There’s No Two Hands About It – Mac Geek Gab 1148 episode image

Mac Geek Gab 1148 hands you a fresh stack of Quick Tips you’ll actually use. You’ll find out how Mark recovered every one of his accidentally deleted iMessages with Control-Command-4 (or the Recently Deleted view), undo a botched Finder rename with a casual Command-Z, and automate Theater Mode on your Apple Watch so it goes dim and quiet at night without Sleep Focus. You’ll pick up several ways to email a Safari webpage or just its link, learn to strip out distracting page clutter before you share, and finally understand why Apple Music can hijack your Mac’s default speaker output. Then you’ll hear why speakers deserve real thought before you buy a Mac mini, how to coax a stubborn Time Machine disk into ejecting cleanly, and a low-tech trick for AirTags too slippery to grip at battery-change time.

When Doug’s M4 Pro MacBook Pro started beach balling and pausing apps from low memory, you’ll get the full playbook for clawing back storage, from spotting the culprits in your menu bar to pruning Downloads and clearing out bloated Messages and Apple media. You’ll walk through Adam’s step-by-step approach to slimming down iMessage storage, learn how to stop copying and pasting invisible white-on-white text that haunts Contacts and email, and speed up a sluggish macOS Contacts app with a clean iCloud re-sync. Keep these moves in your back pocket and don’t get caught with a full drive and a spinning beach ball.

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1148 for Monday, June 29th, 2026
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Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 Mark-QT-You can recover recently deleted iMessages ^Cmd-4 (not 5)
- 00:03:45 Scott-QT-Cmd-Z works to undo Finder Renames, too!
- 00:05:06 Larry-QT-Automate Theater Mode on Apple Watch
- 00:06:36 Hans-QT-Email a Safari Webpage to Someone
- 00:08:17 Russ-QT-Apple Music can override the Mac’s default speaker output
  - Volumio
- 00:11:42 Adam-QT-More on Cmd-I (and Cmd-Shift-I) in Safari to mail a webpage (or the link)
  - Likely based upon the web page’s print.css
  - Also File – Export as PDF
- 00:17:39 Safari – Hide Distracting Items
  - The (no-longer-actively-developed) Printliminator
- 00:21:33 Doug-QT-Think about speakers when buying a Mac mini
  - Insta360 Link 2 Pro
- 00:28:02 Bill-QT-Try Jettison, Mole, and more to eject resistant volumes
- 00:30:36 Dom-QT-Use tape or thimbles for slippery AirTags
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:36:49 Doug-Beach balling apps made me realize I ran out of storage…what do I do?
  - iStat Menus to see free disk space in my menubar
  - How to free up space on your Mac
  - Run mole…regularly!
  - Hazel to keep your downloads folder pruned
  - Run CleanMyMac – Space Lens, especially
  - Clear out your Apple media
  - Manage your Email attachments
  - Clean out Messages
  - CCleaner
  - Clean up local snapshots
00:50:51 Adam’s process for cleaning up iMessage storage use
00:56:21 Steven-How can I avoid pasting white text on a white background on my iPhone?
01:02:55 Mark-Speed up macOS Contacts with an iCloud re-sync
- ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/<UUID>/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
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