It's time for Mac Geek Cab, and I'll bring us our quick tip of the week because
I noticed that Google announced that you can now change your Gmail slash Google username.
Of course, you have to be able to change it to something that's available.
So you can't change it to something someone else has.
But if you've been having like, you know, skater rat forever as your Gmail name
and you want to change it to say something boring like, you know, Dave at Gmail dot com.
You are allowed to do that as long as no one else has Dave at Gmail dot com,
which it turns out somebody does.
But I bet you can find something. we will link to how you do this and your old
email address becomes an alias to you so you won't lose the emails that are
being sent to you more quick tips like this plus your questions answered today
on MacGeekUp 1136 for Monday,
April 6th New Beers Eve,
2026 Welcome back Oh, wrong?
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now here in the month and happy 50th birthday apple I'm Dave Hamilton here in Durham.
New Hampshire and here in South Dakota I'm Adam Christensen
And here also in New Hampshire, where it's cold out there this morning, it's Pilot Pete.
Good morning, everybody. Or good afternoon or good evening, depending on when
you're listening to this.
Yeah.
I want to cover all the goods.
That's right. Yeah, we had a little bit of snow here on Thursday,
April 2nd here in New Hampshire this morning.
There was ice all over my patio furniture this morning when I went out to pull
it in out of the rain. I'm like, ooh.
Yeah.
Yeah. Not good.
We're supposed to get a little, but it hasn't really showed up yet.
There was a little bit of, I think they call it grapple. That was a new thing for me.
Do you guys know about grapple?
I don't know about grapple. What's grapple, Adam?
I don't know what grapple is, but.
So it's, okay. It's not quite snow, but it's not quite hail.
It's like little tiny balls of ice, but it's like white. that's
What we had this morning.
Yeah grapple i guess they call
it grapple here i don't know grapple g-r-a-p-p-l-e i think so yeah okay
Grappling with the weather i like it okay there you go um.
I don't know if that's purely a midwest thing there's a lot of like purely midwest
terms that i've learned since moving here sure yeah
Of course yeah makes sense huh interesting fun,
Grapple and ranch dressing. Those are the staples.
On everything.
Staples of Midwest living, as I've learned.
And that's our first learn new thing. Well, second actually,
because you're quick to.
Yeah, back to our first learn new thing in macgeekup.com slash discord in the live stream.
Kiwi Graham, who lives down in Australia, I believe, notes that this Gmail address
change is U.S. only. for the moment.
So thank you for sharing that to Kiwi.
Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
So just, just so everybody is aware, if you don't see it, there's,
we've got a link in the show notes as always, but, um, but you know,
yeah, it, it, and it does note that it is us only.
So. Oh, interesting. Yep. I've got to go look at that.
So I was looking at it. I thought when I first read about the quick tip and
looked in, I said, well, you can change the username that shows up,
but that's not the same thing.
Um, yeah, yeah,
Good for them.
Well, should we move on to another quick tip?
I love it.
All right. I will make it so at this time, cause Todd wrote in and,
um, there's a secret two for in here.
This is the cool thing, but he writes in, he says, I use Apple notes extensively,
22 folders, lots of tags, lots of notes.
I had emailed in last year with a link to a webpage, explaining how to dig into
the library folder to back up Apple notes files. I did not create those instructions,
he says, but I've been hearing a lot of good things about Bear.
So I looked into how one would migrate Apple Notes to Bear.
They have a support page for that, and we'll put that link in the show notes.
Turns out in Mac OS 26, and iOS 26 does as well with some limitations,
Apple added the ability to select multiple notes and export them as markdown files.
It also exports images in the notes, yet another way to not get caught. Cheers, Todd.
And the twofer in that is kind of a cool stuff found. Bear markdown notes.
Bear is in the animal, B-E-A-R.
Yeah.
Love that. It was great. I used it for a long, long time and then finally standardized
on Ulysses, but Bear was great.
Cool. And I want to give a shout out to, well,
Alison Sheridan, of course, is always involved in these kinds of shenanigans,
but Edward Tobias, who has put together a way that we might be able to use Obsidian
as our Mac Geek Gab sort of workflow.
And it all came in while I was at South by Southwest, and so I have not dug
into it yet, but I will because I'm eager to see if there's something better
than Apple Notes out there. So thank you, Ed. Much appreciated.
While we're on the subject of notes apps. Yeah. All right. Shall we move on
to the next quick tip here?
Yeah. I think this is a little bit of a follow-up to, I was talking about,
we were talking about my scratched iPhone screen.
And then I mentioned, I probably should be doing screen protectors.
And then I think we got to a conversation about installing them.
So we got a little quick tip and follow-up from Cliff.
Feedback on the comment about glass screen protectors. I agree with you, Dave.
I always use one. However, I do not use the cheap ones that do not come with a positioning frame.
My favorite is the, I never know how to pronounce this, Spigen or Spigen.
I think Spigen is the right way.
So my favorite is Spigen or Spigen and the copycats, which have the glass pre-mounted
in a frame, which forces alignment and attachment from the center out.
The perfect install every time is worth the extra money.
But one other quick tip about the dust, because we mentioned getting dust under
there is like, that's how you get dust and hair or whatever.
He says install watch or iPhone screen protectors in a steamy bathroom after a shower.
The reason is the humidity captures and eliminates the dust issue brilliant
huh so that's from cliff that's
That makes perfect sense yeah huh interesting interesting yeah.
And I think moisture also helps with the alignment, right? A little bit of,
I always see people when they apply those things.
There were some, some of them that even you use like a little bit of soapy water or something like that.
And then you can kind of still move them and then you kind of squeegee out the water from underneath.
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen that technique.
I don't know.
Kiwi Graham was asking about moisture on the screen. No, I stepped on you.
You don't have to apologize to me.
But yeah, it will squeegee out pretty quickly because I've done that with,
you know, where I've had some moisture left on the screen from exactly what
you're talking about with the spray and you can just squeegee it out.
It's not really an issue.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Yeah. And in order to be pedantic, AI says it's pronounced Spigen.
All right. Spigen.
As in speed and began. Spigen. Yeah. Spigen.
Sounds good.
Right. Because I had nothing else to do when you guys were chatting.
No that's what we.
Do here yeah yeah yeah um i mean is that is that german is that german i was
assuming it was german sure
Sounds german yeah.
Which is i have to throw it in here then since you said that my friend from
germany always said hagen das i'm like i thought it was hagen das she goes no no it's hagen das okay
Okay yeah that makes sense,
Chris has our next quick tip, which is a, well, it's two ways of connecting
more reliably to network shares on startup.
And Chris shares a video to Morgana's Apple script.
