one thing you're looking for times out and goes away before you're able to do it so my trick for that with the apple events people was I would have I'd I'd sit and watch it on my apple TV and then on my computer I would press play at the same time but okay hey I'm back hey back Dave you may um there is a problem with usb I thought it was your 300 Bod modem you're down again I see you I see your lips are moving John you still there can you hear me okay so it's Dave that's having the problem it is just Dave so so all right so we can vamp here along he's he was um and I have no idea where he was going to you nope well so there so here we are sorry Dave is having a usb problem with his microphone he's working furiously to get it back Dave boot your 300 Bod modem he can hear us that's the interesting thing so that he's going there I'll tell you maybe John if you'd go on to the agenda go to the next cool stuff found and we'll circle back I I I think you can hear now but not on the microphone I would like to know you're on your laptop microphone or something you sound like you're at the bottom of a well yes I am and friend okay I don't know what's going on here but maybe you can edit this whole part out or something I maybe and there's an interesting thing so I have my microphone is a usb a microphone and clearly there with my Mac today because it doesn't want to show me this microphone so we might just have awful sound for this part of things I'm trying to I'm trying to get the other mic to to connect again but I so I have to do it through a a dongle and it is not letting me do this through the dongle David I will say that it sounds like your your battery charger is turning on and I hear that I hear the chime as your battery hits in and exactly something's loose in the whole machine something's loose exactly yeah yeah yeah this is not a good thing to have happened while traveling in general especially not at podcast movement yeah exactly I might need to hit an apple store with that a little bit and let John go to the next cool stuff found and we'll see I think I've got it back oh you're back you're back yeah what caused this problem means I don't know if it will come back but thank you for bearing with me the the so the way that I would do those screenshots is I would get my apple TV going I would get my computer going and on the same video but then I would pause my computer and resume it 10 seconds later so I would see it on TV and then to be like all right I know exactly when to hit the screenshot one screenshot to you know like we would use them here it's the old broadcast was the old broadcast away so someone couldn't get in there and start swearing at you correct yeah that George right over there George Carlin induced takes a little yeah the but the uh the the interesting part where I was going to go somewhere with this I have no already I have no idea where I was going to go I can just saying well I I don't know if it'll jog your memory I was saying it was always frustrating you're trying to do the screenshot we're talking about shodder yeah so you do a keystroke and have it have it grab what you want when you want not well you're trying to do a keystroke and use your track pad and then the what you get times out and goes away before you get there yeah yeah craziness craziness alright I think I'm back here I think there's probably a power issue because it seems like when I took so I have my I have this easy quest uh possible has just begun malfunctioning but I but I who knows uh to convert from C on my Mac to A of course not for my microphone and as you heard Pete like the whole dongle was disconnecting yeah yep uh and of course that meant the microphone would disconnect and so uh after you highlighted the fact that power was part of it I unplugged power from the dongle because I had power going through and that seemed to calm it down but I will say that it has been like this for days here without issue course so it only uh has happened with it's Murphy's clock it's Murphy possible time I have Murphy on my favorites list we used to say I have Murphy on speed dial nobody knows what that means anymore right um we still have some time here everything's speed dial yeah exactly uh so it's you know it's interesting I will I will troubleshoot this more after we finish recording and see but John you want to take us to uh to the next cool stuff found from Jason um I guess though I don't know I don't know if I understand totally what this is but alright anyways from Jason um did you know that one password eight for iOS can now be set as the default app for opening two factory URLs and QR codes uh open with one password and select the login to have the one time password amazing I mean yeah so but then he sent in a screenshot which um I decided to look on my system as well so it's um passwords and then password option settings is on your iPhone go to settings passwords and then you got to wait a second for it to populate and then password options yes yeah and he has checked iCloud and one password and then there's a whole bunch of other ones and I actually well so wait wait wait let me let me take this because I I think I understand what what he has here so when you go to password options there are two sets of options to choose from you can say auto fill passwords that's a toggle for on or off then there is allow filling from and you can have as as John said you know iCloud passwords and and he Jason has one password you could have last pass chosen here if you're still using that but then the second section of this is what he's talking about set up verification codes using and you can only choose one thing and it can be iCloud passwords which of course is apples or now one password eight for iOS adds the ability to do verification codes directly to it so when you scan that qr code for a you know the to set up the one time passwords automatically do go to one password to do that so okay yeah yeah it's pretty cool like yeah and my guess is other password apps will will add support for this it seems like Google Authenticator already has because that shows up and on Jason screenshot as well as what was the last one Duo mobile so my guess is last passes working on some other things like maybe you know trying to divest themselves of the business if I were them but you know there you go so you still using last pass John mm-hmm oh man oh man oh man all right uh