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Recorded 21st July 2019 This week Simon’s son managed to break his elbow in not one, but three places on a Saturday evening, leaving Simon sleep deprived and mentally drained so Mark heroically opted to save the day and fly solo!. 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 Donny's drawing app offer Buy the app now at the 2 category price and 1/3 off! When the third category is added the price will go up! App Store 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 Flikr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to the Essential Apple Flikr and request an invitation. On this week’s show: MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed on Twitter and sometimes puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube APPLE Apple is looking to snap up exclusive rights to some of your favourite podcasts - report – Trusted Reviews Apple: SiriOS in 2020? – Apple 3.0 TECHNOLOGY Mark’s deal on mobile internet has now gone but we found this helpful link – Broadband Genie SECURITY & PRIVACY Brave Browser – Brave.com Simon’s favourite privacy focussed browser is Cliqz For other browsers Simon recommends Ghostery Nemo’s Hardware Store (18:00) Limitless Innovations Jumpsmart 3-in-1 –$120 US – also available from The Grommet 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 donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 14th July 2019 This week Apple announced new MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros, but killed the MacBook... also they cut prices on SSD BTO upgrades (Yay) but not RAM (Boo. Rumours that they’re going to drop the butterfly keyboard are got stronger and more plausible. Tech pundits declared this year’s iPhones boring and ugly and are only interested in rumours about 2020 iPhones. And we talk about “chiplets” and why the industry is saying they are the way forward for silicon. In other news Facebook got fined $5 billion (like they care...) and a French guy on a flyboard was the highlight of the Bastille Day Parade! 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 Donny's drawing app offer Buy the app now at the 2 category price and 1/3 off! When the third category is added the price will go up! App Store 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 Flikr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to the Essential Apple Flikr and request an invitation. On this week’s show: GUY SERLE On Twitter as @Macparrot and @VertShark Co-host of the MyMac show Mac to the Future and Guy’s Daily Drive on YouTube All his stuff is now at vertshark.com APPLE Apple Revamps MacBook Lineup – Daring Fireball The End of the Apple MacBook…For Now - iPad Insight Apple: Macintosh Forks - Jean-Louis Gassée – Monday Note Apple makes huge cuts to SSD upgrade pricing for Macs – Cult of Mac Unconfirmed reports suggest Apple has killed AR glasses project (updated) – VentureBeat Apple's AR glasses could help visually impaired see the full picture – AppleInsider Hulu Re-Enables 4K Streaming For Chromecast Ultra And Apple TV – Ubergizmo For developers. Apple made available searchable transcript for WWDC 2019 videos – Apple Mike Bombich tech note on the new read only Catalina system drive and how it is made to work... Bombich TECHNOLOGY Chiplets Are Both Solution to and Symptom of a Larger Problem – ExtremeTech Intel Highlights Chiplet Advances – Techpinions No, 5G isn't going to make your 4G LTE phone obsolete – CNET For a really good discussion on these subjects listen to the Techpinions Podcast SECURITY & PRIVACY A good reason for using a reputable VPN that you can trust – VPNPro 22 VPN Services to Protect Your Privacy – Search Encrypt Blog TrickBot returns with new attack that compromised 250 million email addresses – Digital Trends A Zoom Flaw Gives Hackers Easy Access to Your Webcam – Wired Daring Fireball: Zoom Is Disturbingly Dangerous Software – Daring Fireball Apple is silently removing Zoom’s web server software from Macs – The Verge Microsoft Issues Warning For 50M Windows 10 Users – Forbes Microsoft Confirms Windows 'Great Duke Of Hell' Malware Attack – Forbes Facebook 'to be fined $5bn over Cambridge Analytica scandal' – BBC News WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Wireless Flight Adapter Bluetooth 5 Audio Transmitter for Headphones AirFly Bluetooth Audio Adapter Review by Sandy Foster – Podfeet Podcasts The Apple Watch Series 3 just had £200 lopped off its price on this limited time deal – TrustedReviews JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Bastille Day: Flyboard takes part in military display – BBC News Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem – PetaPixel Nemo’s Hardware Store (33:32) 12South HiRise Wireless Charger Amazon £80 UK / $80US 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