Morgana is a woman that does YouTube videos, like how to tech tip videos.
And she talks very, very quickly, talks faster than me, which I love.
And she gets right to the point, which I will. So there's two methods in this
video that we've linked in the show notes.
Number one is that once you've manually mounted your shares and you have them
there on your, you know, mounted and ready to go on your Mac,
you open system settings, you get to login items, which it's easier just to
search for it instead of trying to dig for where it is.
And then go to the open at login window or pane, I should say there.
And you can drag your shares into that
open at login window and then it will open
those shares at login when you are mounting your
shares to get to this point make sure
you check that box that says uh store
my password in my keychain otherwise it's going to be asking you for
your password every single time that your mac starts up which
you may want but uh but choose that
box wisely and then method number two
and this is where the link to morganod's youtube
video will come in very handy is uh
she's created an apple script uh or you
can create your own after watching the video it's like a four line apple five
line i guess apple script and then uh you in that script if you if you take
hers you just edit in the address of your uh shares that you want to add and
then you can save it as an AppleScript application
and you can put that into login items and it starts up.
I will add to this, and this is a great tip, and it is the, I've always done method number two.
I don't know about always, but method number two is the reliable one for me. I use an Apple script.
But I also leverage Keyboard Maestro.
And Keyboard Maestro watches to see if a volume has gone offline,
and if it has, then it runs that same Apple script to bring it back online so that it persists.
And this came up in our discord because
someone i forget who and maybe it was chris actually it
was it was chris powers in in our discord who
answered his own question eventually he
was having trouble with getting auto mounter to be an auto mounter app which
is not great and stumbled onto these solutions too but if you use keyboard maestro
then that will complete the circle and things will just stay mounted for the
most part. So there you go.
That's what I have this time.
Where are we here? All right, 12 minutes. Good. We're cranking through these guys.
Yeah. Truly quick tips.
Any thoughts on that, Adam? Do you have your own way of mounting startup shares
or network shares on startup?
No, I mean, either of those tips. I've typically recommended to most people
just the login items one because I think it's simple for people to set up.
Yes.
Yeah, and you're not messing with Apple Scripts. Because I think with the Apple
Script, also you got to go find your volume path, yep which i'm sure the video
probably tells you exactly how to do it's not hard but again for
um you know the average person it's like hey just mount the share like you normally
would in the finder and drag it in here you know
Yep yep no you are you are 100
right that the video walks you through finding or
capturing that network share yep which you which is easy enough to do you go
to the get info window in the finder once you've mounted the share and and just
literally copy it from there that's the that's the tip but but it's there in
the video and it's great yeah all right should we uh should we jump to some questions,
apps so smurfly all right well you've all been listening to us speak for uh
12 minutes 13 minutes so let's listen to greg speak and see what his question is.
I think. So I say. I got a geek challenge for you.
I wear a glucose sensor. And so every 10 days, I have to put a new sensor on
my arm that an app or my iPhone can get a reading every five minutes of my blood glucose levels.
Well, this is all fine and good. But now I've been using this for a couple of years.
So in my Bluetooth listings or my settings on my iPhone, I've got this incredibly
long list of items that are sensors I've taken off and thrown away and are never going to use again.
Is there a way with shortcuts or something that I could automatically,
maybe once a week or so, have the oldest dozen of these taken off?
They all follow a similar format. I think they all start with M and are about
five or six letters and numbers.
But I was just wondering if there was some way I could automate this just to
reduce the clutter in my Bluetooth listings on my iPhone.
This is Greg in North Carolina. Thanks a bunch, guys. Really love the show.
Well, before I share my answer, Adam or Pete, do you have an answer for Greg? It is a geek challenge.
Get a new phone.
No, it'll probably transfer over from his backups, so that won't work.
It won't, but yeah, no, it won't. Adam, do you have any thoughts?
No, I mean, I don't even know.
I mean, I have to go do research. Sure. I haven't done it. So if I would think
his thoughts are correct, like, could you write a shortcut?
I don't know if there's a shortcut action to add. I think that probably is for
adding Bluetooth devices or removing Bluetooth. I don't know.
That's where I would look.
Yeah. There's not, at least in current versions or past versions of iOS,
there's no, like, go into edit mode and bulk select and remove.
So there's the manual way. um yeah
so there's that the manual way
where you tap each eye and like forget and you know yada yada yada go through
it the other way though and this comes with a huge caveat which we will explain
but um the other way is if you go to settings general transfer or reset iphone reset,
and then finally get to the reset network settings option.
That will wipe out all of your Bluetooth pairings and your saved Wi-Fi networks.
Yeah.
So you get this at the cost of losing your Wi-Fi networks. Now,
There is a way to preserve your Wi-Fi networks.
The trick is to, well, if you have iCloud Keychain turned on,
your Wi-Fi networks are synced amongst all of your devices.
The problem if you do this reset network settings, at least in my experience,
is if you have iCloud Keychain syncing enabled and you reset network settings,
that change gets pushed up to iCloud, meaning all of your devices lose access
or lose their memory of Wi-Fi networks.
If you turn off iCloud Keychain and then do this reset network settings and
then turn iCloud Keychain back on, it will sync those back down to your Mac.
In my experience.
Now, I'm sure there's a way to do it where you wind up wiping out everything
in iCloud Keychain again still because syncing is hard and inconsistent,
but that would be my way of doing it.
But then you're going to lose all your Bluetooth devices, not just the ones
you want to lose. So that might also be a problem.
Yeah, that's that's what I got on this. And I don't think there's third parties
can't manipulate your Bluetooth can't remove things from your Bluetooth device list. I don't think.
Oh, yeah.
Right. Could there be an app that does this?
That's what I was just checking. So I had an app for a little while that I got
from set up called Tooth Fairy. that's a third-party app for managing.
It puts a little thing in your menu bar
for connecting and disconnecting devices and stuff like that.
And I noticed it has that sort of interface in the screenshots where you have
a list on the left that shows your Bluetooth devices with the plus and minus
for adding and removing.
And so in theory, at least I would think if all your devices were in there you
could go in and do the multiple select which you can't do with i don't think apple's interface
Right but i think you're right on the mac you might be able to do this this
is on his iphone because that's right those things are paired to his phone and
bluetooth devices don't sync amongst your apple devices that's not there that
there's a that's a small white lie but um some of them and.
Even in the tooth fairy situation i just installed it real quick,
and it wants me to find and add my devices to Tooth Fairy.
So I don't even know if that's a manual process. It might not even work either.
Okay.
Yeah, it may just be worth spending 10 minutes and I forget. I forget.
Yep. And I mean, if you do it, the first wave of this is going to suck.
