MacPaw Apps and AI Development

It's time for MacGeekab and listener. Cliff sends us our quick tip of the week on iOS. Uh, or one iOS feature, but this is on iOS too, uh, is uh that he says he has found very useful lately is to use the translate menu that is now in the context bar when you select text in iOS. Instead of having to copy text and paste it into a translate app, just hitting the translate men u pops up a separate window with a very good translation to English. He says I find this very helpful and use it in many different apps. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab1144 for Monday, June 1st, Flip A Coin Day 2026. Greetings folks and welcome to MacGeekCab, the show where you send in quick tips like that. You send in your cool stuff found, you send in your questions, we share all of it, we try to provide context and answers and troubleshooting advice all in the interest of every single one of us learning at least five new things every single time we get together. Our sponsors today are Car Gurus uh new guru feature where you can actually search just by typing into a prompt and Nordlayer browser at Nordlayer.com slash browser , where uh which is the business browser built for today's work environments with all those SaaS apps and everything to keep you secure from phishing. We'll talk about those in a little bit and we'll also talk about uh a quick little announcement from our friends at Barebones that uh that happened just after we recorded last week's episode . For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here also in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete. Good to be with you. Uh, I have to ask, does uh translate include wife speak? Am I going to be able to understand what my wife wants when I you know can I put that in there? Yeah set I I'm wondering if it'll auto-edit parts of the show that might not make it out . I'm just trying to understand the things that my wife wants. A man can hope. Um for different things. Uh MacGeekab.com slash giveaway. Uh enter to win a license to sane box, one of my favorite utilities. Adam, I know you use it too. So Oh yeah. Yep. Wouldn't wouldn't email without it. That's right. So that's it, MackeyCap.com slash giveaway. And there's many ways to enter. You can you can qualify for multiple entries and all that good stuff. So yeah. Yeah. Go check it out . Fantastic. Yeah. All right. D dare dare we is there did you have something to add there when I started talking about the giveaway, Adam? No, no, no. Just it's great. I mean I use Sane Box all the time. Talked about it on the show, all the advantages and stuff like that. So that that's it. Yeah, okay. I wasn't sure if I introduced you into Sane Box. It's insanely good. It is insanely good. Yeah. Or great, you might say. Yes. Great . Shall we move back to quick tips? Let's do it before I say something that I shouldn't. So Hey a quick tip and actually kind of a cool stuff found. For those of you that don't know, MacGeekap has a YouTube channel and there are short quick tips in there that somehow haven't made it to the show. So I stole one from a wise man named Dave right off that channel , you know that you can hide and secure apps from your iPhone and I assume iPad as well, but in iOS, uh easily you don't need a third party app. You press and hold the app until it's secondary menu comes up, and then you have these options: remove the app, require face ID, share app, and edit home screen. So if you choose number two, require face ID, you then have the option to choose to do just that or you can hide the app and require face ID. Now if you look over in the app library on the far right of your iOS menu, you will see a little folder that says hidden apps and that app is going to appear there because it knows who you are. But if you cover your camera and go over to the app ID that you don't even see any apps in there. They are indeed hidden. So you can hide I apps and require face ID to use them so that someone can't, for instance, get secure financial information or something off your phone if you happen to hand it to them to let them use it. So great tip, Dave. Thanks for sharing it with me so I could share it with them. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we're doing some some separate stuff over on the Mackey Cub YouTube channel now too. And you're right. Some things will make it there that don't make it to the show. Not not that it was bad that this made it to the show. I love that it made it to the show. But it's just yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah. I had no idea that that was there. And I know I've seen that context men contextual menu before. Yes And you and and like you said, you can also hide em uh force them to require face ID when launching too, which is super helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Moving on. Yeah, I'll move us on to Ben. I don't. I mean, this is just a almost a PSA, I think. Ben says his tip is the desktop is part of the finder. He says, I like to think of the desktop as a full screen finder window in icon view with no toolbars or borders and where sorting starts in the top right instead of the top left . And then he says it's a mouthful for sure. I'm not sure where the mouthful comes from. I I'm getting lost in Ben's thing. But yes, I mean lots of useful things that you can do in the uh in the desktop. One of my favorites is stacks. Do you guys use stacks? I used to. Uh I don't Yeah. I I well how do you use stacks, Adam? This this is this two things because the other thing that this got me thinking of is to some people , not me , the desktop is the finder, uh my wife, um where she will keep everything on the desktop and that's where everything lives. I like a very, very clean desktop. I do not like anything on my desktop. So sta cks helps me out. If you go under the view menu, I don't remember if it's turned on by default or if if you have to turn it on, but it will group uh items on that you leave on the desktop into little stacks and then if they're grouped you can click on them it'll expand out and then you can see them. So if you have 500 PDFs, for example, on your desktop. It will stack them into one stack, I think with the most recently updated on top, if I'm not mistaken. And then you can click on that and it will expand it open. So, and you can group stacks by different different ways. Um, I do it by kind , you can also do it by date modified, date added, date created, or even tags. So, if you want to get really into my new show, you can start tagging your files and have them stacked by tag. But hey, so I I have a uh a question, Adam, because evidently uh here in the studio I turned stacks on because I wanted that clean desktop. And it it I proved to myself that it worked because while you were talking, I clicked on my images stack. I too have them organized by kind. And uh now I have uh hundreds of imag es across all of my screens, including the the the the screen behind me here. Um but uh but what I don't get is how to um how to turn the the stack like uh like how to how to unexplode the stack. How do I how do I collect the colour? Control option zero looks like it's the shortcut for it. Okay. It's also under the view menu. Should use stacks. Oh no. You can toggle on and that's what I did. I turned it on and off. But like once I've opened a stack, how do I like click click away from it? It should just re-stack. I think I think I did not? Well it didn't because there was no place to click away from it, you see. Uh the I have so many images on my desktop. Escape maybe? Yeah, that also didn't work. Um Yeah. I'm I'm not quite sure what to do, but I I turned stacks off and that back on and then everything was was fixed. Yeah. Weird. Yeah. Normally if you click it, it'll expand open and