Repurposing Old iPads for Dashboards

It's time for MacGeekab and listener Susan brings us our quick tip of the week with Hello MacGeekab. While reading a PDF and preview in MacOS twenty six point five, I was clicking keys and accidentally activated a magnifying rectangle. It's a pretty neat feature. A rectangle of content is zoomed in and moving the rectangle also moves up and down through the document. It was a neat feature, but I couldn't figure out how to turn it off, not knowing how I activated it. I assumed it was a system feature. So I went to System Settings, accessibility Zoom, nothing there seemed to turn the feature off . I was resigning myself that I'd have to live with it forever, but I started looking through the menus in preview. Seemed like it would be a view menu item, but no, the magnifier tool lives in the tools menu. Show magnifier shows the rectangle hide magnifier. Well, hides it. A handy little tool that helps me focus on my not favorite activity of reading fifty pages in a PDF . More quick tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeek Gab eleven forty seven for Monday june twenty second , twenty twenty six Greetings folks and welcome to Mackeycap, the show where you send in quick tips like that and we share them. You send in cool stuff found and we share them. You send in questions and we share them and we provide some answers or at least we discuss a path so that hopefully each and every one of us can learn at least five new things every single time we get together . Our sponsors on National Onion Ring Day include nordlayer dot com slash brows er , which is a business browser built for like how modern things work so that it's looking at all your SaaS stuff . Scribe dot how slash mg , which is a very cool tool that lets you document workflows without actually having to document workflows . And even realities where you can use even realities. com or you can use promo code MGG to get ten percent off of the even ring one or and or even clip. When you add them to your Even G two order, we'll talk about what the Even G two is and everything else that I just mentioned in a little while. For now for now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here back in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here also in New Hampshire, my new recording studio slash ready room. It's Pilot Pete. Good to be with you everybody today. I like it. Yeah. Very nice. Yeah. Congrats on getting that built, Pete. That's a that's a cool thing, man. I know it was a labor of it was a labor. Yeah. It was a labor. Yeah , and glad glad to have started clearing out the living room portion of our basement so that I stopped getting yelled at for it. Can we have my basement back? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Now life is good It's awesome man. That's good. Sweet . Great. Cool. Our monthly giveaway at Mackeygub. com slash giveaway a you can sign up to win a license to Sainbox . So make sure you go to do that. Because Saint Box is one of those things that I don't want to live without manages my inbo x that can manage yours too. So change your life. It will change your life. It's true. Did you have more to add on that quick tip from Susan? Oh yeah, so I wanted to add this because I was like playing with it to try and see how it worked and I was trying to figure out how did she actually activate it accidentally? And I went up to the menu and I looked and I could barely tell it looked like it had a keyboard shortcut, but I couldn't figure out what it is. I actually had to use the accessibility magnifier to zoom in to figure out what it was. And it's the backtick key . So that's probably how it got activated because if you just hit the back tick, there's no modifier key on it at all. It's just backtick and the magnifier comes up. Interesting. So just backtick. Oh, okay , that huh? That's dangerous . Yeah , that's pretty cool. As evidenced by what happened to her. So yeah, but you look in the menu and depending upon your screen resolution with my four K screen, I can barely see. I'm like, is that a period? What is I couldn't even make out what the shortcut was I like it and while we're on keyboard shortcuts for things like this, Adam, will you remind us all how to turn on the accessibility magnifier so that you use to be able to see that. I have it just on my default and I use a trackpad so it's Control and then scroll on my trackpad. I don't know if that's the default or not get it or if you have to or if you have to enable it first, that's the only part I don't remember. I've always had it, I've always had it on, so I have muscle memory for it. So sure . I think, you know, your settings, accessibility zoom, is it? I think you're right. It's been a while since I've been in there. Yep , yep, and you can turn on settings. Keyboard shortcuts to zoom in there and it shows you what those are trackpad gesture to zoom obvious itly you know shows you what that is too . And then scroll gesture with modifier keys, which is probably what you're doing. Yeah, scroll gesture with modifier keys is what you're doing. , there we go. Cool. All right, I like that. I've turned it on here. We'll see if I can break things while I'm recording. I like it. Speaking of all of this kind of stuff , when I had something the other day where I needed the Wi Fi password to a network that was on person that had it, it was actually from a sound engineer, right? That had the password on their iPad and I wanted it on my iPad and they wanted to give it to me. And so I walked them through and there,'s a couple of quick tips here , I guess. I walked them through going into because they were like, I can't remember what the password is. I'm like, good news, your iPad does. And they're like, yeah, how do we get it out of there? I said, let's do this. So we went into settings, WiFi, and then you hit the you see the network that you're connected to. You hit the little i and a circle next to it and it will show you the password but the password is obscured with dots tap the dots and then you authentic ate with like face ID or touch ID or whatever, however you authenticate on that particular device and then it will just show you the password , which is great and you can also copy the password from there. And then of course we, all, many of us actually, I say we all, that's sort of the presumption that means it's a quick tip . If I were in if the sound engineer and I were in each other's contacts , then we would be able to if I could just if I tried logging in, it would ask him, it would prompt him to share it with me. But we weren't. We had just met, so we weren't in each other's contacts yet. So what I did with my phone was I took a picture of his settings screen so I then had a picture of the password so that I didn't have to keep going back to him asking him, what is it? But then you can do and what I did is that once I had the picture going into the picture , OCR is there optical character recognition . I just held on where the Wi Fi password was and it selected what I thought was all of the text. Then I could copy it and paste it. So it just saw that there was text in the picture. It let me copy it. And then I went and pasted it in the and WiFi password didn't work. So I went back to the picture and I realized that the OCR grabbed the first of two exclamation points at the end of the password, and I just had to move the little slider over to grab the second one. And of course, I could have typed it in too, but you can move the sliders and all of that and it worked great . So it's a good thing to remember that that OCR is there for pictures. I think the last time we mentioned this was a tip that I had gotten from a