Right. But but you don't have to do it all at the same time.
You can go do, you know, five or six of them while you're waiting on the bus.
And then, you know, another five or six while you're watching your partner's
favorite TV show that you're kind of suffering through. Right.
You know, instead of this is a way healthier activity than doom scrolling.
There it is it's healthier than or you could you.
Could do them all at once if you're flying anyway waiting in security line oh i'm
Sorry oh yeah yeah yeah just saying
oh man all right but but yeah i mean
like that but then once they're once it's once you're caught
up to it then it's not so bad right
because you're just flushing them out i i have a a
bonus quick tip here that i learned accidentally but
i really like it um i i
like to go i i i have a
membership at this place that lets me um go in the flotation tank once uh you
know once a month or whatever and i i love that uh they also have a uh dry sauna
there which i which i love equally as much perhaps sometimes even more especially
during the cold winter months it's really nice to go into the hot sauna,
And they have a, you know, the sauna has Bluetooth speakers in it,
so you don't have to bring your phone in and melt your devices.
The problem is, if one of the staff members is paired up to the sauna's Bluetooth
and doesn't leave the premises or doesn't turn off their,
or doesn't disconnect from the device, I can't join the Bluetooth.
And then I have to sit in the sauna in silence for 45 minutes or whatever it
is. And so I have learned that if you go in to the Bluetooth settings on your
iPhone, you find a device, you hit that little I or whatever that we're talking about here.
If you rename the device there, it doesn't just rename it for you.
The device's name is stored on the device.
And so I have found that if I make a minor change,
not anything that's going to confuse people, but if I make a minor change to
the Bluetooth name of the device every time I'm there,
it keeps people's phones from the local people's phones from being connected
all the time if they forget or from auto reconnect. So, so.
But it does change. The first time I did it, I was like, I'm just going to change
this for me because it was named something that was sort of confusing.
And I'm like, I don't know which one to pick.
I think they have two locations. And I think they bought the same sauna in both.
So it was just the same, you know, like thing. I'm like, I don't know which one.
So I'm just going to name it with the name of the city that it's in. And that way I know.
And then when I had to forget it and come back to it, it was like,
oh, I think I changed it for everybody.
And then when I started having this problem, I'm like, wait,
I can leverage this knowledge.
But it's for good. Like, I'm not hurting anyone by doing this. So, yeah.
Yeah, I hate to do this, but I think I have to, too, because I just thought
of this, and it's going to be me putting my dad hat on and also giving advice
that I wouldn't follow myself, which I'm very good at also.
So, presumably, this might just be a, hey, I need to get into a habit of something solution.
Okay.
Which is you have to add one of these every 10 days or whatever it is, right?
So maybe when you're adding it, just remove the old one.
Oh, yeah.
That's a good tip.
It's not a good, it's not great.
None of us are going to do this.
Again, you're asking people to change their behavior and it's probably like,
it probably pops up automatically and you just, you know, but like,
that would be like something I would say to my kids is like,
are you just getting the habit?
And again, I'm 100% the person who would not follow my own advice.
For sure.
I'm being clear about this here.
Do as I say. Right. Not as I do.
But that might be the ultimate solution is if you could just get in the habit
of when you add one, remove the old one, and then you'd never have a long list.
But that involves changing behavior, which, as we know, is not always the easiest.
No, that's the hardest thing to change. It's way easier to do all the other
technical things. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And just gripe about it later.
That's right. you got it y'all y'all,
All right, moving on to Randy Walker.
Yeah, so Randy writes in, he says, I'll charge up my iPad and then not use it
for a few days, and it will be dead as a doornail.
Not just a little dead, dead as a doornail.
How long should an iPad Pro 11-inch M2 be able to hold a charge?
So with a healthy battery, I would think it could hold the charge for a week or more.
Yeah. And, and Randy asked this in our discord and shared a,
he went into settings, battery and shared a couple of graphs of battery usage.
And man, like these show, you know, no usage over a course of many days.
And then like 1%, 4%, these kinds of things.
So there's not a ton of things being used.
In fact, in his, there were three items that appeared in that graph,
home and lock screen, mail and signal.
And they show that their usage was 5%, 2% and 1%. And then the onscreen time
was one minute, three minutes, one minute.
So I asked him to install and run Coconut Battery, one of my favorite utilities on the Mac.
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Yep. And Coconut Battery is great. It can tell you about your Mac's battery for sure.
It can also, when you connect via USB, pull and tell you about your devices,
your iPhone and iPad batteries.
And he said that Coconut Battery reported that his battery was at 95% of its maximum capacity.
Which is great you know so like
it's not that his battery at least it's not
self-reporting any issues and batteries are usually pretty good at self-reporting
issues the only other thing and and certainly his battery graphs do not support
what i'm about to share here but um it is worth checking you know we try to
generalize advice when we can't.
It's possible because I've had this happen that he might have set his iPad not
to sleep the screen when the lid is closed, when they can be they can sense the magnetic,
you know, a magnetic case lid and turn the screen on and off when you close it.
And I do that with my ones that are on stage, but I have been in scenarios where
there's a magnet on stage too close to the thing.
And so I just go like in the moment, in the heat of the moment,
you're like, okay, well, just there's that setting somewhere deep in settings.
You can tell it not to do that. Great. I found it. Great. Show can go on.
And then, you know, I forget and can't figure out for months why my iPad can't
hold the charge. And it's because I'm putting it away in my bag and the screen is still on.
So that would be another thing to check um but otherwise i i don't know unless
it's doing a backup in the background like syncing all your photos or something
when you're on your home wi-fi network but i don't but that wouldn't kill it
it would it would go into well on.
That graph would probably show it i would think and now it says you know view
more but that is also a descending order, I think, of battery usage when it does it.
So Matthew offers the suggestion, he says he puts his iPad in airplane mode whence
not using it which i think is you know that that may help doesn't doesn't tell
you why it's doing it but may help it from doing it for sure yeah so definite maybe adam
Yeah no i was just going to comment i don't know
that though the the applications list includes like daemons and things that
are running in the background doing icloud syncs it doesn't and photo syncs
and And those things would be using the device,
presumably, depending upon what you're doing, quite a bit.
So, I mean, it's one thing if you're willing to test it, because there is that
setting, right, that says allow network stuff to go on when it's asleep or in
the background or whatever.
Because you can turn that off, right, or put it in low power mode or something like that.
Low power mode is, yeah.
But that wouldn't, I mean, low power mode wouldn't be a great test.
I thought there was a setting where you could just disable the,
like, don't let stuff run in the background, basically, when it's asleep.
But maybe I'm misremembering that.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I
don't know that that, I know that there's a setting like that on the Mac.