Recorded 30th June 2019 This week the iOS 13 and Catalina Public Betas launched - Simon (of course) ignored good sense and went headlong into them, consequences be damned and it promptly bit him in the arse! Apple bought a self driving car company on the edge of collapse we wonder what that may mean? They also hired a top ARM chip architect - some are saying this means ARM Macs sooner rather than later. Nick and Donny are not convinced, and nor is Simon. Of course we have to take a look at Sir Jony announcing his departure from Apple and we discuss what we think about that too! 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 Donny's drawing app offer Buy the app now at the 2 category price and 1/3 off! When the third category is added the price will go up! App Store 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 Flikr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to the Essential Apple Flikr 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 DONNY YANKELLOW @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 New store on 2FunDads.com 2FunDads FREE iOS stickers Skrbly Store Skrbly Studio (Anyone can Draw) – App Store APPLE Apple buys self-driving startup Drive.ai just days before it would have died – The Verge Apple Hires ARM's Lead CPU Architect Amid Rumors of ARM-Based Macs as Early as 2020 – MacRumors iPhone designer Ive to leave Apple – BBC News Apple Press Release – Apple Jony Ive had been stepping back from Apple responsibilities for four years – 9to5 Mac Original Bloomberg article – Bloomberg TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Issues Warning For 800M Windows 10 Users — Forbes Lightyear One | The electric car that charges itself with sunlight – Lightyear Very nice if you have €149K or more to spend... Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi SECURITY & PRIVACY Google’s new curriculum teaches kids how to detect disinformation – Engadget WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Luminar 3 Photo Editor for Mac and PC hits all-time low at $41.50 (Reg. $70): Use promo code TOYS15 during checkout – 9to5 Toys TrainPal – Cheap Train Tickets by Ctrip.com international – App Store ProtonVPN review: a brilliant VPN with no data caps – Wired JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Synology launches DS419Slim miniature NAS – DPReview Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:15:36) Nemo Special Interview on electric cars 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

Recorded 23rd June 2019 After last week's debacle where I managed to not record the show (heedjit!!!) I made doubly sure this week! I am joined by “roving reporter” Mark Chappell to take a look at a few stories from the last couple of weeks and we have a Public Service Announcement courtesy of Donny! 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 Donny's drawing app offer Buy the app now at the 2 category price and 1/3 off! When the third category is added the price will go up! App Store 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 Flikr 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 Flikr and request an invitation. On this week’s show: MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed on Twitter and sometimes puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube APPLE Apple’s growing work of manually reviewing all apps detailed, board led by Phil Schiller – 9to5 Mac Apple recalls MacBook Pro, cites 'fire safety risk' - Mashable Foxconn suggests it could manufacture all US iPhones outside of China – BGR Apple releases firmware security update for discontinued AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule Base Stations – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Serif just launched its InDesign killer Affinity Publisher – Digital Arts CERN turns to open source software as Microsoft increases its fees – Engadget Another bendy phone “folds” (sorry couldn't resist) as Huawei 'delay' their Mate X– Reuters Google has made its last tablet – Engadget SECURITY & PRIVACY A Firefox update fixes yet another zero-day vulnerability – Engadget Dell software designed to protect you from vulnerabilities has another vulnerability - The Verge WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Lumafusion updates to v2 and is free to current users App Store 10 great features in LumaFusion 2 YouTube video by Robb Montgomery Skylum updates Luminar to 3.1.1 – Skylum Blog Serif released Affinity Publisher... with StudioLink technology. See the 30 minute keynote Vivaldi updates to 2.6 with ad blocking – Vivaldi Nemo’s Hardware Store (37:52) 1More Stylish True Wireless Headphones - $100 US Direct or Amazon £99 UK / $100 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

