The Essential Apple Show

Recorded 17th March 2019 This week I am joined by fellow Suffolk MUG member and Slackroom resident Suffolk Pete to ponder the likely shenanigans to come on the 25th, and WWDC in June, pour scorn on scientists claims that AirPods give you cancer, scratch our heads over the Apple headmounted display patents and of course a few other things that caught our attention this week. 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: SUFFOLK PETE Very occasionally on Twitter as @hermboy and in the Slackroom APPLE Everything you need to know before Apple’s March 25 “it’s show time” event – Ars Technica Apple Will Offer its Content For Free and is Targeting Oscars – Mac Observer New ‘Apple News Magazine’ details uncovered in iOS and Mac betas: PDF-based, offline reading, more – 9to5 Mac Apple to host annual Worldwide Developers Conference June 3-7 in San Jose – Apple Newsroom Apple's SVP Phil Schiller hypes 2019 WWDC in rare interview – Apple Insider From Animoji to TestFlight: Apple's four WWDC invitations are bursting with app icons – Apple Insider Apple just released a 45-second video on why you should care about your smartphone's privacy – Business Insider Scientists sign petition saying that AirPods can cause cancer – Phone Arena CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 comes to Mac with Mojave & Dark Mode support, Touch Bar integration, more – 9to5 Mac Apple's Fourth Head Mounted Display Device Patent this Month focuses on Engineering a Superior Face Seal System – Patently Apple TECHNOLOGY Mozilla launches its free, encrypted file sharing service, Firefox Send – Tech Crunch Dropbox limits free users to 3 devices – [https://www.pcmag.com/news/367184/dropbox-limits-account-linking-to-3-devices-for-free-users] Ikea’s 3D-printed add-ons make its furniture more accessible for people with disabilities – The Verge SECURITY & PRIVACY National Cyber Security Centre – UK Gov MacQuisition Will Decrypt Physical Images From Macs With T2 Chip – BlackBag Technologies IBM used Flickr photos for facial-recognition project – BBC News ProtonMail Transparency report – ProtonMail Blog WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Tip: if you can’t find a symbol you need via the iOS keyboard, then check out this website for the one you need. Just press and hold the one wanted and it’ll copy and allow you to paste it in where needed – Glyphboard There are several apps on the App Store that also help with this. WiFi Blast – sorry, seems this is just a scammy ad promoting who knows what it is... probably better off with a cheap Mesh like this Amazon UK / Amazon USqup.co Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:01:50) Black Eye - PRO Portrait Tele G4 - Universal smartphone lens for IOS and Android – Amazon £82 UK or $90 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 a

Recorded 10th March 2019 This week Uncle Tim made a joke out of Donald Trump's name slipup, US Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up tech companies, German teen hacker relents and gives Apple the secret to his hack, Google Zero Day group find a vulnerability dubbed Buggy Cow, and Zuck claims Facebook wants to change... and takes a dig at Apple to boot. To discuss these stories and more this week I am joined by Mac to the Future, Go! livecast co-host and “buy all the things” Warren Sklar! 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: WARREN SKLAR Mac to the Future Go (https://www.facebook.com/groups/mactothefuture) Facebook Group and also on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/floridakid/videos) (Mac to the Future can also be found at www.vertshark.com) APPLE Tim Cook is now Tim Apple on Twitter – The Verge Other tech people picked up on the joke too... Apple whips its gigantic global supply chain into shape [Opinion] – Cult of Mac MacStories releases 150 free shortcuts to use in Apple's Shortcuts app – iMore MacStories Shortcuts Archive Security researcher hands Apple details of Keychain bug, calls for explanation regarding lack of macOS Bug Bounty program – AppleInsider Google researchers revealed a rare Mac security flaw and called it 'BuggyCow' – Business Insider Via @scottaw: A Clever Tool Uses Apple’s Videogame Logic Engine to Protect Macs – Wired Here's how Apple's long-rumored smart glasses will work, according to reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo – Business Insider Microsoft confirms the latest version of Skype for Web drops support for Safari – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY US senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up tech companies, says Apple should not be able to run the App Store and offer its own apps – 9to5 Mac Elizabeth Warren pulled a ninja move to turn tech angst into a crackdown with real teeth, and tech is going to suffer even if she's not president – Business Insider Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) on the subject – Twitter and Twitter Flickr Unveils a New Login That Ditches Yahoo’s System – Peta Pixel Corning flexible glass screen will be perfect for folding iPhone – Cult of Mac Luminary is aiming to be the 'Netflix of podcasts' – Business Insider Marco Arment “They’ll have to get through you and me first. If you all keep listening in standard podcast apps that use the open, RSS-backed podcast ecosystem instead of proprietary walled gardens, nobody can ruin what we have.” – Twitter SECURITY & PRIVACY Facebook’s Transition to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Tech.pinions Mark Zuckerberg paints a biting contrast between Facebook and Apple on privacy, saying his company has sacrificed business to protect users – Business Insider Is this the way the cookie wall crumbles? Dutch data watchdog says nee to take-it-or-leave-it consent – The Register The web just got an official password-free login standard – Engadget WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Bart Busschots of the Let's Talk Podcasts coined the excellent term “Freepi” (like creepy) for services that are free in exchange for slurping your Personal Information... If you don't like #Freepi remember to hashtag it on Twitter and mention @bbusschots Free, Freemium, Free-for-now & Freepi Free-for-Personal-Information, or Freepi So Facebook isn’t Freepi Anymore? JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Lego takes on Samsung and Huawei with its own foldable – The Verge Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:07:07) HELM True Wireless Headphones – $100 US direct Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery - protect yourself from trackers, scripts an