I don't think there's a setting like that on iPad. I don't, and I don't have
an iPad within arm's reach.
Yeah. I don't either. So the other way I would look.
Yeah.
But I mean, that feels like if anything's doing it, it would have to be that sort of thing.
Right. Yeah.
I mean, you could put it in low power mode and, and, and see if that changes
anything at the very least.
In that scenario that might indicate a battery health issue like if you're can
if you put it in low power mode and it continues to be the same then it might
be okay the battery's discharging all on its own for some reason
Yeah yeah right
yeah and it and it sounds like that might be what's going on here um but again
it doesn't seem i don't know it's hard to it's hard to say But hopefully some
of that stuff will at least help narrow things down.
Yep.
Yep. All right. Shall we move on to Larry?
Yeah, Larry has a great question. He says, hi, I'm in my 40 plus years of using Macs.
There are none that I have enjoyed as much as my current 2019 27-inch 5K iMac. Mac.
But alas, like all of us, it is getting old.
There are some features of Tahoe, which I am running on my MacBook Pro, that I like.
And also, the system is feeling slower and slower, although I keep convincing
myself that it is just a desire to get the next new shiny ball.
But I am starting to look at getting a Mac Mini, although I might just wait a little
if there's an M5 mini waiting in the wings. But that also means getting a monitor.
Clearly, I want a 27-inch 5K monitor. Why would I go backwards?
But which one? I am not willing to spend the money on the Apple monitor.
LG appears to have discontinued theirs, but there are now several on the market.
As far as I can find, Asus, BenQ, Samsung, ViewSonic, KTC, AOC, and Qui-Con?
Qui-Con?
Sure.
Not familiar. K-U-Y-C-O-N. Does anybody have any experience that would push
me towards or away from any of these?
Any thoughts or advice is appreciated.
I do have some experience because I've been in the same boat.
I'm just a few years ahead of you, Larry.
I still have the 2019 5K iMac, the same as you, that I had here in the studio.
Right up until the day that lightning hit so close to the house that it literally
burned out the backlight on the display, both sides.
And now that sits and runs as my open claw test machine downstairs. So it has seen new life.
However, I was in that same boat and then also was always an iMac person in
my office up until I got that M1 Mac Mini installed.
And I same thing, right? Didn't want to go backwards. Loved the 5K screen.
So in the office when I that was the first one I did and I wound up buying a
refurb LG Ultrafine 5K that is still
available on Amazon and it's way less expensive than what I paid for it.
It's now $7.99 on Amazon. I think I paid like $10.49 or something.
That might still be your best price for a 5K monitor.
And I'll talk about why I think that's true.
But if you want 5K, that's it.
Now, I have here in my office, here in the studio and in the office,
what I'm about to say is true. I have a 5K monitor and a 4K monitor right next
to it. That's true, both in the studio and the office.
So, and I have the LG 5K, which would be the one in front of me.
I always like my second screen off to my right. It's just my thing.
So the one that I have to my right in the office is a ViewSonic VP2768, which is a 4K screen.
I use both all day long, somewhat interchangeably, and I don't really notice
a huge difference between the two.
I think that I prefer the 5K, but that could be confirmation bias.
But the 27-inch 4K screens, the good ones, are really good.
And that ViewSonic, I mean, that monitor has been around for a while,
and it's still $550, right? So like it's not one of the $150 27-inch 4K screens that you can get.
The contrast on it's fantastic.
It's a great screen and might do well enough for you.
Here in the studio, initially, I used that screen as my secondary screen or
as my primary screen rather because I had to switch immediately.
Like I did not have time to think about this. So it was like,
all right, great. What am I going to do?
So that what I had that screen that that view Sonic 2768 4K.
I used that as my primary screen for a while with a monoprice screen as a secondary.
And monoprice used to make great 27 inch 4K screens. I don't really see them as an option anymore.
But if you find differently, let us know feedback at MacGab.com because we'd like to hear from you.
You heard him. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com.
It's true. That's right, Pete. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com.
It's true. Eventually, I moved to another 4K screen here as my primary in the
studio, and that is the Philips 4K UHD 27-inch screen.
That most recently was $499, but it appears to have been completely discontinued
and is unavailable. That's a great screen. And it is now my secondary screen in the studio.
The ViewSonic 5K screen, which is their VP2788.
That is my primary screen here. And I love that, too.
That's nine hundred and twenty nine bucks. It was when it when it was announced,
it was supposed to be seven ninety nine and then tariffs changed it.
So nine twenty nine is the best they can do.
So um that those are the screens
that i use the ones that we hear from
from all of you uh include the
ben q screens i'm gonna put links
to all of these in the show notes so you can get the show notes either by
visiting macgeekup.com and seeing them there or if
you visit macgeekup.com and sign up for the mailing list you'll get them
automatically in your inbox when they come out but all
of these links are in there with prices at least prices as of
the moment that we're recording this episode they will change
of course but benq b-e-n-q makes
a lot of great 5k screens and they tend to range from about nine something to
1100 or just shy of 1100 u.s depending on their purpose and some of their extra
features some of them have like thunderbolt hubs and docks and things like that
and i mean some of them don't,
The other brand that we hear about is a budget brand called KTC.
Their 5K 27-inch screen is $549.
That's the least expensive 5K screen I see.
However, the BenQ that I've listed is their 1099 screen, so $1,100.
That is 144 hertz refresh rate. The KTC is 60 hertz refresh rate.
I would argue that refresh rate is going to make
more of a difference than the extra pixels for you
so i would not if you know
549 is your price i would go
with the view sonic vp 2768 4k
over the ktc 5k but
i say that looking at specs only on the ktc i have not tried it so you know
try it and return it right um the ktc will go up to 120 hertz but only in 2k
mode so just bear that in mind dave.
Can you say why refresh rate is important
Yeah it because it it
um all of your lights in your environment have you're
going to have a refresh rate specific i mean even your
incandescence right but you're 60 hertz or thereabouts yeah yeah um it i want
to get down a tangent of how we're probably not running at 60 hertz as someone
who sees power all the time but anyway yeah yeah but close enough yeah but like
all the led lights that we have,
all have their refresh rates and they're somewhat mismatched and all that but um,
The speed, it is the speed at which the screen is redraws itself and the faster
refresh rate limits that flicker.
And there is flicker that is obviously perceptible.
There is flicker that is sub perceptible. It's 60 Hertz.
You're probably at the sub, you are at the sub perceptible level because 24,
you know, Hertz is the, what movies run at, right?
24 frames per second. Right. I have that right. Right. I shouldn't be doing
public math, but I think I'm right on this. Okay, thanks, guys.