Recorded 9th June 2019 This week is of course the obligatory post WWDC edition! I am joined by Weyhan Ng our resident iOS developer and by Donny Yankellow to talk about what we felt about this year's keynote, and what it might mean for the Apple ecosystem going forward. With such a huge number of announcements we could never cover them all so we wander where the whim takes us... 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! We can now also be found on RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available. On this week’s show: DONNY YANKELLOW @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 New store on 2FunDads.com 2FunDads FREE iOS stickers Skrbly Store Latest sticker pack Skribble Doods WEYHAN NG On Twitter as @weyhan on Twitter On GitHub as weyhan iOS Developer who goes by handle the Eccentric iOS developer Developer / Maintainer of the iOS Compo writing app WWDC video downloader script. Use the script to download 1080p WWDC keynote and sessions video/slides APPLE WWDC - That Mac Pro! The “grand stand” debacle. iPad OS, Swift UI, Sidecar, and more… Craig Federighi: The AppStories Interview – MacStories John Gruber's The Talk Show LIVE FROM WWDC 2019 WITH CRAIG FEDERIGHI AND GREG JOSWIAK https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2019/06/04/ep-254 Why SwiftUI might be the biggest thing to come out of WWDC – Cult of Mac Here's a question for the show: the new Mac Pro; who is really aimed for and why is there no middle ground Mac between the iMac Pro and new Mac Pro? Do you think they’ll keep the trash can Mac Pro around for that or will it die when the new model arrives? Here’s what creatives think of the new Mac Pro – The Verge Apple's $999 Pro Stand is just the latest sign of its identity crisis – VentureBeat These Are the Macs That Officially Support Sidecar – iClarified The makers of Duet Display and Luna on life after Apple’s Sidecar – Tech Crunch Apple officially kills Dashboard in macOS 10.15 Catalina – 9to5 Mac New and changed Apple Podcasts categories: summer 2019 – Pod News TECHNOLOGY By calling Huawei Android fork a security risk, Google contradicts its own open source arguments – VentureBeat SECURITY & PRIVACY Microsoft deletes massive face recognition database – BBC News WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Apple iMac 21.5" Intel i3-2100 Dual Core 3.1GHz 250GB (Certified-Refurbished 2010 Model) – Mashable Shop Donny says “I don't like the magic mouse but target has it for $40 for those interested” – Target Seek by iNaturalist – App Store Affinity suite updates to 1.7, Publisher leaves beta and they have a 20% off everything sale to celebrate – Serif JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff – Tech Crunch Skype screen sharing now out of beta on iOS and Android – 9to5 Mac Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:02:57) Gekkopod Flexible Mount Amazon £15 UK / $20 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 w

Recorded 2nd June 2019 This week I am joined by Suffolk Pete (@Hermboy) in what is an odd sort of Limbo - we are recording this the day before WWDC, but it's unlikely the show will be posted until after. So although we talk a little about WWDC we try not to make it the main point of discussion so we don't just make ourselves look silly. 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! We can now also be found on RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available. On this week’s show: SUFFOLK PETE @Hermboy on Twitter very occasionally. APPLE WWDC - Mac Pro? iOS 13, macOS 10.15, iTunes breakup, Marzipan... The new Mac Pro is Apple’s chance to make a PC – The Verge Apple Marzipan will bring iPhone apps to your Mac: Everything you should know – CNet An original Apple I built into a briefcase just sold for nearly $500k – Tech Crunch Apple releases new iPod touch featuring A10 Fusion chip, 256 GB storage option – 9to5 Mac Apple Expected to Remove 3D Touch From All 2019 iPhones in Favor of Haptic Touch – Mac Rumors Apple Wipes iTunes Pages on Facebook and Instagram Ahead of WWDC – Mac Rumors Apple increases iPhone cellular download limit from 150 MB to 200 MB – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Huawei CEO says China shouldn't punish Apple – CNN Facebook's engagement is sinking with no end in sight – Mashable Laptops are getting weird and wonderful again – The Verge Computex 2019: Every announcement you need to know – CNet SECURITY & PRIVACY Older versions of Windows have critical vulnerability, should be updated ASAP– Digital Trends 1Password on Mac Updated With Easier and Smarter Drag-and-Drop Password Functionality – Mac Rumors Flipboard database hacks exposed users' account information – CNet Slack, WhatsApp, Snapchat And Ghost Protocol All Security Risks, Says Wickr CTO – Forbes Tech companies and security experts pan U.K.’s encryption backdoor proposal – Digital Trends WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Alfred 4 brings Dark Mode, Rich Text expansion, and more to the powerful macOS productivity app – 9to5 Mac Elecjet launches AnyWatt USB-C MagSafe adapter for old MacBook/Apple display chargers – 9to5 Mac JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Finally, IISc team confirms breakthrough in superconductivity at room temperature – The Hindu Nemo’s Hardware Store No store this week as John is travelling 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 wit