then once you click away from the stack it should resta ck. Yeah. I think if your stack has too many things in it. I um I think once sorry. I think once it's open also Sure. Yeah. I I use all the podcast episode I store all the podcast episode artwork on my desktop, but I thought I had Hazel cleaning that up for me. So I need Oh Kibi Graham says find the same icon to click on. So maybe click back on the original item that you clicked the stack from. Yeah. Couldn't find that 'cause it was buried underneath a a bunch of images. I yeah, I I think I found an edge case, which is no great surprise. Uh but um I well I mentioned it so I will I will take a little deeper. Uh Hazel is a fantasti c it's like what we all wanted folder actions to be, if you remember that from a hundred years ago. Uh and maybe folder actions still exist, but like Hazel can do things. Like I have, I believe, I need to make sure of this now. I believe I have a Hazel rule that says if this is a Mac Geek Gab image and it's older than two weeks , move it from my desktop to my archive on my Synology, right? Or if it's a gig gag gig gab image, do that. So I'm not sure what I've got out there. I'm not gonna look at it right now. But Hazel is fantastic for keeping my Mac just kind of up to date with the things that I wanna have up to date on it, and then it moves stuff out of the way. I also have one on my downloads folder. If something's been in my downloads for more than I think sixty days, it's like , yeah, just kill it. You're not using it. So I have a comment and a question. Uh the comment is Hazel related. It can read stuff in your files too, and therefore do file ac tions based on that. So like when I have a bank statement come in, it automatically dates it and puts it in the proper folder for me. Um where is this stacks menu item of which you speak? I've been looking for it the entire conversation and I can't find it. And someone may else may have that identical question. In the desktop. So make sure you're clicked on your desktop. Okay. And then it should be under the view menu. Gotcha. Use stacks. I think you can also right-click on an icon if I'm not mistaken . No. I am mistaken. It's in the view menu. Yeah, but you have to be on the desktop itself, not just in the desktop folder. Yeah. Well I'm in the desktop folder. No, you have to be on your desk. It's on the desktop. Yep. That's yeah, that's a good question. So I'm not gonna do that now whilst while on this machine whilst you can also uh here's the right click. You can right click on the desktop and you will see the options for stacks as well. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yeah, you can be in a completely different app. I mean, that's the whole you can interact with Windows in the background and desktop in the background and all that stuff. Yep. Fun. See? This is why we get to do this because we all get to love it. I love it. No, that was a good question. I'm glad you asked that, Pete. Um, get one there. Yeah, hey, there you go. Albert uh brings us into Monitor Land and he says uh I've been listening to MGG for years and genuinely look forward to the show each week. The tips keep coming and I keep learning exactly what always be tweaking, always be learning promises. I wanted to share something that came up in my household recently. Says my son is a Windows and Linux user who just got his first Mac, an M5 Macs MacBook Pro. Smart guy, technically savvy, and within the first day, he was convinced his brand new laptop was defective. His four K monitor looked wrong. Either the UI scaled up with a slight softness or native resolution made everything uncomfortably small . He couldn't figure out why his Windows machine never did this. I know you guys have touched on the four K display topic before, but there's a wrinkle specific to M4 and M5 chips that I think trips up a lot of people right now . Apple's display coprocessor firmware on those chips caps the backing store at 6, 7 20 pixels wide rather than 7, 6 80 needed for two tru e HI high DPI on a four K display. M one through M three handled this correctly. M four and M five quietly broke it. That's on top of Apple's already opinionated ret ina philosophy that leaves 4K in an awkward gap to begin with. Says I wrote a post about the whole thing, which we will link to, aimed at exactly the person my son is, a switcher who feels like the Mac is broken but can't find the answer. If it's helpful to anybody in the community, here it is. And and he's right. If you've ever used a four K monitor on Windows versus the Mac, it depends on which way you go with it, right? If you're used to the Mac and you jump to Linux or Windows, you're gonna be like, wait, how do I get my retina back? And if you go the other way, it's like, meh, this isn't quite the same as what I thought it was. And it this is especially noticeable if you wind up with um you know, the same display on on you know two different platforms. So I c I can imagine if you had a KVM switch that was switching between the two, you might um you you might it might it be even worse. So um yeah he explains all of it here and and how Apple does things just does things differently with its scaling than uh than than Linux and Windows. So yep. Yep. Yep. Is there a TLDR? Um it it it it it's it's really that ret retina is an Apple term. No one else right uses retina and so retina versus high DPI which is the what the rest of the industry uses are two slightly different things. And retina is a fuzzy number, right? Because it's yeah it it changes depending on the um the resolution of the display, like you can have a uh a 5K display at twenty seven inches and that retina, and I don't have the numbers in front of me and I'm not gonna do public math. But um you know, that retina is one type uh i is is like let's say it's I don't know, d 200 and forty pixels per inch or something, dots per inch. Whereas a a four K monitor is gonna be, you know, a hundred and ninety pixels per inch. And I'm pulling numbers out of my but it's less, right? And it depends on where where things get even trickier as as I've learned in recent weeks, and I'll explain why, is the quality of the display now really matters because I just went from a 5K LG display, right? The one that, you know, was sold for twelve hundred dollars for years and years and years, and then LG, you know discontinued it, but you could still buy refurbs. I bought a refurb probably ten years ago, maybe, maybe maybe slightly less. And uh and like have loved it. I turned it off one day because I needed to change move some power cables around, plugged it back in, and it became blue. Uh it still works, but it's very, very blue, which made me very, very sad. Because I thought, oh crap, what am I gonna do? And uh I wound up uh moving to and testing a uh twenty seven inch four K display from Ben Q , and I cannot tell the difference between Ben Q 's high quality four K display and the LG five K display, even though they are like objectively different pixel densities at the same physical size . But I sure can tell the difference between the 4 K, you know, and either of those displays and like a very inexpensive mono price budget 4K display right like the quality of the glass uh a hundred percent matters. And I wonder if that is also where uh I wonder if that's where Albert's son is also noticing something where he had you know a l less than highest quality So it it's possible, but it's also possible it's just what his eyes are used to. So uh but yeah that that Ben Q display I'll put a link I'll put a link in the show notes to the one that I have. Um that is it it like I said, I can't tell a difference. But I I my eyes are still good enough that I can tell a difference between you know the the the high quality displays and the not so high quality displays. So Yeah. I often wonder if the connectivity factors into that too. If you're having to do the thing we were talking about. Was it last week we were talking about the uh not display port? What's the the USB C like in software display connectivity versus a true like display? Oh yeah, he's not display link. Display link, right. No, yeah, in w for I would assume that in Albert's scenario the that he is using the native stuff because that's what the Albert's whole article is about. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I like my LG4K ultrafine displays that I ended up with. They're great. Exactly. Yeah. And and my guess is that it's the same I don't know if it's the same glass, but it's certainly the same quality glass that you're getting with the with the Ben Q display. I I just looked, the Ben Q display that I have is 549 . So certainly you can get a 27-inch 4K display for less than that. Um and some of them are gonna look okay and some of them are not, right? So it's the the the quality of the panel matters. So ypper . Cool. Yeah. Fun little detour. All right. Uh where are we next? Yep. We got Drewski . Uh he says about a year ago I was looking for a software solution for toggling off the connection to an extended monitor while still working on the MacBook Pro screen. MGG had a few ideas, but none of them worked as rock solid dependable as the better display app . I had no use for any of that app's functions beside on off. So the ROI just wasn't there. Uh it's uh $21.99, so not not too bad a deal for better display app if you're gonna use it, but I guess for Drew, it you know, he only needed one feature. So he said Adam's suggestion to just switch the monitor off like a caveman appeared to be my only other option. Except even that got me caught since Mac OS of ten thinks that a monitor powered down mid session is active and Windows would remain or even would remain or even open new on that monitor, thus trapped in the digital void. But as is often the case, the answer was hiding in plain sight on the keyboard. Command plus F one toggles mirror mode, which gathers all of the windows back together. Then I drag my caveman knuckles off the floor and hit the power switch button on the monitor with no fear of lost windows. Going back to extended mode is the reverse of the above. Turn on, turn the external monitor back on, hit command plus F1, and it remembers the monitor settings. Not as elegant as the better display solution, but at least this caveman can easily and inexpensively manage my monitor needs. Yeah. That makes um i I I have seen that too, where in uh the power state of an external monitor , it it's not quite off, right? And so it still registers itself to to Mac OS. Unplugging the monitor, of course, w does register to Mac OS that there is no display there anymore. But uh but we'll still see it. Yeah, I've seen that. I w I wonder if that varies by monitor because I know that these LG ones, the minute I turn them off, all the windows go Oh, that's good to know. Okay. Yeah. And I know that 'cause I power them off every day. I don't like to just have them in sleep mode, so I'll power them off every day. I try to do both exactly at the same time, but some sometimes one will power off first. Yep. And I no the wticindedow s jump. Yep. So but I am in clamshell mode, so I don't know if that makes a difference also . Because it's not going back to the it's jumping from my one display to the other, an external display. Yeah. I huh . That's a good question . Yeah. I'll have to test it. Yeah, take it out of clamshell mode and power off both monitors and see if all the windows go over to my laptop. Yeah. If somebody already knows that, they could write the feedback at MacGeekGab.com and tell us . Is that feedback at MacGeekab.com, Pete? Yeah, I think I think he said feedback at MacKeycop.com. Sorry I was I was thinking about uh thinking about writing and and asking uh if you could provide a link, Adam, uh so that to avoid people writing into feedback at MackeyCub.com, uh a link to the monitors that you bought so that we can put those in the show. You're gonna ask me to do the hard the hard work because there's like a million different models and I gotta find the exact ones. But I will do it for you. 't you Can can't you go to your Amazon purchase history though? Wouldn't that be the way to do it? Probably. Sometimes I have a hard time finding things there, but we'll see. I'll try my best. I think we might have it like buried in the show notes somewhere. We do somewhere, but I'll I'll get it. Hold on. Okay. I'll get it Yeah, it brings me it brings me to a question about may this help. So my sister this week had a uh gravity assisted friction deficient deck interface event. It fell. Yeah. And uh it it broke badly. Um well the screen did anyway, and it didn't appear to you could hear the tone, but it didn't appear to go much past that, couldn't tell. But uh fortunately for her, she had most of her stuff in the cloud. So when she picked up a new machine, she was able to get a lot of it. But I said, you know, maybe you might be able to get in there with an external monitor and poke around and see what's available on there. Uh I'm wondering if you guys have any thoughts on that because I was gonna try uh oh what's the word I'm looking for? Uh screen sharing. Yeah. You know, we're using her Apple ID and all that. But the problem is she would have had to log in first and and I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If if she's sitting if it's sitting at the boot screen waiting for that uh file vault password, then yes, that you're right. That would be that would be before screen share loads. But yeah, the um an external screen is absolutely what I mean now, you know, she might have a a headless MacBook Pro that works fine but for its ability to display something internally. But I mean, you know, that can make for a great server. That can make for like all kinds of different things, right? If it's I mean, if it if the CPU in there is good. It's like that IMAC I have downstairs that's now running uh I mean it runs open claw for me. It's a headless I call it a headless IMAC because I I well but how about this? A faceless IMAC . Yeah, it ripped its face off. But I call it my headless iMac and it it runs open claw, which does some has some limited utility for me uh because I keep it sort of in a box. But I'm also running uh Prism Cast on there, which I will put in the show notes if anyone is still running channels as your D V R, Prism cast solves the problem of DRM content because it just fires up a Chrome window and it works super well. It's so smooth. So um yep. So Prismcast is is my new favorite thing and it it actually installed really easily and all that. But but it so it it it does that those kinds of things. The kinds of things that my NAS devices are not hefty enough in don't don't have the CPU horsepower or the GPU horsepower to to really do, that machine sort of becomes my my default for that. I'm probably burning more power than it's worth because it's a you know i9 Intel. But hey, at least the screen backlight isn't taking up any juice. So there you go. Saving seven watch. Yeah, you got it. That's right. Cool. I got that link in there too. Great. Thank you. Amazing. Love that. Great, great, great. And I'm just now I'm looking to to see. Yeah, it's the three hundred and twenty dollar one. Okay. Got it. Great. Yeah. There you go. Nice. Sweet. Sweet. Well I had another quick tip that came upon me yesterday. I was I needed to do something, but I was traveling in my insurance company I, I'm letting them monitor me for a couple of months, make sure I'm not using my phone while driving. And I'm like, okay, I can't make a even a hands free call dings ya. So you're like, uh what a what