 Hey, so this week I Re-learned a thing that I wanted to share with all of you and I wanted to make sure we all knew about my phone was wedged It was just locked up. I woke up one morning and I knew it had charged because it was plugged in all night, but nothing black screen Nothing and then I remembered the secret incantation And I was able to get it out and that is you press the volume up button You press the volume down button and then you hold the other button on the other side Whatever we're supposed to call that button and I had to hold it for like it felt like far more than 10 seconds And I had kind of given up but figured well I'll just invest a little more time before I give up entirely and then boom the Apple logo appeared More tips like this plus your questions answered wait wait. I want to make sure you knew that Volume up volume down hold the side button for a while. That's the thing some more tips like this plus your questions answered today on Mackie cab 949 for Monday, October 3rd, 2022 Welcome to Mackie cab the show where you send in your tips like that one Your cool stuff found like we'll talk about later your questions, which we will answer and sometimes we throw in our own tips cool stuff found and even questions of our own Because the goal is for each of us to learn at least five New things every single time we get together Sponsors for this episode include Helix sleep comm slash MGG where you can save up to 200 bucks off your mattress plus get two free pillows Zock doc comm slash MGG where you can sign up for free and Instantly book an appointment with top rated doctors out there and you can see the ratings. It's cool And then collide KOL IDE comm slash MGG It's device security for your users that uses slack to inform them instead of just forcing them to do things. It's amazing We'll talk more about each of them later here in the episode for now Here in crisp clear fall Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton in here In Fairfield, Connecticut. This is John abroad Yeah, man. So yeah, it was it was fascinating that my phone just It was just dead night. I thought well new iPhone 14 pro maybe, you know Maybe it wasn't meant to live but Yeah, I don't know what caused that I've only had that happen to one other phone one other time in the past and it was on when I was like Visiting NASA's Kennedy Space Center on that press day that I did a number of years ago and was super bummed because it happened at The beginning of the day, but thankfully I was able to look up online and learn that that little trick But yeah, it's up down and then hold so I love it It's a good one Yeah more on that or should we Should we should we just share petters quick tip and just keep on truck in here? Keep on truck All right, we will truck Petter shares with us. He says Did you know that preview is a great tool for both merging and splitting PDFs There's no need to purchase any third-party apps or uploading files to unknown websites that promise to do this for you The magic is all in the sidebar and thumbnails Whenever you have an open to PDF or any other file in preview for that matter go to view thumbnails to add more pages to your PDF just drag them from the finder and wherever you want and boom in the thumbnail view they will appear there and To split simply drag one or multiple pages out of the sidebar view and back into the finder And you can actually do this between two open PDFs to in preview I've I've dragged pages from one into the other so you can really get granular with it It's a great tool for doing exactly that kind of stuff. So yeah, thank you for sharing that petter. It's good I like I like when these things just you know When the computers help us do the things I Don't know that's what they're supposed to do, right? No, they're supposed to save us time No, no, that's not that's not the gig. I Remember cartoon once. I don't know who did it, but it was somebody explaining computers to someone and he's like Their purpose is to take small human error and turn it into large tragic mistakes This is this is I agree with this Well, computers can screw things up so much more quickly than a person can It's true. It's true. Well, that's kind of what we do here. We we help everybody Maybe and I when I say everybody I like we mean us to we I think we're the luckiest ones here John we get to learn the most because we you know, we're in it But but we do try to make sure everybody else learns along with us So Speaking of Henry has what not one not two but three quick tips for our lock screen. Is that right? Indeed? Yeah, thank you, Henry So here's some quick tips for the lock screen The quickest and easiest way to access the camera from the lock screen is to swipe left Works on phones with face ID or touch ID and you can grab any part of the screen Except on a notification and swipe no need to curl up your right thumb to hit the small Camera icon in the bottom right corner face ID phones and hold it there until you get the haptic feedback Okay, that's yeah, I stumbled across this accidentally once I swiped and it's like oh now now look where I am I forget about Until his email came in I don't think I've done that in years But it is a much faster way of getting the camera up the next one. I think is Like the ps2 resistance of this. Yeah, yeah to me that was like magic when I tried this Yeah The second tip the quickest and easiest way to turn off the flashlight if you're on the lock screen is to swipe left a little bit To start revealing the camera the flashlight will then turn off and you can release your finger or move it back To the right to restore your lock screen Nice and then third tip. No, that's like I don't want to gloss over that like that's the one that blew me away Because it's it's a pain in the neck to like I don't know why but turning off the flashlight is always like just Wonky and just that quick little flick. It doesn't I love it. Yep And then the third tip is not so quick to describe I finally got my first face ID phone a 13 mini had to get it before they stopped making the mini I love the small phones. Yes, I do too There are dozens of us They're more than dozens. I don't know I'm I am missing my well, I'm not missing it It's literally right in front of me I am using a new camera this week and I moved up from the iPhone 10 R with reincubate camo to My iPhone 13 mini with reincubate camo and it's a better lens. I mean it doesn't I think it's even even better But but yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, so there are dozens of us. Yep, so to continue For phones with face ID the quick tip is that you don't need to enable control center in the allow access my locked list Within the face ID and passcode section of the settings If you need to use control center from the lock screen most of the time the phone will already be unlocked by face ID Within seconds of waking making control center available when I use touch ID phones I always disabled control center from the lock screen because I didn't want someone to be able to grab my locked phone and Put it in airplane mode. That's the wording find my iPhone Sneaky wait, what I never thought about that Security vector, you know, I mean, I always say we we choose our Our our place in the continuum right between ultimate security and ultimate convenience But that one like that that even gets my attention I tend to choose my place far closer to convenience than security but even like that there's a good reason so you just go into settings and control center and turn off the Where do you do this remind me again, John? Show that one more time allow access when locked Yeah, where is that though? Oh face ID and passcode How access one lock so he yeah, okay, and that's where you that's where you can do those granular things Yes, there it is control center. No, thank you. I have everything else on do I want that home control? I don't know that I need home control although Second I mean I can't do it with Siri. I'm gonna turn it off and see what happens. Yeah interesting Huh, all right. Yeah. Yeah. 