Recorded 26th May 2019 This week I am joined by the semi regular co-hosts Nick (@spligosh) Riley and Donny (@rtteachr) Yankellow, to take a look at the stories of the last week or so. Of course, after the week light on news when I recorded with John Chidgey there has been a veritable deluge of news over the last 7-10 days. Including a new MacBook Pro, the WWDC19 “invitations”, the whole Huawei “blacklisting” affair, an odd little gaming device from Panic and a depressingly long list of security stories. 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'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! 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 DONNY YANKELLOW @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 New store on 2FunDads.com 2FunDads FREE iOS stickers Skrbly Store APPLE Apple announces more powerful 8-core MacBook Pro – 9to5 Mac Apple offers free keyboard replacement program for MacBook, MacBook Pro – Zdnet Apple announces its Worldwide Developers Conference 2019 to be held June 3-7 in San Jose, CA – Macworld Reusing the “mind blowing” theme from the Showtime event with Monkey, Robot, Skull and Unicorn is interesting and not something I believe I have seen before Pegatron moving iPad and MacBook manufacturing out of China – Cult of Mac 71% Of Higher Education Students Would Prefer To Use A Mac, Says New Research – Redmond Pie Apple facing class action lawsuit over alleged iTunes & Apple Music data sale – Apple Insider Former Apple retail chief Ahrendts says 'mission accomplished,' denies reported criticisms – Apple Insider TECHNOLOGY Huawei’s European Customers Are Put on Hold by U.S. Ban – New York Times Adobe Warns Customers of Potential Legal Action for Using Older Versions of Creative Cloud Apps – Mac Rumors Panic announces Playdate gaming device: “It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. It’s got a beautiful black and white screen. It’s not super cheap, but not super expensive. It includes brand new games from some amazing creators. Plus it has a crank.” – [Playdate] (https://play.date (https://play.date/)) Check for issues before installing a Windows 10 update – CNet SECURITY & PRIVACY WhatsApp discovers 'targeted' surveillance attack – BBC News Snapchat employees spied on users by misusing internal tools – 9to5 Mac San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition – BBC News California's Senate may ban facial recognition tech in police body cameras – Engadget Google recalls its Bluetooth Titan Security Keys because of a security bug – Tech Crunch 33 Linksys router models leak full historic record of every device ever connected – Ars Technica Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from' – The Register The Internet Security Apocalypse You Probably Missed (OpEd) – The New York Times WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS This macOS tool automatically opens all Apple News links in Safari – 9to5 Mac StopTheNews direct download link BeLight Software's Amadine vector drawing app leaves beta £20 in the Mac App Store, $20 US Direct... free trial on the Amadine page iOS Game Oddmar Nemo’s Hardware Store (33:57) Catalyst Waterproof 20L Backpack $120 US – Amazon £99 UK / $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

Recorded 12th May 2019 This edition, Part Two of the show recorded with John Chidgey of Bubblesort and The Engineered Network (home of Pragmatic, Analytical, and more) and in this part we talk about a variety of technology topics including Windows 7 EOL, Graphene, Google autodeleting info on you, Facebook suing some Koreans and more.. The power of “post” has allowed me to make it sound like this was how it was intended; but I can promise you that isn't how it happened at all! 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! 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! We can now also be found on RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available. On this week’s show: JOHN CHIDGEY @johnchidgey on Twitter @chidgey@engineered.space on the Fediverse One of the Bubblesort Podcast members Head of The Engineered Network home of podcasts such as Causality and Pragmatic and more TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Has Some Bad News For Windows 10 Haters – Forbes Adobe CC Removes Older Versions of Photoshop and Lightroom – PetaPixel A graphene breakthrough hints at the future of battery power – Wired Physicists Are Bewitched by Twisted Graphene's 'Magic Angle' – Wired Announcing WSL 2 | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers – Microsoft Wait. What?? The year of the Linux desktop is finally here?! I’d never had imagined it’ll look like this. #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop #YotLD2019 – @weyhan on Twitter Google is finally ready to talk openly about the mysterious new OS that might replace Android - BGR SECURITY & PRIVACY UK To Introduce New Law For IoT Device Security – Forbes Real-Time Protection features added in Malwarebytes – Malwarebytes Google to 'auto-delete' web tracking history – BBC News Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it's Cisco again – The Register Facebook (am I right - with apologies to the Vergecast) – Facebook sues South Korean analytics company to send ‘message’ about privacy to app developers – Washington Post This smacks more of Facebook being annoyed that people have been effectively trying to use Facebook gathered data to sell info to advertisers and thus directly competing with Facebook to me... JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Etch-A-Snap Camera Puts a Modern Spin on a Toy From the '50s – Digital Trends Can't draw on an Etch A Sketch? Snap a photo with the Etch-A-Snap and the camera will draw out the scene for you. 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 t

