 This is MacGygab episode 908 for Monday, January 3rd, 2022. MacGygab, the show, where you send in your questions, your tips, your cool stuff found, we take all of that. We massage it into an agenda that we loosely follow because the goal is for each and every one of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together, which is usually once a week. Sponsors for this episode here. Happy New Year 2022. It's been a sponsor for a while. TakeThesis.com where you can save 10% on your first order there. And we'll talk more about that in detail. And a new sponsor for the show, but not a new piece of software for the show. MacUpdater, where coupon code MGGQ1 saves you 10% on that. So we will talk more in depth about each of those there. But like I said, yeah, it's doc.com. You can download their free app. Yeah, that's what we got for that here in Durham, New Hampshire, because we're not in Las Vegas for CES. I'm Dave Hamilton. And here, also not in Las Vegas, but instead in Fairfield, Connecticut. This is Jennifer Ron. Oh, well, so we're not in Vegas. Yeah. Well, I signed up for the remote stuff. Yeah. And, you know, I'm still getting, you know, a ton of emails. And, you know, there's lots of stuff happening, not as much as in the past. But, you know, that's the way things are these days. Yeah. I was I was amazed, you know, we made the decision. And I think we knew what the decision was going to be for the last couple of weeks. You know, we knew and I made the decision this past week not to go. And and then like the floodgates opened and lots of things canceled. I was the one that really I did not expect that it's not really surprising is, you know, Harmon JBL, Harmon AKG. It's a Samsung company. But, you know, they have that whole like audio lineup. They they usually aren't in the expo hall nor are they even at like the, you know, the satellite events that we, you know, we call them the PEPCOM and the showstoppers. But what Harmon does is they have their own expo hall that they build out in what was formerly known as the Hard Rock Hotel. Now it's the Virgin Hotel. And my friend Chris Dragon is the one who puts all that together. He spends like eight months of his work year on it. And just, you know, like Wednesday, they made an announcement that was like, yeah, no, we're not going to go like we're not going to have the pavilion. I mean, they I think in years past, I've seen him say that they had, you know, 22 semi trucks or something full of stuff because they do the whole automotive thing and everything. So, yeah, to see that just like last minute pull the plug. I think it was the right move that their CEO made. Don't get me wrong. That's that's all that's a huge decision to make because all the financial investment that was put in time and all of that that was put into it is, you know, that presumably they will be doing things. And there are new products coming out as they say that we'll we'll learn about, you know, we're recording this on Friday. And so Friday before. So it's not quite happy new year for us yet, but it's very close. But we'll learn more about that on Monday and then we'll share it next week. So, yeah. Right. So, Dave, you may have noticed during our introduction, there was a slight modification. We had to make some modifications, my friend. That is true. So why don't you tell us some of you may have seen the press release or Dave tweeted about this. But anyways, there are changes afoot at Mac Observer. It's true. And, you know, so was it just. So tell me what happened. Sure. Something changed with Mac Observer. A big time. Yeah. I mean, the long and short of it is that in 1998, almost exactly to the day, believe it or not. You know, in December of 1998, Brian Chaffin and I launched the Mac Observer. We actually created it. We acquired a company website called Webintosh and then changed the name to the Mac Observer. It was a long story. The person who sold it to us didn't own the name Webintosh. And so, you know, that made the deal a little bit different. But it all worked out, obviously. And, you know, 23 years later here, we've seen all kinds of things throughout the industry. It's been an amazing ride. And here in December of 2021 and really officially on January 1st here, 2022, we have sold the site to a new owner. Dr. Sir Hotkirt is the person who came and convinced us to sell it. And I'm happy to talk more about that. But he's a longtime Mac fan, longtime fan of the site and has some he's a university professor. PhD is why he is Dr. Sir Hotkirt. But he has asked me to call him Sir Hot, which I am happy to do. And he's, you know, he's he's one of us. And so I was stoked that that this worked the way that it did to be perfectly honest. It's I never I was going to say if you had asked me, you know, in September, if we would sell the site, I would have said no. And that's exactly what happened because that's about when Sir Hot came to us. I mean, to be fair, his email wound up in my spam folder for a couple of weeks, his first one. But then he emailed me again. And it was like, Oh, wait, wait, wait here. You know, OK, let's let's look into this. But, you know, people come around a lot and ask, you know, is the site for sale? Not not a lot a lot, but it happened. You know, we've done this for over two decades. And so I didn't know if this was a tire kicker or what. And I was like, yeah, probably not this year. You know, there's too much going on this Q4. It's a crazy time for business in general. Like, I don't know that we really want to head down this path. And he convinced me and us, Brian and I that he was, you know, not only was this the right time for us to sell, but that he was the right person to sell it to. And so then we put the deal together and here we are. OK, so basically you and Brian are handing the reins over to the doctor. To Sir Hot. Yeah, exactly. Yep. And to be clear, one of the things he, you know, sort of carved out in his pitch, if you will, was, look, you should keep your Mac Geekab podcast. Don't sell me that, you know, keep the I want to buy the website and the other podcasts that are there and that sort of thing. And so that's, you know, that's how it works. So Mac Geekab is going independent now, I suppose. Not that we really haven't been independent before, but now we are no longer affiliated with the Mac Observer. You will see for the short term, the podcast remains hosted at macobserver.com. You know, we've been, well, we've been doing the site for 23 years, but we've been doing the show for 16 and a half. It's going to take a little bit to extract what we have. And, you know, just from a technical and logistical standpoint to extract it all and put it up at macgeekab.com, which is where it will be. And Dr. Kurt Sirhat has been very kind in, you know, giving us a few months to make that happen and continuing to host the podcast at the site until then. So thankfully our RSS feed has always been at macgeekab.com. So a lot of this is not as disruptive for like you as our listeners as it could be because your RSS feed won't change. All of that will be fine. But the website will. And so we have to slurp all the content from two different content management systems into probably just one content management system. Because, you know, we're not, we're not glutton for punishments, but it will be a punishing process. Adam Christensen is on board to help out. And he's, he's the one who has built a lot of the infrastructure at Mac Observer. So, you know, but yeah, yeah, it's, it's going