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For Mac Eyes Only – We Wish You A Merry Unboxing from 2023-12-12T03:00:13
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss the 8GB vs 16GB debate that resurfaced last week, then kick off the holiday season by sharing their last minute gift picks for the Apple ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – A Mac To Be Thankful For from 2023-12-03T18:00:02
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss some of the headlines of the week including the false dangers of NameDrop, a new Bluetooth flaw threatening all modern devices, Google de...
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For Mac Eyes Only – 3 Metric Foot Mac from 2023-11-14T03:00:05
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric are joined by special guest Guy Serle to discuss Apple’s decision to not move forward with a 27″ iMac, and whether 8GB of memory is enough on tod...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Scary Fast Event from 2023-10-31T02:00:58
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Dave and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions to Apple’s Scary Fast Mac Event where Apple announced the new M3-powered MacBook Pros and...
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For Mac Eyes Only – In Touch with iOS 17 from 2023-09-30T02:00:56
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by special guest Dave Ginsburg to share Dave's favorite new features of iOS 17, discuss some frustrations in the first week after the upgrade, s...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Wonderlust from 2023-09-12T22:00:33
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Dave, Chuck, Gaz, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s Wonderlust iPhone Event where Apple announced the new Apple Watc...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Apps in the Spotlight from 2023-09-02T02:00:50
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric revisit last episode with news of a new XLoader variant and listener feedback from Darren. Then, inspired by a talk at Macstock VII, Mike & ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Welcome to Macatraz from 2023-08-19T02:00:30
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss recent Apple headlines including how long the last Intel Macs will be supported, an argument for open source macOS (but settling on Linux...
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For Mac Eyes Only – A Mac Voice Among Us from 2023-07-27T02:00:08
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and special guest Chuck Joiner give a preview of Chuck’s presentation at Macstock VII. Then they take a look at some recent headlines including layoffs at...
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For Mac Eyes Only – A 21st Century HyperCard from 2023-07-01T02:00:37
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss some of the top headlines in the weeks since WWDC including a whether Siri is a “disaster”, Apple’s new Game Porting Toolkit, other new f...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: WWDC 2023 from 2023-06-06T02:00:39
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Dave, Chuck, Jeff, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s WWDC 2023 Keynote Presentation where Apple announced the new 15...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Mac Legacy from 2023-05-31T02:00:52
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric take a look at some of the top headlines for the week and then explore caring for your Digital Legacy when gone including; shared password vaults...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Beta 1: Bug Report from 2023-05-17T02:00:43
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric take a look at some of the top headlines for the week. Mike shares his own Mac buying decision process. And, in a follow up to episode 407, liste...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Pick A Mac, Any Mac from 2023-05-03T02:00:41
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: What should first time Mac buyers or folks who’ve been holding on to an older Mac think about when looking at Apple’s current line up? Mike and Eric look at co...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Print (Hello Eric!) from 2023-04-18T02:00:15
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric speculate on Mac and other Apple rumors, discuss gaming on the Mac, software easter eggs, and the new Steve Jobs memoir. Then dip their toes into...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Flying by the Seat of Our Macs from 2023-03-28T02:00:26
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and special guest Jeff Gamet share some favorite tips and tackle listener questions covering Siri on the Mac’s menu bar, sharing photos with family while ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Travels with Barry from 2023-03-14T02:00:35
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: What happens when travel plans become semi-permanent? Mike and Eric welcome FMEO's Roving Reporter Barry back to the show to share travel adventures of a diffe...
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For Mac Eyes Only – A Little Bedroom Coding from 2023-02-28T03:00:02
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: You might be interested in learning to code, but where should you start? Xcode? Visual Studio? Swift Playgrounds? Or maybe it's best to start with scripting or...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Embrace the Mac! from 2023-02-14T03:00:20
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric explore some of the misconceptions and problems with macOS that switchers sometimes have and run down a few ways to make a typical Mac switcher’s...
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For Mac Eyes Only – The Return of ListenerPalooza from 2023-01-31T03:00:45
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric touch on the new M2 Pro/Max Macs, debate the future of the Mac Pro and all-in-one desktop Macs like the 27" iMac, and hand the show over to the l...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Essential Apps: A New Hope from 2022-12-27T03:00:05
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric present our Increasingly Inaccurately Named 10th Annual list of Essential Apps for Mac users, plus a few bonus essential apps that just missed la...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Carol of the Startup Bells from 2022-12-11T05:00:50
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric share their last minute gift picks for the Apple user in your life.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Lost on the Road to Ventura from 2022-11-30T18:00:53
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: In a conversation that dances on the fringes of rant territory, Mike and Eric explore what's "missing" in macOS 13 and share some of the oddities within Ventur...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Getting to the Core of the Apple from 2022-11-01T02:00:45
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric continue the discussion on bringing new life to older Macs no longer supported by Apple through the use of an open source tool called OpenCore Le...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Surf’s Up for Ventura! from 2022-10-16T04:00:20
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric battle through power and internet outages to discuss marquee features of the upcoming macOS Ventura, checking your Mac and apps for compatibility...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Literally Virtual! from 2022-09-24T16:00:51
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Eric and special guest Darren Davies discuss virtualization vs emulation, how to run Windows and Linux on your Intel or Apple Silicon Mac, and using a “h...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Far Out iPhone Event from 2022-09-08T03:00:37
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gaz, Dave, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s Far Out Event where Apple announced the Apple Watch 8 and Watch Ultra, ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Peek Performance Event from 2022-03-08T23:00:56
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gaz, Chuck, Dave, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions to Apple’s Peek Performance Event where Apple announced an updated iPhone SE...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Private Relay Reporting for Duty! from 2021-11-30T03:00:21
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Eric to answer a listener question about Apple's new Private Relay service compared to VPNs. Mike and Eric also discuss the security of Inter...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple Unleashed from 2021-10-18T22:00:48
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Chuck, Dave, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s Unleashed Event where Apple announced an updated and colorful HomePod...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Dreaming of Streaming on California Screamin’ from 2021-09-15T00:00:45
Season 16, Episode 1 (#388) On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Chuck, Gary, Dave, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s California Streaming Keynote where ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: WWDC 2021 Keynote from 2021-06-08T02:00:03
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gary, Dave, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions to Apple’s WWDC 2021 Keynote where Apple announced what’s coming in iOS 15, iPadOS...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Spring Loaded Event from 2021-04-20T22:00:53
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Chuck and Dave to provide their first-hand reactions to Apple’s Spring Loaded Event during which they announced new colors for the iPhone 12,...