Recorded 12th May 2019 Alright – it is late again, mea culpa! However in my defence this show took quite a lot of creative editing as I split it in to two parts. This week stories were a bit thin on the ground (as so often happens in the lead up to WWDC). However I was joined by John Chidgey of Bubblesort and The Engineered Network (home of Pragmatic, Analytical, and more) and we had a good old chat about a variety of technology topics. Actually we recorded so much material that I have split the show into two episodes... So here is “Part One” and “Part Two” will follow as the next edition of the show. The power of “post” has allowed me to make it sound like this was how it was intended; but I can promise you that isn't how it happened at all! 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! 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! We can now also be found on RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available. On this week’s show: JOHN CHIDGEY @johnchidgey on Twitter @chidgey@engineered.space on the Fediverse One of the Bubblesort Podcast members Head of The Engineered Network home of podcasts such as Causality and Pragmatic and more APPLE Moving Apple's assembly out of China to avoid tariffs will take 'multiple years,' analyst warns - AppleInsider Apple shares new 'Inside Joke' ad promoting iMessage encryption – The Apple Post Tim Cook Talks Digital Wellbeing, Apple’s Focus Privacy In New Interview – Redmond Pie Simon and John talk about the “Right to Repair” – Fortune Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:16:47) The toughest Apple Watch bands for rugged people – UAG – Urban Armor Gear. Leather: $70 US 42/44mm / 38/40mm or around £55 UK 42/44 / 38/40mm Active: $60 US 42/44mm / 38/40mm currently out of stock at Amazon 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 / 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. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 5th May 2019 First of all deepest apologies for the very late posting of this edition - I won't bore you with the details but let's just say a holiday weekend, some life events and some work things meant I just didn't make the time to get it done as soon as I usually try to. Also there were a large amount of notes to compile regarding the “Starting Podcasting” section. Sorry, for the delay. Anyway in this episode I am joined by Guy Serle of the MyMac Podcast and more to talk about the end of Aperture, the forthcoming removal of 32 bit support in macOS and what that means for old software, the AirPod that lived, some clickbait headlines, Adobe “price rises” (or not), Chrome's dominance, a Firefox problem and finally a bit of “inside baseball” stuff about starting a podcast (on budget preferably). Next show I will endeavour not to be so tardy posting I promise. 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! 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! We can now also be found on RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available. On this week’s show: GUY SERLE On Twitter as @Macparrot and @VertShark Co-host of the MyMac Show Mac to the Future and Guy’s Daily Drive on YouTube All his stuff is now at vertshark.com APPLE Apple’s Aperture photo editing software will shutter for good after macOS Mojave – The Verge Quicktime 7, Carbon, Ink, Apple's hardware RAID support predicted to be gone in macOS 10.15 – Apple Insider AirPod survives trip through man who swallowed it – Cult of Mac Apple Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone – Forbes Apple Warns iPhone Users Not To Answer Apple Support Calls – Forbes Report: iPhone Battery Life Much Lower Than Apple’s Claims – Redmond Pie TECHNOLOGY Adobe tests doubling the price of its Lightroom and Photoshop plan – The Verge Or maybe not – Adobe via Twitter A glitch is breaking all Firefox extensions – TechCrunch Fixed as of 1:00am EDT (mostly) – Mozilla And this is very interesting... look how dominant Chrome has become almost everywhere except "tablets" (i.e. iPad) – Wikipedia WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS I did not know this! Double tap time pickers to switch to 1 min granularity instead of 5 min – @rjonesy on Twitter Nemo’s Hardware Store (30:02) myCharge HubMax Battery Charger for Tablets & Smartphones (with Free Shipping) $100 US – Amazon $90 US The Podcasting Stuff Samson Q2U Handheld Dynamic USB Microphone Recording and Podcasting Pack – $60 US / £85 UK Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone – $68 US / £100 UK BEHRINGER audio interface (UMC22) – $60 US BEHRINGER U-PHORIA UMC202HD, 2-Channel – $98 US / £64 UK BEHRINGER UMC 404HD Audiophile 4X4 24-Bit/192 KHz USB Audio/Midi Interface with Midas Mic Preamplifiers Black – $150 US / £110 UK This appears to be Simon's mic... the Logitech E-UR20 USB Microphone which appears under a host of guises... $20 US / £15 UK [Rogue Amoeba