to be fascinating. I was just talking to Adam last night just to touch base and see what's going on. Yeah. I found as of late, having voice conversations with people or just reaching out to other humans is something that's kind of necessary to stay sane. I don't disagree with you. No, I, yeah, man, that's, that's, there you go. That's one of your five things to learn it. If you haven't yet, like that's, that's a, no, that's good advice. Yeah, yeah. So to wrap this up though, what is the status of the current staff? Or is it just they're going to have to negotiate with? I mean, so good question. The plan and the current implementation is that for the foreseeable future, there will be no major changes to the site or the staff. In fact, you know, Dr. Kurt, what he said in the kind of in the meeting where we introduced him to the staff and told everybody was that, you know, he wants to learn, truly learn how this site works from them. So he very much plans to keep everybody on board and, you know, and all that. Now, you know, the hard part about all of this for me is it is no longer my decision, right, to do any of this stuff. I am going to be on board for a few months in transition to also to teach him how things work. I mean, this is a 23 year old Frankenstein that we've created. And so, but he's got a good handle on it, but there's, you know, some nuances that very much we will be there. And and his success is something we want to see. Like I would be thrilled a year from now to look back at this and see TMO, you know, breaking all the records we ever set with it and all of that. And and to be honest, I think that's a realistic thing. And and he's the some of the things he plans to do not not from a content change standpoint as much as a technical sort of back end. There's there's some some SEO optimizations that can be done on the back end that won't change the content for people, but may well expose the content to more people. And so but he's got some other ideas, too. I don't want to I don't want to steal his thunder. But but some of the, you know, some of the the tweaks that he kind of shared in the in the staff meeting really show that that how much he, you know, loves the site and loves this thing that there, you know, there might be very, very slight tweaks. But again, I don't want to steal anybody's thunder because it's not my thunder anymore. But yeah, yeah, staff, the staff will, you know, it's his plan to keep the staff and and all that, you know, for the foreseeable future. So which is great. Yep. It's a good thing. It's exciting. It's crazy. But it's I'm really happy with with this. So I don't want to take up too much time with the show with it. But I did want to make sure everybody listening. Yeah. And the last thing is you still run Backbeat. Correct. Representing other sites. So you're still going to be doing that. So you're that'll keep you out of trouble. I hope. Absolutely. Yeah. You know, my day to day, I was at the Mac Observer staff meetings every day that we would have for sure. But other than that, and then just, you know, kind of keeping the business aspect of it running, you know, my my daily focus is on creating this podcast, creating, you know, the other two podcasts that I do, the small business show and gig gap. And then really the primary focus is running Backbeat media, which manages all the sponsorships, not just for this show, but for lots of other shows and and and then like 95 Max Happy Hour and Apple Insiders podcast and your Mac OS can and Mac voices and the list goes on and on and on, which is fantastic. I don't mean to be dismissive of it. It's amazing. And I it's a privilege to be able to do all that. But but that's that's what takes up like that. If I had to pick one thing is my full time job Backbeat media is is that and it has been for quite some time. So yeah, people like some of my bandmates the other night after we made the announcement, we're saying, oh, this is great. You're going to have more time. Like, yeah, you know, I, I'm not convinced it's going to open up a whole lot of time for me. But it is. I am very proud of what we accomplished with it. And I am super happy that that we get to hand the reins to someone who loves it as much as we do. And and you know, it can take its its evolution even further, which is awesome. So it's good. It's good. Exciting. Crazy. The next couple of months will be, you know, the transition, the actual transition of it will be, I'm sure, probably more work for me than than if we had just kept it. But I mean, that's part of how these things go. Just fine. So yeah. Thanks, man. All right. It's really update. Yeah. Thank you. No, it's it's it's awesome. Let's let's keep learning. Shall we? Quick tips. All right. Good. We will go to listener David who, man, I love it when we learn things that we don't know. And this is definitely one of those things. He says, I recently gave up to doist because I retired and no longer need a to do manager that complex and just started using Apple's reminders for all my to do needs in to do is I was in the habit of creating right reminders from emails simply by forwarding the email to a special personal to do is email address was very handy. But reminders did not have such a feature. If it does, please enlighten us and feedback it. MacGicab.com. He says, so in Mac Mail, I looked for the very for the share sheet and soon remembered that there was none. He says, I'm on big sir, but a search of Google says that there's no share sheet in Monterey either. He's right. I haven't found it. He says, there is no men menu entry anywhere for creating reminder out of one email. One might think that it under the message menu might find a share submenu or maybe a create reminder button, but no. However, there is a hidden and undiscoverable way to do just that. It turns out that one can create a reminder from an email message by control clicking or right clicking on the subject field of the email. When you do this, the contextual menu that pops up includes a share submenu which contains, among a few other things, reminders and it works. He says you click the subject field clicking anywhere else and the message will not bring up the share submenu. So you have to do it on the subject field. It works. It's fairly easy to add a date time button to that email. Definitely not for a minute. Just for a second. And one more thing. I don't know we're doing this fast actually. I'm thinking about it off the sideline. Go ahead and get it out. That's a good one. I'm going to use that. Do you have any ideas about this? No. Crazy. Interesting I only started using Apple's reminders like earlier this year because I've been I use busy Cal for everything I'm both my Mac and my phone, but with car play There are times when I want to set a reminder and the easiest way to do that is to set it in Apple reminders So I have one list in Apple's reminders that also syncs to busy Cal on on all my devices And so I can say Siri remind me to call John tomorrow I have to put in a date even if it's today If I don't put in a date it puts it in as an untimed or undated reminder Which for my busy Cal workflow means it basically goes to Siberia I could find it if I wanted to but it's not gonna surface for me like the rest of mine do because all my other Reminders are very much like tied to a day So as long as I remember to say a day and it doesn't matter what the day would be and it you know Usually parses it correctly, but yeah, yeah, so that's why I started using