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Dave Hamilton Podcaster & Publisher

Dave Hamilton, a seasoned tech enthusiast, podcaster, and publisher, has dedicated the past three decades to aiding computer users globally. Known for his insightful advice and valuable product recommendations on the Mac Geek Gab podcast, Dave also enjoys an esteemed reputation as the founder of BackBeat Media, a network of fiercely independent publishers. His online publishing journey took off with The Mac Observer, an acclaimed Apple news site he co-founded in 1998 and led to its successful acquisition in 2021.

Beyond his tech-savvy persona, Dave embraces a vibrant life filled with music and Family in the New Hampshire seacoast. He passionately performs with bands Bitter Pill and Fling, among other musical projects, creating a harmonic balance between his Love for Technology and music. Alongside his wife, Lisa, he raised their two children amidst this symphony of Innovation, passion, and independent spirit, showcasing the power of embracing one's interests and using them to make a meaningful impact in the world.

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Reclaim Your Storage: Icloud, Ram &Amp; Space-Saving Secrets &Raquo; Macgeekgab Logo Sans Tmo 2022 3000Px
Reclaim Your Storage: iCloud, RAM & Space-Saving Secrets

This week on Mac Geek Gab 1150, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton pack an Embrace Your Geekness Day episode with Quick Tips you’ll put to work immediately. You’ll learn how to sched…

This week on Mac Gee…

This week on Mac Geek Gab 1150, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton pack an Embrace Your Geekness Day episode with Quick Tips you’ll put to work immediately. You’ll learn how to schedule birthday messages so you never miss one, silence those pesky automatic Shortcuts notifications, and give Apple Intelligence the context it needs to actually help. From automating Theater Mode the moment CarPlay connects, to using your iPhone to check for ticks, to texting “Marco” so your lost iPhone sings until you find it, these are the tips that keep you sharp. You’ll also dig into sea…

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Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 13, 2026
Growing Up Statler: Wilson Fairchild On Harmony, Hustle, And The Working Musician'S Life &Raquo; Giggab2024Logo Sansborder 3000Px Square
Growing Up Statler: Wilson Fairchild on Harmony, Hustle, and the Working Musician's Life

This week Wil and Langdon Reid of Wilson Fairchild pull up a chair beside Dave to show you what a life in music actually looks like from the inside. These guys grew up on a tour bus in the ’70s and …

This week Wil and La…

This week Wil and Langdon Reid of Wilson Fairchild pull up a chair beside Dave to show you what a life in music actually looks like from the inside. These guys grew up on a tour bus in the ’70s and ’80s watching their dads, Don and Harold Reid, play eight years with Johnny Cash before becoming The Statler Brothers, a side-stage masterclass we all wish we had. You’ll hear the advice that shaped them: nobody can put you in the music business and nobody can take you out, so you’d better love the life and want it bad. You’ll get the manager horror stories (let’s just call him Peter), t…

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Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 13, 2026
Fridai - Free $10K + Ai Insanity &Raquo; Businessbrain 2022 Logo 3000Px
FridAI – Free $10K + AI Insanity

In this episode of Business Brain, Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton kick off Casual FridAI with a $10,000 surprise. Dave got an unsolicited email about a domain he’d owned for 21 years and never used …

In this episode of B…

In this episode of Business Brain, Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton kick off Casual FridAI with a $10,000 surprise. Dave got an unsolicited email about a domain he’d owned for 21 years and never used — exactly the kind of message he’d normally ignore. This time he fed it to Claude, treated AI as a confidential collaborator, and worked through how to value a domain with zero cash flow and how to play the negotiation. He came in high at $15K, settled at $10K through escrow, and netted every dollar. The takeaway for you: stop using AI just to do the work and start using it to think alongside …

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Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 10, 2026
What Have You Failed At This Week? &Raquo; Businessbrain 2022 Logo 3000Px
What Have You Failed at This Week?