yeah. So yeah, which I think is Bravo Sierra, but you know is what it is. So but I'm like, uh oh, I know what I can do. And I said, Hey yes lady, remind me when I get home to create a note and make this phone call. And sure enough, with geofencing, I just wanted to remind folks that geofencing works with the S Lady. Hey, remind me when I get home to make this telephone call and to uh set up a note to put in a quick tip for this week. And it did. I like that. Yeah. I I do that . Man, without that , certainly um I have one more quick tip left uh uh in in this week's episode, and th that one it absolutely came from this. But it is the thing that I do when I'm driving around because that's when I don't know, for me, that's when my thoughts percolate, right? I think that's true for a lot of us. And so uh I'll I'll say, yeah, hey, S Lady, you know, uh remind me. And and what I say, I don't say I love your tip about remind me when I get home, but I I know that I will see my reminders list. So but what I have to do is I have to say remind me today or remind me tomorrow. Because if I don't add a qualifier, it becomes an undated reminder, which in my purview never shows up. Right. I in fact now I have a there's so there's geofence and time. Right. I have a recurring r reminder once a week that reminds me to check my undated reminders for anything that I d you know in the moment was just like, hey, remind me to do whatever. And it's like, oh crap, if I didn't say today, it's like Simon says, you know, it's very I wish I could tell it to always just default to today. It's totally fine. Uh you know, but alas, one might not get that. So uh yeah, good tips. I like it. Good stuff. Um I uh a question came up because somebody was looking at our our schedule at Mac ECUB.com slash calendar, which you can subscribe to and then you get to see when all our live streams are . And somebody was like, hey, uh looking at your schedule you know that there's a WWDC keynote on Monday the eighth, and normally you guys do a uh you know, immediately thereaf ter recording and uh with your reactions and I don't see that scheduled. And I love that y'all look out for us like this. However, uh, we were aware of this and uh we are not doing an immediate reaction. We will do a uh well digeste d thoughtful commentary on that which happened uh many days prior. Yes that leaves me out. Because of uh I mean it's my schedule primarily. We have I mean it's summer and there's all kinds of things with but I that is that is the week uh WWDC happens uh in between two far more important events in my household, which is the opening two nights of Rush's tour in Los An geles. Uh Rush is a band that's meant a lot to me for a long time and also means a lot to my son. So we are doing a father-son trip out. It also means a lot to my wife and daughter, too. My wife was a rush fan before we met, uh, which was an interesting thing. She had a quote from Rush's Something for N Nothing in Calligraphy on her wall. And when I went into her apartment for the first time, I was like, um, I thought you said you lived alone. Like it's what dude lives here. But anyway, uh we've all been rush fans. But Lucas and I are are doing a uh uh uh w what I call my I want a I don't want a Ferrari for my midlife crisis, I want a red barchetta trip. And uh because Red Barchetta is the name of a rush song. So we are we are heading out to do that and that's on the seventh and the ninth. So the eighth is unfortunately a day where I am unavailable to record. So we will be releasing an episode. An episode will come out that morning, long before Apple's keynote, recorded days before Apple's keynote, and then another episode will come out a week later. So there you go. Uh yep. Just how it's gonna be. Well, and I I also am gonna be uh hopefully seeing I think I'm gonna see Zoe maybe? Oh wow uh that week. Uh so I was also out of town for Nerd Tacular twenty twenty six in Utah. Love that. Is a big old nerd conference put on by the frog pants people, Scott Johnson and Brian Ibott will be there. So excited about that. That's great, man. I'm glad that you get to go to that. That's good. Yeah. It's just all the things. It's funny yeah, all the things. They always just happen at the same time. It's it's just how it goes. It's it's June. Um the quick tip that I mentioned uh asking the S lady to remind me about is I uh I I mentioned last week we we had a we we shared a little bit of love for Eufy a couple weeks ago and uh one of the things that I did with my Eufy robot mower was I basically wiped it clean and had it remap my entire yard. And I I think I mentioned that it got so much smarter over the years the last year that I've had it. And this was in anticipation of testing it against many other mowers and I wanted to get a good baseline or a reset baseline if you were buying one of these in 2026. And more to come on that for sure. There are currently three mowers battling it out in my yard and and about to be one or two more, so we'll have a lot to say on that uh and compare and contrast and and all of that. But it dawned on me that it had been many , many years since I had done the same thing with my robot vacuums . And your robot vacuums likely have gotten smarter year over ye ar, and you might not be taking advantage of that. I sure wasn't. Uh in addition to letting it remap, there's also all kinds of features that exist in my robot vacuum settings that did not exist the last time I looked in my robot vacuum settings. So I encourage us all to it if you don't reset your vacuum once a year, at least go in and review every single setting because you will find things that um that that might make a huge difference for you. I used to have to with my the vacuum that we have on the main floor, the S1 Pro , I had to uh push, you know, like configure each room differently because they all needed different things. And now it's just smart enough. It figures it out on the fly and actually does a better job than it was doing when I was granularly setting things. So take a look at that. 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Shall we move on to some reviews here, Adam? Sure. Am I I'm up first, right, with uh Jeff? Yeah. Yeah. Jeff has a five-star review says favorite podcast for when I'm mowing the lawn. Whether you are a new to or whether you you are new to Mac or a seasoned guru, the Mac Geek Gab will have something for you. Every level of geek will enjoy this show. The last few shows have been extra geeky, which I like . Awesome. Fantastic. We got another five star review, and that should be the minimum you aspire to put to uh our show, by the way. Uh five stars here. Love this show. It's on my weekly must listen list, and as they are constantly saying, I actually do learn at least five new things every week. The amazing little ticks, tricks, new tips, no ticks in summer. Trips and ticks. Tricks and tips. Okay. I I can read English, I promise. The amazing little tricks and tips they provide make working in an Apple environment so much easier. Even as a non power user like myself, you should definitely be listening to this podcast. Thank you, NYC Steph eighteen, for that great review. Woohoo. Thank you very much. And you can uh you can review the show by going to MacGeek .com slash review and it definitely makes a difference to have those out there. People uh people know people watch them and it it's it that's important. Yeah. Helps helps share the show. It does. Which is something else you can do. Tell a friend. Yeah, for sure . Absolutely. All right, some questions. Shall we Brian? I'll kick it off. Brian has a question. He says, I bought a lifetime plex pass years ago, but I've still got a lot to learn about Plex . Could you tell me if my Far Fung Far Flung that's a tongue twister far flung family members