You are correct, sir. Great.
And 60 is fine, but even with my still aging eyes, and I'm quite happy that
they're still aging, that that aging hasn't stopped because that's bad.
It's bad for your health when your aging stops.
Yeah. uh the i notice
a difference between 60 and 120 for certain
on my iphones like you know you see it everywhere
so i i think if you're going to stare at
this thing all day you don't want to be just at 60 hertz if you
can avoid it yeah and you
probably you probably on your mac if you
go into i don't know if i can do this i'm going to try it um certainly
with third-party utilities you can if your screens support it
but if i go to my my screen
here uh i can change the refresh rates of things um and and you know you can
you can experiment with it so and you know what i say all of this the vp2788
5k screen it's a 60 hertz screen,
So maybe 60 hertz ain't so bad, folks.
Yeah.
Yep.
Here's the other place I've noticed it is like on the backup camera of the car.
Yes. If you put the car in reverse, you'll see someone has LED lights flickering,
and that's, you know, the camera's not in sync with the refresh rate on the
lights, and that's when you pick it up. So, yeah. All right.
So I just gave myself a big, long speech and then proved myself wrong, at least for my own eyes.
Sitting here in the studio the two screens that i'm looking at are 60
hertz screens so maybe that ktc is worth checking
out i might need to reach out to them and see huh yeah right on yeah all right
so maybe that is worth maybe it is worth the buy and return buy and return if
you don't like it i should say um for because for 549 that's an amazing price on a 5k screen.
Yeah. Beautiful.
What did you buy, Adam? You just bought screens.
That's what I was trying to figure out. The boxes are over there.
Well, because I have one of the LG Ultra Fine 27 inches, but there's like a
gazillion different versions of it, and they're all called the same thing.
So it's super confusing.
If you go into system settings displays, it should tell you the model number.
Mine certainly do. I see the VP27885K or PHL27E2, right?
It just says LG Ultrafine.
Nice.
Where would you see this?
No, that's where you would see it. That's as good as it gets.
But I even went into system settings. I think it's the, I was looking on LG.
Oh, if you go to system information, maybe, in graphics and displays.
Yeah, it's not in there either. and is it a 5k screen or a 4k screen it's.
4k these are 4k screens okay okay uh although actually you know funny enough
uh system settings is reporting 5k uhd plus but that is not true
No the reason it reports that is because that is what it is displaying as the
effective resolution because you're in pixel doubling mode and that's, it confuses itself.
I mean, it doesn't confuse itself. It confuses us reading it thinking,
oh, this screen has, you know, more pixels.
No, no, no, no, no.
So yeah, evidently 60 Hertz is okay for Dave's old eyes. So there you go.
Not on my iPhones. Like I definitely noticed it when I moved to the promotion.
Pretty sure this is, if I'm looking at it,
correctly, because I think it's an IPS display. I want to say it's the...
Ultra-fine 4K.
I mean, these things look like they've gotten way cheaper since I've bought them.
The two that I'm seeing on LG's sites are like $299 and $379.
Oh, interesting. And this is the 4K LG screen. Yeah. Yeah. All right, great.
Which is super cheap. Yeah. They have great-looking displays.
Yep.
And they are available like i don't that might be right around i think i paid
around 400 so that that's probably the model
huh like it so 27 inch yeah i think it's the up850k w i want to say is the one that i have
Okay say that say that one more time.
Uh 27 up 850k dash w all right i'll see 79.99 and you can get it cheaper and
like i think they have it on sale at bnh photo for less than that all right like 50 off that i'll see
If i can find it somewhere yeah yeah,
and what are you finding it for on lg site 379.99.
There's also the 650 kw which is 299.99 it's 150 bucks off but i don't know
what the amazon doesn't have that one doesn't have usbc so i'm pretty sure i
have the one with usbc amazon
Has that one for 334 right now so i'll put i'll put the amazon link in the show notes for people.
Fun yeah and they're great displays i mean yeah i but i was upgrading from a
1080p you know 1080p display basically so like that was an upgrade for me i
i'm totally with him like going backwards from a 5k might be hard but it's
Not as hard as you think uh well really i mean i've like i said i've done it
and it it's it's fine yeah yeah yeah so.
And you save a lot of money and
You save a lot of money yeah yeah.
But boy is apple's new one sexy right
Oh yeah i mean yeah obviously um it it is it is expensive and worth it right
i mean it's 1599 to start uh for the studio display.
So unless you want the uh if you if you want the display to be able to go up
and down and don't just tilt it's another 400 bucks yeah
But i mean you know what's It's an extra 400 bucks between friends.
Let's what is the refresh rate on apples? Let's see.
Apples is 60 Hertz refresh rate. Okay. I've, I've learned my lesson on this.
Uh, yep, for sure. Okay. There you go.
You're chatting. I went into displays is settings displays and looked at the
little view sonic that I've got to the side. I was able to,
optionally down to 50 hertz but 60 hertz was the highest refresh rate that it it offers but
Yeah no 60 hertz is fine forget everything i said earlier
in the episode just kidding no i got to i got to learn something like this is
great i love this yeah yeah yeah there it is that's one of my five things love
it i'm just glad i learned it before we published the episode so that i could
like not make you all wait a week to hear the correction so there you go or.
You can go in and Take it out and pretend it never happened.
Nah, I'm not going to do that. It's better this way.
Right on.
It's also much simpler for me, and I'm a lazy podcaster.
There you go.
Yep-er. All right. Should we go to Joe here?
We should. Yeah. We should, we shall, and we are, is how it works.
Anyway, so, yeah, Joe writes in with a question. He writes, gentlemen,
and Pete, Joe, did legal make you write that?
Just asking anyway well
standing in baggage claim looking for my luggage using the
find my app i set my phone down and this message
appeared and it says more light required
uncover the camera or turn on the flashlight he says i'm totally intrigued any
idea why light is needed or why turning on the flashlight would be necessary
to find an air tag joe and i've kind of always wondered that myself.
I was like, why does it need that?
I wondered it too. Adam, off the top of your head, do you know why? Because I did not.
I researched it and found out, which I'm happy to share. Okay.
I just figured if one of us actually knew this off the top of our heads,
that would be a better way to go about it.
Find My's got that precision finding and it uses your iPhone's camera via AR
kit and its motion sensors with that U1 chip to track the direction and distance to things.
So once it figures out how far away it is, it's then using every bit of data
that it can get about your phone to tell how far you have moved.
While also factoring in, you know, what signal strength am I getting from this device?
And, of course, low light prevents the camera from being accurate, right?
And so turning on the flashlight or being in a brighter area helps with that
augmented reality-founded guidance.
So there you go. That's the reason.