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It's all good That visibility makes it easy to prove compliance to your auditors your customers and your leadership You can meet your compliance goals by putting users first visit collide comm slash mg g to find out how that's KOL IDE comm slash mg g and our thanks to collide for sponsoring this episode All right, John we have a follow-up from Kansas Dave while I was busy doing the ad read here for collide Kansas Dave was sharing two Siri Commands, I like to call them incantations because as Kansas Dave points out they are for turning the flashlight on and off Siri Lumos turns the flashlight on Siri knocks turns the flashlight off and I'm I'm intentionally not saying the hey We're just in case my voice is close enough to yours that I would actually get your phone or mine behind me here So these are obviously from Harry Potter. I assume correct That's that's where they come from but Kansas Dave in our chat at Mackie cap comm slash discord was Was the the person who pointed this out Right, that's Harry Potter, right John Could be okay, you know, I thought you were I thought you were a Harry Potter person I'm pretty sure those are those are Harry Potter commands. Thank you Kansas Dave amazing. Hey, I found by accident Evidently a new Siri command that is in iOS 16. I was in my car and sometimes I Car play like won't sync with my car if I try to sync it if I try to plug it in too soon After I like turn my car on or something like there's something where my phone decides. Yeah, no girl. There's no there's no car play happening now and It used to be that I all I had to do was reset the head unit in my car Which I can do just by holding down the volume button in in the car like not the car's volume button in a Subaru That's how you reset the head unit. Just hold it down till you see the Subaru logo However, that doesn't work to solve it. And so I needed to restart my phone and so I told Siri Restart my phone. I might have said reboot my phone I think either will work and it asked me are you sure you want to do that and I was shocked. I didn't think it would work I was just driving and didn't want to like mess with my phone to restart it and sure enough And my phone restarted this John not only was that amazing that that's in there I believe this is the only way to Restart your phone from your phone correct me if I'm wrong you can go into settings general and shut down your phone Yes, but I don't think there's a way to tell it to restart other than this so So I shut down Right, that's the only one that's there general. Yeah settings general. Yeah, so like It's weird to me that there's no restart button on the phone or restart command in the phone And it's even weirder that now the first place we get it is Is with Siri so but I was happy and then I looked online. I'm like, how long has this been here? It's like, oh a couple of weeks. I don't I've never tried it in the past, but but yeah, so Fun stuff. I like it Siri's handy. Do you Siri a bunch John? Are you are you a regular Siri person? Really, okay. I think I don't think I was until I had a vehicle with car play and Then you know, I use it constantly in the car and I think because of that it just became sort of part of my You know just the things that I do so Yeah, I think so. I don't know. Yeah I don't know. You got something for us from Tim here another quick tip ish kind of thing. So so Tim writes in And says I forgot about this for most of the year Then I get a new iPhone and I said they're staring at my screen wondering how long Until let's say my podcast player will take to how He wants to prioritize his downloading of apps and if you've gotten a phone as of late You'll know that part of the process Once you restore the The os is gonna restore all the apps and then you get all these, you know things saying waiting On your main screen. Well, there's a way to kick somebody to the front of the line Long press on the icon of the app you're impatient to use and then you'll see a choice prioritize download Interesting. Yeah, I forget about this Until I am in exactly that scenario, which for me happens once a year and usually and then it's like, oh, yeah There's a way to do this and thankfully the long press is the this the way. Yeah, great tip. I like that Tim That's a good one. Yeah, and I found an article. I think it's been around since ios 10 um, okay Okay, at least I found an article from this publication that you and I sometimes read But which which publication I'm looking in the links in the show notes. Oh, it's from tmo. Oh, okay. That's awesome. Yeah Hey, uh, I wanted to take a minute and make sure everybody knew that the mac observers daily observations podcast is back Ken Ray. Yep Uh, who you might know from macOS ken and everything else that he does Uh, the the folks at tmo have brought ken ray on board I think he's writing some articles for him too, but he is hosting daily observations every day every weekday Uh, I am generally on the show now on on wednesdays I won't be this coming week just because I have some scheduling things that got in the way But uh, but it's been a blast. So yeah, uh, if you If you were a listener to that and you were subscribed you'll you'll you've probably already seen it in your podcast player of choice As long as it's downloaded. Hopefully tim helped us make sure that happens and uh, But yeah, anyway tdo is back. Just want to make sure everybody knew that Uh, let's see. Do we have You we have a we have another seri tip john and it's from scott if you look and ever know it I think you prepped it. I don't know where it wound up on the floor somewhere, but Uh, it's not in the agenda that I see but I think since we're Sharing seri tips you should share scott's Seri quick tip you got there. Yes. Okay. Cool. Um This may be new to ios 16 or I may simply have overlooked it before Now that the percentage is available for display in the battery icon I tried it and in fact didn't like it is simply too small for me to see without my glasses So I turned it off Then on a whim I asked Seri a one word question battery seri responded with the answer Battery at 66 percent and put a banner on the screen That's very handy and easier for me than squinting to see the tiny font that puts the percentage inside the battery icon Which I believe is coming in 6.1, which I don't have yet. Oh for for iphone mini users. That's right. Yeah. Yeah Yeah Yeah, and a better display of it too I think we all will want to try it again If we've tried it and and ditched it because it looks like they've fixed some of the User interface stuff in the 16.1 beta screenshots that I've seen. So yeah Yeah All right, good. We're jumping all over the place today john crazy bill has a follow-up quick tip to episode 948 Where we were talking about international like being able to call internationally and He says I have another suggestion that I believe will work in certain circumstances to make International calls or calls when you are traveling internationally and that is FaceTime audio This uses the data connection So it doesn't require a phone number Of course the limitation is that it can only be used between people in the apple ecosystem It's not a perfect solution by any means But it is one that will probably connect you to many of the people with whom you already interact. Thank you bill Yeah, good stuff. It's always good to remember FaceTime audio. I've started using FaceTime audio for phone calls Even like as long as i'm on wi-fi as long as i'm on good wi-fi And I probably have a story to share about that but um As long as you know, you're on good wi-fi FaceTime audio is going to sound so much better than anything I've gotten over the you know, just cell Circuit but if you have limited data And you're out and about and you're on like cell data You might not want to use FaceTime audio because you're burning your data audio burns a pretty Small amount of data. It might be a de minimis amount, but uh, you know Check that out before you