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Description:In this episode, I continue my discussion with Bart about his test drive of the Ford Explorer EV, exclusive to Europe. Bart considers it as a potential replacement for his Tesla Model 3 and explores options like the Polestar 3 and Volkswagen ID.7.We discuss Bart's impressions of the Explorer's design, interior practicality, and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, comparing them to Tesla's offerings. He enjoys the responsive driving experience, noting similarities in acceleration and handling to his Model 3, though he wishes for stronger regenerative braking.We touch on space and cargo considerations, promising to revisit them with the upcoming Ford Capri EV, which Bart is excited about for its luxury and comfort. Listeners can expect further updates on Bart's car explorations and his insights on photography and tech.Support the Show:PatreonAcast+Shuffle PlaylistBart's Links:TwitterWebsiteLet's Talk AppleLet's Talk PhotographyProgramming by StealthSecurity Bits (NosillaCast)Links:Ford Explorer EVFord Capri EVSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kilowatt. Support the show at https://plus.acast.com/s/kilowatt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Description:In this episode of Kilowatt, I speak with Bart Busschots as we discuss his experiences with the VW ID.7. Our conversation covers the anticipation surrounding the delayed Polestar 2, Bart's exploration of alternatives, and the impressive features of the ID.7, including its 702 km range and superior technology. Bart shares insights on the ID.7's driving dynamics, highlighting its responsiveness and adaptive features that enhance the driving experience. We also tackle the challenges of EV ownership in Europe, including tariffs and manufacturing issues, particularly regarding Polestar and VW. Support the Show:PatreonAcast+Shuffle PlaylistBart's Links:TwitterWebsiteLet's Talk AppleLet's Talk PhotographyProgramming by StealthSecurity Bits (NosillaCast)Links: VW ID.7Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kilowatt. Support the show at https://plus.acast.com/s/kilowatt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charlotte Henry and Chuck Joiner review the Apple TV+ announcements at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, focusing on the service's quality-driven strategy and user interface compared to other streaming services. Shows present and future, including Loot, Shrinking, Franklin, and Manhunt were discussed, and a shift towards situational comedies explored. All this content leads to the need for an effective time management plan to watch.  Show Notes: Chapters: 00:18 TV Plus Talk with Chuck Joiner and Charlotte Henry06:48 Recognition for Charlotte's Dedication12:08 Streaming App Interfaces Discussion21:40 Reviewing Apple TV Plus Show "Argyle"24:36 Excitement for "Presumed Innocent" Series28:32 Budgeting Time for TV Viewing33:15 Encouraging Audience Interaction Guests: Charlotte Henry is a media junkie, covering how Apple is not just a revolutionary tech firm, but a revolutionary media firm. She is based in London, writes and broadcasts for various outlets, and is the author of Not Buying It, an examination of fake news. You can find her on her The Addition blog, her podcast, in her The Addition newsletter on substack, and on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Charlotte Henry and Chuck Joiner review the Apple TV+ announcements at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, focusing on the service's quality-driven strategy and user interface compared to other streaming services. Shows present and future, including Loot, Shrinking, Franklin, and Manhunt were discussed, and a shift towards situational comedies explored. All this content leads to the need for an effective time management plan to watch.  Show Notes: Chapters: 00:18 TV Plus Talk with Chuck Joiner and Charlotte Henry 06:48 Recognition for Charlotte's Dedication 12:08 Streaming App Interfaces Discussion 21:40 Reviewing Apple TV Plus Show "Argyle" 24:36 Excitement for "Presumed Innocent" Series 28:32 Budgeting Time for TV Viewing 33:15 Encouraging Audience Interaction Guests: Charlotte Henry is a media junkie, covering how Apple is not just a revolutionary tech firm, but a revolutionary media firm. She is based in London, writes and broadcasts for various outlets, and is the author of Not Buying It, an examination of fake news. You can find her on her The Addition blog, her podcast, in her The Addition newsletter on substack, and on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

This week on HomeKit Insider, Nomad CEO & co-founder Noah Dentzel joins to chat about Apple Find My trackers & developing Qi2/MagSafe chargers. We also go through the news including new Matter accessories and a pair of worthwhile app updates!Send us your HomeKit questions and recommendations with the hashtag homekitinsider. Tweet and follow our hosts at:@andrew_osu on Twitter@andrewohara941 on ThreadsEmail us hereHomeKit Insider YouTube ChannelSubscribe to the HomeKit Insider YouTube Channel and watch our episodes every week! Click here to subscribe.Links from the showNomad Tracking CardGovee Triad Outdoor Spotlights with MatterAcrylic AirPlay streamerMatter Patio LockHome Widget appController for HomeKitThose interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: andrew@appleinsider.com

Key Moments:First Impressions:The excitement of seeing the Apple Vision Pro in person after years of anticipation.Aesthetic highlights: Glass display, 23 million pixels, 3D technology, and Micro‑OLED.Demo Experience:The 30-minute in-store demo, available only by walking in.Scripted elements and limited room for independent exploration.A rogue moment: Testing the Safari app for an immersive website experience.Favorite Immersive Experience:A standout moment in a lake with a 360-degree view transitioning into the rain.Similar to creating a vivid Colorado hiking trail experience in May.Spatial Memories:Reflections on the intriguing and occasionally peculiar aspects of spatial memories.Powerhouse Specs and Cost:Breakdown of specifications: 8‑core CPU, 10‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine, and more.Justifying the high cost (around $5k) with top-tier quality.Privacy and Security Features:Apple's commitment to privacy and security.Introduction of Optic ID: A secure authentication system using the uniqueness of the user's iris. EPISODE CREDITS:Produced, edited, and mixed by Ashley Coffey. Artwork designed by Ashley Coffey.Headshot by Brandlink MediaIntroduction music composed and produced by Ashley Coffey LINKSBe sure to follow and tag Coffey & Code on Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, and Youtube! © 2024 Coffey & Code Podcast. All rights reserved. The content of this podcast, including but not limited to text, graphics, audio, and images, is the property of Ashley Coffey and may not be reproduced, redistributed, or used in any manner without the express written consent of the owner.

Das Jahr 2024 hat eben erst begonnen, doch die News stapeln sich bereits im Dokument für diese Episode! Allem voran steht Apples Release der Apple Vision Pro, die versucht hat der CES die Show zu stehlen. Aber soweit lassen wir es nicht kommen. Denn die diesjährige CES hat viele News rund um XR und Spatial Computing, die ihr euch nicht entgehen lassen solltet. Zu den Wichtigsten gehört sicher die beeindruckende Keynote von Siemens, auf der sie ihre Industrial Metaverse-Strategie vorstellen. Die Keynote koppeln sie mit dem Release eines neuen Sony-Headsets, das für den B2B-Markt vorgesehen ist. Der vorläufig einzige Name für das Headset: "immersive spatial content creation system". Bemerkenswert ist außerdem, was Xreal vorstellt: Mit der Air 2 Ultra wagen sie sich in den 6DoF-Bereich und bieten für 699 Dollar "Spatial Computing Glasses", wie sie die neue Brille selbst nennen. Das ist insofern bemerkenswert, als ihre Brillen mehr Bildschirme als AR-Brillen waren. Noch haben wir keine Berichte von der Brille, damit kann es aber nicht mehr lange dauern. Auf der CES wurde außerdem ein weiteres Gadget angekündigt, dass auf keinen Fall ein Smartphone sein will. Das Rabbit R1 ist ein viel zu günstiges Device, das ein relatives kleines Touchdisplay und eine drehbare Kamera hat. Und das vor allem durch seine KI glänzen will. Mit der soll es möglich sein per Sprache all das zu tun, was man auf einem Smartphone tun würde. Aber ohne einen Finger auf fas Display zu setzen. Wir fragen uns: Wie viel Spatial Computing ist das schon? Und ist das eigentlich nicht eine App?