Software](https://rogueamoeba.com (https://rogueamoeba.com/) Makers of Loopback, Audio Hijack, Piezo, Farrago, Fission and more. If you don't want to pay out for Loopback as a beginner you can still get its forerunner Soundflower We didn't mention it on the show because I wasn't sure it was still available! Before Paul Kafasis introduced Farrago Simon used Soundplant which can be used free (with a few limitations... like you have to make your samples AIFF if you are using it for free) and to do that he used to use Media Human Audio Converter all of which worked well enough SoundStudio (also available in the Mac App Store) Other options mentioned or not – Spreaker and their Apps, Mixlr, Zencastr, Opinion and Ferrite There are interviews with Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba and Canis of Wooji Juice (Ferrite Recording Studio), also Oliver Breide

Recorded 28th April 2019 Well what the actual hell? I take a week off and the internet goes berserk! Apple and Qualcomm settle, Intel drop 5G modems, Samsung Fold review units are a bust (literally), Samsung “delay” its launch as a result. Jony gives an interview and says he lives in the future, Tim Cook says he believes in doing the right thing, Apple get into a row about 'screen time' apps, plus buckets more stuff happened. I am joined by Nick (@spligosh) Riley to take a gander at some of it... 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 Photolemur 2 free by helping this YouTube video to 100,000 views. 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! We can now also be found on RadioPublic (https://radiopublic.com/the-essential-apple-podcast-6rROkd), PlayerFM (https://player.fm/series/the-essential-apple-show) and TuneIn (https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-News/Rampant-Mumblings-p726252/) as well as all the other places previously available. 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 Dior’s Kim Jones and Apple’s Jony Ive predict what our future will look like – Document Journal Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Out About Doing 'What's Right' Despite the Backlash – Fortune Apple recalls plugs in UK, Hong Kong and Singapore – BBC News Phil Schiller says Apple pulling third-party screen time apps due to privacy abuses, as Tony Fadell calls Screen Time ‘a rush job’ – 9to5 Mac Apple patches iOS App Store bug that was preventing app downloads – TechCrunch Surfer's lost Apple Watch survives six months at sea – CNet Apple poached Intel's lead 5G engineer in February to expand its own smartphone modem team – 9to5 Mac Intel admits Apple-Qualcomm settlement influenced its decision to drop 5G - Mashable TECHNOLOGY Samsung to Postpone the Launch of the Galaxy Fold – Samsung Global Newsroom Overcast now supports clip-sharing – The Verge We accidentally created a new wonder material that could revolutionise batteries and electronics – The Conversation UK Apple won't like this... Run MacOS on ANY PC – YouTubeLinus Tech Tips Deaf boy finds voice after brain implant – BBC News New aircraft rises 'like a balloon' – BBC News Luminary upsets a whole bunch of podcasters and publishers... – The Verge 20 Years Ago, Microsoft Changed How We Mouse Forever – Gizmodo SECURITY & PRIVACY Facebook says it unintentionally uploaded email contacts of 1.5 million users – Digital Trends Windows App Runs on Mac, Downloads Info Stealer and Adware – TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography for advanced security and faster speeds – ProtonMail Blog WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Ethical Alternatives & Resources - an open list of resources for ethical living — from browsers to books, TED talks to apps – Ethical.net This free Chrome Extension strips away all the junk to give you the Gmail experience you actually want – BGR ‎Jumbo: Privacy Assistant. ‎A single app for all your privacy needs. Jumbo lets you clean your personal data – across all social media apps and internet services – App Store Quardio Blood Pressure Monitor Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:12:33) Due to the Easter and Passover festivities John has no hardware to review this week. 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 FRE

Recorded 14th April 2019 This week there didn't seem to be a great deal of Apple news, not so much a “quiet week that wasn't” as a “quiet week that was”... So expecting a relatively short show Nick and I sallied forth, only to go down a rabbit hole or two and end up with a show so long it had to be cut back (and still ended up extra long - and it could have been longer believe me...) Anyway - it's Easter next week so we will be taking a break for a week... and thus this somewhat longer than usual edition is now officially dubbed “Bumper Easter Edition” 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 Photolemur 2 free by helping this YouTube video to 100,000 views. 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! We can now also be found on RadioPublic (https://radiopublic.com/the-essential-apple-podcast-6rROkd), PlayerFM (https://player.fm/series/the-essential-apple-show) and TuneIn (https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-News/Rampant-Mumblings-p726252/) as well as all the other places previously available. 