before you just be aware of that as you're doing it All right, um I'll share my bandwidth story for later because we've got quick tips john. You want to take us to derrick? Sure, I like this one from derrick Uh listening to matki gab 944 and we're work station security reminded me of procedure at my old company When if anyone left their machine logged in and unattended Um, someone would send an email to the entire company Um saying they were buying pastries and donuts for everybody this afternoon Needless to say after being caught once or for some thrice people become more security conscious Uh, luckily is a long time Uh, matki gab listener. I didn't get caught That's good. I like it. That's a great what a great way to um To do that. That's cool. Yeah, I like it. It's good. Yeah Or you could make a policy or do like a you know Some sort of remote configuration Setting up everybody's computer to lock the screen after five minutes, which is typically what I do Yeah, no, I think I lock my computer. I lock it immediately. So once it yeah, once it goes to sleep you have to log in again Yeah, I I mean in it's certainly in a work Environment that makes in an any environment where there are many people that can get to your devices that make sense Like the machine here The studio is a little different because I have people in here rehearsing but the machine in my office I don't have it lock Right away. I I figure I mean If somebody gets into my office, I I have worse things to worry about than them, you know Sitting at my computer trying to figure out how to figure that out. So yeah All right, um You want to uh, you want to take us to listener john the first listener john of the day, I believe sure um So john says I was asked to set something Uh up on my more Work mac that I thought I would share there are hidden settings that change how wi-fi connects I was asked to run this and we'll paste it in Um, I'm not going to read the whole darn thing here, uh the default Uh, but but it's a wi-fi configuration Uh or or airport configuration utility very deep within the system um And the default setting uh, so they have one parameter called join mode Uh, and normally it's set to something called automatic. Uh, I wonder if it would help some people to force the wi-fi Uh, you could also say join mode. So what he's suggesting is join mode equals strongest So if you're having problems with your wi-fi Um Maybe running this will help Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, it's a big long convoluted command That's like just buried in like private frameworks or something on the on the mac, but I yeah, I remember being at like a mac tech event and hearing And and talking with a wi-fi person, you know about I don't know There was something we were talking on the show about and this was like 10 years ago about, you know How you could tweak the broadcom chips in certain devices and he's like, you know, you can do it in apple devices too There's just no gooey for it. You got to know what to do And I think this is what he was referring to Where you can really kind of dig in And and control exactly how your mac is going to choose to interact with a wi-fi network Yeah, because oh wait like so does this mean That instead of joining the wi-fi network that's at the top of your wi-fi list In the in the thing it's going to join whatever it finds to be the strongest network because that's been a problem in the past, right? Where You know, if you've got if it can see three networks and one is super weak, but it's at the top of your list That's what it's going to join. We've always kind of lamented that. So oh Now I Huh Okay This might be a really good thing to say I'm curious to hear. Yeah What i'm wondering though is how you how would you find this information Unless an it person told you to do it. I would have never found it At first I was like, all right. Well, the name of the command is airport So let me do a man on airport and apparently Whoever wrote this realized that something should be done Because the description of the command is airport manages 802 dot 11 interfaces And then the next sentence which cracked me up airport more information needed here I think it was a placeholder saying hey somebody take care of this and nobody ever did so More information needed here I almost want to make that the title of the episode But I don't know. I don't know what that'll communicate. So that's but that's pretty good. That's pretty good Yeah, all right Okay Moving on that's a good one though like that This is yeah, I I need to play with this Because this this sounds Sounds fascinating if somebody out there knows what this Like where to find more of these commands You know or more of these parameters for the airport command. Please let us know feedback at macicab dot com You heard it, right? That's feedback at macicab dot com All right I think you said feedback at macicab dot com Pete's not here to clarify for us. So I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do Just make sure you email us. All right listener. John with a quick tip From ios 16, this is cool. He says Uh As you may recall from many discussions about how to save or print a pdf to the files app in ios or ipad os This has always been a largely hidden feature due to the lack of a share icon Uh in the mail app. However in version 16 of ios and ipad os There is now a share icon in the print dialogue It's still somewhat hidden in that the share icon would be better suited to be on the icon bar Which is a nice addition in ipad os he says But if you know the incantation in mac os You won't have to know the secret spread your fingers over the preview icon trick to uncover the share icon anymore And he shared no pun intended some screenshots when you get to the print dialogue in ios on your iphone in ios 16 At the top It says print options. It says cancel on one side and print on the other which it always has Right in from print. There's now a share icon there So you don't you can tap that and do all of the other things that uh that you want to do including Saving it as a pdf to uh to files, which is awesome. So thank you for finding that listener. 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Oh and get all the ssid's from things you can do dash i to get information and uh, and then it looks like Yeah, here you go. So the on the join mode you get automatic preferred ranked recent strongest And then you've got join mode fallback. So yes tons of these commands are there. Oh amazing. Thank you, Brian and roe I love this Love it I love the real-time feedback too. This is uh This is great This is great. I knew it was out there. It had to be out there All right, um, we've got some uh questions that we should get to right john Uh, yeah, let's let terry has a question great Uh, I just upgraded from an iphone 12 pro to a 14 pro which arrived on the 14 I decided to do a fresh install on my new phone. I did a backup of my 12 With iMazing so I could still refer to apps previously used if needed at some point I also did the apple trade-in program. So I had access to my 12 pro for a few days After setting the new 14 up as a fresh phone and connecting to my iCloud account I noticed after a couple of days some odd behavior with messages Uh friends began telling me they were seeing different iMessage threads some originated from my phone number and some originated from My email I think is what he meant to say there Um with some testing it seems like messages coming from my mac or ipad are reported as originating for my email messages Coming from my phone originate from my phone This was definitely not the case with my 12 was still my primary phone all messages regardless of the device was originating from the phone Um any ideas on how to return uh to some form of unified messaging um yes And this actually caused me to look at my setup and I was in a similar state because I've also been doing some restores and Playing with e-sims and all that stuff, which I think was caused my problem. But anyways um So yeah, it seems