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FMEO After Show – Power Cubed from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After Show Episode #6 In this lightly edited supplement to Episode 360, Eric and I discuss a new portable power adapter I found for my upcoming trips as well as a neat portable USB power adapter I ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s One More Thing Event from 2020-11-11T00:00:32
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Dave, Chuck, Guy, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s One More Thing Event during which they announced a new Apple M1 ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Hi, Speed Event from 2020-10-13T22:32:32
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gary, Dave, Chuck, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions to Apple’s Hi, Speed Event where they announced the HomePod mini and the en...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Time Flies Event from 2020-09-15T21:00:22
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gary, Dave, Chuck, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s Time Flies Event where they announced the Apple Watch Series 6 ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: WWDC 2020 Keynote from 2020-06-23T02:00:18
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: In an episode fraught with technical difficulties, Mike is joined by Gary, Dave, Chuck, and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s WWDC 2020 Ke...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s By Innovation Only iPhone Event from 2019-09-10T23:00:46
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gary and Dave to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s annual fall iPhone event during which Apple announced the availability of App...
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For Mac Eyes Only – A Parley in Podcasting from 2019-08-31T20:00:06
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Dave to talk the value of Apple User Groups and getting started with podcasting. Do you have something to say? With little more than your Mac...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Mythical Magical Mac Pro from 2019-06-22T22:00:06
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss Apple's "amazingly awesome" new Mac Pro and compare it to a professional workstation from the PC world in a little thought experiment tha...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: WWDC 2019 from 2019-06-03T22:00:02
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gary and Dave to provide their first-hand reactions to Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote where they announced what's coming in iOS 13, debut iPadOS, ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Obi Wan Photobi from 2019-04-17T23:00:04
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss the different options for syncing and sharing your photos from your iPhone or Mac using iCloud Photos as well as third party services lik...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s It’s Show Time Event from 2019-03-25T22:00:36
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Barry and Dave to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s announcements Show Time event where they announced all new services coming o...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Must Have Mac Apps from 2018-12-29T03:00:16
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric share the apps they must load onto any new Mac to make it feel like "home".
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For Mac Eyes Only – Must Make Mac Tweaks from 2018-12-22T03:00:31
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss their "must make" tweaks to macOS when setting up a new Mac.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s There’s More in the Making Event from 2018-10-30T19:00:17
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Eric and Dave to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s announcements during their Mac and iPad event in which they debuted an entire...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Remotely Possible from 2018-09-18T22:00:33
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Eric, and Chuck discuss the demise of Back to My Mac in macOS Mojave, requirements for what would make a good replacement, and round out the discussion w...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Gather Round Event from 2018-09-12T22:00:59
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Dave and Eric to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s announcements during their iPhone 'Gather Round' event during which Apple deb...
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For Mac Eyes Only – A Little Field Trip from 2018-08-13T20:00:12
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Dave Ginsburg on a field trip to Apple Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago to discuss managing Apple devices in the enterprise and how those ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s WWDC 2018 Keynote from 2018-06-04T22:00:04
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike is joined by Gary and Dave to provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple’s announcements during the WWDC keynote presentation during which Apple shares ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Silly Rabbit, Tricks Are For Mac Users! from 2018-04-30T02:00:26
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric dive deep into their bag of Mac tricks to share their favorite "hidden" gems of macOS including a whole sack full of bonus Mac tips and tricks al...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s Let’s Take a Field Trip Event from 2018-03-27T20:00:06
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Chuck provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple's announcements during the education event held at Lane Tech College Prep in Chicago IL during whic...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Phase 3 from 2018-02-28T03:00:32
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric discuss Phase 3 of For Mac Eyes Only and Mike shares all the new things headed your way at Macstock 2018 this summer.
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For Mac Eyes Only – MacBook Got Run Over by a Reindeer from 2017-12-13T03:00:20
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Barry, Dave, and Eric share their last minute gift idea picks for the Apple user in your life.
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For Mac Eyes Only – Assimilation Complete! from 2017-11-30T03:00:01
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike jumps back into the iPhone fray and surprises Eric with a second, completely unexpected, purchase!
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For Mac Eyes Only – “High” Sierra! from 2017-10-19T02:00:13
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: In part 2 of a 2-part marathon episode, Mike and Eric discuss some of the things you'll need to know when upgrading to High Sierra as well as some of the cool ...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Feeling a Little EFI from 2017-10-03T23:00:17
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: In part 1 of a 2-part marathon episode, Mike and Eric discuss the EFI Firmware warning headlines that broke on Friday, what it means to you, and what you shoul...
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For Mac Eyes Only – Reaction Time: Apple’s iPhone X Event from 2017-09-13T00:00:41
On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Eric, & Dave provide their first-hand reactions* to Apple's announcements during the September 2017 Apple Event held for the first time in the Steve...
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