reminders. Yeah, it's good Okay, all right Todd's got a quickie for us. All right Todd says I just learned from my older son that an iOS 15 in the control center Which you reach by swiping down from the upper right hand corner You can click on the moon icon in the focus button To do what? It toggles do not disturb on and off. Oh So this is like the quick tip we shared last week about doing the same thing in Mac OS control center Yeah, it's inch Yeah, I'm just tapping the focus just tap it it'll disable But I believe if you hold it then it'll go into like the enhanced Focus menu with more options than just disable or enable right stir, right? So I like it. That's probably something that was found totally by accident. Yeah, it sounds like it Yeah, well and when we talked about it about Matt in Mac OS, it's the same thing It's like oh, I mean it it you know these quick tips are things that are super obvious as soon as you know them and Not at all obvious right up until that point at least the ones we've been talking about so far today Cool What's next? right Speaking of do not disturb Scott has one for us So during episode 907 you discussed turning on a max do not disturb setting using a variety of Keyboard combinations in my opinion you missed an obvious solution My new a max wireless Apple wireless keyboard has the do not disturb icon Crescent moon shape Imprinted on the f6 key. It wasn't programmed to turn do not disturb on off automatically out of the box But it was a 30 second fix to get it to work as intended Just go to and we've been here before System preferences keyboard shortcuts and select mission control then check the box next to turn Do not disturb on off so that it's enabled and then assign a modifier key to f6 He used Option f6 so that you can easily remember it by the icon on the key. I have attached the screenshot I'm a keyboard shortcut fanatic and use this shortcut pref pane extensively to modify keystrokes to control every app For example, I've used this instead of add-ons for mail to switch mailboxes and to move messages to mailboxes Being able to easily reprogram keys and have them show up in the menu with the correct new keystroke Is one of the things for me that makes them act the best choice for people who just want to get stuff done Yeah Wow, that's really smart. I never I love this idea Even on keyboards that don't have a moon imprinted on the f6 key This would be a great little Uh, I'm down. I'm gonna do this. This is great. I'm not gonna do it right now, though Because we have other quick tips to share so I will do this later Which uh, you know what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get this tip in my email inbox because I've already gone to mac geekyub.com and signed up for our email list Which once a week sends out all the show notes with all the links and everything Including a link to simply play the show either the video version on youtube or the audio version wherever you like Uh And it just delivers it every week. So go to mac geekyub.com and sign up for our email list so that you can Have this and you don't have to like me I would forget about this after we did the show because we're about to do, you know Another hour's worth of stuff here or so Yeah, maybe my hearing is going to but I thought you said feedback at mac geekyub.com Feedback at mac geekyub.com. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's uh, thank thank goodness we standardized on that domain, huh so because I have to say I I know I put this in my little post about uh, when we when I announced the you know the sale of mac observer, but I've always said you should Standardize your email on a domain that you own And that way when you move and change or just change isp It's like if you know you move from cable to fiber or whatever you don't have to worry That you've given out a You know an email address that's tied to your isp And that advice has served me well For 23 years I'll let you guess what Domain I standardized not only myself, but my family on starting 23 years ago Or or more recently given that my kids given that mac observer is older than both of my kids So the family has been going through lots of stuff. In fact, that's why in last week's episode We talked about moving my son To his own domain on iCloud email and now we've done that for a few other family members too and it's worked out great So yeah, there you go Ari has a quick tip that's completely unrelated to all of that, but is in fact quite fantastic He says in episode 901 you were talking about how you cannot dictate emojis Through siri and that is correct. He says but Ascii emojis are a thing according to siri So if you dictate smiley face you will get colon dash I guess that's hyphen, right? So colon hyphen close parentheses to make the little smiley face If you do winky if you say winky face you get semi-colon Close paren so old school text emojis are doable inside siri But the you know the things from the emoji keyboard because it's a different keyboard Are not at least currently available to dictate with siri. So thanks for that. All right now. I've started using that So, uh, hopefully it works with people that I send things to do not say the word emoji So if I say hi john comma, I hope you're having a good day Exclamation point smiley face emoji what it will say to to john is hi john comma I hope you're having a great day exclamation point And then space and then colon and then dash and then close paren and then space And the word emoji. So don't say emoji just say smiley face or winky face Which seems a little weird because what if I wanted to say the words smiley face to you john I don't know that I could but you know There you go I've seen some of that weirdness in slack sometimes when I get a message from you It'll say instead of an emoji. It'll say like Wink or smiley face or something and I'm like, why is it doing that? Are you seeing that in the slack client? Or are you seeing that in like an email message? Um, no, I think I see it in notifications Okay, that would make sense emoji. Yeah It yeah, it shows the words for it and I'm like, all right. Yeah slack has its own lingo for Like like short codes for emojis and so yeah, you're right Like I think it's like colon colon smiley dash face colon colon or something like that Whatever it is, but yeah, you're right because I've seen that in yeah, not in the clients But in like email or maybe even just regular notifications. So yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense All right, one last quick tip from listener tony um he says uh Well, yeah, right in uh in episode 907 we were talking about sharing passwords and I Suggested the thing that my son used and what we were doing was setting up his domain uh for email and he had something on his computer that I needed to put on mine and uh, and So we used the uh, you know the camera app to to copy it and it didn't quite work the way we wanted to but You know, that was it was a listener who had suggested using that to share passwords between two computers for for the same reason and Tony says well, if you're using keychain you can airdrop a password and he's right Uh, he sent us a screenshot from his ipad where he went into settings passwords and he picked a password for a website And then in the upper right hand corner is a share icon And if you tap that it will pull things down and show you airdrop items It doesn't on his it doesn't seem to show things other than airdrop which is interesting So maybe password sharing