switching lines may reset your settings and here's where you want to look So under ios settings messages send and receive iMessage um There will be you can receive messages to at reply from Is one of the entries and it'll show your email addresses there and then There's a start new conversations and make sure they're set to what you want in my case. It actually wasn't one one Well, let me give you the second one. So on mac os you go to messages preferences iMessage and you'll see a similar Set of dialogues uh can be reached for messages at is the first set which typically should have email addresses And then another one start new conversations from In my case, they were out of sync dave in that one was set to one thing and one was set to another um So Double check that it it kind of disappoints me that it couldn't figure this out for you well Yeah Yeah, I yeah, there's so much that is synced Among star devices that you're right. Like why isn't this I never thought about that before but why isn't this synced that doesn't huh Yeah I'm at a loss. I don't know why It should be we're syncing everything else um Yeah Uh, this reminds me of a cool stuff found that we had kind of teed up for later in the episode But it it makes sense. It's this thing. I found called unlisted mobile at unlisted mobile calm and this is A fascinating little service. I think it's like 10 bucks a month and you can get a Like random phone number that you can text and call using your phone you download an app and uh Uh Then you just get private numbers that you can use for various things. So if you need to make You know, whatever you need to do They they you know, these are called. I mean, they're they're private and that the the log doesn't appear on your phone bill so, you know Do with that what you please They don't appear on your phone or messaging apps You don't have to have a real phone number, right? So this might actually be unintentionally the international calling solution in fact Holy cow. I hadn't thought about that until just now as I'm saying it but Wow for 10 bucks a month You've got a us phone number. You can use any anywhere you have data Uh, that's interesting Huh Yeah, so anyway, this is uh, it's called unlisted mobile And it's available for iphone and it turns out also android. Um, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, fascinating stuff And then they have a another service that you can just use it's at phone info.io It is a free caller id lookup and this too is completely private and anonymous They don't track what you're doing. They don't track You know that you were here and doing all of this and you can find the caller id name for any us or canadian phone number Um, so and they say that they're always pulling them from the uh, the central carrier database. So the results are always fresh Which I like fun I'd never heard of this unlisted mobile thing. I don't know. I I saw somebody post on twitter about it or I don't know It somehow it came up somewhere But it was like kind of blew my mind But but now that we're talking about it and we talked about the international calling thing earlier It's like, oh, maybe this is the magic answer Huh, I like it Okay, uh, what's next you want to take us to george? Yeah poor george I'm in a quandary with the elimination of the ipod touch Uh now officially extinct my ipod touch 6 has been all I need or want for daily needs when I'm not using my mac book or iMac Uh listening to your podcast taking photos Uh getting online. I don't have or want a phone. I would get rid of my office phone if I could So rely on wi-fi On my ipod the problem is that my ipod is showing its age most most notably with a wonky usb port Um Increasingly I have to wiggle the charging cord when connecting And it's not a cord problem to get it to start charging for what I've seen online Changing the usb port is quite the process and requires taking much of the ipod apart If I went for this repair probably would make sense to replace the battery. I would estimate a couple of hundred bucks Okay, uh, I don't know what to do an ipod mini is too big to carry around in my pocket Uh and over 500 bucks in apple dot ca So he's in canada Um and iphone leveling is even more expensive, but I don't need the phone functionality Uh, unfortunately apple doesn't carry refurbished ipod touches And i'm a little wary of seeking out something used Uh, should I forget about repairs and seek out a used iphone that is least comp at least comparable in features um And yes, uh, so I was able to find something so yeah, it's true if you go to the refurb store I think the only thing they have are iphone 11 and iphone 12 and they're Several hundred dollars, which is not what we want to do um I mean you One vector that I would try here vector um victor Vector vector. What's your vector vector? um So I did a search for iphone se refurbished. Um, as you may or may not know the iphone se is uh on the low end for uh price Uh, but it's a real iphone and so I searched for iphone se refurbished And the best one I could find so there's a place we've mentioned in the past dave Uh back market. Okay. Um showed several iphone se's either 2020 or 2022 Um for less than 200 bucks So I think that is going to be your most economical Path here. Yeah, that makes sense and and they even offer. Yeah, so they offer something so they they don't offer as much coverage But when I looked at their site uh um Yeah, when I looked at their site. Yeah, 100 One or 200 yeah, well for the for the 2020 version it's oh, no, no, I'm sorry on their site They offer a warranty So Yeah, I think they offer a one-year warranty on things you buy from them. Yeah. Yeah So check the terms and conditions I found a couple of other places that also offered their version of refurb like I think walmart had some as well Yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, so I wonder if back market does canada. Um, let's hope they do. Yeah Oh, yeah, good point. All right. So a couple of interesting comments coming in through our discord live chat in the live stream chat at mackey cub.com slash discord or live dot mackey cub.com or many other places but for now Kiwi gram points out that lightning port Random randomness is often fixed by cleaning with a toothpick This is 100 true. I I always find, you know, I get my new phone in september because we've got to Have one to learn about for the show here And so my phones it's it's rare. I lead a charmed life. I know uh that i'm using an iphone that's over a year old however Every like july or august is when it hits me That i'm having problems with my lightning port And that's when I I get a toothpick non metal is what I choose. I choose plastic. You can choose wood You can choose metal I just don't like raking in there with a piece of metal and I get a little thing and and pull out More lint than you could possibly imagine would ever actually get packed in there But it does And yeah, then the port works better. I usually notice it in my car when plugging in for car playing. It's like, why isn't this? Oh, right. That's why you know So I've I've taken to keeping some like little toothpicks in my car because that's where I notice this now I I don't I don't try to clean my phone when I'm driving. I don't recommend it Do as I say now as I do So thank you kiwi gram. That's that's great. And then bryman row had a really interesting Take on this he said an apple watch is what I would recommend Which is interesting as he points out you can do your music your podcasts other things on it it's limited because the screen smaller but like It is kind of like what like it is the ipod touch in a sense it's so you know, you can buy a wi-fi only apple watch and It does a lot of things It's not but it's not the same as having the you know a phone size screen or an ipod touch side screen the other thing that I would be wary of or aware of is ios 16 support the only ipod touch that supports ios 16 is the seventh gen ipod touch So if you are going to buy one used Make sure that you know if you're going