In this episode of Business Brain, you’ll rethink everything you assumed about failure. Shannon and Dave dig into why America’s culture of embracing failure, from bankruptcy protection to at-will …

In this episode of B…

In this episode of Business Brain, you’ll rethink everything you assumed about failure. Shannon and Dave dig into why America’s culture of embracing failure, from bankruptcy protection to at-will Employment, fuels entrepreneurship in a way most other countries can’t match. You’ll hear how low switching costs mean low experimentation costs, why VCs invest in founders instead of ideas, and why a business failure here doesn’t follow you for life the way it does elsewhere. The big idea: failure isn’t a punishment, it’s tuition, and outliving it is what keeps your charmed life on trac…

Listen · 24:25
Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 8, 2026
Save Room For Your Icloud Dessert &Raquo; Macgeekgab Logo Sans Tmo 2022 3000Px
Save Room For Your iCloud Dessert

You learn at least five new things every episode, and this one stacks them fast. Roll your Apple Watch crown instead of tapping it to keep Sleep mode from searing your eyes, then hit Command-Shift-F i…

You learn at least f…

You learn at least five new things every episode, and this one stacks them fast. Roll your Apple Watch crown instead of tapping it to keep Sleep mode from searing your eyes, then hit Command-Shift-F in the Finder to jump straight to Recents when a saved file vanishes into the void. When a listener asks how to archive iMessages, you’ll meet iMazing, Shottr’s scrolling screenshots, privacy.apple.com, and a public-key-encryption rabbit hole that explains why even Apple can’t hand your texts back. You’ll also learn to Control-click the Printers list to reset the entire CUPS printing system…

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Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 6, 2026
Ryan Goldbacher On Touring With Tom Keifer, Mixing Foh (And Monitors), And Ai &Raquo; Giggab2024Logo Sansborder 3000Px Square
Ryan Goldbacher on Touring with Tom Keifer, Mixing FOH (and Monitors), and AI

This week front-of-house engineer Ryan Goldbacher calls in from the road with Tom Keifer, and you’ll quickly learn that landing the next gig comes down to two things: competence, and not being miser…

This week front-of-h…

This week front-of-house engineer Ryan Goldbacher calls in from the road with Tom Keifer, and you’ll quickly learn that landing the next gig comes down to two things: competence, and not being miserable to be around. Word of mouth is the real currency of touring life, so Always Be Performing applies long after you step off stage: when the tour bus is smaller than your bedroom and there are twelve people on it, how you treat the room matters. You’ll pick up honest strategies for protecting your sanity on the road, from taking a walk to renting a car and disappearing into the mountains, plus…

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Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 6, 2026
Openclaw For Ios + Supercut &Raquo; Businessbrain 2022 Logo 3000Px
OpenClaw for iOS + Supercut

In this episode of Business Brain, we break down Anthropic’s surprise release of Claude Sonnet 5, a leaner, more agentic model built for the daily grind of coding, automation, and multi-step tool us…

In this episode of B…

In this episode of Business Brain, we break down Anthropic’s surprise release of Claude Sonnet 5, a leaner, more agentic model built for the daily grind of coding, automation, and multi-step tool use, and why we’re shifting our default from Opus to save tokens without sacrificing quality. We also dig into the new OpenClaw iOS app, which finally gives us voice control and location-sharing baked right into our personal AI agent, and why pairing it with Tailscale unlocks near-magical remote access from anywhere. From outfit suggestions based on real-time location to bigger questions about whe…

Listen · 22:29
Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 3, 2026
Cs Language And Unnecessary Change &Raquo; Businessbrain 2022 Logo 3000Px
CS Language and Unnecessary Change

In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into the power of intentional language and why unnecessary change can quietly wreck a good team. We kick things off with a customer service moment that stuck …

In this episode of B…

In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into the power of intentional language and why unnecessary change can quietly wreck a good team. We kick things off with a customer service moment that stuck with us: a tuxedo rental shop promised to call “if we have any questions,” not “if we have any problems,” and that one word swap became a masterclass in framing. We talk about why capturing good ideas the moment we have them (yes, even in our Notes app) beats trusting our memory, and why July is the perfect time to lock in next year’s holiday calendar before anyone has to ask. Then we ge…

