Jan 22, 2019
A weekly Podcast where Apple Certified Consultants look at the
Mac Tech industry. Lively discussion about working with Macs and
IOS devices. Joe Saponare, Sam Valencia, Jerry Zigmont share their
“real world” experiences about IT support.
Topics:
-Jerry gets beat up on social media for his browsing habits
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-Sam had to turn his back on his Mac recently because his 2016
MacBook Pro had to be sent in for repair under the keyboard repair
program. He reported very positive results overall. A
couple of things he missed were related to not syncing Desktop &
Documents to iCloud and some websites not displaying as expected in
iOS.
-Inevitably, the conversation steers towards Joe’s “janky” 15”
MacBook Pro and the built-in cooling vent. He also talks
about the repair performed in office, thanks to tools and guides
from iFixIt.
-Jerry comes up with a new Command Control Power drinking
game
-Joe specced a new MacBook Air for a client, who had almost
500GB of data. On the MacBook Air, this necessitates a $1000
upgrade to 1.5TB SSD. For comparison, he specced a MacBook Pro
13-inch Touch Bar & Touch ID with 1TB SSD (16GB memory in both) and
found that the price was exactly the same: $2599. The MacBook Pro
has the Touch Bar and much better performance, but for the same
price the MacBook Air has better battery life and portability, more
storage as configured and no Touch Bar which might be benefit to
some people. So it comes down to trade-offs. See
Gruber's
take and the
video comparison he
linked to by Quinn Nelson
-Joe’s tip of the week: earn Apple Gift Cards on the
Barclaycard Visa® Signature with Apple Rewards. 3 points per dollar
on all purchases made at Apple or iTunes, 2 points per dollar on
restaurant purchases, and 1 point per dollar on all other
purchases
-
Hazel by
Noodlesoft is a product
recommended by Jerry to create rules for folders. For
instance, Jerry has a folder on his Desktop of his Mac that can do
OCR, specifically with PDFs. He uses that along with PDF Pro
from Smile Software.
-Joe gets giddy when talking about Automator and AppleScript.
He talks up using AppleScript to manage his status board at
his office, where he posts photos of his adventures with Ashleigh.
Jerry is concerned about how his staff reacts to Joe living
the high life while they are at work.
-Joe revisits his clients issue with the
Share
menu on an iMac Pro: the Share menu would appear, but it would
be frozen, and the only way to dismiss would be to quit the app in
question. At long last, the problem is solved. Joe shares the
exciting conclusion.
-Joe shares the solution to his longtime issue logging into
sites with untrusted self-signed certificates. The message would
show "This Connection Is Not Private" and you could click Show
Details, then click Visit this Website, which would prompt for the
login password. However, then it tries to reload the page and the
same thing happens (This Connection Is Not Private...). Solution:
use Private Browsing. This seems to solve the issue in the future,
even when visiting a site in a normal browsing session i.e. without
Private Browsing.
-Not to bring the show down, Sam shares two stories of how his
company and two separate clients parted ways. Both for
different reasons but it led to a rough start to 2019. The
team discusses the breakups and the benefit of ridding yourself of
bad relationships before they bring you further down.