is only available via airdrop and not other sharing options. But um, but yeah airdrop There you go. I love it. I love it. It's great. Yeah, I think the the other thing is in the latest os is I think it's not only ios but mac os And I've done this with family, but if you if you hold your device next to another device It'll say hey, you want the password to get into this wi-fi network But you have to be in the contact list of that person Yeah, and you don't need to be all that close Um, as long as you are within bluetooth range, which you know, if you're in a It's like a hundred feet. I think yeah, exactly. It could be a hundred feet But yeah, you're right You need to be mutually in one another's contact lists And if somebody goes to connect to a wi-fi network that you have the password to It'll just offer to to share it with you and and that'll work with your own devices too If you happen to have a device that that is not, you know, synced for whatever reason to that To you know to that iCloud keychain thing or if it got purged because of the stuff We've talked about with the way iCloud keychain is you can share to yourself too, but yeah, you're right You have to be in bluetooth range and the contacts, but yeah, that's you know, it's I love that feature. It's it's funny for me I've been at like theaters sitting at my drums, you know or or backstage or whatever And my family is in the crowd and one of my family members goes to connect to a wi-fi network or whatever It's like, hey, do you want to share this with them? 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And I I don't think without using third party apps to completely manage your library Uh, I don't think there's a way to do that iCloud photos which is what's going to store all of those things if you're If that's where you're syncing from which it says he is You can do the optimized device storage thing, but that leaves it up to apple There's no more granular controls than that. You can't say optimized device storage for photos, but not for videos or vice versa And I don't I think this is this one might be a geek challenge, but I I don't I don't think there's an answer other than using something like Synologies new photos thing which also will do some of that storage optimization But you could split it into different libraries if you wanted there and and control them differently Otherwise, yeah, I don't know Yeah, the only thing I could think of is So if you go into the uh camera app um On the iphone it will break out Your videos into a separate album Yeah, so I mean you could turn off Syncing to odd. No, I don't want to do that. Um I I'm I'm just trying to think of a herbarine scheme because the thing is you can hold down on a video in That album in the videos album and share it with someone else I'm just trying to think how you could segment that from your photos photos. Yeah Right like it's like it's right there but Not right there like I'm I tried holding down on the videos album in my phone Can I you know, so if I choose to select a couple of videos Uh, there's no yeah, there's no like download link or anything. I can add them to a shared album Uh, but I can't say download these Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah That would be nice, but it seems to be that's not how it works If you know go ahead. Yeah. No, I wonder if you can do it through iCloud.com Probably not like it's your phone that decides what to download. It's not the cloud saying you go do this, right? So Yeah, no, I don't think so. I mean if you If you used amazing Instead of iCloud photos, then you could manually move things over, but that's probably not what you want to do Uh, but that would be one way Of of more granularly managing things. I'll put a link to I'm amazing in the show notes I know most people that listen probably have already heard about it, but you know, it doesn't hurt um Yeah, so that would be the only um That'd be the only thing that that comes to mind for me. Yeah If you know though, let us know feedback at mackey cub.com. We'd love to hear about it As would timothy at mackey cub.com. It's feedback at mackey cub.com folks. Um Um We we did get a suggestion from the chat room here, which is at live dot mackey cub.com last I checked, um I mean you could The suggestion is that you you create two libraries Okay photos and one with your videos I think is where we're going with this Hmm How I mean, I like that idea. I will iCloud let me do that I I thought you could only I know you can have two iCloud accounts on any given device, right, but I didn't I don't think photos can be part of more than one unless What about apple business essentials? Like the you know the new thing where you can have You're managed iCloud account that's from your company that does things differently from what you do Like maybe that opens that door I don't know. I don't know. I mean the other thing is that you could create Two users one that does photos and one that does videos and do it that way, right? kind of a hack, but Wait, well, you can't have two users on an iphone no Right Right other than apple business essentials like that's the way to do two users two iCloud users on an iphone All right, there might be something here I if one of you has has like navigated this path again. Let us know we give me said the email All right, um Brian asks a question in you know, what's similar vain He uh, oh, yeah, he Well, he sent this in via audio, but it was there was a lot of background noise. So I will I will parse this He said that he was noticing he wasn't sure if apple music was streaming or playing locally and He was getting a he you know He has a like a t-mobile account with like 50 gigs a month of data and he got a note the other day saying Hey, you've used all your data And so he wasn't sure if that was coming from apple music or not He presumed it was but there is a way to tell first and foremost The place that you would configure this is in settings music downloads, then there are a few options there Including optimized storage like we just mentioned for timothy, right? But then there's automatic downloads that You can choose to automatically download things that you've just added to your library or whatever, you know, so that you can tweak these things So you can do that But unlike what we just dealt with with photos You can go to an album a song or even a playlist in your library And you can click the little down arrow in a circle, which is the download button And instruct your phone to download that set of media so that you know album song playlist, whatever it is It will download that to your device So you can granularly control. Yes. I want this playlist to be not on my You know not streamed. I want it downloaded which can save you a ton of data if in fact, you know and don't I you know do that when you're on wi-fi so that you're not using your cellular data for that So that might help But you could confirm that your data is being used by apple music by going into settings cellular And then scroll down and you will after some settings you will find a list Of all of your apps organized by the amount of data that they have used now It's the amount of data that they've used since you last reset the list Which is a manual process. So it doesn't happen every month like your, you know, cell phone company does So if you go all the way to the bottom of the list, you can reset it or at least see When you last reset it and that will inform you is to you know, because you might see