would need to get a paid Plex account So far I haven't found a clear answer, at least not clear enough for this newbie I grabbed that one out of the uh stack and the simple answer is no, Brian. Uh you have a Plex Pass, so your family members and friends do not need their own Plex Pass to watch stream videos from your server on their Apple TV or or whatever other client they may be using as a as a Plex client. Um I think Fire T V and all of them do Plex now. Even even iPhone or iPad.. Yeah There you go. Yeah. So uh however to download a video, and that's an option that uh you can do if you do have a Plex Pass. So if they wanted to download a video to watch for offline, uh they would need their own Plex Pass. Um and my sister in Texas, whom I mentioned earlier, watches content from my Plex server on a fairly regular basis. And boy, I don't recall putting this in there. Dave, did you put the chart in there and maybe we can link to it Yep. Of all the different things that you can do with Plex. And I think you've got an announcement about Plex coming up. Yeah. Yeah, Plex well, Plex made their own announcement, uh that that the the lifetime Plex pass is jumping to seven hundred and forty nine dollars and ninety nine cents US in a month on July first. You can buy it now for the exist ing pricing of uh let's see, I'm just confirming this lifetime two forty nine ninety nine. Um and I the I I I as understand it, kind of reading the tea leaves and and listening to the people that will talk, that they Plex does not l they've been trying to figure out where the lifetime pricing fits in to their business model and the answer is it doesn't. So uh they but they are they aren't I I'm surprised they're not just discontinuing it, right? Um but not for to sort of explain the whole the the whole picture as we know it, if you already have a lifetime Plex Pass or if you buy one at any point in the future at, 249 or 749 , nothing changes. They are not they are not discontinuing, certainly they're not discontinuing the PlexPass, the lifetime PlexPass as it as it is. They're also not even discontinuing the ability to buy it. They're just changing the price. But uh but they are you know like like we've seen from many software vendors, a lifetime pass is effectively a, you know, or a lifetime subscription is effectively a one-time purchase, right? And that doesn't keep the money flowing uh to keep development going and all that stuff. An annual Plex Pest just to kind of put it into perspective is sixty nine ninety nine. Even that I think that's actually what I paid for my lifetime years and years and years ago. Yeah. Yeah. But like I think seventy bucks a year is worth it for what Plex the utility that Plex brings me. I would I would happily pay that and I rec I would recommend anybody pay that. Um is it, you know, are you going to use it for eight years to pay seven fifty or sorry uh what eleven years? Just don't do public math. It's bad for your health. That would be eleven years. Public math. Yeah. So it'd be eleven years, right? To I don't know why I said eight. Uh but you know, would it be worth that? I I don't know, but for at two hundred fifty bucks, I think it's still a great deal. Um I I second that. Um it's still Test it out first. You can test Plex for free. Test it out. Make sure that it's going to work for you and then sign up. But you got a month left before the price jumps by another five hundred bucks. So um I'm twelve or fourteen years in and I would have considered it a good deal now uh to to be ahead of the game. But as you said, I I see why they're doing it. Yeah, they it uh it's a one time cash influx and now they're supporting you forever. Right. Right. Along the line. So I the hardware you that I that I'm using now is very different than the hardware that I used when I you, know , I started with my Plex Pass, my lifetime Plex Pass, and they've supported me all the way through. They've developed new things. It's like it's a completely different product now than it was then. So um I get why they like that the people that are developing it don't work for free. So they need to pay their employees, they need to, you know, do all that stuff. So that's it makes that two fifty look like a really good deal, Dave. It is. I I I still think it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yep. But you gotta quit. Yeah, that's right. So all right. Moving on. Oh, um, I think I was uh supposed to have Kirit's question up here. Let me grab that real quick. I can do it. That's all right. I think. Uh you know, as as long as I learn how to type and uh how best to manage uh a Mac dot com, me dot com and iCloud.com address. He says uh hello friends, I've been listening to both MacGeek Gab and MacCast for many years. After all this time, I feel like you're trusted friends and I can turn that I can turn to whenever I have a question. So here's one that has been puzzling me. As we all know, Apple originally gave us email addresses ending in at Mac .com, later transitioned to atme.com and eventually to at iCloud.com. We were told that all three addresses are interchangeable aliases and that emails sent to any of them ultimately reaches the same mailbox. That part works well. However over the years I've ended up using different versions of these addresses in different places. For example, my Apple account ID is associated with my at iCloud address , while some other services still use my at Mac dot com address. To make matters more confusing, they have the same di uh they have different passwords, seem to have different passwords. So every so often a device prompts me to enter a password and I end up with the wrong one, then I have to dig through the passwords app to figure out which password belongs to which address? Sometimes I even end up changing passwords just to get things working again in my passwords app as it shows this and he shows the screenshot from that. My question is this since these addresses all point to the same account, is there a way to make things consistent and use a single password for Mac , me, and iCloud? In other words, can they all be treated as the same identity so I don't have to keep track of multiple passwords? I'd appreciate any advice you can offer. Cure it. So I 'm I'm still I'm I'm confused on this. I didn't realize that you could have different passwords for these accounts, like as Apple IDs. You might be logged in to say Google with a Google ID that is your Apple email address, right? And and so therefore that would have its own password because that's a different account. But as far as I understood, all three of these were one Apple ID. I I may be wrong about this, but I and and part of the reason that I could be wrong about this is I have never changed from my using my Mac .com address. Like that's the first one that I got. That's the one that I started using. And yes, if you you know, if I were to give you my MAC.com add ress and you sent email to it at iCloud.com would it get to me? Sure, eventually. Yeah. I don't check my Mac.com email at all. Actually I guess I have it forwarded. But um I I I uh when I'm logging into Apple services , it is always Mac dot com. Uh and that helps that that has kept me sane. But yeah, Adam, do you uh have you do you have any experience with this? Does this does this pass the sniff test for you? Not with different not with different passwords , but I do know that I have different em ail addresses for different accounts. And that is true, but they all end up being the same password. And I have run into issues where I have strangeness if I'm using and it's it's mostly related to where the purchases are registered basically. Yep. So I was just looking, I just went into my Apple account and I went into media and purchases. So the media and purchases was where I