to invest in something that it that at least you're aware Of whether or not it can run the latest os and you know all of that stuff. So Fascinating I like this great Great, uh, I love all the feedback today. It's just great feedback at mackey cub.com is where you the listener But not all the not all the listeners you The you right you You're the primary listener. You know that right? It's just between us nobody else heard this just you You can send a feedback at mackey cub.com Feedback at mackey cub.com. That's right. All right, uh luigi talk about Blowing our minds luigi has a uh fantastic Thing here that blew my mind when I heard it and it's it's a nice little tip for helping keep your mac battery rolling he says uh if he says i'm using an m1 pro macbook on macOS monoray And I wrote a shortcut for myself If you have a smart outlet you can keep your macbook always plugged in and not worry about the battery being on charge all the time using a shortcut and Uh the terminal you can schedule a shortcut to run at every interval of your choice to verify the battery power level And automatically switch off your smart outlet when the macbook pros battery is at 95 percent or higher And switch it on when the battery is at 15 percent or lower What a brilliant use Of shortcuts to manage the flow of electrons. I love it Like what a like this This is what automation is about man. I mean it does other cool things too But like I love tying things like this together And really just making it so that you're good to go now Uh this shortcut's gonna run whether or not your mac is plugged in Although I guess maybe maybe you can have a trigger where it tests whether it's plugged in I would do this with keyboard maestro Only because I like I love how flexible the automation features are in it So maybe you could have it say all right only turn the outlet on if it's plugged You know if my mac is plugged in although it wouldn't know it was plugged in Because if the outlet's off Right, so your outlet might just be switching on and off Um at home as your mac is you know doing it's uh doing its thing no matter where you are I guess that's not a terrible thing I mean it's if it's if if the only thing you have plugged into the outlet is your charger then that it doesn't really matter but It's not really going to pull power of any significance if your mac's not drawing from it Yeah I like this this is good. I don't know Have you messed with shortcuts at all yet john? No, I am shocked. I try nice. I mean that Sincerely like this is Like this seems to be right up your alley. I think once you dive into them you will You will probably not stop so Highly recommended. All right. You want to uh, you want to take us to to bruce? Yeah, here's a head scratcher um bruce says apple used to have ways to print just the selection of text from safari or apple mail using Uh using the services menu or through a choice in the print dialogue box those options appear to have been removed Any idea on how to accomplish this? um Yeah, when I looked I I can't I seem to recall that at some point that was an option in the print dialogue I don't know when they took it away, but they they did or at least my configuration doesn't know I I'm with you. I I think it was Recent like it was the the past couple of years. It's certainly not there in monorade. Obviously It might not have been there in big sir um But but it yeah, it's it's a it's a recent removal from things And I I I don't know why They would have removed it that like that. There's another question like was was it getting in the way? Maybe it was I you know How often have you Hit reply on an email only to realize that it's pulled in just the like if you had copied something out of the email Or whatever, you know a whatever who knows a link or something and you hit reply and the only it says, you know on The tuesday john f. Braun typed link and I you know, it's just that part of the email that's getting Quoted maybe that was happening too often to people. Maybe apple was getting too many support calls for this I don't know but anyway. Yes. They removed it. I am I'm with you on that john here's A roundabout way to make that happen though Uh, so, you know, I broke out the google foo and one suggestion was uh, go to safari services And new text edit and I'm like, oh well that that sounds nice Uh, unfortunately, I didn't have that option available, but I found another one that Worked I verified that it worked Uh, so what you do is again highlight the text that you want and then go to the same place safari services Or safari share And one of the options will be notes and what it'll do is create a new note that you can then print from Okay, so he was in the in the in the right spot in that. Yes, it is part of services, but that's that's Yeah I mean it creates a note for you You may not want you may just want to print it and then get rid of it print and delete it. 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We went out to dinner the other night and she like built an instagram story Just copy pasting these into instagram and she had also taken a picture of the The table before any of the food was on it So she was actually able to place like all the the dishes from the different courses on the on the thing It was cool. So transparent Back to sasha Uh, there is another cool thing you can do with them turn them into stickers that can then be used in iMessage He says courtesy of federico vatichis max stories. There is an ios app called sticker drop Which automatically creates them using this new feature. It's a one-time purchase of only a few dollars He says in new zealand. It was 495. So probably about the same in us. Maybe it's 299 I don't know. I don't have it right up in front of me. I'll look And he says it does a great job and really kind of pulls it all together. So yeah, thank you for sharing that That's uh, that's great stuff sasha Have you been messing around with stickers john? No Okay, that's fun. I again a thing. I like it's amazing. It's kind of magic. It's kind of magic Uh, we also had a conversation in 948 about emojis and we put out a geek challenge to because with siri now you can tell it to say the uh, the emoji name And then it will it will send the emoji to someone but you have to know the name And so there are a few ways the first comes from listener jeff Who says you can do it on your mac We had found that you could open up, you know the command shift space thing Emoji window and float over it and the tool tip would show it to you But if you don't want to mess with the tool tips listener jeff reminds us that you can do the expanded emoji character viewer just by hitting the little uh expand the the thing button Which is next to search in the top so you hit command shift space and then there's like a little non-descript icon in the upper right corner if you click that It will expand into a four column view and guess what's in column four A bigger perks are of the emoji and The name of it. So that's your first one there And then so thank you for that jeff. I I love learning new things and I like I I had even forgotten about the expanded window so that like It's just I'd like I love learning from the show. That's great. The second comes from listener chris who says uh Check out emoji pedia.org and sure enough emoji pedia lists and they even have a special page just for apple emojis And it lists all of them and you can click on one and then it brings it up and shows you like, you know grinning squinting face. So okay great perfect good and then uh Lastly, we've got another one from a different listener jeff who shares with us another website called unicode Dot org which is where all of these emojis are published because they are part of the unicode standard I like this list the best because it shows me Everything in a multi-column view all of the emojis and what they look like on the different platforms So it's got apple google facebook messenger, you know twitter all those things and then The short name for them, which is really what