friend of the show Doc Rock , where he was like, Oh yeah, you ever want to copy the text in an Instagram post? You can't. He's like, Except you just do a screenshot and then you can copy the text from an Instagram post. It's like, That's the most backwards thing I've ever heard of. It's being displayed as text on my screen, but the app limits my ability to treat it as such. So now I take a picture of it and inside the picture I can treat it as text . And it's a little like, you know, counterintuitive, but that is how it works. So yeah, just remember to OCR the text inside the picture. It's like those websites that I hate which often are photography websites where they through code disabled right click because they don't want people to right click and copy image, but what they don't realize is that disables every right click possibility on a web page and it drives me batty . Is that what okay ? I never thought about why before, but it's if they turn it off for one thing , but then it just universally breaks it all. Yeah, so you can't right click on a form to pull up, you know, password autofill or like you can't do it. It's super annoying. And it's like do you realize what you're doing? Plus, I can just go into the inspector and download all your photos anyway the image pads are right there. They're all right there on that work tab . It's just like you're not protecting anything. No, if I can see it, I can get it. Like don't let's take a screenshot or like there's a million ways. Yeah, there's a million. It's keeping honest people honest and you know it . It is that's right . That's exactly right. Yeah . Yeah . Well, it you know what, though , I generally I think I mean, I think we all would probably say this about ourselves and then we could have our friends and family point out the flaws in our statement, but I'll say it anyway, you know, I think of my self as an honest person . Right . However , if you put a challenge like that in front of me, now it's no longer about what's right and wrong. It's about could I get around this silly limitation if I wanted to. And it turns out I want to know the answer to that question so I find a way around that silly limitation . Yeah, it's why jailbreaking exists. I mean it's everything in life. You know, half half the time most hackers are only hacking because they want to figure out if it can be done, not because they want to do it. Right . Exactly, exactly . Yeah. Yeah. Well, here's one, then. Why can't I because I know they code it that way? I want to watch YouTube TV from overseas on my Mac Mini in my basement, but they disabled the video . You can hear the audio, but if I try to watch it remotely , in fact, I can't even watch it remotely upstairs. Oh, I see what you're saying. You can't capture the video from YouTube TV from a web browser. I can watch it on my laptop upstairs, but if I try to watch it from the Mac Mini upstairs using the same app, it's done work. Correct. Food coded it so you can't watch it from a remote location. Yeah if you bring it up in Safari , does it work? I haven't tried that I don't think. Okay , because I've experienced the same thing with Fubo . If it's in Chrome , then Fubo knows like Chrome Chrome communicates back down to the website essentially that hey this screen is being shared that that's what it's what it does . But safari does not allow that communication . So if you were to launch it in Safari on your MacMini in the basement . I would it would be worth a test. I think it might work that you could then screenshare it. You'd be better off using a VPN or tailscale or something and literally watching it on your laptop because then you're not screen sharing a video stream, which you might not be happy about anyway . But that's not the point of this question, is it? The point is can I do I want to . Yeah. some reason, I feel like even if I'm using exit node that the laptop knows it's in Dubai and goes No for you . I feel like that. I could be wrong. I don't know. I don't think I've been to Dubai's. Yeah. Right, yeah, exactly. Yeah. You were going to say something Adam. I was going to give you another weird one, Pete. You might encounter this with your Apple Vision Pro. So I take my Apple Vision Pro on the road and oftentimes people will want to try it out and you know you can put it in that demo mode where guest mode where you can have a guest like do it sure and part of that guest mode allows you to use an iPad or an iPhone to also mirror what the guest is seeing so you can walk them through the demo and also so other people can kind of see what they're seeing . That works until they try to play a video in any video app or a movie in say Apple TV . What happens is they get audio and no video until you stop the screen mirroring because it won't mirror the video from the Vision Pro to the thing because of stupid licensing. Again, keep an honest keep people honest. Yeah . Yeah . Yeah. If you want to watch an entire movie on your phone that someone's watching in your Vision Pro in guess mode? Yeah. Yeah. So it's the first time I encountered that I was like, I don't know what's going on because they're like, I can't see them, I can't see the video, you know, I can't see the video and it completely just blacks out their display. And it's just like but you can see it on the on the mirror and then if you kill it on the mirror then it'll you can only broadcast it one place One place goes yeah licensing. But that's the thing, right? Like we, you know, we all consider ourselves honest people and yet here we are. We got these workarounds. The Chrome versus Safari thing, Pete, I haven't tried it with YouTube TV, but I've one hundred percent tried it with Fubo and that's why I know this because Fubo does the same thing that YouTube TV does. It just as soon as it realizes the screen is being shared, it stops displaying video. Yeah. report back. Yes, cool. Speaking of followups, Kiwi Gram has a follow up to something we mentioned , you know, six minutes ago . That is that the passwords app allows you to show a QR code your Wi Fi network. So if you go into the passwords app and find your WiFi network, you can then share a QR code of it, which someone else can scan and get in and that QR code has the SSID, the password , and the encryption type and all of that sort of baked into it. , I was going to say I did that for my guest network and just printed it out and stuck it on the wall in my living room so guests could use that. I know people who will do three D printed versions of it or will create wood a really nice wood laser engraved plaque and set that around the house. There's lots of fun things can do that. I think commercially you can even order one. Yeah, there you go . Yeah, you know, you want something cool, but DIY , you know, use your local makerspace and you can make a cool little sign for your house that lets people get on your guest wi fi very easily. The day that I will do that in your guide page. Airbnb, sorry. Oh yeah, that's right . Yeah, yeah. If you Airbnb, put it on the wall there people won't lose it I will say two things. Pete, I know in your new setup you are standing which means that you're further back distance from the mic changes greater the variability is greater than it was. So just remember that. And the second thing is the day that I printed and put the QR code for the Wi Fi on the beer fridge here in the music studio was probably the last day I had to give anybody the Wi Fi password. It's funny. I had it on the door, nobody saw it. I had it on the beer fridge. Suddenly, everybody sees. Everybody's on the network . Now if you're at home and your guests are over , the other fun is just to do the NFC version, which is