get caught with this, but it's only with different emails. And I don't it's probably changeable. I've never tried it. I've just accepted that this is how it is. So for App Store, Books, and News, it's my at me.com. For music, podcasts, and TV, it's my at Mac .com because that's where I bought everything originally. Interesting. And then I shared that account with my wife for a long, long time. Sure. And then my Apple ID and iCloud, I switched over a long time ago to my a different iCloud.com account. So I actually have, and this might be part of it too. I have two accounts. Different account distinct two different Apple accounts. Yeah. And so those do have different different passwords now that I'm thinking about it because that's of course how I do security. Good idea. But but but yeah, that's the and I've never I've never tried to merge those because it just something that I worry about. It it's just like I probably could get all those purchases moved over to my iCloud. But and the only reason I had to do it was because when I was setting up was because my wife and I shared an Apple account with purchases for so so long. Yeah. And then I we wanted to do the family share accounts and stuff like that. So then I we need ed my wife and I needed separate accounts. We ran we ran into that too. Lisa's Lisa's account became the kind of family purchase account and then she had to she had to get a different one when you know when we got more than that, like calendar and you know, contacts and all that stuff. And I think they ultimately did merge the purchases, but they are still separate accounts for whatever reason, but it's only purchases versus Apple ID. Yeah. You know, like that kind of thing. And I think I still run into that too with uh with older like registrations, but it's all like products that I bought that their Apple Cares are long, long expired and I need to remove some of those things and do some cleanup. Outside of that, no . Um there was and you know we talked about some of the issues I've had with merging and all that stuff. So Yeah. Yeah, okay. All right. That th th that makes sense. I I think what Kira it it I I would love to hear more because we're making an assumption here that that where we're talking about different passwords is literally logging into non-Alepp services . But if you've got different passwords to log into the same Apple service, I would like to know which Apple service that is. Kiwi Graham in the Discord chat at MacGeekup.com slash chat or live.mac geek.com. Is it slash chat? Shoot, did I just make up another endpoint? Certainly MacGeek.com slash discord. Anyway, uh notes that the only exception to to this is if you create app speci fic passwords for things like you know, IMAP mail or things like that. Then you would have different passwords. But uh other than that, things should always the same. Yeah. Yeah. I I've had to do app specific passwords for things like Spark or Fantastic How or some of those other things. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. All right. Uh shall we move on? Pete Pete, I just um I just moved Brian's question out of the way. Oh. Uh but no, it's okay. It I put it back. I hopefully it didn't sink. But uh shall we go to Brian's question? I I think we have to now. Yeah. Which is okay. Yeah. Great. Oh, never mind. Sorry, Brian. Next week. Are you am I am I reading Brian's question for you? Is that my job? Brian asks, is there a way that a we talking about cables, USB cables specifically, is there a way that a prospective buyer can confirm that a uh charger is power delivery qualified? I'm thinking of the fake uh UL stamps mentioned in the discussion and all of that. How can I find out? Yeah, well as we all know, uh you know you can get a Louis Vuitton bag or a fake certification on a charger , those logos are actually a thing, and that's a they're actually a bad thing, I think. So um the the best practices we talked about on the show is to trust the established brands. All Alternatively, you can look for the real UL uh underwriters lab file numbers that are actually on that device and search it in their database, uh, but it quickly becomes a a time thing. How much are you saving in money against how much time are you spending looking through the UL database for the charger in question? But your question specifically was PD qualified. There is a web site, USB.org, run by the USB IF. That's the implementers forum. And they have a database of items certified within the last two years. I don't know what happens if they certified it two years and three months ago. I think it drops off their database. But uh that I can't find that answer to. But their searchable database is USB.org/slash products . If you uh then put in, say, you know, the charger that you're looking at, it will tell you when it was certified and meaning it was formally tested against the USB compliance standards. But note that the USB compliance standards are not necessarily an electrical safety certification. For that you still need the UL listing. Um and uh you can check the UL number off you know what's there, and if it's a bad if it's a fake UL listing, it ain't gonna show up. But if it's a good one, you should get the number from from UL. So uh the simple answer, go go to your established brands and best way. I I would add this with the numbers. Guess what? Numbers could also be faked, because if I can go to the database and pull a number, I can stick it on my product. So make sure the number matches, you know, the description and the product, the brand matches the number.. Yeah No one would ever do that. Oh no. They wouldn't do anything like that. But like what if what if one of the established brands sources their Their uh you know, guts for for lack of a better term, for their charger from you know Shenzhen Limited or whatever it is, right? And so now you're buying known brand.com's charger , but you look it up in the thing and it's, you know, Shenzhen Limited and it's like, well, do I trust this or not? They fake it or not. Probably you know, and that's why it's that's why I go back to known brand. Yeah, exactly. On the looking stuff up, Pete, though, the other thing I would say is this is the exact thing that I now use AI for. You don't have to go to all the databases and look it up. You just need to describe exactly what you want to your your uh favorite LLM and let it do the work. Let it do the legwork of looking and check in. the right Which would you actually I may have done with a certain box in my home, which we had kind of an offline discussion about. I won't go any further down that rabbit hole yet, because that's a future discussion. But uh uh yeah, I did that very thing to go, okay, am I safe with this thing? And it's like, yeah, that's you're okay with that for the most part. Yeah. We'll have more about that at a future time. There's a teaser, folks. Yeah. Tune in next week. Yeah. Wait, we have to do this again next week? Next time Special mech. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Um yeah, all right. Uh Adam, we had a cool stuff found that kind of fits in into this world here. Fits into this. This is specifically for cables. We were talking about cables in a previous episode and how do you know all the capabilities, what power delivery does it support, what standards is it supporting and stuff like that. And Tom sent us a link to the Treatyx USB cable tester with color screen. It's $49 U S. And it's just a little cable tester, and you can plug in your USB C Lightning micro US or micro B two point oh three point oh micro mini B uh USB cables and you can test them and then you can see what their data transmission standards comply to, uh, whether they're doing Thunderbolt three, four, or five, what the power delivery specs are, all that sort of stuff right there on the screen. I think it does a lot more. It does resistance testing. It's got a bunch of features. But basically, if you really want to know, uh you could plug this in and then I think we've talked about labels and stuff like that. Then you can you know, like label your c get little labels for your cables and you could probably spec them all out yourself if you want. Even shows, yeah, I think that's really cool. It shows like the pins and which pins are active and what's the grounding pin and what's the you know bus pin and power pins and all that stuff. Yeah. That's a pretty cool thing for fifty bucks. Huh . Yeah. As if I need another gadget. But you want to nerd out, clearly need another gadget. Yeah, exactly. I just I I trust , you know, OWC or somebody or or uh Acre to deal with that stuff and I'll take their word for it. Yeah, I I've been I've had really good luck with um aftermarket like not after market, third party off brand cables. Uh th that you know, I I buy all the USB four ones. They're not certified by USB, or of course not Thunderbolt certified, but they serve perfectly for both USB and Thunderbolt in every use case that I've tried. So and you know, you can get 'em for like a two foot cable or a uh a two meter cable rather, a six foot cable for I don't know, yeah, thirty bucks or something. So now you can validate 'em. And now I can validate that's true. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh . Um Mac paw, how how are you doing on time, Adam? I know you've got you've got a I'm gonna have to drop here, but I'll let you guys continue on if you're okay with that. Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Adam, don't get caught. That's right. Yeah. Later, man. Catch you guys later. Yeah. We'll see you next week, Adam. Bye bye. All right. Uh Mac Paw came out with um the the this um the this the series of apps that and I think the the series is going to continue to grow. They are single purpose apps where they can just roll them out and and they even say that , you know, uh agentic coding with AI makes it easy for them to develop and and package up these single purpose apps and they can try things. And you know, they'll put an app out and they say that they'll try it for a couple of months and after a couple of months they'll they're it's a public experiment. They're gonna share the results and whether or not the app survives to you know continue be to be updated or or does not But they've they've got a few coming out right away that are out now. Refolder, which is an automatic sorting solution that uh helps you clean up and organize your folders. So that fits into the conversation we were having earlier about your desktop pinch bar, which is a clipboard tool that allows users to copy, transform, and paste text all from one place without requiring any window switching. And a text-to-sepech app power ed um by uh the engine from Reese Beecher and more details coming soon. And of course, all of these apps are available on SetApp. But I I love the idea and them embracing this you know the the flexibility and this the development speed and the and the lack of development friction really is where it comes from is the right way to say it uh to encapsulate it that that agentic coding com Right. Where people instead of buying a subscription to the SAS app that kind of you know does w a subset of what you need and then lots more, but not quite the way you need it, a lot of companies now are just saying, Well, what if we you know, spend I don't know, five hundred bucks on on Claude Code tokens and have it build us the SaaS app that we really want. Right? You know, or or maybe less on Claude Code tokens. Like you know, I've got a hundred dollar a month Claude Max, the 5X plan, whatever it is, membership. Okay. And that I I have never hit a limit on that. I'm developing two iOS apps and I'm using it as my primary LLM. Uh I will say though that Claude Code is developing in Claude Code is slower than if I were to use like just time-wise, time from you know from beginning to end of any given job, is slower than if I were to use cursor, which is a development environment and just pointed at the same Claude model. Right. So I think Claude kind of I I don't want to say that without knowing, I don't want to say that they rate limit things, but they might. Like it sure seems that that's what's what's happening. But you know, a hundred bucks a month for slower speed versus a thousand bucks a project in clawed code tokens, or uh not clawed code Opus tokens, uh, you know, you pick. So could yeah. There'll never be any security issues there if you got people that don't know what they're doing with coding though. Like yours truly. Oh yeah, it's not it's not to a point where i it w right. It's not to that point. But if but if you take someone who does understand uh how to how to program and and that this these tools, any one of them, in in those hands, m it it mean to for me it feels like a superpower now because it's like I no longer hesitate when somebody says oh you should add this feature for example this week last week by the time this comes out uh one of our listeners said, Hey, there's some accessibility things. You guys are doing some accessibility stuff. You need more, and your labels aren't quite right, and you need to do this. And it was like, Okay, cool. So I literally took his email, I put it into Claude code and said, let's go. Like plan it out. And we planned it out, but it makes it so much more fun. Like I'm not just it's not it it's a collaborative process. It yes, it's collaborating with the machine, but like then the machine does the grunt work for you, right? So we went back and forth. It was like, Yeah, okay, this looks good. And then I I got to I got to kind of manage the process instead of having to do the grunt work on the process. Sure. And we pushed it out. We pushed out two updates, in fact, last week. So yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, um, and so I got a quick question on the Claude Code. I uh by the way, they do a monthly and a annual thing. So I I bought an annual and it turns out it's like sixteen dollars and change instead of twenty dollars a month. Okay. Comes to sixteen a month if you buy the annual. Yep. Um and uh uh the question I have basically is that you can't answer is am I going to run into upper limits on that thing ? A hundred percent You know, annual plan, yeah. You will. But cla Claude has had the I think has had or anthropic with Claude has had the right model from the beginning, which is like with um initial and and all the others have adopted this now, but initially th they were the only ones , uh where you can buy extra tokens uh in batches. Right. So if if I what I would recommend to everyone is start and and now you can do this with perplexity and Chat GPT and I think even Gemini. But start with the twenty dollar a month plan. There's no reason to just jump straight to the m unless you have a specific reason you know for a fact that yeah. Right. But otherwise start with the twenty dollar a month plan. Wait, if you hit a limit in that moment, you can just go and go buy fifty dollars worth of credits or or even twenty dollars, one month's worth of credits, right? And how quickly do you burn those up? If it takes you three months to burn up twenty dollars worth of credits for your overages, well, you're still saving money over the hundred dollars a month plan. So that that's how I would approach it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And those don't it sounds like those don't expire then too. I don't think they do. I have not seen them expire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Um but but yeah I mean maybe they you know maybe there's there's some limit. But it's it's not it's not