we're looking for here So, you know squinting face with tongue or Uh, what's what's another fun one here? It's some of these names are are just like, you know anger symbol. That doesn't look like an angers I never I never knew that that was the anger symbol. Okay, so there you go There's things to learn the things we learn every day How are you finding these john? Are you are you uh, have you experimented with syria and the emojis yet? More crap to remember. I don't know. I like the uh Yeah, the one chef mentioned is the one that I use the most the character viewer the character viewer. Yeah. Yeah It is good. It is good. All right. Um We've done a thing this week We talked about it a couple of weeks ago But we now have it up and running. I've got our own Bitcoin node and lightning node running here Actually on the disk station lucas figured out how to make all that work running on there We did put the data for the bitcoin node on an ssd So that it's because it's like I don't know half a terabyte or something like that and also gets banged on a lot So we didn't want that to necessarily be on the like spindle disk disk station volume so I hung an ssd off of our Main disk station and then with a couple of docker containers. He's got this thing all up and running and it's it's great uh And then we wired it up to the value for value tags In the podcasting 2.0 things and guess what? You folks started sending us satoshis. It's amazing. We got we don't We're still working on making sure we can have the visibility. We're supposed to have Into who has sent us these satoshis because of course the lightning network is super anonymous unless you attach A note along with it, which you can We can view some of the notes with the way we have it set up and we're working on ways of Being able to see all the notes. I don't know why they're all like uh encoded in the bolt 12 or bolt 11 package that sends like the it's it's There's things that you don't want to have to know Uh about how all this works. It's been a couple of a couple of weeks of headaches and but fun headaches But anyway, I wanted to thank Uh Joe's for sending us 60 sats somebody yesterday was streaming the show And so we were getting these like two sat things for like an hour just coming into our our lightning node Someone anonymous sends us another 50 sats and and you can do all this if you go to uh podcast index Dot org. I believe i'm sending you to the right spot. Yes Uh, you can learn what apps are out there to use That will support all this the the Definitely the most popular one is an app called fountain at fountain dot fm. So that is the uh, That that's that's the way i've been messing with it. There's another one in beta called podverse um that is That it looks good too, and I became part of that beta. I don't know if like there's a I don't think there's a public version available yet but Uh, but you can go to the podcast index and and find podcast apps Or you can listen and and do all this stuff and actually fountain is I like fountain because You actually earn your own satoshis just for listening and then you can either cash those out and you know Do whatever you want with them because they're yours Or you can then take those satoshis that are sitting in your wallet right there at fountain And redirect them to your favorite podcast that you're listening to so it's amazing. What really blew me away john is um How many people are using these apps? It's like i'm seeing things Now that we're kind of wired into the system. I'm seeing things come in for the other podcasts I do too for gig gab and business brain, so It's pretty cool But thank you to those of you who who donated sats this week You are members of the premium the mackey cab premium program like that. This is you know It it doesn't matter to us how you Choose to support the show if if you support the show in a way that in your mind makes you a member of the mac Mackey cab premium program then you are a member like that's it. You can send to our premium at mackey cab dot com Email address and this is you know To call it the honor system is is probably wrong. I think it's value for value So it's it is the is the right term to use and it's great. So yeah, it's uh, it's been very cool And in theory by the time this episode is out We will also be live with our channel and stuff in apple podcasts But i'm not holding my breath on that and i'll share more next week when we know more While we're here on the subject though. Have you messed with fountain at all john? That'd be a fun app for you Yeah, yeah, because that's it. It's a good way I'll put a link in the show notes. It's just fountain dot fm And but there's an iphone app and you know, I mean it's all the all the good stuff So it's yeah, it's pretty cool how it all all comes together. So uh Right and then Oh, yes Speaking of the premium program. I want to take a minute and share The uh, the folks who have sent in recent subscriptions or recent contributions. I'll say so we are We had a one time five dollar contribution from oliver 25 dollar contribution from thomas and garden grove oliver from ripe. Sorry Uh 10 dollars from nick and mount clemens 25 from michael and omaha 10 from steven and plainfield harvey harvey sent in 20 from washington dc Uh 10 dollars from john and vienna 25 from robby and hendersonville 25 from sharon and wesley chapel 25 from randy and westport 25 from curate in bloomfield hills 25 from ed and torrance 25 from mike and raleigh Another 25 from dug and richman 25 from anthony in bornmouth. I like that. Yeah 25 from steven and Linlith gal. All right. Well, I'll get there the next time. I'll say linlith gal better even better Uh, 25 from wayman and why paha why pahu why pahu? I think so. W a i p a h u 25 from mark and new palestine 10 from ken in north las vegas 25 from roger. I don't know where roger is. It's okay 50 thank you from james and columbus another 50 from john and studio city 25 from craig and pace And uh, oh, yeah 11 from davin durham. I have to test the system So I have a subscription and I I may I don't know why I made it for 11 dollars But uh, but I did and it came in evidently this morning right before we started recording. So There you go Fun stuff. Thanks for uh, thanks for that everybody. Do you have any anything to uh to share about the premium stuff while we're here john? Thank you. There you go. Yeah. Thank you indeed I got another show. I want to tell you about the compile swift podcast This is a show dedicated to discussing development for apple platforms You get to keep up to date with app development news tips and advice for developers of all skill levels Including those of you just getting started and look technology moves fast keeping up with the latest changes And features to make your app stand out in a crowded app store is a constant challenge Get information that you can use and motivation to keep you moving forward And that's not all soft skills are just as important. We talk about that here Get advice on working with team members clients and users And let's not forget about dealing with both good and bad app reviews Those interactions can make the difference between your success and failure the compile swift podcast covers all of this and more If you're looking to start or continue your apple development journey Visit compile swift.com or search for compile swift in your podcast player of choice All right, it is time for some cool stuff found john and the first one is actually a uh cool stuff made from long time listeners sylvain sylvain I looked has been uh contributing to mac e-cab with questions and tips for years and now Sylvain says I studied computer programming in the late 80s at this time I've launched a few shareware type programs developed in turbo pascal to make a long story short After a long 20 year break from programming. I went back to it in 2018 The reason I went back was mainly due to two and a half years of burnout and anxiety disorder I understand that sure Programming has become a great help to calm my monkey down and