put your device near their device and it will just ask them if they want to get on the Wi Fi. Yeah, for sure. Yep , a little fun got a pop up on their phone Bill kind of a follow up for us from eleven forty six . He says that you mentioned Dave that you downloaded the WWC video from YouTube and put it in your Plex server so that you could then download it to your iPad and watch from the plane. And all of this was true and worked. He says, simply out of curiosity though, why not just download it directly in the Apple TV app? He says, Is that because you intend to store it indefinitely in your Plex server? Some other benefit to not using the Apple TV app? No, Bill, the answer is much simpler than that. I didn't know that I could download from the Apple TV app until I got your email . So that's why I didn't do it because it was I either was doing it right before we left for the second and final show that we saw there , the Russia show or I did it after we got back, but either way we were getting up early the next day to go catch a flight and so I didn't like I knew of one way to get this done and I just kind of plowed and got it done . So but it probably would have been a more efficient experience all around if I had just downloaded it in the Apple TV app. You know, I do that all the time. I use the Apple TV app. Now here's your don't get caught part of that. Okay after your trips , remember to go back and remove the downloads because they'll start to eat up a lot of storage and you might forget that they're on your device. Oh yeah. Yeah, good point. They'll pop up in a special area in storage, I think, or if you enable that feature that says automatically remove media like downloads after a period of time too. You can have it kind of auto setup to client and clean up after itself. Interesting caught where it's like, why do I have no storage? Oh, I went on a trip three months ago and I downloaded five, you know, movies or whatever and they're just sitting there. And they're just sitting there, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fun stuff. I love it when we get to learn all these things together. 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I think you're going to like it as much as I do and our thanks to NordLayer browser for sponsoring this episode. Oh, great stuff. I 'll move to questions. Sweet . All right. The first question this week, Jim Wright said, he says greetings. I'm upgrading from an M three MacBook Air. I use it ninety nine percent of the time in clampshell mode, connected to a Dell twenty seven inch four K display, and I'm moving to a two monitor setup. I do photo editing in Photoshop and photos, late video editing, spreadsheets and general use, not a power us er. Two options. Option one, a twenty four inch IMAC M four paired with my existing Dell as a second display . And option two is an M four Mac mini with a second monitor, probably another twenty seven inch four K del since I'm not sure if five K justifies the price . Three questions. IMAC or Mac Mini . If Mac Mini by now or wait for the M five to come out this fall and four K or five K for the second display . Man . Okay, I have lots to say on this. Like the first thing is , I think moving the air, a laptop to a desktop machine in your scenario, Jim makes perfect sense, right? You're using it fixed in position . And that air has no active cooling, right? It's all passive cooling . So especially in clamshell mode, it's just got less airflow and you're probably running into some thermal throttling there. So I think you've already realized that and made that decision, but I just wanted to articulate it for anybody that's listening that you are you are going in the right direction. In Jim's original note, he sort of professed his love for the IMAC form factor. And I understand this . I too am an IMAC refugee , right? But once I sort of was forced out of the camp of using an IMAC because I couldn't even fathom using a twenty four inch screen versus at least a twenty seven inch . I am over the emotional attachment to the IMAC. I think going with the mini is absolutely the right choice. It gives you so much more flexibility down the road , not the least of which is if your display flakes out, your computer doesn't have to be thrown away along with it. You just get to move displays around or vice versa, right? Like you have it's so much more the modularity is so worth it. And you know, the size of a Mac mini or even a Mac studio is fairly trivial, you know, especially if we compare it to like tower computers of old that the iMac was kind of built to replace, right? So it's a different world now. And I think the Mac Mini's the way to go. Whether or not to wait a tough judgment call . But actually, you know, before we talk about whether or not to wait, let's talk about the IMAC versus Mac Mini thing. Adam, do you have any thoughts on ? Yeah, I mean, my initial thought was exactly the same as yours. I was like I would probably go Mac Mini at this point, especially if we're not caring too much about the display. I mean the IMX fun with the colors , but to get the same specs. So I immediately brought up the compare Mac models things because I wanted to see and to get the base specs kind of close to the Mac Mini, you'd have to go with the four port M four IMAC. That gets you the ten core GPU, ten core CPU, sixteen gigs of RAM, you still end up with more storage on the mini twice twice the built in storage at five hundred twelve versus two hundred and fifty six . So and you're saving roughly seven hundred bucks , which you're going to be able to buy that four K four K display for a lot less than that . So you're going to be saving money, which means you could also then throw in either more storage if you wanted it or more memory if you wanted it. So I think that I think you're absolutely right. I think that's the way I would go just from a budgetary standpoint. Yeah, you're basically getting the same machine. You're going to save money and you can get the displays you want. The other nice thing about the mini, I mean with how small it is now, it's essentially portable if you needed to take it somewhere . You could just throw it in a bag that's true, literally. Yeah. It's true. Get one of those little portable power supplies that we've talked about and you're like portable little portable USB C display, you know? Yeah . Oh yeah . I didn't even think about that. Or you could use an iPad probably, right? You could mirror it to an iPad. I mean, it wouldn't be perfect, but you could maybe set that up. Yeah , maybe yeah, maybe. I mean , yeah , yeah. Oh, interesting. But yeah, super powerful. So yeah . All right . So as for the next sort of point on this whether or not to wait for the M five Mac mini, which I think is it's realistic to assume that that would come out this fall , right? So we're probably three , four months away from seeing that . You know, my default advice is always if you need a computer today , buy a computer today . There will always be a newer one coming, right? Like that like that and that what a lovely world we live in where there's always new stuff coming. It's awesome . However, if you need it today, buy it today because you can always wait yourself out of ever upgrading . And as Kiwi Graham remind s us in the Discord chat, Tim Cook has confirmed that prices are, you know, heading north later this year, right ? And maybe even this summer , right? So like argument not to wait too long . And so I don't think I would wait until the like I don't think I'd wait for the M five. I think I'd look I would look on the reverb store now for an M four mini and like you know wait find the right thing and snatch it up and