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NC #1061 Tiny Mac Tips Part 10 Brings 9 New Tips, Adam Engst on AppleCare and AppleCare One, a Cautionary Tale

September 8, 2025·1 hr 12 min·4 clips

AppleCare One can offer ineligible devices during signup, then remove them.

1. NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1061 centers on Tiny Mac Tips Part 10 and a Chit Chat Across the Pond segment about AppleCare One. 2. Allison Sheridan hosts NosillaCast, and Adam Engst of TidBITS joins Chit Chat Across the Pond to explain AppleCare changes and AppleCare One pitfalls. 3. The episode asks whether a handful of Mac shortcuts and a new insurance-style bundle are worth listeners' time. 4. Nick Kick of Disk Graph corrects Allison Sheridan by pointing to View > Show List and making the app accessible to VoiceOver. 5. Nick Kick also explains Disk Graph's View > Layout options, including snake/spiral and stack, and says the gray boxes represent files too small to display individually. 6. Omni Group CEO Ken Case produces a test build of OmniDiskSweeper that is accessible via VoiceOver and adds a visible Open Folder button. 7. Erwin Bonsma explains that Grand Perspective's truncated SourceForge URL comes from a historical name-length restriction. 8. Tiny Mac Tips Part 10 starts with dragging an image or URL onto Safari's tab bar to open it directly. 9. Allison Sheridan says the same drag-to-tab-bar trick behaves differently in Firefox and Chromium browsers such as Microsoft Edge. 10. She then shows that the word PDF in the Print dialog is a button that opens the save dialog and skips two clicks. 11. David Price demonstrates a Contacts trick: hold Option on a selected contact and all matching lists turn blue. 12. David Price says he uses 37 lists and 12 smart lists for 6,674 contacts, and he does not bother deleting contacts. 13. Allison Sheridan argues for Finder column view and explains Adam Christensen's sort-by options from empty space or the rightmost column. 14. In Apple Photos, Allison Sheridan uses the M key and the blue checkmark to compare edits against the original and avoid overdoing vibrance or saturation. 15. She also shows Option-Shift with brightness or volume keys for quarter-step control and Shift with volume keys to hear a boop while adjusting volume. 16. The Get Info stationary pad checkbox becomes a template-file trick, and Allison Sheridan confirms it works in apps including Apple Numbers and Affinity Designer. 17. Preview's File > Export > Quartz Filter > Reduce File Size shrinks a travelogue PDF from 85 megabytes to 36 megabytes and a newsletter PDF from 28.3 megabytes to 563 kilobytes. 18. Allison Sheridan closes the Mac tips run by thanking six-year Patreon donors from 2019 and correcting a prior year-counting mistake. 19. Listeners who like practical Mac keyboard shortcuts, accessibility fixes, and Apple account-management details will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners who want a tightly edited single-topic show may want to skip this one.

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Careful Apple help, with a useful correction and a practical coverage conversation.

Allison starts with housekeeping, then returns to the disk-space post and a developer correction that makes Disk Graph feel more useful than it first seemed. The opening keeps things practical and grounded, with the focus staying on what changed and why it matters.

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You want practical Apple tips that help you recover disk space and make smarter AppleCare calls.

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