it still does So I bought a macbook pro installed xcode and started learning swift things have considerably changed in 25 years But the logic behind coding is still the same now at 51 sylvain continues I still am learning to code and I have launched a few apps in the past few years Coding is very rewarding and seeing people downloading and using my app is even more rewarding My latest app is named search it. It's an app used to search through blogs and other websites He says I I I created it because I find it useful when I want to pinpoint my searches to specific websites or want Precise results search it can be used to search for any keywords barcodes or to even find the lower prices on chicken breasts To be honest, he says I don't know how to promote my apple. That's okay. You're a mac e-cab listener You wrote a cool app and you told us about it That's what it takes and we are happy to share like I this is my favorite cool stuff found in a long time because We get to share your stuff. It's it's the the mac e-cab family here Just like doing our thing together. So uh, this is very cool stuff. Yeah I like it. I like it and it looks like uh, i'm clicking around the uh In the app store here and it looks like sylvain has a second app called hours cal For tracking time on uh, unlike projects and stuff. Oh, yeah, I could see that being handy too amazing Thank you for that sylvain. That's pretty cool, huh, john turbo pascal Well, that's I mean, I think we all kind of started, you know those of us of a certain age uh of which sylvain you and me are in that range uh That pascal was it was a huge step up from basic at the time, right? um I didn't like pascal because it didn't let you do certain things. It was a bit bit over protective At least the pascal that I used no, that's fair I'm like, well, can you convert this type of number to that type of number and it's like nope No, like no come on convert from an integer to floating point. It's like nope Yeah, yeah typing in pascal was there's a variable typing in pascal was yeah very that was my nightmare that that Yeah, that's why I like c Uh the good news with c everyone is it lets you do whatever you want. Here's the bad news. It lets you do whatever you want There you go Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I fiddle with swift. It's a nice modern language Oh, yeah, yeah, I took a day class in swift a little while ago and uh I yeah, it's it's interesting to me what they've what they've done It makes a lot of sense. Like yeah, like you said modern is is a good word for it. Yeah, yep all right Jan or perhaps yawn. I don't know Sends this in to us Uh called the cool stuff found called time scroller This is the best app I have found to let you know what time in the world it is when you want to know What time in the world it is and yeah, it looks it's a it's called time scroller time zone helper It's available on the app store and it like the views of it look pretty good Just being able to display things in different order and It looks like you get like different colors maybe to indicate Times of day red for the middle of the night green for during the day. Yeah, it's interesting stuff Yeah time scroller There you go. I like it Yeah, yeah, I should get that I It always challenges me when I'm flying and I'm not quite sure what time zone I'm going to be landing in because I like to set my watch ahead or back sure Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the phone sinks up automatically, but um, right But you could you could go into the clock app on your phone And go into world clock and and set a time, you know put in like wherever you're going And then it will tell you what the time is in that place. So that's you know, that's that's one place to do it, right World clock. Yep. So yeah, yeah, I find that handy and then One thing I really like with the apple watches some watch faces Will let you put One of the things that you you know one of the time zones that you've set in world clock You can put that as like a secondary time on your on your apple watch Which has been handy when we've had right now everybody's Living at home, but like when my daughter goes back out to Italy I'll put you know, wherever she is in Italy on my watch so I can just Easily see what time it is for her and no. Oh, yeah, should I should I pester her? Should I not, you know, whatever? Uh, all right I got to check out a cool thing and I finally get to talk about the cool thing that I get to check out And I did talk about it. We're talking about the new sub mini from sonos and I actually put up on thursday. I put up a quick little video on YouTube on our macikub youtube channel so you can go go to macikub.com slash youtube about my kind of initial thoughts about it And I promised that I would share more here in the episode. Well, it turns out listener bob Saw my review and had some questions specifically He says uh When I had the so this is a new subwoofer from sonos And it is Something that quite frankly most of us sonos people have sonos users have wanted for a very long time Because the original sub and the sub now is a seven hundred forty nine dollar Device so that's I mean that's expensive and it's it's big and It pushes out a lot of low end like to the point where it gets kind of flappy sometimes And like in our living room and we have a big living room John like our living room I think it's like 15 by 25 and and the way we have it configured the couches at one end of the rectangle And and then the tv is almost at the complete other end. So we're like 20 feet from our tv I know we should be closer to the tv to get better picture and sometimes when we sit in front of the fireplace Which is in between the two we are Uh and we'll start doing that now that it's a little chillier out and I get permission to light fires I'd light fires all summer long, but we we have a 40 degree maximum outdoor temperature for for fires to be permitted in the house Unless I'm the only one home But anyway We're a long ways away and it's a big room relatively speaking and even with that the original sub at seven hundred forty nine dollars I have to set it has a a a range of how much or how little you want it to blend in And it sits at zero is the default and it can go negative 15 or positive 15 John I think I was setting that old sub at like negative eight or something like it was just too much And so now at 429 bucks the new sono sub mini Seems like maybe it's the right thing They are targeting it at people with smaller rooms like 10 by 10 and I've tried it in 10 by 10 rooms And it's awesome But I've also tried it in my living room with my sonos arc and my rear speakers And it I like it so much better than the uh than the original sub it just like It's a tighter Rounder base with more clarity in all of the sound Uh, and it's just more balanced like a lot more balanced. I don't Well, let me read bob's question because I it feeds into some of this He says when I had the sub the original sub gen three I did not like the way it made my arc sound the arc being the Sort of flagship sonos sound bar For uh home theater. He says it seemed to make it more thin and brittle How is the sound signature of the arc with the mini? and like I I noticed this too and it is Like I said, it's just round full I don't want to say that I don't notice The sub mini but I I forget about it because the sound is so It it just feels natural and it really does give a nice bump on the low end Um, it you know it thumps when it needs to But it's not flappy and it they did a they did a couple of cool things with this john Um, when I paired the thing It you know, I it I brought up the sonos app on my phone and it said uh Bring this near the top of the speaker It was like it used nfc in the phone To find this to to communicate with the speaker It looked just like it does when you're going to like a ticket master event or whatever It was just that you know Here's a thing that has no barcode But it's doing a thing and it was doing nfc and I put it on top And it shared the pin