Oh, you know, you've downloaded 200 gigs worth of music. It's like, well, yeah, but over the course of two years, you know So, uh, but even that might give you an indication if if music is not at the top of that list But something else is you know, you've downloaded 50 gigs worth of stuff. What is it? Hopefully that can help you suss that out. So Yeah, thoughts on that, john No, all right. Good. I actually just signed up for music Right because you knew rum pod. Yeah Are you using it? um A bit, okay, I'll I'll ask you to play a song from whoever and um And it does the only thing I noticed, Dave um The synchronization from my mac. So if I have my mac and I indicate the home pod as a sound destination Like in the music app or whatever. Yeah um There is a big lag Like the video and audio is totally out of sync and I can't figure it out So you're talking like playing say for the movies app that you're finding the audio out of sync. Yes interesting, I know that there's a Like apple has a um And I'm searching here while I'm typing uh I thought apple had a knowledge base article about that because it's supposed to Solve like that that's supposed to be a thing that it solves um I'm looking there's a reddit article. I'm not finding an apple article about this Um, yeah, if you choose the tv in the home pod everything works fine. Yeah I've seen people I've seen people report this before but I I also thought it was kind of a solved issue I mean that first thing to try would be you know, the obvious have you restarted the mac and or have you restarted the home pod Right, like that's that's one way to do it the other way And I might be over complicating things here. No great surprise for anybody who's listened for a while. You might might find that habit uh as occurred before but You know, like rogue amoeba's airfoil might be the um The answer here because it will do Some like when I've used it it it intelligently figures out what that lag is going to be and does some syncing but I think that's Trying to think I think that's only for Audio, I don't know if that's for video or not. I've used it for audio, but I might be I might be Might be missing something there. So airfoil might be an app for that Um, I'll give this one. Yeah What what source are you playing from? Um Quicktime player or okay, you know youtube via browser. Yep. Yep Huh are actually locally stored movies. But yeah, I typically play my movies either with the mostly vlc But also a quick time player if it's the right format. So right, right Yeah, in the in the chat room ncs ucpe is our the handle of art or remember who Is actually quite Astute at these home theater things and he says there is a sync function in audio and video on the apple tv Which I've definitely seen before and and maybe that's what I'm remembering here um But uh, but there is I'll put this article in the in the thing. There might be Calibrate audio. Yeah, but that's just for the apple tv Which I've done and and it works great to to calibrate the audio. It actually uses your iphone to Um to be the the ears for it to figure out like when the sound is coming out like it knows Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty cool. So Um Yeah, but I don't know about from your mac Huh, I mean, you know, it is playing over wi-fi which should be I mean that that you know, that's that's pretty it can be Fairly low latency. It's not like bluetooth, right? Um, that's interesting. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, maybe another um Maybe another geek challenge. I like this stuff. Yeah All right, shall we keep moving on my friend? Indeed. All right mark has a quickie here Um, I have yet another keyboard combination to sleep a mac which I use all the time Which is control command q Um What it does is it locks your mac and then and I verified this on my machine So it locks the mac and if you don't have a screensaver enabled it then goes to sleep Huh, yeah, that's really smart. So no screensaver means it just skips over the screensaver and goes right to sleep Uh, don't try this now or at least I'm not going to no. Yeah, it'd be bad. So thank you Yeah, I like it. All right, that's good Uh, awry has a question that I you know, it probably falls into a quick tip that we should have shared a long time ago But we didn't to my knowledge. So we will answer arry's question. Hopefully for many arry writes Ever since the release of focus mode I've been using focus to help me maintain a better work life balance and it's been a game changer and I love it overall However, there's one silly thing that's got me shaking my fist When you are in focus the clock now dims to the point that it's unreadable At least with my blue sky dynamic gradient desktop choice The only way to undim the clock is to option click it But this just temporarily disables focus. That's not an option for me as I was writing this I just had the thought to use the clock in iStat menus which does work But unfortunately that adds a usable white clock beside my now unusable dark gray clock Which is an ugly which is ugly and space inefficient As I work around says I don't see a way to disable the system clock As even bartender says it is unable to touch it and Like as a as an aside if you aren't already using bartender to control the things that appear in your menu bar Uh, I highly recommend that so and I think that's part of set up as well. So Anyway, but we do have a better answer or an answer Because like arry I traded my system clock for the iStat menus clock years ago But then with uh current os's the system clock came back and you can't remove it. It must be there my answer analog Go to system preferences dock and menu bar clock Then in the time options section of the clock preference there So it's this is buried system preferences dock and menu bar Then the clock and then there'll be a time options thing you can choose digital or analog When you choose analog the clock goes super small And it's just a little round analog clock that sits over on the right of the menu bar and is all but invisible And that has been my solution so that I can have my iStat menus clock Which also gives me like a calendar and all the other things that I might want to see But uh, but you have the system clock because clicking on the system clock brings up your notifications and all that stuff Which you need so that's why the system clock has to be there But it doesn't have to be super wide or intrusive. It can be analog. So that's my answer to that Have you have you been doing the analog thing with your clock? John? Or are you just using no you're just using the system? I got no space. Yeah Yeah Yeah, I do I do too. I just I like to use the iStat menus clock and I don't want to see both clocks That's really what it came down to so yeah, it's good All right, what's next? Ah, I think we're going to brian. This could actually be a geek challenge. Um So brian says I am embarking on a video organization project where I am going to be entering a lot of text into the metadata fields Of my video files the text entry boxes is in the finder um See below only make two lines for the tags and three lines for comments visible at a time These metadata text entry boxes are simply not big enough for me Uh, I would like another app that will make these text entry boxes bigger Does such a thing exist or is it possible to do something in the terminal that will change the size of these text entry boxes? Would love to hear your thoughts on this Um, here's my thought dave So, yeah, I went