Hands-On Mac explores and explains the Mac — and beyond! From clever Terminal commands to little-known iOS settings, Mikah Sargent shares all the best tips and tricks for your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. You'll get all the details on Apple's apps and the best apps in the App Store, you'll learn about awesome accessories for your Apple devices, and you'll explore updates to Apple's operating systems — including iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Hands-On Mac is your one-stop shop for Ap ...
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The tech-nomadic video blog from Eklektro / SolarSonic, since 2002. Whether breaking beats via electrified RV, streaming solar-sonic jams orbiting LA with a webcam, or space-walking the world with a loaded Mac in the backpack; Eklektro and friends deliver cyber-rhythmic spontaneity from the streets, wilderness and cultural coordinates of cyberspace! From the urban jungle to the Amazon; Eklektro is eclectic electronics... everywhere!
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Apple just announced a new place to find and listen to your podcasts: Apple Podcasts on the Web. Mikah Sargent walks you through the new site, showing you how to play and follow podcasts just like you would in the Apple Podcasts app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Apple Podcasts on the web - Apple Podcasts for Creators - https://podcasters.apple.com/su…
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HOM 145: Audit Your App Subscriptions on iPhone
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If you hate getting charged for in-app subscriptions that you're no longer using, you need to audit your subscription list. Mikah Sargent walks you through the process of viewing, managing, and canceling your app subscriptions all from your iPhone's Settings app. View or cancel app subscriptions on iPhone - https://support.apple.com/en-vn/guide/iph…
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On Hands-On Mac, Mikah demonstrates Mic Modes in macOS from his new recording room! These audio options are available during a user's video call (such as on Google Meet or FaceTime. The modes Mikah details include Standard, Voice Isolation, and Wide Spectrum. Host: Mikah Sargent Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a memb…
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In the latest beta of iOS 18, Apple has introduced the first Apple Intelligence features. Mikah Sargent demonstrates Apple's new Writing Tools, Siri's new look and some of its capabilities, Safari's summarization, and more. Apple Intelligence Preview - Apple - https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/ Host: Mikah Sargent Want access to the video ve…
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When macOS Sequoia ships this fall, you'll be able to mirror — and control — your iPhone on your Mac. Now that the public beta of macOS Sequoia has shipped, Mikah Sargent shows you how to set up and use iPhone Mirroring on your Mac. Host: Mikah Sargent Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! http…
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HOM 141: How To Join the Apple Public Beta Program
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If you'd like to try out iOS & iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and more, you'll need to join the Apple Public Beta Program. Mikah Sargent shows you how to sign up for the Apple Beta Software Program, install public beta software, and — if you choose — unenroll from the program. Apple Beta Software Program - https://beta.apple.com Host: Mikah Sargent Want…
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You can join Apple's Developer program without needing to pay the annual account fee. Save for app distribution, a free Apple Developer account gives you access to the company's documentation, video resources, and beta software. Apple Developer - https://developer.apple.com Host: Mikah Sargent Want access to the video version and exclusive features…
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HOM 139: Customize Your iPhone Action Button
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Discover the hidden potential of the iPhone 15 Pro's Action Button! Join Mikah Sargent as he reveals how to customize this versatile feature, from launching the camera and setting Focus Modes to activating accessibility tools and running personalized Shortcuts. Unlock new ways to make your iPhone work smarter for you in this detailed walkthrough. U…
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Apple announced quite a few new features coming to its platforms in the Fall. Mikah Sargent shares the features exclusive to macOS Sequoia, including iPhone Mirroring, window tiling, background replacements, and more. macOS Sequoia Preview - https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/ Host: Mikah Sargent Want access to the video version and …
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In this episode of Hands-On Mac, Mikah Sargent tackles the challenge of preventing your Mac from falling asleep during critical tasks. He begins by introducing the built-in "caffeinate" command in macOS, providing a step-by-step guide on how to use it to keep your Mac awake. Mikah explains the limitations of "caffeinate," such as its inconsistent p…
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"Yahh-hoooo!" screams the ecstatic Thai guy as the beat kicks back in. Its 9am on the island of Koh Pha Ngan, and the temperature on the dancefloor is 85 degrees and climbing. The party's been going over 10 hours non-stop, with the crowd turning over in shifts... running back to their bungalows to take a break, or to wake up friends and drag them b…
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"And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile".... The Talking Heads prophesized, and i complied, with a giant leap into tech-nomadic living: breaking up the band, getting a warehouse, cramming on computer music, then stuffing the studio in the back of a motorhome and finally hitting the road! 10 Years of Eklektro is the slidesh…
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Off the Road: Reflections of a Tech-Nomad (and $4/gasoline) It was love at first flight. After packing all my belongings and moving my music studio into a re-designed retro RV, it only took the first hundred miles of highway to have me hooked. As I crossed the Massachusetts state line in the snow, leaving behind all semblance of "home", all i could…
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Eklektro Retro: Footage from 1999 and misc pre-millenium festivities, set to the Eklektro track entitled "Time Machine" and mashed up with musings by the character Miller from the 1983 film, Repo Man (also set in LA). And the moral of this story: RVs = flying saucers = Time Machines. Time flies... when you live in a time machine!…
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astrologers have many things to say about the phase called "mercury in retrograde", during which they claim communications scramble and technologies falter. add to the mix the meteorological phenomena of hot dry santa ana winds in southern california and you've got a rare recipe for disaster; wildfires and fall-out from malibu to the mexican border…
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(click on this pic for sample of video breakbeat) What is mobile video breakbeat? Using music software in unconventional ways, triggering VIDEO clips from a Korg PadKontrol MIDI drum-pad (demo forthcoming); i now PLAY visuals rather than pain-stakingly "edit" them; and so i've started to rhythmically re-assemble 7 years of nomadic RV dreams (fueled…
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This is the part II clip from back in '05, the trip where my camera died. Finally edited and uploaded... For part one, scroll down to Feb 2006 and watch the Thai intro bit first... the train to the bus to the boat to the bus to the pick-up truck! All this with gigantic back-packs full of studio gear... techno-travel!…
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a sunny simple start to a New Year, shot with my cellphone! here's my friend Angelo hooping to some techno-trance at the Green Sector party, in the mountains 25 miles north of LA Happy '007!By EKG
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Something to groove to over your Monday morning coffee... While setting up the Silver Lake Studio, I uncovered some DAT tapes dating back about 10 years to the infancy of Eklektro: born of one particular warehouse party we threw in the frosty boston winter of '97, with the "eclectic-electronic" concept further developed via our renegade (and often …
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Continuing upon this pre-Eklektro AV archive trip-through-history, for Nov 1st... "All Saints Day" here's a heavy-duty death-defying track... befitting for the day after Halloween, when all spirits are redeemed... ahh ha ha!! (OK, maybe that's a stretch)... Electric Angel Fixion, 1995 yes, in my pre-techno days, we were Nine Inch Nails wanna-be's..…
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OK, searching my AV archives for something scary, I had to dig deep for this one... going back 11 years to my pre-nomadic life in the Boston warehouse studio, and the techno-industrial band I was fronting, called Fixion. Here's the B-side of our demo, and the track called Empty, and yes, you heard it right, the first lyrics are "When I am dead..." …
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blog post #50 is an audio podcast, off-the-cuff and absolutely unedited, intended for playback at your leisure, on your ipod and/or while sitting in traffic... This 'Breakbeat of the Week' audio episode rambles... brainstorming out-loud as befitting of real-time, may sound like a sermon at times, but its only some utopian words off the top of one's…
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For those who appreciate their freedom... Happy Independence Day!By EKG
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