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Host Alex Pierson speaks with tech expert Adam Oldfield about Apple's ''Scary Fast'' events which includes M3 chips, Facebook and Instagram paid subscriptions, and Spotify's AI powered translation. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Next week's “Scary Fast” event came out of nowhere, a total surprise! And now we know... Apple's preparing a BARRAGE of new Macs. Get your wallets ready — you're going to like what's coming next! This episode supported by: Notion combines your notes, documents, and task or project management into one space that's simple and beautifully designed, with the power of AI built right inside. Try Notion AI for free when you go to notion.com/cultcast. Easily create a beautiful website all by yourself, at Squarespace.com/cultcast. Use offer code CultCast at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Cult of Mac's watch store is full of beautiful straps that cost way less than Apple's. See the full curated collection at store.cultofmac.com CultCloth will keep your Mac Studio, Studio Display, iPhone 15 Pro, guitars, glasses and lenses sparkling clean! For a limited time use code CULTCAST at checkout to score a two free CarryCloths with any order $20+ at CultCloth.co This week‘s stories: Apple plans ‘Scary Fast' event for Halloween eve It's official, a second Apple product-release event of autumn takes place the evening before Halloween — Monday, October 30 at 5 p.m. PT. Most folks expect some new Macs to shamble forth. Apple drops big hint October event will be Mac focused Apple invited the world to a product-launch event on October 30. And the invitation strongly suggests that new Macs will be on the agenda. Mark Gurman's tweets: “Apple's iMacs and MacBook Pros are in extremely short supply” “Apple has been testing M3 Max and M3 Pro 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros” “Apple has been planning an M3 iMac for a while […] No other major changes other than the chip” “Inventory of existing high-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros — as well as the all-in-one iMac desktop — has dwindled at Apple stores as well as retailers” Monday's ‘Scary Fast' Macs could sport M3 chips after all After Apple invited the world to its Scary Fast product event Monday, speculation turned more seriously to the idea that newly announced Macs might sport faster new M3 chips rather than versions of the current M2 series chips. MacRumors: OLED iPad and MacBook Rumored to Feature Specialized Display Materials Apple has apparently collaborated with LG Display to integrate new OLED material sets in some of its future devices, including forthcoming iPad Pro and MacBook models. AirPods 4 could deliver active noise cancellation AirPods 2 and AirPods 3 will get the axe in 2024 to be replaced with a fourth generation that will come in two versions, according to an unconfirmed report from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. One AirPods 4 model will offer ANC and have a charging case that supports the Find My app. A cheaper version will not have either feature. Apple raises rates for Apple TV+ and other services by up to 40% The cost of watching Apple TV+ series and movies just went up 40%. […] The price for Apple Arcade, Apple News+ and Apple One also increased. But the cost of other services, like Apple Music, remains the same. Extra Ordinary: The CultCast ‘Scary Fast' Predictions For (probably) the last time this year, Erfon, Lewis and I will be putting down our predictions for a surprise event on Monday.

This episode is sponsored by Masterclass. Be sure to visit https://www.masterclass.com/mac for 15% off an annual membership! Exclusive! Grab the NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/macrumors and get extra subscription time. Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring our show. On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss our expectations about Apple's upcoming "Scary Fast" event, which is widely rumored to see the announcement of new Mac models. We talk through the unusual nature of the event, with Apple announcing it less than one week in advance, opting for an unorthodox 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time start, and even offering an explicit nod to the arrival of new Macs with a Finder easter egg. The event is expected to see the debut of the M3 chip and some of its more powerful variants. Two Mac models are currently in the running to be announced, with the iMac and high-end MacBook Pro rumored to be on the table. We also discuss our feelings about the AirPods Max as we approach three years since their introduction and more. The MacRumors Show is now on X @macrumorsshow, so be sure to give us a follow to keep up with the podcast! You can also view this week's episode on our NEW YouTube channel!

Bart Busschots is the host of Let's Talk Apple and Let's Talk Photography. He is also a bi-weekly contributor to the ‘Chit-Chat Across the Pond' segment on the NosillaCast. In this episode we discuss how the Apple Vision Pro is different from other headsets, the concept of the “infinity screen”, paradigm leaps, how he believes he will use the Apple Vision Pro, and much more. This episode of Vision Pros is sponsored by Agenda, the award winning app that seamlessly integrates calendar events into your note taking. Learn more at www.agenda.com. Agenda 18 is now available as a free download for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS.Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.visionpros.fm/patreon. Bonus content and early episodes are also now available in Apple Podcasts! Subscribe today to get instant access to iPad Possibilities, iPad Ponderings, and iPad Historia!Show notes are available at www.VisionPros.fm. Feedback is welcomed at tim@visionpros.fm.Links: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/Chapter Markers:00:00:00: Opening00:01:16: Agenda00:01:41: Early Access00:02:01: Bart Busschots00:04:59: Other headsets?00:06:32: Something different00:09:13: An Infinity Screen00:11:14: Privacy Baked In00:12:10: Paradigm Leaps00:14:59: Many Form Factors00:20:35: Best Version 1 Ever? 00:23:44: Windows at a distance00:25:44: Tapping windows? 00:26:30: Adornments 00:33:05: Sponsor - Agenda00:34:57: Your Office Setup00:42:52: Does visionOS replace anything?00:53:14: Gestures00:59:32: Input01:01:59: Eye Health01:02:40: 3D Elements01:07:47: How do you think you'll use Vision Pro?01:11:09: IO01:13:59: Closing Thoughts01:15:16: Where can people find your work?01:15:57: Closing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hugh Millen joins the show to recap the college football weekend. He tells the guys what he saw in the Huskies' first game and what we can take away from it considering where Boise State is this year. He tells you about the concerns he had early on in the game against Boise State. We are gearing up for the Seahawks game this weekend and give a preview of what to expect. Dick doesn't like that there is no NFL on during Labor Day weekend, but Softy brings up the point that nobody is going to compete with the NFL. Dick sees missed opportunities in college football too. UW's President Ana Mari Cauce says she's ok with continuing the Apple Cup in Seattle and Pullman every other year. Softy and Dick think there's still merit to playing the game.

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We got another awesome guest, as actor Tre Hale joins to talk about his new show 'Platonic,' where he stars alongside Seth Rogan and Rose Byrne. We also delve into his football career at UCLA, that help prepare him to be the actor he is today! Enjoy and hit ya free throws!

Dave Decock, retired horticulturalist and the prince of pruning, takes calls and texts from KFGO listeners about their lawns, trees, gardens and pests. In this episode, Dave address several tree problems involving Elms, Apple, Oak, Birch and more. Plus, a discussion about when and how to divide irisesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Washington's Offensive Coordinator, Co-Defensive Coordinator, and Head Coach talk about the key moments in UW's 51-33 Apple Cup win in Pullman Saturday night, as well as the decisions that went right along the way in 2022 to produce a 10-win regular season. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's our annual tradition: Softy and Puckett join the show and trash talk each other while we laugh. Apple Cup by the numbers & we wrap up the short week with Ashley's Booze News.

This week: let's talk Apple's "Far Out" event predictions! This episode supported by Easily create a beautiful website all by yourself, at Squarespace.com/cultcast. Use offer code CultCast at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Cult of Mac's watch store is full of beautiful straps that cost way less than Apple's. See the full curated collection at Store.Cultofmac.com CultCloth will keep your Mac Studio, Studio Display, iPhone 13, glasses and lenses sparkling clean, and for a limited time use code CULTCAST at checkout to score a free CarryCloth with any order at CultCloth.co. This week's stories Apple's ‘far out' event invite hints at iPhone 14 features The starry invitation to the September 7 Far Out event that went out this week might drop a clue to one or more long-rumored features finally coming to the iPhone 14. M2 MacBook Air runs Windows 11 faster than pricier Dell laptop Real-world experiments with the new MacBook Air show Apple's latest can use Parallels 18 to run Windows 11 faster than a Dell XPS Plus. Enter to win Bucardo's unique Apple Watch accessories [Cult of Mac giveaway] Two lucky winners will receive one Bucardo Apple Pocket Watch and one Bucardo Sports Band. Together, the items in this unique bundle retail for $189. Enter below for your shot at taking home the big prize. After 20 years, what's the most ‘Shazamed' song of all time? Apple bought the popular music-recognition app Shazam, which can name any song you hear, in 2018. Friday marks the app's 20th birthday. And this week it officially surpassed 70 billion song recognitions, Cupertino said. MoviePass to relaunch on Labor Day in beta form with pricing ranging from $10-$30 a month MoviePass will relaunch in beta form on Labor Day. How to get 3 months of Apple TV+ for free (new or returning subscribers)

Apple's spring event is official! Join us for a discussion about “Peek Performance,” where we discuss our theories about what Apple could have in store now that the event is just days away. We start by refreshing our memories about exactly what we're expecting Apple to announce based on rumors, before attempting to decrypt the event invite tagline and artwork, and getting sidetracked with thoughts about the next-generation iPad Pro. You can follow each of us on Twitter @danbarbera, @HartleyCharlton, and @SamiFathi_, and visit macrumors.com for all of the latest Apple news and rumors. MacRumors will have in-depth coverage of the “Peek Performance” event on March 8, including a live blog on our website and on Twitter at @MacRumorsLive. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Chino Y Chicano talk Apple Cup past and present with legendary college quarterbacks Sonny Sixkiller and Jack Thompson. Sixkiller starred for the University of Washington Huskies in the early 70s, making the cover of Sports Illustrated and becoming a Seattle icon. Jack Thompson made his mark as the Throwin Samoan in the mid-70s for Washington State University, He went on to become a first round draft pick for the Cincinnati Bengals. They share their Apple Cup memories and how playing college football changed lives.