to connect to my network Which of course is good and all the wi-fi credentials wirelessly boom It was immediately on the network and it was just like great What room do you want it in and I said living room and it was like okay You're good good to go. I mean it went through it's like gyrations and said we should tune for the room and all that Which I let it do and do all the true play thing Um, so that part made it super easy Uh, it's it's a small cylinder john it almost like the size of a a small Maybe a little smaller than like a small office trash can like a lot smaller than that actually I think it's like 12 inches tall by nine inches around but through the Through the side of the cylinder is a slot And in that slot, uh, you can see the the two speakers are Kind of sitting in there. There's two six inch cones in there And they are aiming towards the middle of the slot so that it's It's it's not they say it's not ported that it is a sealed speaker Which is true, which is what gives it that tighter rounder sound, but it does allow it to move air Uh, because there's that slot there that the speakers are aiming towards But because the speakers are aimed right at each other and tune the right way You don't get like things buzzing because they're near the subwoofer. It just moves the air Which is pretty cool. Um, and I like it's it's it's a good good sound. It's just a smoother response And I'm like I said, I'm I'm happy with it. And so I don't know what size room I would need to have to justify the larger sonos sub Certainly and if you have one of those you can actually do two in the same room john, which is crazy I like I don't know I don't know what I would need maybe outside, but You know, I don't know how many people are using these things outside, but um The sub mini 429 bucks. That's that's the uh That's the sweet spot right there. It's like it's a great thing and I'm I'm happy to be able to talk about it again So fun stuff. Thank you for the question bob Um, I want to start a new segment john. You okay with that? I know I know right at the end of the show, but uh I think this is the appropriate spot for this segment and folks I think when you hear this you'll you'll agree with me We have cool stuff found and this certain this next thing certainly is this actually comes from lukas my son to help us with all the the value for value podcasting 2.0 stuff the booster grams and all that He found this thing called the magic pencil john Uh, and it's the vis spec magic pencil. We'll put a link to it in the show notes I'm calling this segment my favorite vaporware This is a thing that uses the light Some sort of light sensor, so we would call it a camera, but but maybe it sees more And I'm going by their terms not ours. They call it a handhold. I think they mean handheld spectrometer and It's an all-in-one smart laboratory. It looks like a a thick pen or pencil And they say it's a miniature spectroscope scanner that replaces a fitness band water detectors food soil detectors And it helps you to live a better life in every Scenario how fresh is this milk? It asks and answers has this wine aged sufficiently Is the state good enough quality? Uh, and it pairs with your phone I like I don't know how much for like it'll they they have a video on the website I highly recommend you go here. Again, we're linked from the show notes at macicab.com But it says that it will show you like how much caffeine is in the coffee. I think is what it's showing It's it's moving very quickly. Yeah 42 milligrams for 100 milliliters or something. I don't know like it. Yeah Like how could it possibly know this just by shining a light at it, john It seems like bs to me Um, well looking at the block diagram. I think the secret is in the nt-1000 spectrum chip Or their magic pencil cloud database Okay, I I can't see how using just light would let you glean all this information Now if you had uh, you've probably heard of this and I had a friend that actually had one of these Um, that his company was tossing um a mass spectrometer. I think could tell you this But you're not going to get a mass spectrometer Of this size. No, it's it's a micro spectrometer. John. That's what they're telling us. Yeah Yeah, I now the one thing I mean, it seems like star trek to me. So I'm just gonna I'm going to reiterate that I I don't think this thing will work I have signed up. They say they're coming to Kickstarter real soon now and uh, they also say that they have a an email list which of course I signed up for And they have a private facebook group of which there are about 200 of of us and I they I applied to join it and they actually let me in I think most of the people in there are of the same minds that I am But that's okay, but the one part of this where I I stop and say Okay, maybe is That it's got this, you know thing that can detect wavelengths of light between 200 nanometers and 1700 nanometers So that's that nt 1000 chip, of course Which fine and then the huge database so Maybe The whole idea of machine learning like if they've tested You know 500 cups of coffee Right and pulled the data from it and then You know like tested it with with with a with a real thing that could actually tell you how much caffeine is in it or whatever but then also tested those same cups with the magic pencil and Somehow are doing the pattern matching of okay when it looks like this it means that if they can get nuanced enough with this nt 1000 Maybe like you know the whole we had that conversation about about um machine learning which is just pattern matching and databases so like Maybe like it's got a link with your phone and it talks to the cloud and says Oh, it's these special colors and this pattern of of light. So therefore what is it? I don't know feels like not hot dog to me I don't know. What do you think? um It'd be great to see how much they want for it sounds pretty amazing It sounds pretty amazing. Maybe we'll find them. We're going to pepcom later this month john. Maybe uh, maybe they'll be there Who knows? Who knows? I can't wait to see it. So if you've come across Something that uh that you think is vaporware Let us know about it because it is fun to kind of dissect into these things and have a little fun. Yes Maybe at their expense, but who knows I mean they could You know, I'm willing to eat a a meal of crow the nice part is Uh, if if this thing does work and I have to eat that meal of crow I can I can put it on and see if the crow is cooked well enough because the master the magic pencil. Tell me I love it. I love it. Sorry. I can't help but be snarky when people make it that easy Uh, john many times over the years. We have set a phrase on this show to share our exuberance with something and the person who brought that phrase into our Lives by adopting it as his moniker Artist leon ivy jr. Has passed away. It's true. Coolio is no longer with us We're sad to hear of his loss We will still keep saying coolio when we come across things that we like and we will think kindly and fondly of artist leon ivy jr. and his nom de plume nom de song. I don't know. I don't know what would we call that? pseudonym All right What else do we have anything john? We good to go? All right, make sure to check out pilot pete's podcast. So there I was I don't think I think he had to skip today because he was doing some kind of victory lap for Making it into the itunes top 10. So that's pretty good Uh, thanks to cash fly for providing all the bandwidth to get this show and so there I was from us to you Thanks to all our sponsors, of course As we mentioned in the show collide.com slash mg g zak doc.com Slash mg g And helix sleep.com slash mg g. So check out mackey cub.com slash sponsors for a lot of deals I really should link that from mackey cub.com slash deals john John what else is it that we uh that we'd like to say? What do we like to say? I think what we like to say is some very good piece of advice for all aspects of your life In your computer's life and that's don't get caught Made up And we're out sweet Fun Fun fun