rock and roll . Yeah. I mean, you know, that's what happened with the I mean, it's already happening because the mini there's only the one model available. They got rid of the lower end one because of I'm pretty sure because of the whole pricing situation. Yeah . Right . So and I would almost guarantee prices will be higher when they come out with the M five The question is big then does the M four refurb go up as well? Because that would be in my mind the only reason to wait for the M five is if you're budget minded to go, will the M four refer thus be a lower lower price? For instance, I bought an iPad Pro , I think with the M three chip in it just because it was so much lower in price the refurb was so much lower in price . Yeah . Probably worth the wait. Well, it just I mean, here's the thing the reverbs are always sold at fifteen percent off of whatever they're either current or final their last price was, right? That and I'm sure we can find things that go counter to that, but in general and certainly for a current model machine , that's what you're going to see. Now , so the idea of, well, if I wait, could I get it for fifteen percent off is a good question to ask. And I've actually done that. It's like, well, we're expecting new things . So that means this is going to be fifteen percent off in two weeks. So maybe I can do it or whatever. With pricing going up though , you may put yourself in a pickle and I will tell you as of the moment we are recording this show and inventory changes all the time, but I think this is pretty consistent . There ain't no desktops . Well , there are no Mac minis, Normac Studios, Normac Pros available in Apple's Refurb Store. There are iMacs available in the reefer store, but no tell you something right there . That's right. So check it. It does change throughout the day, but yeah, you said it was best peak. That'll tell you something. Yeah . And you can set alerts with the refurb store. Yeah , not on the refurb store. You have to use a third party tool like Refurb . Me. Me. Right. Is that Yeah, that's the one we use. Yes. Refurb. me is the one where I said alerts and it comes, you know, get an email twenty minutes later. Oh, one just came up. All right, woo which I would have otherwise missed . So I'm just putting it in the show notes. Yeah, because trying to think the and I don't know, the only other advice do you guys have any disagreements with this, I would really lean towards only getting it from Apple in the refurb store or possibly best buy There are some other refurbers out there that are less than excellent product ? Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't just limit it. Your point is valid , but I wouldn't necessarily limit it to just Apple or Best Buy if there's a couple of vendor , right? I mean, OWC has refurbs at times. Like, but the question worth asking is, does my refurb qualify me for Apple Care? When you buy it from Apple, the answer is yes. When you buy it from best buy , I think not answers yes. No, I think it 's okay . Because I they're kind of sort of like, you know, an Apple deal. They have some partnership . But check that. Yeah, that's true. They have a sorry. No, check it. That would yeah, yeah, that would be the thing. But yeah , yeah, yeah . The other thing to note , and somebody just told me this, I hadn't realized it had gotten as bad as it had gotten . But it's my understanding right now in terms of timing on your purchase , lead times on if you're ordering it online are long. They're about a month out for most models and configurations. So even if you decide to pull the trigger now, keep in mind you're probably unless you go in an Apple store or a retail location and just buy it off the shelf, you're looking at about a month's wait . Yes , yes . Yep. And it's mainly because Mac mini's are great for running your own AI models. And so that's your local AI models. Yeah, I mean, that's real . Yeah, yeah, that's the whole thing. Yep. And the more RAM you want it with, the harder it is to get for exactly that reason. So yeah , I guess there was one last question. I feel like we've kind of discussed, in fact, we've discussed it at length, five K versus four K , if you don't see a difference, and I mean literally see, if you don't see a difference between a four K and a five k, then buy the four K. If you do, then buy the five K . Yeah, I think it's all right, cool . Oh yeah, yeah. If you max out, I was just maxing out a Mac Mini on Apple's website. Yeah, with approach and everything . Yeah ten to twelve weeks . Yeah , it doesn't surprise me. But how they aren't as good they aren't as good a deal price wise either if you max them out. Right? seven hundred bucks. You don't think that's a good deal, Pete. How much? seven hundred bucks? Oh yeah, that's not a bad deal. Yeah. It''ss a power itful machine. Yep , yep. And that's not even fully maxed. I didn't I didn't max everything . Yeah, right. But you maxed RAM, is that right? Fully maxed on, fully maxed on everything five thousand five hundred . Okay , okay . Yeah. But didn't the old Mac Pro, didn't that thing like max out , so to speak at four thousand two hundred or something back in the day? Wow . Yeah, but you're talking, I mean, tag of eight ethernet, eight terabytes of storage, forty eight gigs of RAM , the Pro chip, fourteen cart CPU, twenty cart GPU , you know, like yeah, you're getting a lot of machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably more than you need . Unless you're running your ODI models and well, then that's true yes, yes, yes, yes, right. Yeah , yep, fair , fair. Yep . All right . Shall we move on to Joe ? Yeah, Joe has a question for us. He says, I have been adding some automated lights around my house just on and off at certain times. However, now I would like to add some lights that fade on or off with sunset and sunrise , not just on and off, but fade in and out. Do you does anyone rather know of a light that can do this? Thanks . I do, I do pick me. Go meat. Joe, you can absolutely do this . At least with the Phillips Hugh, I don't know about the other brands because I don't have the other brands, but I use Hugh at my place and they make it incredibly easy to set up a gradual seamless fade that automatically syncs with your local sunrise and sunset and you can adjust thirty minutes prior and hour . You can adjust from the actual sunrise sunset if you want to do that too. Super easy to do. Set it up in the go to the HU app , tap the Automations tab at the bottom , select custom , and then select the win when you want it to happen, and then you can set the fade duration anywhere from five to sixty minutes . So it's right there in the Hu app. They make it stupid easy. It's stupid easy . Huh . And yeah, I've and I've done that. I love it. Is that home kit compatible? It is. Okay , yeah, okay . Okay , all the Phillips Hu lights are home kit compatible. I can never remember just off the top of my head because I use , you know, Homebridge and Home Assistant to make all that kind of like I don't think about whether they're actually home kit compatible. It's kind of amazing to me that the Hu lights for me I, can use I use the home app, I use the HQ app and I can also ask the A lady, hey, turn on the lights in the master bedroom, turn off the port. I mean, they're super and I assume the A lady is going through home kid .. No, it could be wrong No , no, no, no, that chose two are there is a no totally no they are they are different platforms, right? They're competing platforms. Sure is the A platform, the Google platform the home kit platform. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Phillips listens on all platforms then. That's good. Yeah, he's listening for yeah. Yeah . So yeah, which is great. Love that. Yeah . So yeah, cool. All right, let's see. And of course, I there we go. I'm waiting for Richard's question to pop up in notes. Boy, notes is taking its folk time. No for it. We have gone from this? Yeah. I was just trying to double check. I wanted to make sure they were still what they were. I used to use, I haven't plugged them back yet. I still have some older ones, but my favorite brand was always I think it's Life X, LIFX Yep , LifeX . And wow, their prices have gone down. What I loved about these bulbs is and they'll do the programming dimming because they're compatible with Home Kit. That's what I wanted to make sure they still were because they have an everyday bulb and it does the different lighting and temperatures and all that fun stuff and it looks like you can get a two pack for like twenty four bucks. They used to be really exciting those were premium premi,um bulbs . And they probably still are. Just like the price has become in line. Wow, that's great. They're matter compatible and they don't require a hub. That's what I always loved about them.. Okay I now remember all of this. Okay, it's all coming back to me. Matt from Oh no, sorry, Kiwi Graham thought that Hugh Lights needed a bridge to get into it Home and K you are correct . You need to buy the Hugh Bridge in order to connect your Hugh Lights to Home Kit and I have one. That's why couldn't remember how I did that. You're right, Adam, that the LifeX lights, LIFX, however we're supposed to say that , do not require they are Wi Fi direct, whereas the Phillips lights are not Wi Fi, right? That's kind of the differentiator there. And it's that's old school right now. You can do matter and get that in a home kit and all that stuff, but the Phillips lights aren't that. So yeah now that you mention it, I bought my first huge lights as a kit that came with the bridge. There was two light bulbs in the bridge. And so that's why I have the bridge. Yep. And yeah, and it just sits there by your router and you forget about it and it works. Yep . So yep. So these lights are great. They have a couple different versions, but yeah, depending on how bright and things you want them. But even the higher end the eight, what they call their A nineteen Smart Lights like fifty bucks for a two packet. They used to be fifty bucks a bulb. So bulb. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Huh . Pretty good . That's pretty good. All right, cool. Love it . Love it. If you if you have any bulbs that you are using with Home Kit that you found are good quality. I know there's a lot of options out there that are like and some of them are most of them probably are crap, but if you have found one that's good that we haven't mentioned, let us know feedback at MacGeek MacGeeeekgab. com That's where I'd send it. Feback at McGeeko dot com Pete . Yeah, that's where I'd send it feedback at geek gab dot com Easy for you guys to say, I guess. I guess after twenty one years of saying it, I'm I'm done now. We can say happy anniversary right now that it's like we're actually this is the first time we're seeing each other after the after after the thirteen wait were drinking age? The show is of drinking age now. That's right. Yep. Yeah. Hold my beer show. It's a shame we're not doing a live show at Mac Duck because we could have beer on stage. Wait, I think we did that in the past . Yeah, we didn't leave room in the schedule for us. It's really kind of how it went and I suppose I just assumed that we would have our normal slot, but it was it was given away before Mike and I had the conversation about, hey, we'd like to do it again. So that's Say Levy. Say levy. Yeah, it is what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it actually it's kind of nice because in that sense we don't have to like I am doing a session at Macdock but our evenings we get to we get to be with all of you and just hang, which is I mean, I know when we do the show, we hang too, but it's a different thing when you're on stage. You're, you know, you're on and until it's over. So yeah, yeah. So yeah, I'm actually people won't be looking up your toga . That's right . That's right. Yeah . Yeah, so I'm yeah, I'm if I hope that didn't come across as bitter or anything. It's it's not like I'm actually really st oked that we just get to I'm going to miss being there. We get our evenings to ourselves. Yeah . And I know some of you have already used it, but we do have that coupon code, which is Mac Geek Gab for Mac St and that will get you it saves you fifty bucks, I think . So why not do that? Use it and save it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Use that fifty bucks to buy Adam and Dave some beer . Yeah. That's right. Sounds good to me. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, it was interesting. I didn't last year at MaxTalk was when I was figuring out that I had Lyme disease. And so I chose not to drink any alcohol last year. Yeah. Yeah, you were in rough shape. . Yeah. Yeah, I can laugh about it now. I'm sure I laughed about it then too, but you know, it was less of a laughing matter because I really didn't know what I had . We had a theory . And it was actually while I was at Macdock that I was I started the doxycycline and the antibiotics that like finally by the end of Max Dock that was like wait, I think I'm coming out of this haze here. That sucked. Do not recommend zero out of five stars for Lyme disease. All right, great Check yourself for tick s . Seriously, like it's it's an easy thing to do and man it can save you a lot of trouble. All right , moving on to Richard . You know, let's do it. Richard writes in. He says, Hi guys, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to view failed login attempts on my MacBook and see what passwords were tried. After lots of searching and trying things that didn't work, I thought of my favorite Mac podcast and wondered if you guys would have the answer . So I have a MacBook Arm four and I'm running the twenty six dot one . The reason I'm curious about the possible snooping attempts is sometimes I open my MacBook and it asks for a password rather than just touch ID , which makes me think someone has tried to log in and failed. Thanks for any advice you can give, love the show , Richard . Yes, there are ways that you can you can kind of see all of these things. You can't see what passwords were tried. That's not logged for for security reasons, right? Like if you took then it would log the good ones, right? Well, it would log something very close to a good one if you just fat fingered your password and that it very quickly becomes a security risk . And there are ways to look at that and I'll put a link in the show notes. I actually just had perplexity kind of articulate the ways of parsing logs to look for failed IDs, but more More than likely this is not related to someone trying to log in you as failing and failing and then your Mac deciding, okay, wait, we need the password, not touch ID. There are all kinds of reasons that this is probably not a snooping attempt . You know, if your Mac was rest arted , if your Mac was was asleep for a period of time , then touch ID doesn't work. It requires your password . Like there are a series of like decisions that MacOS makes about whether or not to accept Touch ID as a convenience feature in lieu of your password. And I think it's important to remember that that's what these things are . For the most part, Apple kind of mixes that metaphor a little bit sometimes with face ID where it's like, well, you can't do this unless you touch ID and face ID sometimes on the iPhone. It's like, oh, so this is no