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 now offering data migrations for free with new Mac purchases and repairs – 9to5 Mac Apple adds new 'Confirm Subscription' step for in-app subscription signups on iOS – 9to5 Mac How AirPods and Shortcuts shifted Apple's Siri story and blunted Amazon's Alexa Echo threat – Apple Insider An Apple Podcasts+ service could be a hit with listeners and creators – 9to5 mac Cardbox for iOS reimagines contact management with social features, more – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Space X Falcon Heavy Launch and booster landing – YouTube UK's Sabre space plane engine tech in new milestone – BBC News World’s biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever – The Verge Flickr Teams Up with Pixsy for the First End-to-End Photo Theft Solution – PetaPixel Flickr Blog UK train passengers offered smart tickets – BBC News SECURITY & PRIVACY Firefox expands anti-tracking features with browser fingerprint blocking – The Verge Fingerprinting Links from @dougee on the Cyber Security Special (EAP 124) So, how much information are you giving away right now? These two sites will show you: AmIUnique.org (https://amiunique.org/fp) and Panopticlick.eff.org (https://panopticlick.eff.org/) – I think you’ll be surprised. Browser Audit (https://browseraudit.com/) Device Info Me (https://www.deviceinfo.me/) Detect My Browser (https://detectmybrowser.com/) DNS Leak Detector (http://dnsleak.com/) Email Privacy Tester (http://emailprivacytester.com/) Amazon’s Alexa isn’t just AI - thousands of humans are listening – The Verge Security Flaws in WPA3 Protocol Let Attackers Hack WiFi Password – Hacker News Internet Explorer zero-day exploit makes files vulnerable to hacks on Windows PCs – Digital Trends Microsoft webmail services breached by hackers with support agent’s credentials – Digital Trends It’s Time to Panic About Privacy – NY Times WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Byte Magazine July 1989 – Vintage Apple 360 pages of Byte Magazine - from the days when half the page count was adverts... and a lot of those double page spreads to boot (via Steven Sinofsky on Twitter) If you're young enough to have missed it first time, find out what it used to be like, and if you are not then revel in the nostalgia Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:12:33) AudioEngine A2+BT Amazon – $269 US Audio Engine 512 Portable Amazon – $169 US It is in the UK store but at the extortionate rate of _**£599 UK - save your money and buy from the US (circa $50 US shipping and customs depost) - yes there may be extra UK customs & excise duties... but they sure as hell won't be £300 UK!!!!!! Essential Apple Recommended Services: G

Recorded 7th April 2019 This week was a bit slim on Apple news, or at least until the last minute... Then all of a sudden there were quite a few stories including MagSafe, an ML/AI hire, iTunes rumours and Apple ads on YouTube. Anyway to discuss all of these and whatever else we turn up along the way I am joined by Nick “Spligosh” Riley and original EAP host Mark Chappell. Also I have to give a big shout out to all the slackers who put in stories - I don't always thank them but every week members post possiible stories into the slack, and without them I would never find some of the great things they turn up. Thanks to all of them. 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 Photolemur 2 free by helping this YouTube video to 100,000 views. 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! We can now also be found RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available. 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 APPLE Sonnet eGFX Radeon RX 560 Breakaway Puck hits Apple Store, but you don't have to wait – AppleInsider Apple hires Google AI expert Ian Goodfellow to direct machine learning – VentureBeat Apple is exploring an updated version of MagSafe, one of its best charging inventions ever – Business Insider Apple's Ad About a Scrappy Group of Coworkers Is Honestly Better Than Most Sitcoms - AdWeek Actual video – YouTube This one is good too - “Homework” – YouTube Nexflix Removing AirPlay Support is a Strange and Somewhat Consumer Hostile Move – iPad Insight Rumor: macOS 10.15 may see iTunes broken up into multiple apps – Apple World Today We tend not to get into “rumours” too much but this is Steve Troughton-Smith we're hearing from here... TECHNOLOGY Bad Apple Demo on lots of hardware on YouTube as mentioned by Mark SECURITY & PRIVACY Cloudflare announces Warp: a new free VPN service for iOS – 9to5Mac Understanding Outline – Google’s new DIY VPN service – VPN Pro Browser choice screen for Android must offer real alternatives – Cliqz This is an interesting look at the dependencies of browsers etc (based on Android, so hence no Safari etc) but interesting none the less) Russia blocks encrypted mail service provider ProtonMail – DataBreaches.net These Chinese sanitation workers have to wear location-tracking bracelets now – The Verge WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS LuLu - the open source Little Snitch “lite” – Objective-See The paid for Little Snitch is far more comprehensive though – Objective Development Privacy Pro SmartVPN by Disconnect JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast * Apple patents system to help self-driving cars correct slipping tires – Motor Authority Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:02:46) iRig Micro Amp – $150 US Direct. Available on Amazon US for $152 US - Not in the UK store at time of writing. 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 fabu

