MGG 788: This is Where You Cut Me Off

Cleaning up your Photos libraries, Protecting against ransomware, remapping keyboard shortcuts, and Catalina’s USB drive crashes are just a few of the important questions your two favorite geeks hit in this week’s show. There’s more, including some Cool Stuff Found and some Quick Tips that will blow your mind. Listen as John and Dave share each of these, helping you learn at least five new things this week!

Cleaning up your Photos libraries, Protecting against ransomware, remapping keyboard shortcuts, and Catalina’s USB drive crashes are just a few of the important questions your two favorite geeks hit in this week’s show. There’s more, including some Cool Stuff Found and some Quick Tips that will blow your mind. Listen as John and Dave share each of these, helping you learn at least five new things this week!

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Note: Shownotes are complete!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 788 for Monday, November 11, 2019
00:01:47 QT-Command-Plus or Minus in Finder List View (to make icons larger or smaller)
00:05:08 Paul-QT-Apple Watch Unlocks even More with Catalina

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Use your Apple Watch to unlock apps and your Mac

00:07:07 Richard-Google Maps iOS 13 Improvements

Google's voice commands in their Maps app will control the iPhone just like Siri

00:09:31 QT-Saving Offline Maps in Google Maps

Google Maps > Hamburger Menu in Upper Left > Offline Maps

00:10:35 QT-Calendar app show Location in Maps and “Look Around”

BusyCal

00:12:11 Keith-787-Catalina iCloud Authentication Loop
00:14:54 Joe-Apple's Trade-In Program

Decluttr

00:16:49 SPONSOR: TextExpander: TextExpander helps you communicate smarter. Create snippets for things you type – or copy and paste – all the time. Get 20% off your first year’s subscription at TextExpander.com/podcast.
00:19:19 CSF-DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
00:22:20 Brave Browser
00:24:14 CSF-UniFi Dream Machine
00:31:04 Martin-CSF-Blackhole Virtual Audio Driver. Soundflower Replacement.
00:37:56 Todd-CSF-MixPre-3 II Field Recorder
00:40:06 SPONSOR: Linode - You can build it on Linode. Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Start with a $20 credit using promo code mgg2019 at linode.com/mgg.
00:43:20 John-Disabling Annoying 32-bit Warning in Mojave

How to suppress alert 'this app is not optimized for your Mac
defaults write -g CSUIDisable32BitWarning -boolean TRUE

00:46:07 John-Protecting from Ransomware

Acronis True Image 2020
Backblaze
Arq

00:55:37 Ewan-Printer won't print from one Mac

Gutenprint

01:01:32 Michael-Cleaning up and consolidating Photos Libraries

PowerPhotos
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01:06:11 Photos Won’t sync
01:12:32 SPONSOR: BBEdit from Bare Bones Software is now back in the Mac App Store or Online at BareBones.com
01:15:39 Drive being wonky

Carbon Copy Cloner
T2M2 for Time Machine repairs
DiskWarrior APFS

01:25:23 MGG 788 Outtro

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