longer just a convenience feature. I see , which is fine, but by and large, it is a convenience feature to keep you from having to type in your password. And so there are times when the OS just decides no convenience is not warranted here. We need, you know, the real password . So based idea, if you change your appearance in any kind of significant way can do it. So like I typically wear glasses but occasionally I'll throw on a pair of contacts and it'll just throw it off and it'll be like nope , I need you to password one time so I can kind of capture your new look . Yeah or, even I've had a beard or stuff and I shaved that, it'll even throw it off at least once. Interesting , you know? Yeah , yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah . All right. Shall we move on to thank you for that, Richard? And thanks for everybody everybody for your questions. And thanks, Todd too. Are we moving on to Todd? Good . Yeah , he has a question. He says, I have an ex ternal SSD used as a time machine backup. Up until the last MacOS update, I was able to eject the disk prior to closing my MacBook Pro and leaving the house. Now I get the disk original Thunderbolt zero one wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it. When I run pseudo LSO F I see MDS spotlight running on the drive. Apple will not let me add this drive under privacy in spotlight settings because it's a time machine drive for now I end up force ejecting it. Eventually this will not end well any, ideas? Thanks, Todd. I'll start with an idea . I think Spotlight or Time Machine processes are still accessing the drive after the update and blocking your ejection . So I think the thing to do is turn off time machine temporarily and then we'll put a terminal command in the notes that shows you how to force stop spotlight to stop indexing the drive and terminal and then you can try ejecting normally again. And then if it won't eject normally, I would say turn off the Turn off the machine or restart the machine and when it's off, disconnect the drive and that way you protect your backup from becoming corrupted Thoughts gents? That seems like the simple approach Yeah is this a widespread thing ? I don't recall this being an issue in the past. I mean, and I know that that's what Todd said too, but so I know it's new for Todd. I don't know that it's new for all of us. Like I think this points to something on Tod'sd machine would. That be my thought. Maybe yeah. I mean, I've had issues every now and then with the drive, but I haven't thought about Wall G was it a time machine backup that was refusing to object. Every now and then you have a drive that's refusing to object that you know Yeah, is it a question so I answered it? Yeah no well I know but like I think I think there's something specific about his setup that's causing this because time machine drives like the way that it has always worked if you have it if you have an external time machine, like for my laptop, I have a network time machine backup, and then I also have a drive that I can plug into it. Correct. And when I plug that in, it starts like it's like, oh great, I can back up now. And it does. And then when it's done, I just eject it and it's fine . So something's hanging onto it , right? So yeah, something weird's going on because it's also I'm not jiving I was trying to look this up because I don't have my time machine currently hooked to my Mac, but I remember always specifically going into spotlight and making sure my time machine drives were exclud ed because when I didn't do that and I was backing up my, say, applications directly, I would end up with duplicate spotlight searches for things and it drove me baddy because it would find my internal drive and then it would find the same thing on my spotlight or on my sorry time machine backup. Yeah . And so I always exclude it. And so the fact that he can't add the time machine drive to spotlight exclusion seems weird to me too. Like that should not be the case. I think you correct absolutely one hundred percent correct. Yeah , I also do the same thing for exactly the same reason Adam. Yeah. So one thing I might ask is how old is this time machine drive and how was it formatted ? Is it possible it's like an old like NTFS version and not PFS and maybe it's time for the and it's behaving weirdly because it's just using an older file system or I mean even back then that shouldn't matter but I'm just wondering if it's some weird behavior with modern operating system in old formatted time machine drive I wonder if using LSOF and then the name of the drive , or LSOF. Shoot, how does it work? My fingers know more than my brain. Yeah, LSOF sorry LSOF pipe and then Grip Drive name . So in a pipe is the straight up and down character that on most Apple keyboards is right above the return ke y and that will get you there . It should, but he's saying he already used LSOF when I run stud y I see MDS spotlight running on the dri ve. Okay , so yeah, that okay, so it is spotlights holding on to it for him . Okay , yep , yep . And it won't let him turn it off. That's no, that's weird . Yeah, there's something going on with that drive . I wonder mounting it on maybe turno machine or mounted on a different Mac that doesn't see that as its time machine drive and then run file system repair on it or something like there's this is definitely an anomalous thing where spotlight something Yeah, something's causing spotlight to want to play not let go. I've got stuff to do here. Learn more . Yeah . So yeah, yeah, so that okay, so it is definitely spotlight that's causing it Yeah , interesting interesting yep, could it be what I was describing ? Now I'm wondering this again because I think I ran into this problem and I think this is why I got really like adamant about making sure my spotlight was excluded. Could it be possible that you're launching an app or you have an app or a utility or something open and it's open from your time machine backup not and running from your time machine backup not from your Mac. Sure. And you just don't realize it because it's just running , you know, it's applications don't have to run out of your applications folder. They can run from external drives and things. So I think that's part of the reason why I got kind of crazy about making sure I think I would open documents and think I was opening my local copy, but the copy I had opened was the one on my time machine drive . Yeah . Yep. Like that. Yeah. I don't know that I ever had documents opening there , but I definitely had applications opening from my time machine drive and that it was like no. But LSOF will show you that. LSOF is list open files, I think is what that and it takes a minute to run because it looks at every process on your computer and which is why you want to. I mean you don't have to filter it with Grep. I always do, but you could just do you could just do LSOF and let it barf out the huge list and then use terminals find feature to just search for the entries with your drive name in it and then you'll find them there too. Like either way will get you there. But LSOF will tell you. But yeah, with him using ot Splight, I like your terminal command, Pete, the one with Sudo MD I dash IOF. We're putting all of these terminal commands in the show notes at MacKeCab. com, which, by the way, yes, will resume arriving in your inboxes in a timely fashion. I had oops. There was an issue . It was a whole thing and I wound up doing some troubleshooting and in the process of troubleshooting, I turned off the weekly mailer and never turned it back on. So that's why you got two weeks worth of show notes and one email on probably Tuesday of this past week. But anyway, it's