a weeks long limit or or at least from what I've I've experienced a month. It's not like mobile data. Yeah, right. Which goes away quickly. Yeah, it's not use it or lose it right away anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it works out great. Okay. I mean I have some extra credits in my Claude account and a Kate they have five hour rolling limits, right? And and s and then a weekly window and all that stuff. And occasionally if I'm really diving in, I might hit my five hour limit. It takes a lot for me. But um but if I do, then it just, you know, you know, might it might chip a dollar and a half away or something. Like it's not a ton of money until you start doing things at scale. And then it's tons of money, which is also I mean, if you're if you're getting value out of it, then you're getting value out of it. So there you go. Yeah . Fantastic. Yipper. All right. We got time for yeah yeah. You mentioned something about you know the low friction environment. Uh I mentioned the low friction environment for my sister. And uh and I have a uh uh a cool stuff found here, which is the Logitech combo touch keyboard and case for the iPad Pro 13 inch, and it works for the M4 and the M5. Um, let me let me I know we're audio, but uh so I have the case here, it folds up, uh folds down , has a trackpad and a keyboard on it, which is wonderful. So hey hang on, put that back up and I'm gonna describe to people what they're not seeing. Um so the the keyboard and trackpad are on are part of the case, obviously. Same size as the iPad. hang on, hang on. And they fold up aga the keyboard is against the iPad. It looks very much like a laptop, and it has a kick stand that comes off the back. And then as Pete was gonna point out, go ahead. The keyboard magnetically separates from the iPad itself. There's three little contact points there which provide power to the keyboard. It is a backlit keyboard. Uh huh. Which is super nice. Wow. Yeah. And uh not inexpensive, right? Two hundred and sixty bucks I think. Right. It's a little it's a little less than uh Apple's Yeah, that's fair. Yep smart keyboard. But uh but yeah. Not inexpensive at all. And uh as I mentioned, the low friction environment um which which you can't see, but uh low friction. It was not enough friction to sit on top of my wife's car as she tried to drive off. And it hit the street at about I don't know, eight or ten miles an hour. Fun. Couched up the edges of the case, but it did its job. It protected the iPad one hundred percent. That's the one. And you know what? Now I've got a now I've got a uh uh uh stressed case. Looks great, lasts a long time . Well, okay . It still works perfectly. It protected the iPad and uh uh so yeah, uh two hundred and sixty dollar case uh gouged up on the edges and corners, but uh hey I'm I'm I'm thrilled with that it's in its job. That's why I put it in a case. Yeah exactly. Yeah well yeah exactly. And it and the case I mean even with the the little uh dings in it, the case is still fully functional for you, right? Yes absolutely there. And and the keyboard is fully functional and yeah. Yeah. No brakes. So I you know, I said it on my waist car and I said d do not forget that there, even though I knew she wasn't going out. Uh don't forget that there. And then I hopped in the truck to back it out so I could do something, and then I wound up just driving away. Yep. And then I called her, hey, go out in the garage and get that off at the top of your car. She goes, Well, I'm on my way to work. Uh oh. Yep. Yeah, the the the top of the car is I I mean, I like the don't get caught putting things storing things on the top of your car temporarily because it will be less uh temporary than you think. So even with the magnetic properties of this thing it was not holding on. It's never a good place to put in . Oh that was frustrating. Yeah. Yep. More I think more sunglasses and iPhones have been and coffees have been lost on the tops of cars than than anything else. So uh where are we on time? Yeah, I got I got one more. Um the we talked a couple of weeks, maybe more than a couple of weeks, a couple of months ago, about the command line utility mole m o L E you can install with homebrew brew uh install mole, and it is a great cleanup utility. I run it, you know, I've got I'm I am space challenged on my uh Mac here in the studio because it's uh it's only got a five twelve gig uh internal drive. It was the it was the machine that was a vailable the day that I needed a computer after that lightning strike a few years ago. So it is what I have. And I can live with it. But cleaning up caches and doing all those things is a very important for me and mole uh has always done that. Well, now even if you don't want to use the terminal, you can get mole for the desktop. They built a GUI app at mole.fit and we will put a link in the show notes but it does all the same things wrapped in a nice little GUI uh and it's nine bucks US to buy it and then you just you get it and you can have it do the scans and you know, uh clean up apps and do all the things and it it really is a nice uh nice little app cleaner kind of thing. So uh just wanted to share that because I I I still like it is probably weekly that I am using mole from the command line on this machine primarily. But uh yeah. In fact I used it I used it on my wife's computer yesterday because she she said to me, she's like, hey, yeah, look, it's not an emergency , but I just need you to know, like, as we're making dinner, I'm starting to get warnings on my computer about uh running out of space. And I'm like, if you are starting to get warnings, that's usually an emergency . Like I know how this goes. And so I go to her computer and I do. I see a warning on it that says there's not enough space to download your mail. So mail's now going to quit. And I'm thinking, how is this not an emergency? But you know, uh we fixed it. We it a a Mac OS update had downloaded and chewed up a bunch of like space and then everything else. It was a cascade of things. But now we did the map we did the update, we cleaned it out with mole first and got things kind of cleaned up, but now I need to go and and really look at what's using space on her computer. So that's what I got. Yep. Um yeah . That's uh that's it. Right? We're we're done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's always more. But that's why we'll do another show next week. Yeah, we'll be here. With bells on. Yes. We will be here. All right. Uh yeah, thanks for hanging out, everybody. Thanks for sending in all your cool stuff found and quick tips and questions to feedback at MacGeekup.com. It really makes a huge difference being able to do this show together every week. We love it. And uh thank you for thanks for listening. Thanks for being a part of the MacGe Cab community. Uh thanks to Cashfly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you . Make sure if you're if you're feeling like you didn't quite get enough Adam, go check out his debut film podcast that he does with his daughter. Check out Pete's So There I Was that he does with Fig and their guests. And check out Business Brain and Gig Gab, the other two podcasts that I do with other people. Sometimes interesting people. Actually they're always interesting people. Oh yeah. Hey if you're in eastern North Carolina this week, this is this show comes out the June first . Come come see us over at Cherry Point in Moorhead City. I'm gonna be there. Sweet. Yeah. Fun. Closing down the area. Oh yeah, that's right. That's right. All right. Well, uh, have fun out there, Pete. Make sure that uh that you don't do anything I wouldn't do. And uh I know that's a low bar, so why don't I why don't I change uh it and and just say um don't get caught Maybe. Thanks for hanging out, folks. See ya