Mac Geek Gab (Enhanced AAC)

John and Dave are back in the TMO Towers East this week answering listener questions, sharing tips, and more. Topics include automounting disks, setting default apps for documents, starting to program on the Mac, repartitioning and more. One item of note is a discussion about cable modems, their signal strengths, […]

Dave and John chat for you about the WWDC keynote, Dave’s travels, and the hardware released from Apple today.  Subscribe for free and never miss another episode from your favorite geeks! Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for […]

John and Dave took the show back to Talkshoe, this time incorporating some pre-prepped material along with the live questions and comments.  The live aspect brings some additional spontaneity and yet still the same geeks you know and love. Definitely not an episode you’ll want to miss! Sponsor: Disc Label […]

Dave and John start with some cool stuff found that they just couldn’t get to last week, then move on to continue the wireles network setup discussion with some great tidbits of info. After that, they start answering questions, discussing battery maintenance and more. Subscribe today for free! Sponsor: Audio Engine: […]

Dave and John talk about the latest Mac OS X 10.5.7 update (and the path it took John to get there!), then move into a valuable and entertaining discussion about planning and setting up your wireless/AirPort network. Subscribe today for free and don’t miss another episode again! Sponsor: Circus Ponies Notebook: […]

Great advice from your favorite Mac Geeks starts out with a discussion on best practices for dealing with Technical Support reps, then dives into a virtual pile of Cool Stuff Found by all of you. Subscribe today for free and don’t miss another episode! Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength […]

John and Dave do their best tonight to keep up with the overflowing mailbag by answering your questions and sharing your tips about wireless access, booting from external drives, RAM upgrades, USB devices, and fixing Time Machine bundles. Also some cool stuff found, including Pogoplug, Runcore SSD drives, Fission, Hazel […]

Your favorite Mac geeks celebrated their 200th episode by “airing” the taping of the show live on TalkShoe, complete with listener interaction. Great stuff here, as always, and the show has an interesting real-time vibe to it, as well!  Topics include WiFi, Time Machine, Time Capsule, cron/launchd, Mouse acceleration, and […]

John and Dave, live (to tape, er, hard disk!) discussing your tips, questions, queries, concerns, and favorite Mac apps! Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! Greenspring Townhomes DD-WRT Linksys WRT150N Wireless-N Home Router BSSID […]

More Dock tips, backup strategies, long-haul WiFi, and general troubleshooting questions about your Mac round out this week’s episode with your favorite geeks, John and Dave. Subscribe for free today! Sponsor:BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Note: […]

Dave and John are back in the saddle for another Monday evening filled with Mac geekery of all sorts, including answering your questions, solving your problems, and sharing your tips! This week’s episode includes a healthy focus on Mac OS X’s Dock, including a few tricky ways to customize it […]

John and Dave are at it again for a special second scheduling-induced show this week! This time they’ve got real-world stories to share and tips from all of you. Of course, a few listener questions will be answered, as well, rounding out today’s weekend show! Sponsor:Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and […]

More WiFi wisdom, questions, and love from your favorite geeks and all of their great listeners! Dave and John are back with an audio-comment-filled show that also covers Dave’s trip to South by Southwest, some RAM upgrade options, and more. Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on […]

John and Dave discuss solutions for listeners’ AirPort problems, full hard drives, what to do when sending a laptop in for repair and more. Then they share listener tips for connecting to NTFS file systems and decompressing RAR archives. Send in your question and the geeks will likely get you […]

Dave and John have a lot on the agenda for this week’s episode, including (but certainly not limited to!) Safari 4 beta, Switcher questions, formatting large drives, routers, and podcast management. Subscribe for free today and never miss an episode again! Sponsor:PDFpenfromSmile On My Mac: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add […]

John and Dave are here delivering all kinds of stuff today. A quick follow-up on the Drobo, including some listener tips, then some Time Machine discussion, which leads into listener questions about DVDs, Quality of Service, hiding the Dock, and more. Subscribe for free today and don’t miss another episode! […]

Dave set up the Drobo and DroboShare this weekend, and even played with some DroboApps, so he and John take some time to talk through his experiences and the devices themselves. Then it’s on to listener feedback and questions, including some iPod-related podcast-playing tips, how best to display mounted shares […]

Listener questions answered, tips shared and more, with topics including syncing files and calendars using DropBox and MobileMe, migrating to a new Mac, and sharing an AirPort connection. Subscribe today for free! Sponsor:PDFpenfromSmile On My Mac: Effortlessly edit your PDFs. Add text, images and signatures, combine and split PDFs, reorder […]

John and Dave answer your questions, solve your problems, and share your tips! This episode has them talking through converting video files, watching your Mac on TV (yep!), some file sharing for both Macs and Windows, and lots more. Subscribe today for free! Sponsor:Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and A2—Real speakers […]

Dave starts off discussing a strange issue with his monitor setup and how he got it resolved, then he and John are on to the latest Safari vulnerability, some updates and corrections from listeners about previous shows, and they wrap up talking about some new gadgets and toys they’ve been […]