We Are Not The Mickey Mice!

About this episode

This episode provides quick Apple workflow tips, discusses AI-assisted coding, and reviews the latest Apple product lineup while offering solutions for common tech issues.

You start this episode by supercharging your daily Apple workflow with rapid-fire Quick Tips: speaking the time from your wrist, taming screenshot previews, unzooming a stuck iPhone screen, batch‑moving iOS apps, and sharpening Live Text and document photos so you can capture, control, and share exactly what you want without friction. You also learn how to keep Chrome from quietly hijacking your mic levels before Zoom calls, plus clever ways to organize appliance manuals using NotebookLM and Apple’s Books app so that the answers you need are always a quick search away—Don’t Get Caught hunting for docs or fighting your own settings again. From there, you dive into Mac Developer Gab with the MGG iOS app as a living example of how AI‑assisted coding becomes a collaborative partner instead of a replacement, including practical use of Claude Code’s Plan Mode to map changes before writing a line of code. Then you pivot into Apple’s newly “affordable‑first” lineup—MacBook Neo, Air, and Pro, the new Studio Displays, iPhone 17e, and iPad Air M4—breaking down which model actually fits your real‑world use and budget, before wrapping with fixes for flaky AirDrop using the NFC “boop” trick…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson

Topics covered

• Apple workflow tips
• iOS app development
• AI-assisted coding
• Apple product lineup
• AirDrop fixes
• remote control Apple TV

Keywords

• Apple tips
• iPhone
• MacBook
• AirDrop
• AI coding
• NotebookLM
• Chrome mic levels
• remote control
• screenshot previews
• Live Text

Sponsors

Rogue Amoeba

Mentioned in this episode

Products: iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Studio Displays, NotebookLM, Apple’s Books app, Claude Code’s Plan Mode, SoundSource

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