all fixed . Always breaking things around here. So Yuper . All right are we good with this one? Do we do it for now anyway? Yeah, okay. Great. Let's move on to cool stuff found . While we were recording the episode, Matt from Midlothian in our discord chat in circling back around to our initial one of our initial quick tips about capturing text inside of or OCRIN text inside of a screen shot says that the clipboard manager named Quip Q IP from BZGAPs has captured text from screen as a feature . So it can it can kind of skip this, you know, it takes it and makes it a one step process, which I think is awesome. So Matt Matt from Midlothy and thank you, thank you, thank you. That's really good stuff. Yep . I talked about my Lyme disease before and one of the gifts that I have from it is a higher sensitivity to those things, to which it turns out I am allergic and dust mites are one of them . And I now can tell easily when I'm in a room and the air purifier in it has turned off . It is like as long as it's a good air purifier and I've been testing new one from a company called Winnix WINIX, the five thousand five hundred ten Air Purifier . And Winnix sent it my way, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago now, and I wanted to give it a few weeks before I said anything about it because I wanted to, you know, experience life with it for a little while . And I'm really impressed. It does do the right filtering, right? It's actually got a four stage filter. It's got a washable pre filter . It is true HEPA , which is the part that makes a difference. And I really do notice it when like I'm in a room and you know, I had one filter where I had it like turn off at a certain time of night or something at one point. And as soon as it's off, it's like, wait a minute, you know, within five minutes, I'm like, what happened in here? It's like, oh yeah, filter. It's not running. Yep . But yeah, it's a true hep of filter and really quiet for and it'll do a big room I think like four hundred square feet and maybe even more . But and it's got sensors in it. And this is the part that I love. It's super smart . It will ratchet its its filtration rate up or well, I mean up and down depending on the quality of the air, but when it notices that something's happened like you open a window or you're cooking or whatever it might be , it will ratchet it up and clean the air and then kind of get it out of there . And app it's you know, it connects to WiFi of course because that's what, you know, that's what we love things that connect to WiFi. It's got to be smart home. Otherwise does it even exist? If you can't see it on my WiFi network, does the thing exist? And it'll let you do like ALAD Voice Control. I think it'll do Google Assistant Voice Control two . And you get real time air quality readouts and graphs over time inside the app. So you get the trends and all that stuff. It's really cool . So I'll put a link to it in the show notes, but if you're looking for an air purifier for , you know, a larger room there, it's a good thing. So yeah, check it out. The Winnix five thousand five hundred and ten and I'll circle back on it after I've had it for a little while longer and let you know like how it's actually going. Yeah, it's good stuff. Yeah . Um Well, should I take Star Alexander? Sure . Dave, you're a handsome lady, but you're a little hippie. I'm just saying The inside on that is Alexander wrote in not with the cool stuff found so much as the cool stuff made . So but it is cool stuff found for you because it turns out he made this program called Rev io RE V is invictor IO it turns your photos into short videos that are funny and or beautiful and or unexpected. Total hobby project for him, but after one hundred sixty five builds it',s finally ready for people other than me to look at, he says. Most of it was built in clawed code with detourist codex Codex and antigravity . One thing I'm proud of most AI imaged video apps won't let you try anything before you subscribe. Revio actually lets you use it first since it took a thousand plus video gener ations to land on the presets to produce high quality AI sl op and he sent us videos of each of us and Dave, you're awfully hippy . There's a lot of cross dressing in the ones he sent to us, but yeah these are it's really it's well done. If you're we'll put a link in the show notes to the examples that he made of the of the three of us with Revio and but I 've played a couple of them in the YouTube video that the YouTube stream that you can see for this episode too. But yeah, it's pretty it's pretty good . Oh , yeah. So I played with it some last night I had the cat put on a helmet before she jumped off the windowsill. I loved it. That's great. It's really cool. Yeah , it's some of the best of this that I've ever seen in terms of this st uff. So very nice very nicely done, Alexander. Yeah, we'll put a put a link in the show notes to all of it. Fun stuff. Yeah . What are the , what are the legal requirements for getting like sign offs on these kinds of things? I'm just kidding . He did say that he took some liberties, but he only used publicly available images of the three of us . And we were the ones that chose to share them publicly , not him . So I couldn't offic ially okay. Yeah. Yeah . I cheese. I just yeah . Yeah , but yeah, I'll put them in there. They're they're pretty good. They're pretty. I shared them with my family late last night when I saw him and was prepping the show . And the one that Pete's talking about me where I wind up putting on this like , what did my daughter even say? She looked like a twenties flapper dress evening . It was like yeah, it was like nineteen twenties. That's right. Gatsby nineteen twenties is what my daughter said yeah. She's you're a handsome lady Dave. She's getting she's getting married next week this week actually . And when this episode comes out and rehearsal dinner is themed Italian casual. And so I was like, oh, look , I figured out my outfit for the rehearsal dinner and that's when she said. She's like, this she's like, I'm disturbed, but this seems more Gatsby twenties than Italian. It's okay. People will remember it. It's fun. You're not allowed to wear a nicer looking dress than the bride, Dave, sorry. No, I can for the rehearsal dinner. I just can't I can't, I'm not supposed to upstage the bride at the wedding is what I'm I understand. That's the that's the deal . I'm not supposed to. Key phrases, Pete . That's right. I can't help myself. I mean, come on . She's even gonna have me sing a song at her wedding, so here you go. See if I can see if I can make it through that without tears, but you know, right luck. No kidding, that 's no win. No win. No, I could do that in my daughter's wedding. So correct. Look., Thank thansks correct. Yeah, no , I will I will fail . And that's and I'm okay with it. Like obviously, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah . Yeah, no, I'm very eager to embrace the emotions of the day. So yeah, it's good . All right, but we have more cool stuff found. We've been talking about to do with an iPad that is no longer functional for the things you used to use your iPad for 'cause it seems like we all have these. I realized the other day that I have first gen iPad still because Lucas, my son wanted to set up a dashboard like we've been talking about, and he did. I'm like, he's like, I guess I'm gonna do it on my iPad. I'm like, dude, I've got like three old iPads sitting around, like, just take them and figure out which one is the newest and can do what you want and you're good. And he's like, great . And as he went through it, he's like, this is one like an OG iPad. I was