into system preferences and I couldn't find an option I thought there used to be one that would change the size of the system font, but I think that that time has passed. Okay, uh, I even went to onyx Maybe there was something in onyx. I couldn't find anything and actually a last thought which I didn't communicate Uh, but I do have an answer kind of um I thought there would be something in accessibility that would let you do this, but I couldn't find anything So there's a way to make the system font bigger I mean the the one thing you can do is you can't expand The finder dialogue so it's bigger, but the font uh, I know of no way so What's the answer Well, I think the answer it may be to use not use the finder. Yeah Uh, and I found an article, uh, which will of course link to um eight best video metadata editors for mac Okay And I list a whole bunch vlc is actually one of them, uh, which will let you modify some of these fields So hopefully one of the eight apps that these guys identify Will let you change the font size because I understand your frustration. I hate it when you It's just aggravating that you know, it's it's you know, but Some of us that have worked with fonts for a while, uh, typically call it a fly spec one is the font that you're using Because it's so tiny I like it. Yeah, I wish I wish there was a way to control that but yeah using a third-party app I think is is the only solution here. Yeah the the article and it you're right It does have some option that's some good options in it It is produced the article is created by Wondershare who makes filmore, uh And perhaps some of the others on the list. So this is a little bit of we're gonna help you and also promote our app There's nothing wrong with that. It's just good to know that when you're reading these articles um There's another one that comes to mind that I don't see on their list and that is A better finder attributes. That's the name of the app a better finder attributes And that is there to add and remove video metadata along with exit data for photos and videos You can do, you know, your finder sorting and change dates and all that stuff and it's a it's a different interface So you're not necessarily stuck with what apple has chosen for you You are stuck with what they are they have chosen for you But maybe it fits your workflow better because it's literally built to do this and you can do it It you know in bulk and things like that too. So That would that would those would be my thoughts on this So I'll put we'll put links to both of those things in the in the show notes for sure Yeah Fun. Yeah, good All right, let's move on to ned here ned has a problem. Well, he has a problem that I have to in a sense um This is he's going to talk about the powerbeats pro from apple, but um The air pods are going to be similar. So this is for anybody with, you know, apple headphones with the apple h W1 chip, I guess he called it the h1 chip, but I think it's the w1 chip Whatever it is that apple has put into all the powerbeats and the air pods and all that stuff He says the sound on my powerbeats pro are great, but I have a few issues and questions Sometimes when I put it in its case, it doesn't disconnect Uh, not notice it and then wonder my device seems quiet Because it's still coming out of the headphones that are in the case. Yeah, that's interesting The auto connected screwy he says today I was listening to the live youtube of mac geek up on my ipad using these powerbeats pro and every few minutes It would switch to my macbook pro causing the ipad to pause the live stream I would have to go to the macbook pro bluetooth and disconnect my headphones before they would reconnect to my ipad And sometimes when I take uh them out of the case, they will not connect to anything I'll check my macbook pro my iphone and my ipad and there doesn't seem to be a to turn them on except to Put them in the case make sure the charging contacts touch wait a few seconds to reset things and then take them out Any ideas on this so yeah, I I have seen similar behavior with my air pods gen 3 I did not see this with my og air pods. I use air pods The I have I have air pods pro and air podge gen 3 and then I have my og air pods too the The gen 3 and the og ones aka the ones that don't have a full seal in my ear Are the ones I love to use in my office for phone calls They are the best bluetooth headset i've ever used And I the only reason i'm using the gen 3 ones is because the battery on my og air pods is finally You know it'll only last 20 minutes or something so But with the gen 3 ones And this might happen if I were to use my air pods pro in this way So I can't say it doesn't but I haven't experienced it but with the gen 3 ones I will you know pick up my air pods put them in Make a phone call and then often what happens is I spend the first 30 seconds of the phone call like Tapping the button on my phone to say you know use the air pods It'll it'll switch to the air pods logo, but won't actually switch to the air pods It'll jump back to the phone and then it'll jump to my mac and then I hit it again And it'll finally jump to the phone for some reason. I think for me It is my my my gen 3 air pods are prioritizing my mac mini in my office over my phone And I don't know how to fix that But that is that's what seems to be happening And you can't because of iCloud in the way Your apple w1 Audio devices sync amongst your iCloud account. You can't I could I can't tell my mac mini Ignore this device forget about it never use it Because it'll come back So yes, there is something wonky about it and I'm not I think what it is is and when I'm in my office You know I'm my I'm using my mac right because that you know That's what I'm doing and then I either decide to make a phone call or decide to take a phone call and it It decides that because my mac has been in use recently that that's the thing it should should associate with Um now I am being told in the chat room live About mac you could have com uh that you can from my listener john you can turn off auto switching on that device So maybe that's the key um And I I am not sure how to do that because if I was I would have done that so I'm not sure if that's in like In the Yeah, I don't see it in my uh like in my bluetooth settings, but I don't have them activated so That either will wait until listener john can type into the chat room the instructions to do that Or we will share it in the next episode. So Uh, we will but hopefully we've still got some time in this episode So we will we will move on and maybe circle back to that and uh in a minute He says you have to have them connected. Okay, and then hopefully he'll explain where it is in the bluetooth Menu or settings or whatever that is because that seems to be my problem And so turning off auto switching would be the key Excellent excellent. You want to take us to danie while we're uh Yeah, we're waiting for that Yeah, uh, this one man. I don't know but uh, okay Could be a geek challenge. Um, whereas it seems like we're hitting a lot of those today But we're knocking some of them out which I which I really like. Yeah, that's good Okay, so danie says I'm having weird issues over here in even three hours Two apple advisors and one senior advisor failed to solve. Here's the problem. I got two drives for Christmas uh Two seagate iron wolf 12 terabyte Nice, I don't have a drive that large Um, I tried to format them using an external enclosure with my brand new macbook pro m1 Uh, this utility