Jared shares a cool cool stuff found and it is I will pull it up because it's a pair of underwater bone conduction headphones it is the H2 O audio sonar IPX eight uh and it is the their bone conduction Bluetooth headphones and Jared said he uses them while he's swimming which sort of blows me away that that would even be a thing so uh yeah amazing they they they're open ear because they do bone conduction and they're for swimming it's not the right screen I'm aware I'm aware I'm aware I'm just waiting for it to come up that's no problem most of the audience is on audio it's all good um yep so the um but yeah he says he uses them for uh for you know swimming and I I presume uh though like it could be done differently sets his iPhone sort of on the edge of the pool and then has these and the list prices 130 on Amazon but uh at least at the moment they are available for a hundred bucks at 99 bucks on Amazon I wonder if there's any memory on board so you don't need yes up you know oh I bet you're right because it lists them as bone conduction Bluetooth bone conduction headphones with mp3 player so yeah they've got eight gigs of internal memory there you go it's as though you willed it into existence you manifest right brother young ha ha ha now the next question is how deep can they go can you scuba dive with them oh I don't know that I would do that Pete yeah it's an interesting question their IPX8 so what is does that tell us anything about the depth let me Google that while you're looking for things right like yeah yeah um IPX8 waterproof rating I don't know I don't know I don't know yeah but uh I don't know that I would I would go terribly deep eight continues immersion one meter more up to one meet one meter or more continues continuous immersion one meter or more okay well I'm going to scuba dive it more in a meter so ha ha I mean you know probably I'd try it but you know I'm not going to drop a hundred on them and then go yeah let's let's go ruin these yeah yeah exactly exactly that's cool thank you for sending that injured I like I like this stuff yeah that I have to share it's actually something Lisa put on her phone is the pop socket aura case which is the uh it's for magsafe phones where you want to use a pop socket but also be able to still use magsafe and the way it works is the it's it's a case with this pop socket that sort of slides up and down on the case and you can slide it out of the way of the magsafe adapt you know coil and then pop it on a magsafe charger or in the car or you know wherever you want to put it and then when Dave's gone again John we'll move to the next one and I think his Wi-Fi may have gone so let's move to the the next guy and come up I've lost where we are he's doing the pop socket aura case do you have the slaging code plus smart Wi-Fi deadbolt did you do that question no no well I have a slaged deadbolt smart lock on my home oh hey I'm back welcome back Dave thanks we were on to the slaged deadbolt and it looks like we need to stay on there because Dave is gone again I was saying I have a slaged deadbolt on my home in Florida it's really cool you can set up remote codes for friends and family to get in and you can do it remotely you don't have to be there it's like a little account and you can activate and disable codes so if a cleaning woman is going to go in you can let her in only on certain days or turn it on and off as needed and then go from there but I changed the batteries on it about once a year and I can unlock it and lock it remotely from anywhere in the world that I have internet so I need to start sort of back at the top of this because you did the slaged encode plus smart Wi-Fi deadbolt for most of the people for almost no one oh good okay because I get the audio recording so if I wasn't here they missed it but everything you said about it Pete that that did make it through makes sense but what this Greg since in this dish slage slash I guess it is slage it's a weird word it's the encode plus deadbolt and it is I'm gonna pull it up here because Greg had some interesting things to say about it but he's able to use his Apple watch or his phone to unlock the door with it as in addition to a code or a key so right now and then here's the other cool thing what I did was I took my I went to hardware store the ace hardware store and I bought a slaged doorknob and I took the key for my deadbolt my slaged deadbolt because you can manually override it with a key the old-fashioned way and then I took that to the hardware store bought a slaged door lock and said here make this door lock work with this key and then and you know the ace hardware store would have you can can make that so now my deadbolt and my doorknob are the same key and but but the ability to use that electronic lock works wonders so I tell people you know I tell them they don't lock the door or not and you know I've got to get somebody involved to get over there but the deadbolt itself we have amazing amount of control over a remote lock unlock set codes for different family members and I like to spell out their names or use their birthdays or those sorts of things so they can get in and then you got so don't don't share that too much right but and then if you don't you can disable it that's the beauty of it oh that's true yeah you go okay that you know the maid's only going to be there this day I disable her her code the rest of the time so it's really smart yeah and so yeah lasers really got to down the that we've been real happy and it takes I'm gonna wrap this up here Pete your audio is is no you're you're you're fine it it's just that your audio coming from Germany either yours I can't tell John are you getting Pete's audio broken up as well or is it coming through okay for you just you okay so it's it's something's going on here we're gonna we're gonna wrap the show where I have one important piece of information about it and very short which is it takes probably a little better than beginner probably intermediate skills to install yourself there you go yeah yeah well thanks for hanging out with us folks thanks for dealing with our our fun little travel bandwidth issues thanks for Dave you should bring a 900 BOD modem instead of a 300 next time yeah yeah all right I'm just gonna ride this show out here thank you for hanging out with us folks thanks to cash fly for providing all the 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