470: Beans In The Buckets

Topics:

-Sam finds some Monterey changes difficult on his quest to be more efficient.

-Jerry uses Daylite exclusively for Reminders.

-Joe likes the Things app

-Intermittently. Sam’s reminders would stop appearing on his Mac. A setting in Notifications & Focus

-Back in his teens, Sam recalls the time he started up his own “reminder service”.

-Joe was using Terminal tools like ioreg to detect things like if a Mac is in clamshell mode.

-Poor care for laptops leads to screen or hinge breaks.

-Troubleshooting Magic Keyboard issues led to a simple upgrade being required.

-Sam is learning a lot more about Google Workspace and its MDM restrictions.

-Jerry poses the question about what cloud services to recommend to small clients.

-During a 1Password migration for his family, Sam moved a little too fast and deleted his wife’s private vault.

-Safari is causing Sam some greif and Jerry has advice.

-Private Relay and Addigy Live Desktop don’t play nice together in Joe’s experiment.

-confusion ensues for how and where to disable these privacy features.

-One of Jerry’s clients compares him to their “technical guys” at work.

460: My Stupidity Makes You Smarter

Topics:

-Sam’s daughter lost her wallet but there was no AirTag or Tile used. 

-Joe talks about Chipolo, a third party vendor that works with the FindMy infrastructure. 

-Sam has a gripe about people that can’t read through an entire email. 

-One of Joe’s clients had a display issue that seemed to persist after a restart. 

-Jerry’s client insists on a visit for something that could have been done remotely. 

-Sam had to coach a fellow consultant on billing what he was worth. 

-Joe tests our knowledge of how to restart HomePod. 

-In this week’s episode of “I should have known this”, Joe talks about a Synology searching issue. 

-Jerry has a mother of “I should have known this” with a Ubiquiti update story. Enter cached updates. 

-Joe insists the Apple Studio Display should have built in Apple TV capabilities or, at least Airplay. Jerry is having none of it. 

4XX: 2021 Holiday Wish

439: Managed Services discussion with Luis Giraldo

430: Living & Dying By The Sword

Topics:

Sam struggles with an email migration going from Microsoft 365 hosted by Go Daddy to a straight Microsoft 365 tenant. 
-Somehow Sam didn’t lose financially on this extended amount of time. 
-Jerry discovered an issue importing an Outlook PST file. 
-New Outlook is a “dumpster fire of a product”. 
-Joe talks about a method of getting Facebook support by way of buying an Oculus. 
-Music Match causes some confusion for a client of Jerry’s. 
-Sam’s worst nightmare seems to come true with Harmonizely. 
-The Harmonizely incident spawns a bigger discussion about being up front about billing for meetings. 
-Jerry misses an opportunity for a snappy comeback. 
-A client of Jerry’s unplugs his wireless antenna with surprising results. 

427: Guest Host - Tim Pearson of CreativeTechs

Topics:

• This week we welcome long time supporter of the show, Tim Pearson of Creative Techs.

• Tim joins us as a co-host.

• He talks about traveling on the ferry to do onsite work.

• The group discusses the wildfires out west.

• Tim shares a story about the time he made a mistake of wearing a Star Wars shirt, causing his meeting to go way overtime.

• The group helps Tim with approaching a mistake he made in his business.

• Jerry’s talks about the “Screwdriver Effect”

• Getting fired by a client is a great opportunity to take another look at how you do things.

• Everyone discusses MSP and contracts with clients.

• How are the group members finding new work throughout the pandemic?

• Sam explains how he started getting referrals from the Apple stores.

• The group talks about the Apple Consultants Network program and its benefits.

• What is everyone seeing regarding to employees coming back to the offices?

• Some people work better in offices and some at home.

• Do you have employees or paid friends?