Recorded 31st March 2019 This week, in the wake of the Apple “It's Showtime” keynote, and with the luxury of a few days to mull it all over, I am joined by very special guest Carolina Milanesi of Creative Strategies and Tech.pinions to examine what was hot and what was not... and consider why so much of it felt like it wasn't fully baked yet. Plus, as always, a few other stories from the tech sphere. A special thank you shout out to Allister Jenks (@zkarj) for his special donation to support the show... Very much appreciated. 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 Photolemur 2 free by helping this YouTube video to 100,000 views. 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! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: CAROLINA MILANESI Industry Analyst at Creative Strategies Writer and podcaster with Tech.pinions On Twitter as @caro_milanesi APPLE Apple announce News+, Arcade, Card, TV+ and original content – Apple Readly offers almost 4000 titles for a similar price and also offers family sharing. Carolina's take – Tech.pinions Apple's Services event: What the indie analysts are saying – Apple 3.0 Apple's AirPower wireless charging mat officially canceled – Cnet Steven Sinofsky @stevesi – Twiter Apple hires Tesla’s head of electric powertrains in effort to bring electric car to market – electrek SECURITY & PRIVACY Tough cookies: MEPs call for EU websites to be scrubbed of trackers – The Register Article 13: EU passes copyright directive which will lead to a more censored internet – Private Internet Access Facebook's Zuckerberg Calls for Global Internet Regulations – Bloomberg Yet ironically – US charges Facebook with high-tech housing discrimination – ABC News WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Cardhop for iOS makes contact management quick and simple – Cult of Mac From Allister (@zkarj) For Luminar users... I found this video incredibly informative. Not only for the topic it claims to be about, as there are a few other useful tips in there - YouTube JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Mother and her daughter rescued with new police tool – Daily Mail Online Nemo’s Hardware Store No Hardware Store this week - Nemo was otherwise engaged 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

Recorded 24th March 2019 This week I am joined by fellow Slacker resident Ivor “the Airship” Pope to see what we thought of this week's hardware releases, Apple's interesting way of breaking the news and Uncle Tim's trip to China. Also Google previewed their coming cloud gaming platform “Stadia” (which appears to work everywhere but iOS), while Microsoft talked up their xCloud gaming push. Of course the news feeds were full of everyone trying to tell us/guess what Apple will unveil on the 25th - but we would rather wait and see what Apple actually have to say (and hope it isn't US only). 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 Photolemur 2 free by helping this YouTube video to 100,000 views. 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! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: IVOR “THE AIRSHIP” POPE Works on the development of Airlander 10 APPLE Apple made 15 surprise announcements this week — here's everything it unveiled — Business Insider Apple's new AirPods have Siri built-in - BBC News Apple Gets Creative With its Spring Hardware Releases – iPad Insight iOS 12.2 Beta 6 Enables Logitech Crayon Support For iPad Pro – Redmond Pie Apple announces support for NLP's news literacy education programs – News Literacy Project Apple acquires Italian startup that specializes in backend automation – Cult of Mac TECHNOLOGY Google's Stadia game-streaming service lets you play games anywhere, if your Internet can handle it – PC World Google Stadia is a Net Neutrality Nightmare – Variety Project xCloud: Gaming with you at the center – The Official Microsoft Blog How three simple words could be the difference between life and death – Digital Trends Microsoft ships antivirus for macOS as Windows Defender becomes Microsoft Defender – Ars Technica SECURITY & PRIVACY Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years – Krebs on Security Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone – Signal Blog WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Nvida GauGAN This Person Does Not Exist Nemo’s Hardware Store (33:12) Time Traveler: iPhone & Apple Watch Battery Bank – $80 Premium Leather iPhone Case - Hitcase Ferra – $60 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 r