Seems like a lot of math going on.
That's exactly. Well, I mean, I think ARKit is already doing the heavy,
like that math has already been written.
So it's really smart of Apple to leverage that existing math to,
you know, to kind of do all the things.
So, yeah, it's fascinating.
I've been learning a lot about that as we've been refactoring the Mac GeekGab
app from Objective-C over to Swift.
Now, obviously, I'm letting Cloud Code do the heavy lifting on this,
but it is kind of interesting architecting it, especially with an app that hasn't
been under active development a long time, obviously, but was for a long period of time.
And features were added sort of one by one and looking at it holistically.
And this is where, like, you know, AI is so much better than a human for looking at like this.
It was like, well, I see we've got all these things. If we're going to bother
to refactor anyway, we should write them.
We should write one routine that does this one thing and then leverage it elsewhere.
And it's like, oh man, this is so good.
But you know, that, that smart programming. So yeah, it's great. It's fun. Yeah.
And I realized the place I could find which monitor actually bought was from
where I bought it. Amazon.
I confirmed that is the model that I gave. Okay. It's an exact model.
Great. So, and you see that it's three 34 now. is that rare 339.99.
Was what i saw yeah 333 it's a 333.99
Sorry yeah yeah yeah that's what i meant yep great,
sweet sweet sweet yep so the link is correct in the show notes excellent yeah
upper um all right we have one more question and then i want to tell you about
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So uncle jamie what iphone car mount do you travel with uh what do you all do
with your iphones when using a rental car on travel i have a phone mount problem
solved for my own cars, but what about a rental?
I have a big, heavy iPhone 17 Pro Max, if that matters.
Do you have a preferred mount you travel with? Do rental cars all have CarPlay these days?
Pretty sure that they all do not.
So most of them do have CarPlay.
CarPlay's been in most cars for five plus years now.
Maybe it might even be correct to say 10 plus years, but certainly five plus years.
And it's rare that you're going to rent a car that's more than a year or two old.
So most rental cars do have carplay
and obviously if they do that's the way to use it
um that was my first experience with carplay was
in rental cars uh because i didn't own a.
Car that had carplay but the cars every car i rented did that
said for years i have traveled with a
small lightweight uh grip mount
thing that can fit that can like grip my
iphone and fit in
the vents on the dash of a
car and that's what i used to travel with all the time i
couldn't find the exact one that i travel with
but i found one that sure looks a lot like it
on amazon for nine bucks and i still
have this in my go bag it is with me every
time i travel because it's tiny and it
you know costs me very little uh space
wise and weight wise to travel with it and i
always have it so if i need it i can
certainly put it up if and i and i have used it i there
was some point in the last year i want to say where i
couldn't get car play to work for some reason in in a
rental car there was something wonky about it and i wanted to like leave
the airport and get to where i was going and so i just you
know i was just like oh i can solve this problem good to go and
uh and then you know that was off to the races so um yeah nine bucks that i
it's you know the one that i found is the lama call which is not the brand that
i have because i'm sure the brand that i have doesn't exist anymore uh but you
know it's it just yeah get one that fits your phone and you're gonna be good to go,
is it yeah.
Real quick the bigger issue that I found because I do think a few times that
I've traveled more recently all the cars do have a car play
It's almost always wired CarPlay. Yes.
And the biggest problem I've had is not having the right cable because sometimes
it's only a USB-A connector
and I have a USB-C cable because I have C on my phone and I have C on my charger
and C on my laptop, right?
So I need to carry, make sure I carry a USB-A connector to USB-C
thing or an adapter like pete's showing but yeah that's like that's your bigger
problem is like can you actually plug into the car
Yes yeah yes i uh yeah i love those those adapters are fantastic uh and i'll
put a link to some adapters this is you get three for 750 um and i get a.
Dozen and and lose them
Slowly yeah i carry both i carry
the you know a to c in one direction and and
c to a you know in the other direction just because you
you're absolutely right and you need to carry a cable too like right like that
that is the other important part of this because even if the car has wireless
car play usually the way you pair with it is by plugging in first maybe not
always But that's certainly been,
that is a way to get paired with the car.
So, um, well, it might be the only way, I don't know.
But anyway. And that, that got me thinking is I probably should,
should grab my car link adapter when I travel.
Oh, that would be.
It's tiny.
Oh, yeah. Huh. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. Yeah.
You might not even need a mount cause you could just leave your iPhone. Yeah.
In the center dash or in your pocket even.
Yeah, right. Right. Yeah, because then you're prepared, if you will.
Get it?
With a hyphen, not... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I meant.
And be aware, some states don't even allow that. Like New Hampshire.
It's considered a handheld device, even if it's mounted. Unless it's permanently installed.
Really?
Yeah.
Has anybody been cited for this in New Hampshire?
That I do not know,
But I do know that that... Can't imagine it would hold up. Yeah.
It'd be tough to hold. I get it. But I found that out when Mac was taking driver's
head, my most recent driver in the house. No kidding.
That the mount is considered a handheld device because it's not permanently installed.
Like the bands can't drink on stage law that the Liquor Commission was certain was on the books.
I believe that this is probably a one of those misinterpretations of the law
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If you looked at the letter of the law, they've since changed the letter of
the law to make it so that bands can actually have a beer on stage.
Actually, you can have one per band member even.
But or two, if you really want.
But, um, uh, it, yeah, yeah, it, it was one of those things that this sounds like that because like,
yeah anyway to me it's one.
Of those things that it's now in the as jeff gamut would be able to tell you
it helps you talk yourself further into into further citations or not yes when
the officer arrives at your
Vehicle that's right that's right yeah yeah all
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All right, Adam, what do you got?
So I have something. At work, the other day, I was setting some stuff up for
Docker for some local development that I was doing.
And as part of doing my work,
I often have to go in and put in developer domains and things like that or just
point my legit domains at a developer version or test version of a website.
And I do that by editing my Etsy host file, you know, which is like your local DNS lookup.
And I was doing this for work and I went in there and I noticed some entries
that I didn't put in there.
And they were put in there by Adobe Creative Cloud.
They had put their own entries into my Etsy host file to point basically to
their servers for, you know, making sure that I'm paid up and licensed and blah, blah, blah.
And presumably I would assume this is because if my DNS were down or I blocked
my DNS or whatever, that they wouldn't be able to like validate my licensing.
But that don't get caught is in my opinion
Third-party companies should not be injecting stuff into the local Etsy host
file on my machine. I see it as a violation.
It's my job.
It's Pete's job. Maybe I'm being ridiculous here. I don't know.
But yeah, and then to make matters worse, so I saw this the other day.