Recorded 20th December 2020 In a moment of madness Simon and Guy decide to do a joint Christmas Mayhem Zoom call podcast with GazMaz, MacJim, Nick, Donny, Mark, and Steve (Geeks Corner) Durbin. Not much else to say really - it just took on a life of its own! Happy holidays everyone... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom Essentials free as well. Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show GUY SERLE Co-host of the MyMac Podcast @MacParrot and @VertShark on Twitter Does Guy's Daily Drive, Mac to the Future Livecast, Go! Posts all his stuff to vertshark.com GAZ MAZ @GazMaz on Twitter Co-host of the MyMac Podcast Appears on the For Mac Eyes Only podcast sometimes STEVE DURBIN Runs the Geeks Corner website Produces the Geeks Corner podcast @GeekCorner_uk on Twitter MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter Puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo 2020 IN BRIEF (cribbed from the excellent Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple) January Apple and FBI and more E2E wrangling - usual stuff 'think of the children' vs E2E can't be backdoored without breaking everything for everyone EU voted to press on with standardising chargers CV-19 breaks out in China February CV-19 wreaks havoc Mobile World Congress scrapped March CV-19 becomes a pandemic Apple donates 10million masks WWDC announced as online only Apple spring new MBA Retina and updated Mini iPad Magic Keyboard with Trackpad launched April Apple and Google team up to work on contact tracing API New iPhone SE (2020) revealed Apple designs medical face shield and says it will donate millions Apple gives money to a variety of charities including BBC 'Big Night In' May Apple & Google's Exposure Notification API goes live FBI continue to attack Apple about encryption Apple says it supports BLM Tim Cook pens open letter on racism June Apple announce $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative The UK U-turn on not using Apple's API, but do so with bad grace WWDC with iOS 14, macOS 11, watchOS 7 and Apple announce they are going to custom silicon Controversy over censorship and the Hey app prompt some app store changes July Public Betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and tvOS 14 Apple continues support of BLM Apple starts spending its pledged $2.5bn on housing crisis in California Apple win against EU over Irish tax in ECJ Greyhound film a hit, Apple win Emmys August TikTok war opens Phil Schiller moves from SVP to Apple Fellow iMacs get updates but no Apple Silicon Epic pulls its App Store stunt to start the Fortnite war Anti-trust investigations start to snowball around the world (not just for Apple) September EU appeal the ECJ ruling Will streaming games work on iOS furore starts Judge "excoriates" Epic tactics Apple launches AppleWatch SE, and Series 6 Apple launches new iPad 8 and new Air 4 Apple One Bundle announced UK Apple Maps updated October Apple make all the moneys Anti trust and Epic stuff rumbles on Subscrition streaming game situation confused and unclear Apple announces iPhones 12 range and HomePod Mini November Apple cuts app store commission for "small developers" netting less than $1 million (98% of devs some say) Big Sur goes official Apple drops the M1 Macs... Reviewers go mad over them December Apple releases the AirPods Max at $549... Reviewers are baffled but mostly positive Facebook disses Apple privacy improvements... TC replies Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. 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Recorded 7th July 2020 Nick, Jim and Simon are joined by Son Nguyen Kim of SimpleLogin.io to talk about his service (which allows you to create disposable email aliases for many purposes) and later take a look at some stories from the week. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom and Take Control of Slack too. Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: SON NGUYEN KIM Creator of Simple Login @simple_login on Twitter SimpleLogin on Reddit SimpleLogin code on Github JAMES ORMISTON In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE PSA: Don't Install macOS Big Sur on the Same APFS Container as Older Versions – The Mac Observer Apple's A12Z Bionic GPU Running macOS 11 Through Rosetta 2 Beats Both Ryzen 5 4500U, Core i7-1065G7 iGPUs in OpenCL Test – Wccftech App Library for iOS 14 allows hiding of 3rd party apps as well as Apple ones and whole pages... TECHNOLOGY Microsoft OneDrive updates include 100GB file size boost, dark mode, new admin controls – ZDNet Most Americans Are At Great Risk of Losing Their Computer Data – Backblaze SECURITY & PRIVACY Police bust organized crime networks linked to special Android smartphones – Input Mag @Robrait says: “This is an incredible story that shows the true value of co-operation between international police forces. The French managed to decrypt the system and passed details of several million messages to their colleagues all over the world. In the UK they have, apparently, recovered over £20 million in cash, loads of guns and other weapons, huge quantities of drugs and, most importantly, managed to nail the Mr (and Mrs) Big types who run the crime syndicates who normally manage to keep their noses clean whilst their minions get caught.” @Dougee says: “The EncroChat phones were a really good device. They are based on a customized OnePlus X device and later transitioned to BQ Aquarius device.It worked by changing the Android Recovery partition with a heavily modified OS.The cool thing was when it first boots it looks like it was wiped. They have been a royal pain the butt for us for quite awhile.” TikTok and others revealed to be Clipboard scraping by iOS 14... Which Apps Spy on the iOS Clipboard? – Mac Observer New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy – Malwarebytes This is a good write up from ObjectiveSee about Mac Ransomeware. It also features 'Suspicious Package' a really good app for looking at the contents of packages on Mac, I have been using it for a while now. {Objective See](https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x59.html) WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Pocket Earth App – Offline Maps & Travel Guides for iPhone & iPad I wish I'd found this iPhone accessory years ago – ZDNet This one is for Mark!! *‎*Adobe Fill & Sign－Form Filler Handoff shared clipboard - shared clipboard usually works for me but you have to be quick as the ability to handoff the clipboard only lasts 30 seconds - for security I guess JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Some are thinking that Apple's iPhone MacBook-Like Accessory has a chance of coming to market because of what transpired at WWDC20 – Patently Apple iPhone 13 could morph into a MacBook — literally – Tom's Guide NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (33:52) ATH-ANC300TW QuietPoint Wireless Active Noise-Cancelling In-Ear Headphones from Audio-Technica ($229 US Direct) Amazon $229 US I did find them on the UK store but via a third party for over £330 UK - buy direct or via Amazon US! Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 30th June 2020** Nick, Jim, Simon and Nick get together once more to talk about more WWDC stuff basically - there was so much news, so much stuff, and so many changes ahead that we are probably going to all be talking about it for months. Still better than having nothing to talk about. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom and Take Control of Slack too. Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter Puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube Co-host of the The Watching Men Podcast with Karl Madden JAMES ORMISTON In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Big Sur is officially macOS 11 First Apple Silicon Macs this year, and a two year transition Here's the full list of macOS Big Sur compatible Macs – 9to5 Mac iOS 14 Supported Devices: A Wide Range Of Compatibility – iGeeks Blog One of the Best Features of iPadOS 14- It Runs On 6 Year Old Devices – iPad Insight BootCamp won't make it to Apple Silicon and at least for now virtualisation apps won't be able to run x86 Windows (no news yet regards Microsoft's ARM version) Say Goodbye to Boot Camp and Windows Virtualization on Apple's New ARM-Based Macs – iDrop News Steven Sinofsky full of praise for Apple Apple's Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View – Medium And a piece from directly before WWDC Apple Macintosh and ARM Processors – Medium And a more recent one posted after we recorded Apple Drags The PC Into The 21st Century – Seeking Alpha - Another long article from Sinofsky but it's worth the effort as he lays out a lot of info here Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak talk with Gruber – The Talk Show Craig Federighi talks to Marques Brownlee – 9to5 Mac First Dev Kit Benchmarks appear – 9to5 Mac 13 years of iPhone: Fans line up to get their hands on the very first iPhones – Cult of Mac SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple Reveals Touch ID And Face ID Are Coming To Safari – Forbes WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS @Dougee says “If anyone is looking for services like 33mail, I have been using both Anonaddy and Simplelogin. Both are very good services and don't seem to get blocked as often on sites like 33mail.” AnonAddy Simple Login GhoSTORIES – a new podcast by Pete Knowlton of Ghostery – Anchor NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (1:17:31) Freemove Collapsible Trekking Poles – Amazon $35 US / Not in the UK store. AirTurn Stands, Tablet Holders and more – Nemo says “they have a ton of useful and affordable products for every possible situation, and that the MANOS clamp works with all iPads and all iPhones!” Probably best to either buy direct or search Amazon as there is a wide selection of clamps, pedals etc. Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Simple Login – Another anonymisation service Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 15th June 2020 The second part of the previous show where Simon, Nick and Jim carry on and take a look at some of the other news of the week. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom too. Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Serif have expanded their sale to everything in the Affinity store until June 20th Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: JAMES ORMISTON In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple commits $100 million to racial equity initiative, boosting black partners – Venture Beat Apple renames Buchanan Street store as Glasgow calls for racial justice — 9to5 Mac Apple Maps Real-Time Transit Information Now Available in Several More Countries and Regions – Mac Rumors Apple removes Pocket Casts podcast player from App Store in China at government request – 9to5 Mac Apple Discontinuing iBooks Author on July 1, Encourages Writers to Transition to Pages – Mac Rumors Apple Discontinuing iTunes U at the End of 2021 – Mac Rumors Apple should acquire DuckDuckGo to put pressure on Google Search, analyst argues – 9to5 Mac ARM MAC SPECULATION Will the 12-inch MacBook return fully 'ARM'ed? – Creative Bloq New 12-inch MacBook could be Apple's first ARM Mac – Apple Post TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Just Gave A Billion Users A Reason To Quit Windows 10 — Forbes 'OpenCore Computer' Launches Commercial Hackintosh in Violation of Apple's macOS Licensing Agreement [Updated] — MacRumors Lego Mindstorms blasts back after seven years with a 5-in-1 programmable robot kit — Stuff UK competition watchdog launches investigation into Facebook's $400M acquisition of Giphy – TechCrunch Adobe Photoshop Camera Brings Real-Time Filters and AI to Photo Sharing – Mac Stories SECURITY & PRIVACY This app will tell you if your iPhone has been hacked — ZDNet WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS You can block YouTube ads by adding one symbol to the URL. 'With great power...' – Android Authority Krita: Digital Painting. Creative Freedom – Krita.org OpenToonz 2D Animation and vector illustration – GitHub Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 15th June 2020 Simon, Nick and Jim are joined by the wonderful and perspicacious Carolina Milanesi of Creative Strategies, Techpinions and the Techpinions podcast to take in Apple and the pandemic, the whole ARM rumour explosion, and what WWDC might bring us - yet again the show went way long so another two parter... in this part it's Carolina, and in part two the lads look at other news... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom and Take Control of Slack too. Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Serif have expanded their sale to everything in the Affinity store until June 20th Skylum have a [50% off sale] on Luminar 4 Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: CAROLINA MILANESI Industry Analyst at Creative Strategies Writer and podcaster with Tech.pinions On Twitter as @caro_milanesi Carolina's The Heart of Tech site JAMES ORMISTON In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple ARM MAC SPECULATION Mark Gurman spoke and the world went mad... Ahead of WWDC, speculation over Apple's ARM Mac transition grows — 9to5 Mac Apple was cautious when it shifted to Intel, and an ARM Mac migration will be no different — Apple Insider Apple's challenges as it swaps out the Mac's brain — Axios A few good reads (and one video) on Apple and ARM-based Macs — The Loop If Apple's splitting with Intel's processors for MacBooks, we have questions – Cnet Apple's shift to ARM Mac from Intel at WWDC will define a decade of computing — Apple Insider Apple Macintosh and ARM Processors - a good piece by Steven Sinofsky – Medium NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (1:04) Sena f1 Evo cycle helmet – $159 US Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 8th June 2020** Part Two of our unstructured conversation with Jeff Gamet. In this part we actually get on to some Apple related matters including iPads, Apple Glasses and more. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom too. Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Serif have expanded their sale to everything in the Affinity store until June 20th Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter Puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube Co-host of the The Watching Men Podcast with Karl Madden NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo JEFF GAMET @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram Itinerant podcast guest... NEMO'S SPECIAL REPORT (43:50) Interview with Wren on online learning Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 8th June 2020 This week another unstructured show as Mark, Nick, Jim and I are joined by Jeff Gamet. To be honest we didn't so much record a show as just start chatting and went with it – and actually quite a lot of it isn't about tech at all. In this first part it is mostly about music (hence the title). GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom too. Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Serif have expanded their sale to everything in the Affinity store until June 20th Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple JEFF GAMET @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram Itinerant podcast guest... APPLE Tim Cook publishes open letter “Speaking up on racism” – CNBC The Apple page TECHNOLOGY The most powerful Raspberry Pi now has 8GB of RAM – The Verge There's a new 64-bit OS to take advantage of it NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE ZVOX AV50 Noise Cancelling Headphones – Currently on sale for $70 US, (usually $150) Nemo says “the user manual for those new headphones is particularly lucid and helpful. The best concise headphone user manual ever…” Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 1st June 2020 This week whilst the US is wracked with unrest over the death of George Floyd, and institutional racism, we have a bit of a different sort of show to the usual to hopefully cheer us up. Nick, Jim and I are joined by veteran British podcaster Will Green of the British Mac Podcast and just let the conversation wander where it will - taking in Amazon during lockdown, Will's new Macs, DDNS, a fez, pipe smoking and much more. We hope you enjoy the change of pace. No real notes or chapters this week just a conversation with Will. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom too. Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Serif have expanded their sale to everything in the Affinity store until June 20th Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple WILL GREEN Host of the British Mac Podcast Occasionally posts on Twitter as @BritishMac NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Will be back next week and more goodies are now arriving... Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 26th May 2020 This week I am joined once more by Jim and Nick and Mark and we talk Jailbreaks, get drawn back into the Apple Glasses thing and talk about Apple TV+ (and then someone went and mentioned the Picard thing and Mark goes off on one!) All this and more in this week's episode... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom too. Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter Puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube Co-host of the The Watching Men Podcast with Karl Madden JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple Reissuing Numerous iOS App Updates, Potentially Related to Recent 'This App is No Longer Shared' Bug – MacRumors Brand new jailbreak can 'unlock' any iPhone or iPad – BGR Welp, There's Already a Jailbreak Tool for Apple's Latest Version of iOS – Gizmodo Prosser and Gurman argue the toss over Apple AR Glasses... Apple plans a pair of ‘Steve Jobs Heritage Edition' AR glasses by Leander Kahney – Cult of Mac The Cultcast Jon Prosser FTP - YouTube Do I even need to say that this (along with the rest of the Apple AR glasses stories in the past week) is complete fiction? – @markgurman Apple TV+ tops 10 million subscribers, company buying TV show and movie back catalog to expand service – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Hey I'm watching The Story of Airlander. Check it out now on Prime Video! via Ivor Pope – Amazon Prime Ex-Apple designer targets HomePod with Syng 'Cell' speaker startup – Apple Insider Windows 10 update is causing critical laptop errors: What to do now – Laptop Mag Zoom has temporarily removed Giphy from its chat feature – The Verge OBS Studio for livestreaming – OBS Project Stream Deck Mobile – El Gato SECURITY & PRIVACY Judge Rules FBI Cannot View a Phone Lock Screen Without a Warrant – Mac Rumors Startpage and Vivaldi bring more privacy to your search – Vivaldi This is how UK coronavirus app could be used to spy on you – The National Coronavirus: Security flaws found in NHS contact-tracing app – BBC News WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Why Did Nobody Tell Me The iPhone Calculator Has Had A Hidden Backspace Trick This Whole Time – Pedestrian Zhiyun Releases Tiny, Foldable 2-Axis Smartphone Gimbal for Just $60 – PetaPixel Courtesy of the BBC and tweeted by @MacandForth – BBC Star Trek Backgrounds for Video Calls – ARC Games Star Wars Backgrounds for Video Calls – Star Wars JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast The Free Operating System That's Identical To macOS – Forbes Actual OS files have been pulled unsurprisingly Take a screen shot on iPad with the Apple Pencil (probably the crayon too I would expect) Place pencil in bottom right or bottom left of screen and drag to the centre of the screen! NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Basically waiting for the pandemic to pass... Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 18th May 2020 This week I am joined once more by Jim and Mark and Nick to ponder over the mysteries of the week in Apple and Tech and for whatever reason it all goes a bit weird... Lockdown brainrot setting in? Regardless of that here it is in all of its “glory” GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom too. Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Some iPad Pro users complaining that the Magic Keyboard causes excessive battery drain — 9to5 Mac John Gruber calls for Post to retract Apple-Google article — Apple 3.0 Leaker says he's seen Apple Glasses. And they're coming next year — iMore FBI Serves Apple Warrant to Gain US Senator's iCloud Data – Mac Rumors Ubisoft Sues Apple for refusing to remove an Alibaba game from their App Store that is a 'Rainbow Six|Siege' Ripoff – Patently Apple TECHNOLOGY Microsoft: we were wrong about open source — The Verge AR Copy Paste tool allows users to drop images of objects into a computer — Dezeen The Robot Dog That is Enforcing Social Distancing — AI Daily Facebook's Giphy acquisition might have big implications for iMessage and Twitter — The Verge Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source - again – ZDNet IKEA play forts – Dezeen SECURITY & PRIVACY Major security flaw found in Thunderbolt Macs and PCs: Should you be worried? – Macworld Adobe Acrobat Security Vulnerabilities Allow Root Privileges on Mac, Update Now – Mac Rumors WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Mophie unveils new Powerstation XL with USB-C and Lightning, Qi charging, more – 9to5 Mac JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Sony Unveils the World's First Camera Sensors with Built-in AI – PetaPixel NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Basically waiting for the pandemic to pass... Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 11th May 2020 A full house of guests this week as Suffolk Pete, MacJim, Nick Riley and Mark Chappell join me - other than the new MacBook Pro, we didn't really have much news so we chat about Pete's SSD replacement in his 2014 MacBook Air and Nick's experiment with creating a cheap Hackintosh. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways including Luminar 4 and Affinity softwares in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed on Twitter Puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube Co-host of the The Watching Men Podcast with Karl Madden JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop SUFFOLK PETE On the Twitter a occasionally as @hermboy mostly about beer and footie NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Updated 13-inch MacBook Pro Dumps Butterfly Keyboard, Doubles Storage – TidBITS SSD REPLACEMENT Suffolk Pete: A few months ago I bought MacBook Air 2014 that ‘broke' when I tried to encrypt the SSD with FileVault. After talking to Mark at Suffolk Macs I decided to replace the ‘blade style' SSD. A little research soon showed that : Apple use a completely proprietary chip in the 2104 model with a non standard pin arrangement. Third party manufacturers have started to make adapters & even chips that mimic the Apple SSD. Plenty of people report problems using these 3rd party chips. I decided to stick with an Apple SSD. my Go-To store for 2nd hand parts is The Bookyard, they even format & install OS X on it for you! I purchased a 256GB recycled module that was pulled from a working MBA and guaranteed for 3 months. This also doubled my storage capacity. I had to buy the tools to take the back off the Air, because though I've taken apart several Macs & have a lot of tools, the Air uses 2.5 mm 5-point Pentalobe screws. Thanks to iFixIt I had a working MBA running 10.14 in about 15 minutes. All in all a good result! HACKINTOSH Technolli.com Technolli on YouTube Hackintosh.com TonyMacx86.com TECHNOLOGY Major Thunderbolt security flaws found, affect Macs shipped 2011-2020 – 9to5 Mac Microsoft's Office apps on iPadOS will reportedly get mouse support by this fall – NeoWin Facebook update crashes TikTok and other rivals – [BBC}(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52572381) Square launches Online Checkout to take on PayPal – Venture Beat Newton Mail will be saved by fans after it was saved, and shut down again, by Essential – The Verge SECURITY & PRIVACY North Korean spies are attacking Macs with stealth Trojans – Tom's Guide WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS FusionCast is a new macOS app for quickly turning podcast episodes into videos — 9to5 Mac NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Urbanista just launched the latest entry in its line of sleek earphones, the “London” earbuds with active noise cancelling for an immersive experience. It's got 25 hours of playtime, and comes in a range of four colors like Dark Sapphire Blue and Rose Gold. Each Urbanista product has an urban aesthetic, with models named after metro cities like New York, Athens, and Brisbane. London earbuds give AirPods a run for their money at a more attractive price. It's terrific for travelers, young professionals, and up-and-comers with a stylish vibe. www.urbanista.com London Press Release Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 12th March 2020 Mark Nick and Jim join Simon to talk about another week in lockdown, the tech news from the week and whatever else comes up in the conversation. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here You can get Ghostery Midnight free for 3 months with the coupon code ‘workathome' Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed on Twitter and sometimes puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop APPLE Contact tracing can help slow the spread of COVID-19 and can be done without compromising user privacy. We're working with @sundarpichai & @Google to help health officials harness Bluetooth technology in a way that also respects transparency & consent – Tim Cook Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android - The Verge Apple and Google Partner on Opt-In COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology to Be Added to iPhone and Android Smartphones (https://flip.it/iaHCzf) – Mac Rumors Google Gets on Board with Apple's SMS Security Proposal – iDrop News Apple fixes FaceTime, USB-C, and Office 365 bugs in macOS Catalina – Ars Technica This Is Apple's Coronavirus-Fighting Face Shield – Popular Mechanics MacBook Pro Keyboard Ready For New Colorful Technology – Forbes Security firm finds sketchy ‘fleeceware' apps in iOS App Store – Cult of Mac TECHNOLOGY Google debuts a braille keyboard for vision-impaired Android users – CNet US States Need COBOL Programmers to Help Them Handle Aging Systems – PC Mag Quibi app review: shifting landscape – The Verge The Mu folding plug USB power supply SECURITY & PRIVACY School districts ban Zoom over security concerns – Engadget And Google, and US Senators, and Taiwan, and probably loads of others... Google Pulls SuperVPN From the Play Store, Users Urged to Delete It – PC Mag Twitter removes option that allowed users to not share data with advertisers on its mobile app – 9to5 Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to check which iPhone apps have camera and mic access – 9to5 Mac JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Samsung finally killing off S Voice assistant as of June 1 – The Verge NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Nemo is taking a break for the obvious reasons. Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 29th March 2020 You may notice some difference in the sound this episode - Simon's Mac had a kernel panic right at the end of the show and wiped out his recordings... Luckily Nick records a backup but his set up is a simpler Piezo recording with no Audio Hijack wizardry. However without him there'd have been no show at all. So we aren't complaining. Also we need to get Jim a mic that doesn't “rustle”! This week news of any great consequence (well non COVID-19 news anyway) was a bit thin, but as we're all in lockdown guests weren't! In a bit of a houseparty Simon is joined by Nick Riley, James “MacJim” Ormiston, special guest Ronnie Lutes and eventually Donny Yankellow... to make a fist of what they could dig up to chew over. And the amazingly brilliant interlude is "stolen" from Daniel Matarazzo (bit.ly/AwfulVirus) GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn's book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here You can get Ghostery Midnight free for 3 months with the coupon code ‘workathome' Steve over at Geeks Corner is having an Apple Watch Strap giveaway... Why not pop on over and enter and get the chance to win an AppleWatch strap of your choice? Serif have made all their Affinity apps on Mac/PC and iOS available on a 3 MONTH free trial and reduced the priced by 50%... If you were even remotely interested now is the time to try and buy! Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop DONNY YANKELLOW AarcadeReviews.com for apple arcade reviews and more @rtteachr on Twitter Find his work at hedgehogalley.com Find his stuff in iBooks, a load of sticker packs in the App Store under Donny Yankellow and DesignBundles.net as Skrbly Skrbly Studio on YouTube Skrbly Store Skrbly Studio (Anyone can Draw) – App Store Kiddims on Graphite Comics Life is Random on Graphite Comics Search for Yankellow on the App Store/Books for Stickers and other work RONNIE LUTES @Nevadicus on Twitter Co-host on shows from the Bubblesort Empire with John Chidgey, Clay Daly, Vic Hudson and Scott Willsey Avid Golden Knights fan... (Las Vegas Ice Hockey Team) APPLE Apple planning Face ID for MacBook Pro and iMac – plus a notch – Apple Insider Apple's going to put a notch on your MacBook? Is nothing sacred? – ZDNet Apple admits MacBook Air anti-reflective coating can exhibit ‘issues' – Cult of Mac Apple releases coronavirus screening app and website in partnership with CDC – CNN Apple updates Siri with new CDC questionnaire for queries about coronavirus – 9to5 Mac Darkroom photo editor updated with full mouse and trackpad support on iPadOS – 9to5 Mac Apple makes its pro video and audio editing software free to use for 90 days – Engadget Pro Apps Bundle for Education – Apple Kuo Hath Said the ARM is Nigh – Gizmodo TECHNOLOGY This is the most convincing Apple iMac clone we've seen yet – Tech Radar Sony Spins Off Camera Business Into Separate Company – PetaPixel Polaroid's new Now instant film camera delivers a classic, punishing experience – The Verge – The Verge SECURITY & PRIVACY Bug in iOS 13.3.1 and later keeps VPNs from encrypting traffic, but there's a simple workaround – 9to5 Mac Zoom iOS update removes 'feature' that sent user data to Facebook — Apple Insider WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Darkroom photo editor updated with full mouse and trackpad support on iPadOS – 9to5 Mac Skylum donate EUR 5 from any purchase to fight COVID-19 and help victims of the coronavirus pandemic – Skylum NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Nemo will be back as soon as the trucks can get to him... Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 8th March 2020 Not a great deal of Apple News, except the growing expectation Apple might not be able to do WWDC in the same way as previous years, and a free fix for owners of iPad Air 3s with troublesome screens. Meanwhile Intel reveal that there is a dangerous flaw in their chip management module that can't be fixed, Virgin Media might be in hot water with the GDPR, Microsoft say 99.9% of hacked accounts make the same mistake, and TCL showed off an interesting “rollable extendable phone concept”. Simon and Nick consider these and wander off into a few other bits and pieces as well (as they often do). GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE WWDC on Verge of Being Canceled Following New #COVID19 Guidance From Santa Clara County – Mac Observer Apple's new App Store policies fight spam and abuse but also allow ads in notifications — Ars Technica Apple offers free repair for third-generation iPad Air models facing blank screen issues — 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Intel ‘unable to fix' critical hardware-encoded CPU flaw – IT Pro TCL reveals extending smartphone concept and tri-fold tablet – BBC News TCL's rollable phone concept is wild and a wayyy better idea than screens that bend in half with ugly creases and half-baked hinges – Input Magazine Sonos kills its device-bricking 'recycle mode' – Engadget Electric cars may not get cuter than the Microlino 2.0 — CNET SECURITY & PRIVACY Don't be fooled, experts warn, America's anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground — The Register Virgin Media 'likely to face maximum GDPR fine' following data leak – IT Pro 1.2 Million Microsoft Accounts Hacked, Made The "Same" Mistake — Fossbytes Boots halts Advantage Card payments after cyber-attack – BBC News Amazon's Ring logs every doorbell press and app action – BBC News WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS DuckDuckGo Open-Sources New 'Tracker Radar' To Fight Online Tracking — Fossbytes Fully Charged Show – YouTube NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Nemo will be back as soon as the trucks can get to him... Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 1st March 2020 This week would have been Steve Jobs' 65th birthday, the product turned verb Photoshop passed 30, the StyleWriter is 29 and speculation about ARM Macs is running rife. Also the novelcoronavirus COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc. To talk about all this I am joined by Nick Riley for a lot of speculation as to what it all means! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh (https://twitter.com/spligosh) on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple's Over the Air OS Recovery Solves a Huge Problem Which Many Users Won't Realize Needs Fixing – Wccftech Apple may let users change default apps on iPhones to satisfy trustbusters – Mac Daily News Apple losing 2 veteran execs who were key in producing its top devices – Fortune 29 Years Ago Today, Apple Officially Launched the StyleWriter — iDrop News Four reasons why a removable battery for the iPhone is a horrible idea — Fast Company I Hope Apple Ignores John Gruber's Rants on the iPad — iPad Insight ARM for Mac Moving the Mac to ARM — iMore Do we need an ARM MacBook in an iPad Pro world? — TrustedReviews How Apple Might Introduce ARM CPUs in Future Macs — Mac Observer TECHNOLOGY Citroën's new EV is a tiny two-seater that only costs $22 a month — Engadget Adobe marks 30 years of Photoshop with new iPad and Mac features – 9to5 Mac Google, Microsoft & Facebook cancel near-term events due to COVID-19 with Google and Apple's larger events still in Question — Patently Apple Affinity Suite updates to v1.8 (and then immediately 1.8.1 with bug fixes) – Serif SECURITY & PRIVACY Flaw in billions of Wi-Fi devices left communications open to eavesdropping – Ars Technica Controversial Clearview AI iPhone App disabled for breaking App Store rules — Cult of Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Write Notes from Your iPhone's Lock Screen with This Hidden Feature — iDrop News Vimeo Create - Video Maker App Store JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast The phrase ‘Robot' was coined 100 years ago, in a play predicting human extinction by android hands — TechCrunch The Project Gutenberg eBook of R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), by Karel Capek. NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Nemo will be back soon Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 2nd February 2020 This week Nick and Jim join me as we ponder a decade of iPad, gasp at Apple's awe inspiring revenues, consider whether Jony jumped ship or got pushed overboard, wonder if subscriptions are a viable long term business strategy and talk about whether or not the EU should demand everyone uses the same charge cable... Plus new listener feedback and don't forget there is still time to put your name in the hat to win a year's subscription to FotoMagico for iPad. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Oliver has given us 2x One Year Subscriptions to the new FotoMagico for iPad to give away. Usual thing - email essentialapple@sudomail.com (mailto:essesntialapple@sudomail.com) and winners will be drawn out of the hat in about 3 weeks Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop APPLE A decade of iPad: 10 of the biggest moments in its history – Apple Magazine Apple Earnings Report – Apple Lot's of graphs to understand it – Mac Stories Apple, Amazon were rare bright spots in a shrinking tablet market — Engadget Apple engineers propose a way to make using two-factor texts easier – Engadget New EU common charger regulation might force Apple to adopt USB-C over lightning cable — News Landed Apple has shuttered its Chinese stores — Apple 3.0 Apple releases iOS 13.3.1 with privacy improvements and bug fixes — The Apple Post 10.15.3 posted too. Did Jony Ive jump or was he pushed? — ZDNet Apple Invention Details a Prescription Lens System for a Future Head-Mounted Display Device – Patently Apple TECHNOLOGY Comment: I don't think subscription apps are a sustainable business model — 9to5 Mac SECURITY & PRIVACY Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data – Vice Avast shutters Jumpshot unit in wake of data privacy concerns – IT Pro WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Pixel Privacy - Learn How to Protect Your Online Privacy The Easy Way! – PixelPrivacy JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast World's largest flying aircraft Airlander 10 just became bigger — Business Insider NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Nemo is taking a break for a couple of weeks while the store restocks Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 26th January 2020 This week the Macintosh turned 36, Apple started removing Flash from Safari, Google say some of Apple's anti-tracking made things worse, and Uncle Tim said AR will “pervade our entire lives”. Meanwhile claims were made that Apple gave up on fully encrypting iCloud due to pressure from the FBI, Sonos got themselves into hot water with a poorly managed statement about support for older tech and Apple pledge to support the fight against the Corona virus and Space Force's badge seems strangely familiar to many! Also I forgot to mention it but DON"T FORGET to enter the FotoMagico for iPad giveaway! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Oliver has given us 2x One Year Subscriptions to the new FotoMagico for iPad to give away. Usual thing - email essentialapple@sudomail.com and winners will be drawn out of the hat in about 3 weeks Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE 36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh – MacRumors Tim Cook: ‘AR will pervade our entire lives' – Silicon Republic Apple finally ends Safari support for Adobe Flash – Cult of Mac Google finds Apple Safari anti-tracking feature actually enabled tracking – Cnet Apple's stance on iCloud encryption keys is nothing new for the company — Axios iOS 13 Bug Disconnects iPhone from Wi-Fi, Switches to LTE on FaceTime — Wccftech Apple invents an AIO Desktop Computer made from Glass that incorporates the Keyboard, Dual Trackpads & more — Patently Apple Apple gets its WiLan patent payout reduced to $85.2 million — Engadget TECHNOLOGY Sonos CEO says legacy products will continue getting security patches and bug fixes – iDownload Blog Vine co-founder launches a new 6-second video app: Byte – Engadget SECURITY & PRIVACY iPhone 11 held off FBI hacking efforts for two months – Cult of Mac FBI got data from a locked iPhone 11 using GrayKey: how does this tool work? | So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Andrea Fortuna Mozilla has banned nearly 200 malicious Firefox add-ons over the last two weeks – Zdnet WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Interesting piece by Stephen Sinofsky the ‘future of the OS' - longish thread but worth it – Twitter JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Space Force or Star Trek? Trump unveils new logo nearly identical to Starfleet Command logo – CBS News NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE Nemo is taking a break for a couple of weeks while the store restocks Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 19th January 2020 the inventor of the laser printer, passed away, Apple discovered their Smart Battery Cases are maybe not so smart, and Windows 7 went out to pasture. I am joined by Nick Riley and guest Oliver Breidenbach of Boinx and we talk about the new FotoMagico for iPad that was just released and a a few other bits of Boinx software, before we meander on to Apple trade ins, discuss more battery technology stories and ponder over AR a bit more. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Oliver has given us 2x One Year Subscriptions to the new FotoMagico for iPad to give away. Usual thing - email essentialapple@sudomail.com (mailto:essesntialapple@sudomail.com) and winners will be drawn out of the hat in about 3 weeks Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple OLIVER BREIDENBACH Find all their products at www.boinx.com Follow Boinx on Twitter @boinxsoftware Follow Oliver on Twitter @obreidenbach MIMO Live has its own Twitter @boinxtv APPLE Apple launches Smart Battery Cases replacement program — Apple World Today Apple Slashes Estimated Trade-In Values of iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch Models Overnight – Mac Rumors AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates — The Verge TECHNOLOGY Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer, dies at 81 — The Washington Post New lithium-sulfur battery could let phones last five days between charges – Engadget New graphene battery recharges blazingly fast, and it's already on the market – Digital Trends Facebook's Chief Scientist: Mass Adoption of AR Is Years Away — The Information How about this for a wearable smart device? AR contact lens — Apple World Today Microsoft ends support for Windows 7 today – Engadget Upgrade to Windows 10 for free right now – Cnet Windows 10: NSA reveals major flaw in Microsoft's code – BBC News SECURITY & PRIVACY United States government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware – Malwarebytes Labs Facial recognition: EU considers ban of up to five years – BBC News WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS The ultimate MacBook USB-C accessory just got better – ZDNet Seems to come under a variety of names - all about $25... the thing to look for is that it's 20 pin and that the detachable part just takes a USB C cable. I found these two – Amazon US and Amazon UK NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (36:27) JBL Everest Elite 750NC Over Ear Noise Cancelling Headphones– Amazon $200 US / £190 UK JBL Boombox Waterproof Wireless Bluetooth Speaker – Amazon $500 US / £300 UK Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 29th December 2019 I am joined by Nick Riley and James Ormiston (MacJim) and with no real news as such we just have a ramble around some things that come to mind as we chat. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. __ On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh (https://twitter.com/spligosh) on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop APPLE Apple patent filing involves an ‘immersive computer-generated reality experience' (https://www.appleworld.today/blog/2019/12/27/apple-patent-filing-involves-an-immersive-computer-generated-reality-experience) https://apple.news/ARPziQGVRQAKj_FFpG7Tiyg TECHNOLOGY Turkey unveils first fully homemade car in $3.7 billion bet on electric https://flip.it/jalT.O Will it be a turkey or a success? We can use plastics to change the world for the better — World Economic Forum (https://apple.news/A71ejwHJjS-GMz5KcYfWG3g)We can use plastics to change the world for the better — World Economic Forum (https://apple.news/A71ejwHJjS-GMz5KcYfWG3g) – https://apple.news/A71ejwHJjS-GMz5KcYfWG3g Check out the world's first all-electric fire engine - https://flip.it/-0rtJ8 NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (1:14:52) Kanex iAdapt 7-in-1 Multiport USB-C Hub + Card Reader £80 UK – Amazon £80 UK + £8 UK shipping / $80 US Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 3rd November 2019 If you've downloaded this episode expecting a Ghostery special I am afraid Pete Knowlton has had to postpone for family reasons. He promises to come on soon. Never mind, it has been one hell of a week, AirPods Pro soft launched and reviewers went mad for them - even at what Simon considers an eye-watering $250 US. The earnings call was more of the usual “we made a little bit of money, I think we'll get by” stuff. Meanwhile the Apple ID servers have been playing Simon up again and he's a bit put out about it. Apple TV+ launched and we are all a bit unsure about it. Underwhelmed seems the overall opinion. Nick and Simon discuss all these topics and more... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh (https://twitter.com/spligosh) on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple released AirPods Pro – Apple Apple TV+ goes live – Apple Apple TV+ Series Review Roundup: The Morning Show, See, Dickinson, and For All Mankind (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/28/apple-tv-plus-show-reviews/) – Mac Rumors 7 shows - “meh” – Simon Apple's HomePod now supports multiple users, but it's a buggy mess — VentureBeat iOS 13.2: iPhone users angry as new update features strange bug affecting apps — The Independent Earnings Call – Apple Notes of interest from Apple's Q4 2019 earnings report and conference call – Apple Insider TECHNOLOGY IBM Says Google's Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop – Wired Microsoft unveils new Edge browser logo that no longer looks like Internet Explorer — The Verge Buying Fitbit won't save Google's failing Wear OS – Android Police SECURITY & PRIVACY Windows ‘BlueKeep' Attack That U.S. Government Warned About Is Happening Right Now – Forbes This Invisible Photo Filter Protects You From Facial Recognition Software – Digital Trends Why encrypted email service ProtonMail is open-sourcing its mobile apps — VentureBeat WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Vivaldi 2.9: Adding more to the Vivaldi Menu – Vivaldi This is the affordable Apple Pencil rival you've been looking for — Cult of Mac JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast A critical analysis of scroll bars throughout history – The Verge NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (45:47) Kanex USB C, iPad Pro docking station $100 US – Amazon £97 UK / Not apparently in the US Store... Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 13th October 2019 This week Catalina went public - kind of by night with no announcements or anything and surprisingly has bugs and traps for the unwary, who knew?. Simon moved immediately to the 15.1 beta because let's face it Catalina is old hat to him... Apple were forced by/caved in to China over apps for Hong Kong. Some more on AR glasses and a special discussion on DTP for amateurs on a budget. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS We have four licences for BeLight's new vector application Amadine to give away. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com to put your name in the hat. Winners will be announced next week! Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has started up a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple SUFFOLK PETE @hermboy on Twitter now and then (mostly for football and beer!) APPLE Catalina arrived... Why macOS Catalina is breaking so many apps, and what to do about it — The Verge Apple to release augmented reality glasses that will allow people to put iPhone messages on their face soon, report claims — The Independent Hong Kong protests: Apple pulls tracking app after China criticism – The Guardian Apple pulls apps from its China store regarding Hong Kong – CBS News DESKTOP PUBLISHING Pages – Mac App Store (Free for most Mac users) Swift Publisher – Mac App Store £20 UK Publisher Lite and Plus – Mac App Store (Free with IAP or £20 UK) iStudio Publisher – Mac App Store (£18 UK) Affinity Publisher – Mac App Store or Direct (£49 UK) Cheap Imposter – cheapimpostor.com ($35 US) Create Booklet 2 - Mac App Store (£20 UK) Issuu - www.issuu.com Free pictures and graphics... just search but try: freevector.com clipart-library.com allfree-clipart.com pixabay.com pxhere.com unsplash.com Download our notes here Nemo's Hardware Store (17:59) Pocket Laser Distance Measurer by Arrow Fastener via The Grommet Ultra-Bright Collapsible LED Lanterns by Vont via The Grommet I own a couple of these, and they are small, lightweight and VERY, VERY bright! – Simon Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 6th October 2019 Aaaand we made it to 150! It's the 8th anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing... Uncle Tim was travelling Europe drinking beer and talking about things Apple believe in. Simon was mistaken about the Loop but still wouldn't buy one. Microsoft announced a slew of new stuff including some expensive Surface earbuds (and Will.i.am is upset about it). Nick @spligosh Riley joins Simon and they talk about all this, Apple Arcade, and more... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS We have four licences for BeLight's new vector application Amadine to give away. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com to put your name in the hat. Winners will be announced in 2 weeks time! Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has started up a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Catalina launch date rumours scuppered as Beta 9 shipped instead! And Beta 10 drops as we prepared to record! iOS 13.2 Beta dropped too… Tim Cook offers tribute to Steve Jobs on 8th anniversary of his passing — Apple Insider Tim Cook talks climate change, fake news, and more during speech to students in Italy — 9to5 Mac Apple increases production of iPhone 11 line — Apple Insider Apple's dropped some huge hints about its first AR glasses – Wired Software engineer from Safari team now managing a new team at Apple whose goal is to solve the problems people have with accounts, authentication, and passwords – Ricky Mondello @rmondello on Twitter Apple promises to fix your iPhone 6S if it stops powering on – Cult of Mac TECHNOLOGY Simon was wrong about the Amazon Loop – Amazon Microsoft surprises with new dual-screen Surface Duo phone running Android – The Verge Microsoft Surface Neo And Duo Announced — Michael 84 They also announced their Surface Earbuds – Microsoft $250 US!!!! Religious icons on bicycles! And Will.i.am wasn't very happy about it! Although the only resemblance I can find is they're round... – @iamwill on Twitter Paralyzed man walks again thanks to brain-controlled exoskeleton — BGR SOFTWARE Pixelmator Photo gets major v1.1 update with iPadOS 13 support, batch editing, improved file handling and more – DPReview PixelmatorPro adds discount upgrade program for users of the original Pixelmator – Apple Insider Pixelmator Pro 1.5 (codenamed Avalon) is almost ready with macOS Catalina, Mac Pro, and Pro Display XDR support, ML Denoise (!), and more – Pixelmator Blog And even the original Pixelmator got an update! SECURITY & PRIVACY Comcast, Mastercard, and Samsung Are Pouring Millions Into This Password-Killing Startup — Fortune WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to Pair DualShock PS4 or Xbox Wireless Controllers with Apple TV, iPhone, iPad — iPhone in Canada JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't – BBC News Man sues Apple claiming iPhone turned him gay – BBC News OMG, WTF, ROTFL, RUKM?! Nemo's Hardware Store (44:42) Yunmai Premium Smart Scale by Yunmai via The Grommet $70 US. Amazon $70 US / £70 UK The YUNMAI app can link up with Apple Health, Fitbit, Google Fit and more... Chargehub Powerstation 360 Surge Protector by Limitless Innovations or via The Grommet $60 US. Amazon $60 US / Not available in the UK store. That big 360 surge power cylinder disc has black rubber feet on the bottom to keep it from sliding around a table or desk which has been a real problem with all of the other surges and power strips that I have used previously so this is a real bonus and a very simple improvement! In the past I have used self adhesive velcro or that weird non slip “sticky” material to keep such things in place - Simon Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 22nd September 2019 After a couple of weeks or more of guests and not bothering to look at the news, Simon is joined by Bart Busschots of the Let's Talk podcasts, Taming the Terminal, Programming by Stealth, Nosillacast and more, to poke a stick at a few things that caught their interest over the last couple of weeks. Including the Checkm8 vulnerability, and a video from the Apple archive that is an absolute gem. Also in case you missed it last time BeLight Software kindly gifted us four licences for Amadine to give away last week so get your entries in for your chance to win a copy! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS We have four licences for BeLight's new vector application Amadine to give away. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com to put your name in the hat. Winners will be announced in 3 weeks time! Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has started up a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: BART BUSSCHOTS Find all his stuff at bartb.ie The Let's Talk Apple and Let's Talk Photography podcasts are at Let's-Talk.ie and also of course on the MyMac.com page Follow him on Twitter @bbusschots A regular contributor to the NosillaCast APPLE Apple Arcade goes live and Donny started a Twitter account to do mini game reviews as he tests them out. @AarcadeReviews and a website Aarcade Reviews Apple lets you extend your iPhone warranty forever – Mashable Apple just turned its extended warranty for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into a monthly subscription – The Verge Allister Jenks (@zkarj) decided to start a new “quick take” series on (one of) his blog(s), inspired by Scott Willsey's WTF Weekly. And I quote “sometimes I will think of Mark when having a good old rant” and it will go by the name of Echoes TECHNOLOGY Windows 10 problems are ruining Microsoft's reputation – and the damage can't be underestimated — TechRadar Pocket Casts is making its podcast app free and launching a subscription service – The Verge Amazon stuff – The Verge [I still say it should have been the Echo Microdot!!!! - Simon] SECURITY & PRIVACY New Checkm8 jailbreak released for all iOS devices running A5 to A11 chips – ZDNet At least it is a "hands on" vulnerability and according to ZDNet it isn't persistent - Cloudflare's free Warp VPN now available for all users – 9to5 Mac Cloudflare explained. Not a true VPN but will protect you on public WiFi – Cloudflare Ghostery Midnight - Giving you control of trackers at the device level. Coming Fall 2019 – Ghostery Firefox is testing a VPN, and you can try it right now – The Verge WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS This is worth the watch... you won't see Tim Cook doing this on the stage... The Macintosh Portable Introduction - September 20, 1989 JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Gruber on the Samuel L Jackson voice for the Amazon Echo Celebrity Voices Coming to Alexa: Replacing Alexa's voice with Samuel L. Jackson's? With an explicit option? Hell yes, sign me up – The Verge Nemo's Hardware Store (55:55) Smartish iPhone Cases. Wallet cases, slim cases, grippy cases, tough cases... for iPhones 5 though to 11 Pro Max and priced from $12 US. Twelve South Journal for iPad Pro: Genuine leather case for iPad Pro protection - $100 US & $120 US. Amazon £99 UK / $100 US & $120 US Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 1st September 2019 And we are back! Did you miss us? Well despite August traditionally being a news dead zone and all round “silly season” - a moderate amount happened while we were taking a break. Simon is joined by Nick (@Spligosh) Riley to take a look at the stories that caught our attention over the last month including the By innovation only event, Siri debacle, iOS 13.1 beta, security scares and more. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has started up a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple Invites Media to September 10 Event at Apple Park: 'By Innovation Only' – MacRumours Apple apologizes for Siri recording controversy, says program is returning in fall with major changes — iMore Apple Is Finally Budging on Letting Independent Shops Fix iPhones — Slate Cracked Apple Watch Series 2, Series 3 may get free screen replacements — Digital Trends For anyone who doesn't know, iOS apps and web pages loaded in Safari have a way of expressing their full set of password constraints, so that generated passwords are compatible – Apple New MacBook Pro Leak Reveals Apple's Solution To Your Troublesome Butterfly Keyboard — Forbes Google's Project Zero team uncovers 'sustained' hack on Apple iOS devices – The Inquirer Researchers detail the most dangerous piece of iOS malware we've ever seen – BGR iOS 13.1 Beta arrives before iOS 13.0 goes live... iOS 13's beta split is down to Trump's threatened tariffs, not missed features – Medium Apple vastly expands security bounty program: higher payouts, ‘dev' devices, Mac support – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Affinity 1.7.2 updates available now - Affinity Spotlight Ashley Hewson will be on the show recording 15th Sept to talk to us about all that and more... Don't miss it! Cerebras reveals world's 'largest computer chip' for AI tasks – BBC SECURITY & PRIVACY New Attack exploiting serious Bluetooth weakness can intercept sensitive data — Ars Technica JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Flyboard inventor Franky Zapata crossed channel on second go – ABC News Don't fall for this 'Steve Jobs is alive' Reddit conspiracy photo – iMore Nemo's Hardware Store (58:10) Holiday recap SCOTTeVEST Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.