sees them as one terabyte only I tried a psf hfs Extended fat always the same only one terabyte. I tried this utility's first aid nothing Tried formatting again nothing Tried different cable same um I talked to apple and they said yeah try safe mode same thing Try to reinstall Monterey. Same thing I decided to try it on two different max a 2011 iMac and uh macbook pro uh mac pro 5.1 same thing even with a different enclosure Uh, is it possible the two brand new drives have the same issue or is something with mac os and seagate 12 terabyte that brings some unexpected Uh geek happiness during the holidays Any opinions would be great. Um Yeah, the best I got here Dave is At first I thought it was the enclosure. So I'm like sure enclosure, but he already did that so Yeah, um, I did find something online though. It was for windows um And the article was how to troubleshoot why windows shows two terabytes instead of 12 terabytes So it sounds like a similar problem and it was also with the seagate drive um The only suggestion I have um And I think he got back to me and said it didn't work But so when you format a drive Dave, there's two choices that you have the format of the drive Which he went through all of those. Yeah, but there's also the scheme Right like that and and that's what this article Um suggested is that your scheme may not be right in that If the scheme is master boot record, which is pretty much a windows dos kind of relic um That will limit your size because it just doesn't understand big drives. Um So the only suggestion I have is make sure it's set to guid. Um, which is what you really want on mac and I Think you're right. I think that's the answer I think this thing came formatted or partitioned master boot record, right? And and so you have to wipe that entirely clean And make it guid and then things should open up. I I think you're right. I've I've run into this before It's been a while But it it's also been a while since I've just taken a drive as advert, you know as it arrived and not gone into discutility and said, okay, this is how I'm going to do this with this particular drive. So Yeah, yeah, because some legacy Formats only understand a certain size and if they see something bigger they get confused. So they're like, well, I'll make it really small Yeah All right. Uh, yeah, no, I think you're right. I think it's yeah You got to do that in discutility and and you know wipe it wipe it down to the core and and Yeah, because mbr master boot record is it's not It didn't have enough like bits or whatever to see beyond two terabytes, right? I think that's the that's the issue All right, uh, we do have a follow-up. Thank goodness from listener john in the chat room who actually went and got his mac To get these answers. So the the trick is uh, you connect your air pods to Your devices so first do it for me where I don't want it to auto connect to my mac I would do this on my mac connect the air pods then in bluetooth you can click options and choose connect to this mac When last connected to this mac and and you can you can change those to tweak the setting so that it's not Automatically connecting unless you tell it to and maybe that's going to be my solution down in the office I'm I'm stoked now to go do that But we do have a few more minutes of show so i'm not going to run away Quiet yeah, but i'm really eager to try this out if we hadn't already done the ad break Then I would have run downstairs during the ad break and gotten my uh, my airpods pro and tested it out, but you know There's only so many things we can do here john So yeah, all right and for those of you that don't know. Yes We I always do try to pre-record all of the ads so that we a we get them right for the sponsors But also that we keep them tight for you right and tight Uh, because we you know, uh, we want to be able to deliver what we need to deliver Without it becoming something that you know just consumes the entire episode And so uh, that's the reason we pre-record that's the only part of the show that is regularly and routinely edited Is is that we we slice and dice and make it concise, which is the point Maybe we should do that for the rest of the show. I don't know all right, um Louis has a follow-up and might be louis. I'm not sure I I don't have the full thing in front of me here So my apologies if I have screwed that up It is louis. There you go, uh says Uh, we were talking in the last episode as I mentioned about setting up iCloud With your own iCloud plus rather with your own custom domain and it's been working great However, louis noticed a limitation. He says I've been stuck with network solutions hosted email for years iCloud custom email domain seemed like the ticket to solve a lot of my issues one question though in the initial setup It's asking me to list all the email addresses that I currently use I have 10 associated with my domain the apple setup form seems to max out at three Am I missing something and you are not missing something that is true each Person gets three addresses per domain. So if you are um If you are on a family shared account and you share the domain like if you get a domain for your family Uh, then every each person gets three addresses per domain But if you're just using it for yourself, then you are just the one person And so you only get three addresses for yourself for that domain. So yeah, and will this limitation um You know, will this limitation be Lifted or increased Over time maybe we'll see My guess is apple will see too But it does keep their database smaller For these things. So yeah, but it is it's limited to three addresses per person per domain. So it's not Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's there's no catch-all address which some email providers let you do with a domain where anything that comes into your domain Just goes to you no matter what Or you can forward it to a different place, you know, there there are more full featured email email custom domain providers But um, but yeah, this one is it you can pick three and and that's it So my family members have each only chosen one. So it has not come up But when I dug into this Lewis was absolutely right. So thank you Lewis for For hipping us to that good stuff Yeah, you think they'd offer like maybe a premium tier where you could like throw them a couple extra bucks and get more My guess. I mean, you know, this is this is classic apple, right? This is rev one of this feature And so it's like like let's roll it out. Let's keep the feature set simple and easy to understand And easy to support and easy to maintain And let's see how many people use it and let's see what walls they run into and then we can, you know Apple decides which walls to to to move or or lift or or not So I think I think you're right though. I think they will offer my guess is they won't offer I mean, there's there are many things they could do with a premium tier But that, you know, like that that complicates things My guess is we'll see this lifted from three to ten next year. That that's just my, you know Undereducated opinion. So But what do I know? I'm just some guy with a podcast. I don't even know what website anymore Right Okay, uh, let's see Yeah, let's go to Let's go to kiwi gram. He's got this is a It's one of these things that's helpful for all of us, especially those of us that support multiple people But really just for ourselves too kiwi gram says, uh, I don't recall hearing this on the show This particular tip from Howard Oakley