Well, and I saw it at work, and I was like, I wonder if my IT guy did that.
And I reached out to them, and they're like, nope, that wasn't us.
And so I have Creative Cloud at home, and I went home and looked at my personal
Mac, and that's where I discovered, oh, yeah, this was also done on my personal Mac.
And then when I did some Googling and looking around, it looked like this is
a recent thing that they started doing around mid-April. At least that's when
my Etsy host file was modified when I looked at it.
And the one at work was within the same couple of days as my one at home.
Um and then so to make what
matters worse so this was about a week ago or a couple
weeks ago i discovered this i can't remember the exact day but i
went in and removed that entry from my
etsy host file and then just right before the show i went to double check and
sure enough they put it right back and not only that i now noticed that open
vpn also put their own entries into my etsy host file.
And so I don't know if this is like a new trend that these companies are doing
because I've never seen this before.
So open VPN, put in a couple entries, Adobe Creative Cloud has an entry that
they added and I guess removing them doesn't do anything.
And, uh, you know, it, I looked at the permissions on my Etsy host file.
It's still, you know, root wheel, so all of the normal stuff.
So they're getting in, you know, I guess because I've given them other permissions.
But, yeah, I'm not happy about it. I don't know if there's anything I can do
about it to actually stop it other than maybe completely somehow changing the
permissions on my file so that the system can't.
I don't know what the elevated. I'd have to do some digging to figure out how to block it.
But maybe I don't know if I'm overreacting, but I don't like it. I'll just say that.
Yeah, I don't like this either. When you first told us about it, it was like, hmm.
Like you, I will edit mine for usually development reasons or if I want to bypass
like a cache that we've put in place and just talk directly to the server so
I know that I can troubleshoot more web stuff with a little more consistency
and that kind of thing. Yeah.
Yeah i don't i don't like it messing with my things that's not the best i'm with you on this yeah.
So that's my story when mine got edited it was done by a third party and i had no idea no control
Adam i know who the third party was the third party is here with us.
Hey i think
I've just been insulted i'm not sure
Oh no no no no no certainly not all right i mean check.
Yours i was frankly surprised i thought there would be i thought i'd see a bunch
of tech sites reporting on this and stuff like that so again maybe i'm overreacting
maybe this is a normal practice and not a big deal
I don't know i went and looked at my etsy host file and i didn't see any one
like i didn't see any entries in mine that were that right so you.
Have a creative cloud
Subscription i don't know but but like to your point about maybe this is common
practice i i don't have a creative cloud subscription but i nobody else has
edited my etsy host file either um so yeah yeah.
Well they open vpn one is a new new thing and that's like a little telling because
it's like okay adobe did it
Yeah now.
Open vpn did it is like again are we on some new trend where these companies
are like well if adobe can do it and get away with it then maybe we can
Too i can almost see almost see where it would make sense for a vpn i mean a
vpn is mucking with your network config anyway but that can all be compartmentalized like there there were,
and I the names of them are blanking on me but when like,
secure dns first was launched the way that it was launched for iphone was you would install a vpn,
that would only do your dns lookups right
it i think quad nine had had an app i
can't remember who had apps but some of those dns providers had apps and they
ran as a vpn but all they were doing was intercepting your dns lookups making
those happen securely and then when you browsed you weren't going through their
tunnel right you were just browsing like you would normally so,
yeah yeah vpn wouldn't necessarily have to do things this way either yeah yeah
i don't know i don't like it yeah yep yeah yep so.
There you go don't get caught
Don't get caught or do.
Like seems like they're just gonna keep putting it back in there so i don't
know what i'm supposed to do to stop it
I don't think yeah unless you can there's and i don't know the way off the top
of my head but i know there is a way to harden files so that like the only way
you could change it would be to unset whatever that flag is there's like extended attributes i think,
and i i'm i i've already uh colored outside my own lines with the whole refresh
rate thing so I'm not going to do it again here with, with my,
my foggy memories of how to do this from the terminal, but ask your favorite
chat bot about this because,
and, and then test it on a, like a text file that you create in your home folder
so that you're not blocking yourself.
Make sure you can, you know, get in and out of this before you do it to your Etsy host file.
But, uh, there is a way, uh, to, to do this.
Um, and hopefully Adobe doesn't go around that too.
So. Yeah. yeah yeah all right yeah yeah yeah fun,
All right. We had a conversation two episodes ago, so 1134, about iPhone cases
and what cases, we asked all of you, what cases you use.
And boy, howdy, did we get a lot of responses.
So I think if we buckle down, we can get through these in a timely fashion. So shall we start?
Yeah. Chris has one for us. He says, I'm with Dave and I always have a case
on my phone and I encourage all of my tech consulting clients to do the same.
Personally, I don't like smooth or slippery cases.
I like something that has a chance of sitting in place for five minutes.
Slippery cases behave like eels and slide off of surfaces sometimes.
For at least the last decade, my case of choice has been the Incipio Duo,
which has a very slight texture to it.
I think it's a rich feeling.
I should point out that the clear version of the case looks to be slippery.
The black one that I'm speaking of it's the black one that I'm speaking of that doesn't slide around
Cool the.
Incipio Duo at the risk of having this run too long what is the Duo part
I don't know it's not clear what is Duo'd about this from looking at their Amazon
listing it's 30 bucks on Amazon so I will share that and yeah we can move on yeah yeah good stuff.
Alright. Well, NASA Nut writes in with another one.
He says, during show 1134, you were discussing iPhone cases and screen protectors.
Just wanted to put my vote in for the Spigen brand.
It's not just Spigen. I said it earlier.
The Spigen brand. S-P-I-G-E-N.
At Spigen.com.
I have used this brand on a couple of generations of phones.
I have even put the screen protectors on all five phones in our family.
With regard to the screen protector, they are tempered glass,
and they come in a set of two for about $20 on Amazon.
Several installation aids are included, starting with a cleaning cloth to clean
the phone's screen before installation.
Then there's a set of peel-off stickers that you dab on the iPhone screen prior
to remove any remaining lint. Then the protectors themselves come mounted in
an installation frame that fits your specific iPhone.
This provides perfect alignment for the screen protector.
Once in place, you peel the sticker off, which allows you to remove the alignment
frame and leave the protector in place.
Then lastly, there's the small plastic squeegee that you can use to force out
any remaining air bubbles.
These have been the easiest to install protectors that I've ever used.
As far as the cases, I use the Tough Armor, which has a flip-out stand so you
can prop the phone up on a table in front of you.
However, they have other styles. I hope I haven't rambled on for too long.
Keep up the great work. NASA Nut.
Cool. I will, I will change the link in the show notes to have the little flip out stand.