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Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton July 1, 2026
There’s No Two Hands About It &Raquo; Macgeekgab Logo Sans Tmo 2022 3000Px
There’s No Two Hands About It

Mac Geek Gab 1148 hands you a fresh stack of Quick Tips you’ll actually use. You’ll find out how Mark recovered every one of his accidentally deleted iMessages with Control-Command-4 (or the Recen…

Mac Geek Gab 1148 ha…

Mac Geek Gab 1148 hands you a fresh stack of Quick Tips you’ll actually use. You’ll find out how Mark recovered every one of his accidentally deleted iMessages with Control-Command-4 (or the Recently Deleted view), undo a botched Finder rename with a casual Command-Z, and automate Theater Mode on your Apple Watch so it goes dim and quiet at night without Sleep Focus. You’ll pick up several ways to email a Safari webpage or just its link, learn to strip out distracting page clutter before you share, and finally understand why Apple Music can hijack your Mac’s default speaker output. The…

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Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton June 29, 2026
Patrice Peris On Sync, Survival, And Why You Don'T Need A Backup Plan &Raquo; Giggab2024Logo Sansborder 3000Px Square
Patrice Peris on Sync, Survival, and Why You Don't Need a Backup Plan

This week singer-songwriter Patrice Peris joins Dave to flip the script on building a music career. That question musicians always get – what’s your backup plan? – is a terrible one, because Pla…

This week singer-son…

This week singer-songwriter Patrice Peris joins Dave to flip the script on building a music career. That question musicians always get – what’s your backup plan? – is a terrible one, because Plan A was never required to land where you first mapped it. Through COVID, a Cancer diagnosis, and a bone-marrow transplant she now calls a rebirth, Patrice kept asking what each detour was teaching her and never stopped writing, landing sync placements on Netflix, HBO Max, and The Voice along the way. Want to break into sync licensing yourself? Get resourceful and bullheaded: take a class, build mu…

Listen · 52:44
Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton June 29, 2026
Fridai - Reducing And Distractions &Raquo; Businessbrain 2022 Logo 3000Px
FridAI – Reducing and Distractions

In this episode of Business Brain, we tackle a question that hits closer to home than anyone wants to admit: is AI quietly stealing your creative time the same way social media does? We dig into “fa…

In this episode of B…

In this episode of Business Brain, we tackle a question that hits closer to home than anyone wants to admit: is AI quietly stealing your creative time the same way social media does? We dig into “faux-ductivity” — the trap of endlessly building, prompting, and tinkering in AI under the guise of getting work done, when really it’s just one more shiny barrier between you and the hard stuff that actually moves your business forward. If you’ve ever told yourself you just need to learn one more thing before you take action, this one’s for you. Then we flip the script and show AI at its …

Listen · 24:49
Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton June 26, 2026
Disco Bathrooms And Tipping Culture &Raquo; Businessbrain 2022 Logo 3000Px
Disco Bathrooms and Tipping Culture

In this episode of Business Brain, Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton tackle a topic that hits every wallet: tipping culture, and how far the pendulum has swung. We dig into why the standing-up-means-no-t…

In this episode of B…

In this episode of Business Brain, Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton tackle a topic that hits every wallet: tipping culture, and how far the pendulum has swung. We dig into why the standing-up-means-no-tip rule makes sense, how COVID-era generosity quietly became the new default, and why getting prompted to tip at the pharmacy or grocery checkout feels so absurd. We break down the math that nobody questions anymore (why a $7 beer and a $17 martini earn the same buck), the European model where tips aren’t expected, and those creeping service fees stacking on top of tax. The reset is coming, and …

Listen · 22:26
Avatar Of Dave Hamilton Dave Hamilton June 24, 2026
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