For Mac Eyes Only

Apr 15 2025 25 ep. 138

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A podcast about Macs for Mac users offering fresh perspectives on Apple news and events. On For Mac Eyes Only, Mike shares his thoughts on the most interesting news and rumors of the week, presents Mac How-Tos and Quick Tips, and answers listener questions about the Macintosh and other Apple related hardware.

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For Mac Eyes Only 449 – A Shortcut to Efficiency

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Darren dig into Shortcuts, Automator, and even a touch of AI as they seek to help a listener format images and text for different outlets on the internet including social media, websites, and email newsletters. Darren closes the episode with this week’s Essential App pick: MakeMKV!

For Mac Eyes Only 448 – Hopping from Cloud to Cloud

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Darren offer listeners advice on moving from one cloud service to another using only the Mac’s built in apps to easily transfer Contacts, Calendars, Notes, and Email — and even a few tips on how to fix a misbehaving cloud service! Mike closes the episode with this week’s Essential App pick: Rapidmg!

For Mac Eyes Only 447 – Tipping the Mac Fantastic

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Eric, and Darren share some of their favorite ways of getting the most from your Mac with tips on Finder navigation, Reminders, better Mail organization, working with multiple displays, PDFs in Notes, file templates in the Finder, plus little bonus tips sprinkled throughout! Darren closes the episode with this week’s Essential App pick:

For Mac Eyes Only 446 – What I Like About Mac

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Darren discuss the revelations of a recent switcher and examine what stops people from moving to a Mac including fear of the unknown, software requirements, discoverability, perceived cost, and general misconceptions of what a Mac is and what it can do. Mike closes the episode with this week’s Essential App pick: Loop!

For Mac Eyes Only 445 – You’ve Got Apple Mail

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Darren some of their top reasons to switch to a mail client like Apple Mail including Mail specific features such as Focus-based email, sending large attachments with Mail Drop, Rules, and even some unique mail sending features not found in the typical webmail service! Mike and Darren answer listener questions from Andy and Alex on Fin

For Mac Eyes Only 444 – Looking for Apps in All the Wrong Places

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Darren dig into the Mac's Applications folder and discuss some of the more overlooked and misunderstood apps that ship with every new Mac including some you may know about...and some you may not! Mike shares listener feedback and questions from Lisa, Scott, and Cindy. Then Mike closes the episode with this week's Essential App pick: Bi

For Mac Eyes Only 443 – Fantastic Mactastic Tweaks

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: What tweaks do you make when setting up a new Mac? Mike and Darren kick off the New Year by sharing some of the tweaks they make to the Finder, Settings, the Dock, and even the apps they install...whenever they set up a new Mac. And Mike closes the episode with his Essential App pick: LinearMouse!

For Mac Eyes Only 442 – Oh Little Mac of Cupertino

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike, Eric and Darren kick off the holiday season by digging into their treasure trove of holiday gift ideas to share some favorite last minute gift picks for the Apple user in your life.

For Mac Eyes Only 441 – Retro Reaction Time

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric provide their Retro Reactions to Apple's debut of three new M4-based Macs including an updated iMac, two new MacBook Pros, plus the newly redesigned Mac mini. Mike asks if Apple buying Pixelmator could be the beginnings of a new pro photo management app from Apple. Final Cut Pro 11 debuts with its amazing new Magnetic Mask feature

For Mac Eyes Only 440 – Mac Migrate-a-palooza

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Eric share more on Sequoia’s Screen Recording Permission issue and how to work around it using the Terminal or with an awesome new app, Amnesia! Tackling Mac migration questions from Listener Lisa, Mike and Eric cover how long you can safely keep using that old Mac, Photo library management including migration, moving, and merging yo