like, Whoa, okay, didn't know. But sure. I have trouble throwing. Amazing how clunky and old that seems now compared to the ruins, huh? Yep . So anyway, we have some a cool stuff found repries and perhaps a new one too. So yeah, I got the repries from Kent here. This is something I think we cove red back in December, but still relevant to this conversation. He says , Hi guys, I've been looking for an app that would essentially turn an old iPad into a weather station. There are several companies that sell standalone displays that display information like this called displayboards. One such company also simply display the information on a web page which can be used on any device that has a browser DACBORD AK BOARD . com The free version allows one screen with a limited selection of predefined screen layouts, two calendars, weather, news, RSS and photos , this one meets my needs. I have it set up to show a shared calendar and weather information. There's also paid tiers at five and eight bucks a month that add features and flexibility. To be honest, if the old iPad is capable of displaying split screens, one could open the weather app and the calendar app side by side and accomplish the same thing , but this seems like a more elegant approach . And again, that's from Kent. Love that. Huh , that's cool. Yeah, it saves you from having to do any coding or even assisted coding. Yeah, pretty good. I'm sure we liked it when we saw it in December two. Yeah. It's great. Yeah. Great. Thanks, Kent. Yeah. And there's another Yeah. And then Steve from New Jersey writes in with one. Hey gents and Pete. Another idea regarding size question from episode eleven forty five on repurposing an old iPad , iFramex , that's IFR A MIX . These guys started as a kickstarter and now they're a full blown company making amazing products. I've already purchased two as gifts and as of the writing in this email, they're twenty percent off today and they're at iFramix . com almost said it keep up the great work Steve from New Jersey and these are essentially picture frames that go around your iPad. I see to turn it into yeah . Okay, so it's a frame that holds your iPad to make it look like a picture frame on the wall or on a table. Yeah Yeah. Yeah, there it is. Okay , I see. So you could try and build one yourself or you can get one of theirs with it has some have LED backlighting and stand up nice and yeah , some nice thought going into that. eighty bucks. Seventy nine dollars on Amazon anyway. So yeah, there you go . Huh? Love that. That's a yeah and and quite candidly , even though it looks like a picture frame, you don't have to use it to display pictures. If you want to put your weather station in a picture frame, well, right, like when I when I did this with our eye, you know, with our iPad that I have in the kitchen , I had to find a case for it that would hold it up because otherwise like it's an iPad. It's just laying there. So I had to have a case that was like could fit in where I wanted it to fit in the kitchen and hold it up and all that stuff. So you're going to need something to hold it in place and you know, there you go. And also you're going to have a charger cable plugged into it, so this kind of, you know, hides all of that in an elegant way. I like that. That's pretty good. Huh. I wonder if I need one of these for my kitchen. Okay there you go. Yeah, twenty percent off, Dave. I know. Fun stuff. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So yeah, we got another one from Johan , who writes Himack Gee Gab team. Sharing this is a listener tip style suggest ion. Super product ivity is a free MIT licensed task manager and time tracker that may be useful for Apple Power users who move between the desktop, web and mobile workflows. It works offline, needs no account , and has no telemetry and includes planning, time boxing, pomodoro, timesheets, and integrations at super dash productivity. com if it seems useful , it could fit as a practical quick tip or cool stuff found item for listeners trying to keep tasks and time tracking out of scattered systems. Best , Johan. Well, I don't use time tracking stuff anymore. At one point in time, I did and across the iPad and the iMac and or yeah, it was an iMac at the time actually. And a phone, it was a nightmare. So this looks like a very cool possibility. Yeah . And you can like , you know, if you have your tasks in like Trello or GitHub or whatever, you can like sync it up to it and import your tasks all that stuff. Huh . And it's free , right? I mean, it's available in GitHub. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, sensitively. Huh . Love that. Nice find . Well , cool . RV tells us about a cool stuff found called Tail Snitch . And he says it is a security auditor for your tailscale configurations. You run it and it will scan your tailnet for any misconfigurations, overly permissive access controls, and security best practice violations and it's called tail snitch and it too is available on GitHub , which means it's free and also open source, which means that you could evaluate the source and make sure that it's not, you know, its own like problem. Like, you know , it's not it's not the thing that's going to cause problems with your tailscale network. So yeah, that's pretty good. Huh? Yeah . Yep , and it will yeah, it's got it all kinds of things. And it will even offer to fix some of the things that it can that it can fix or all that stuff . Nerdy helpful. Love that. I actually probably should run . I think any of us running tailscale should probably run that. Cool. Should we end the show on it? Don't get caught, Dave? Yeah, go ahead, sure. All right , so gosh, who wrote this in? Rolling Tucks . Rolling Tucks. There it is. Yep. I knew I had it there somewhere. He writes in, you know, thirty years in IT and I still get caught by cable issues twice recently . First set up an intern with a MacBook Air and a plugable USB hub. The ethernet was intermittent. Two hours of troubleshooting before I removed a USBC extension cable between the computer and the hub should have caught that one sooner. And the second one, a content creator with a MacBook Pro and a Thunderbolt Dock ran fine for a month and then one display just stopped working . He had swapped in a non Thunderbolt USB C cable after using it away from his desk . So the lesson learned is when something stops working check your cables . Yeah , it just because you know, every now and then they don't work or it's the wrong cable and you don't realize you've swapped it and you wind up getting caught , which is bad . Don't do it. Cables go bad. It's how it is. Yeah. Yep Yeah, yeah. I in my for my gigging stuff, I, you know, especially cables that are analog running, like having spares is the key, but really even digital cables, like the ends can fray, like you can get a kink in the cable that, you know, destroys it and that's not that's not good. Or in this case, and one of his, you know, someone swapped in a USB two cable when he needed a USB Yeah, that's fair . That going carry the data . That's true. Yeah. Yep. I think Adam's trying to talk to us, but I think Adam's muted, which is why I said or you do a power only cable, yeah. Yeah . Yeah. Yeah . Exactly. Yeah, good catch . Nice reminder for us all as we head into the week here, but that will be the end unfortunately, or fortunately. Yeah, it depends. 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I'll have to dig into that, but it's coming, it's coming. So Mackey dot com slash app will get you there too. Sounds like the app got caught. Ah , yes , yes. Well, let that be a lesson to all of you. Don't be like the app. Don't get caught You see this me See you ? Later