about kernel underscore task the process kernel task on your mac and thermal management He says I came across it when doing some research on why a client's 2019 mac book pro was running so horrendously slow We're in the middle of the australian summer and my client was running his laptop at home connected to a monitor in clam shell mode Performance was fine for four to five minutes after a reboot, but then would become almost unusable Activity monitor showed kernel task, which is notoriously unwilling to reveal any finer details using 80 percent of all cpu cores Howard oakley at eclectic light points out that mac os is using a fudge Uh to prevent thermal overload by pretending that kernel task is using most of the available cpu To limit processes from actually using the cpu and heating it up further So this definitely if you see kernel task eating up a ton of the cpu Check to see, you know art is is it hot? Is it sitting on your lap? Is it hot in the room or if your machine has fans are the fans running it full tilt trying their best to you know cool things off It's just a great reminder that I you know I've certainly run into this before but when when graham's email came in it was like oh, yeah, man. I forgot about that um And I wonder how much will run into this with apple silicon based max hopefully not nearly as often but um, but certainly with intel max I I remember running into this a lot and it was like, yeah, why is my machine so slow? It's like oh, because you know it's summer. I don't have my ac on and I've got the machine on my lap You know on the couch or whatever. It's like. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so Yes, yes indeed cool Yeah, unfortunately I thought there was a way to get more detail about what kernel task is doing. So Here's a mini tip uh activity monitor Um, if you go in there and you double click on a task Uh, or a process. Yeah, it'll show you a little more information But it doesn't show you the gory details of what exactly it's doing. So never mind. Oh, okay All right. Yeah. Yeah, you're right It it would be really handy if activity monitor would say, you know kernel task is is using this because the system's hot Like that would be super handy To so that you knew like hey, by the way Your max is going to be a lot slower right now. We've made that decision for you to keep your cpu from, you know Blowing up like that would be fine, but a little notification goes a long way Uh I like it. Maybe that's the uh the title of the show uh Let's Do some cool stuff found we have a couple of minutes left listener john sends us one he said uh The my radar app My rad ar all one word capital m capital r has a feature that I haven't seen before and he sent us a screenshot where he says it shows When the high low temperatures will occur Not just what the high low temperatures of the day are And it is it's he sent us a screenshot of a five-day detailed forecast And it shows a little bar that you know covers the 24 hours of the day and on the wherever he was You know on thursday it was going to be a high of 73 and a low of 64 so he definitely doesn't live where I do And uh and it showed, you know that the high was going to be at 1 p.m. And the low was going to be at 11 p.m That's pretty cool. Uh, and you know the other days the same thing. I like that. That's outstanding Huh and it even shows like the a a color coded graph of the temperature evolution throughout the day too And again, some of this stuff is obvious, you know, it's it's but you know One day the high was going to happen at 3 p.m. Instead of 1 p.m You know, which is wait and depending on where you live I remember when we were in texas the high would generally be about 4 or 5 p.m Not noon which living into growing up in new england. I was shocked about it I was like wait. I thought the high was always, you know at noon. I was like, no No, not just here not everywhere. So yeah, I like it also has so it shows One day where the high was 47 and the low was 33. Yeah, that's pretty close to freezing And uh, but the bar is differently colored for that day, which I think is what it's indicating is like Because uh, you know for those of you with it live in certain parts of the country, um When it's freezing out that's bad for uh, you don't want frozen pipes, which I had once and it's not fun No, you want to make sure your heat's running. That's right. Yes Yeah, yeah, that sucked. We were out at mackworld and it got to be like two degrees at home. Oh, yeah, that's not no bueno All right. Yeah, so I'm gonna have to check that app. I'm like, I'm crazy about weather apps. I use the um The I use the weather underground app as my main sort of Seeing the weather thing because it will tell me the amount and type of precipitation In the you know in the 10 day view or the 5 day view or whatever it is And I find that living here, especially this time of year super helpful Like I can see that it's on saturday the first We have a 99 chance of rain and we're going to get a half inch of rain Which is awesome because we're supposed to drive to boston. So that's amazing. Great. Um You sunday has 0.03 inches of rain So it's nice to see how much we're going to get I guess it's better than getting snow because a half inch Rain would be about a half a foot of snow. So Yeah for the drive to boston, I'll take I'll take the rain instead of the snow But I got to check out this my radar thing, but yeah, that's the weather underground app and then uh for radar I really like storm radar because it shows me the radar into the future Which it can be super helpful. It's obviously just predicted, but you know uh So I'll put those in the in the uh In the show notes, too We got one last cool stuff found that I think we have time for here john And that is from listener timothy Uh, he says I heard you explaining sandbox in episode 907 for another listener I use airmail and it performs many of the same functions as sandbox and is super easy to use The pro version has a one-time charge of just a couple dollars and I hope that helps Well, absolutely that helps timothy. Thank you so much We will uh, we will put a link to airmail app.com in the show notes so that you don't even have to remember Just make sure you sign up for that email for the show notes at mackeykeb.com And you will get those delivered into your box, which is the whole idea All right I think that's it john our first show is uh independent podcasters So to speak Again, you know, that's just a technical distinction, but you know Exciting times. Thanks for hanging out with us folks on this first episode of the year at least for when it comes out We will record we will do our first recording of the year on uh on friday the 7th the morning of friday the 7th And so that will right that that is right. It's the 7th this friday. I think so yeah And uh, you can join us there at live dot mackeykeb.com if you want to hang out If you want to know what the schedule is Subscribe to mackeykeb.com slash calendar and that will uh, you can that's the same calendar me and john use so Like it's it won't it won't be wrong I guarantee it because if it's in there, we're doing it and if it's not we're not Sometimes we put personal events in the calendar accidentally and we quickly take them out because you don't need that All right Got anything else for today john Nope All right. Well, and I guess it's time to uh Call it a wrap Thanks for hanging out with us folks. Thanks for everything. 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