So for the, and I'm, I'm normalizing the prices that I'm mentioning here in
the show to the iPhone 17 pro version of all of these cases,
just, uh, just so that we have it.
And these are 24 99 is, uh, is what I am finding for today for today.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Today only today. Yeah, exactly.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
All right. That was that one. Cliff has a comment about clear cases.
And he says, he says, per your query in the last podcast, I too purchased a
cheap clear case each year for my new iPhone.
My current $5 MagSafe case that I bought in September is working just fine with
my Orange 17 Pro. Of note, the newer generation clear cases seem to be doing
better about not yellowing with age quite as quickly.
And I will also attest to this. The clear case that I currently have on my 17
Pro, I took it off and kind of looked at it.
And it is, it like, it's, I mean, it looks yellowed because it's got an orange phone inside it.
But the case itself has remained clear, which I love. So that because that was
an issue with clear cases for a little while.
There were a couple of years where Speck was the only company that had a formulation
that would not yellow with age.
And now it seems like that that knowledge has has migrated around.
So thank you for that, Cliff. All right.
Leather cases were a a topic of discussion.
And I actually I know I guess we've got Dan's and then we'll get to the leather
cases. So go ahead with Dan's. at him.
Yeah, Dan has a bumper open case from, I'm going to mutilate this,
I'm sure, Wuedo, W-U-W-E-D-O, Wuedo.
He said, I also tried the open case and found it good, but I didn't love the
faux leather act. That was actually one here at Bart's, but to each his own.
Plus, I like to see phones as I can with a clear case like Dave.
I like the clear TPU edges on a case, I can see the case and it makes it a little easier to pick up.
I found this case that also does not have a back.
Years ago, I used Apple's bumpers, which had a weird texture and not enough
rigidity so they would flex on the sides.
This one extends with hard plastic about quarter inch or quarter inch over the back, which gives...
The sides enough rigidity. It has a protective ring around the camera area and
the rest is open. It actually makes it even easier to hold the phone because
your fingers rest inside the rim.
The phone feels thinner without the back panel and lighter.
Plus, it's just 13 bucks.
Dan. So I found this on Amazon. There might be other places to find it.
And the one thing that they didn't have was an option for the 17 Pro.
They have the 17 and the 17 Pro Max, but no 17 Pro out there as of this moment in time.
So if you want it for the 17 Pro, it might not exist or you're going to have
to hunt or I don't know the answer.
So just wanted to share that. But yeah, that looks great. I love the idea of
a clear bumper case, essentially.
So I might need to look into that. i like it good stuff the.
Price is right
No kidding yeah yeah yeah exactly
that's yeah that's that's kind of i mean this was kind of where that conversation
wound up a couple weeks ago it was like where where are we going with these
here and do we need uh an expensive case and maybe thad has a reason for us
to need an expensive case he says um,
In the episode, Adam mentioned that he liked Apple's leather cases and wished they still made them.
I, too, love the Apple leather cases and have found that the bull strap cases
are a decent replacement.
The leather feels the same as Apple's, and they have metal buttons that Apple used as well.
They also come with unlimited warranty replacements for wear and tear.
So, yeah, bull strap. Now, this is $99 for the 17 Pro case, but it's leather.
So, you know, you're going to pay for it. there there are
actually it's they range from 50 or
99 there there is a a couple of
50 options and what i'm assuming are their uh the colors that they are looking
to to sell so um clear out clear yeah the clearance colors yeah exactly so um
yeah cool thanks that good stuff,
Who's next? Yep.
Well, Todd wrote in. He says, I like Adam.
I like Adam too. Oh, no. I like Adam. I, like Adam, really liked the Apple leather case.
Costs too much, but given how many times my iPhone is in my hand each and every day, worth it to me.
I started using the Nomad's leather iPhone cases after Apple stopped making them.
I find them very comparable to Apple's. I often place my iPhone screen down
when not in use for several reasons. It's protected from something falling on
it. The screen goes dark, saving battery.
Notifications tend to hit my Apple Watch when the iPhone is screened down, etc.
The edge on the leather case keeps the glass from touching the surface when
screened down, and this seems to keep my screen from getting scratched up.
I never use a glass screen cover and use the leather case because it feels good
in my hand and gives a little grip as well. A few dings in the leather that
I pick up would be small dents in the iPhone case.
Cheers, Todd. And I will briefly mention that I, too,
have not been using the screen protector for quite some time and managed to
get tripped by somebody whilst leaving the Houston Rodeo, skinning not only
my knee and my elbow and my ego, but my iPhone screen.
So uh yeah maybe the screen protector you never need it until you
Do until you did,
65 bucks for the nomad case on amazon uh though i've had nomad cases before
yep and really like them so yeah all right moving on adam.
Right yeah we got uh tony and
he says he likes
the fear shan leather iphone case he says hi guys this has been my go-to case
for many model years and over that time it has consistently saved me from numerous
disasters its magnetic closure reliably secures the case before hitting the
ground. It can be found on Amazon as well.
So Pierre Shan, F-I-E-R-R-E. Pierre Shan, is that right?
I guess. Yeah. They look nice.
I only found them on eBay, not Amazon.
And they start at like $27, which is pretty inexpensive for an iPhone case, a leather iPhone case.
It's got a little cover that kind of flaps closed.
It's the flap closed cover kind of case. Yeah, that's interesting.
So fully encases your...
Yep.
I like it. That's pretty good.
Now, my next question, because I noticed all of these are 17s.
I would go for the Nomad one, probably, because I, like you,
Dave, have had great experience with Nomad.
But I didn't.
See if they had versions for I'm still on a 16.
Most of them do. I just went I wanted to normalize pricing for our episode here,
so I i went and and
just put everything as a 17 pro or a 17 in that
case where i couldn't find a 17 pro but on the i
on the bill strap i think it was or the we do the bumper
case uh right but yeah but yes most
of them had options for everybody
um the and this
company does too i have one as we were talking about leather
cases that we've had good experience with mujo m-u-j-j-o
i have always loved their leather
cases they just feel they feel like apples um
and they're available again 17 pro on amazon is um 59 bucks but they do have
options for you know other size phones of course but yeah i've i've always really
when i go to a leather case uh it it often is the mujo uh so and then there you go,
I think that gets us there, guys. I think we're probably finished with our,
not just with our Cool Stuff Found, but with our episode in general.
We're here.
It's time. We got here. Yeah, we made it. I know.
You know what, though? Next week, we're not going to be there again.
We're going to have to start all over.
What? Oh, we got to do it again next week? That's interesting. All right.
I think it's state law.
Okay. Yeah. Well, I think it's one of those misinterpreted laws, Pete.
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