Recorded 3rd March 2019 The Tucson Mac User Group rounded up a posse of MyMac contributors and sent them to take over the show... I am joined by Bob Wood, Curt Blanchard, David Acklam and Roger Harmon to take a ramble around the stories that caught our attention over the last week or so, including the Apple Shareholder Meeting, Tim Cook making his position on privacy pretty clear to all, hacking tools available for $100 and a daft smartphone/cuff/watch thing... With 5 of us on the line I think we pulled the string a bit tight and in places the bandwidth was struggling so apologies for the occasional distorted audio. 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: The Tucson MUG Posse TMUG TMUG on Facebook Bob Wood - DangerousBob.photography Roger Harmon @GoForTech Curt Blanchard @azcurt and www.azcurt.com David Acklam @dmacklam1 OSIRIS-REx and on NASA GPS - The Lonely Halls Meeting available on Amazon Prime or on IMDb APPLE Apple investors debate political diversity at annual shareholder meeting: CEO Tim Cook takes questions from investors about privacy, politics and new products – CNet In Steve Jobs Theater, Apple shareholders eat the air, promise-crammed - Apple 3.0 Apple Shareholder Meeting – Hunter S Apple CEO Tim Cook hit out at companies like Facebook again: Anything that collects personal data and uses it against customers ‘should not exist’ – Business Insider Tim Cook Talks Privacy and Health in Interview – The Mac Observer The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years – Macworld Vinyl and CDs now more popular than iTunes music downloads, new data shows – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Nubia's Alpha watch phone is the most ridiculous gadget at MWC 2019 – Mashable Nubia’s new wearable puts a 4-inch flexible smartphone on your wrist – The Verge EU copyright rules threaten the Internet creators – BBC News SECURITY Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Echos Tim Cook on Privacy – The Mac Observer iPhone and Android hacking tool used by FBI and DHS on sale on eBay for as little as $100 – 9to5 Mac EFF launches ‘Fix It Already’ initiative to push Apple and other tech companies for change– 9to5 Mac Fix It Already – EFF Xfinity Mobile PINs were left as '0000' by default – Engadget Nemo’s Hardware Store No hardware store this week John is 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 Sl

Recorded 24th February 2019 This week I am joined by “the eccentric iOS developer” Weyhan Ng and Nick Riley (@spligosh) and we get stuck into a variety of topics including eye-wateringly expensive folding phones, the Marzipan thing and Mark Gurman's prognostications, Google and that “forgotten” microphone, apps tattling on you to Facebook, and how to stop those annoying “can we send you push notifications” pop ups on web sites! 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 Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: WEYHAN NG On Twitter as @weyhan On GitHub as weyhan iOS Developer who goes by handle the Eccentric iOS developer Developer / Maintainer of the iOS Compo writing app NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. APPLE Today marks what would have been Steve Jobs' 64th birthday – The Apple Post Tim Cook remembers Steve Jobs, who would have been 64 today, with touching Apple Park tribute – 9to5 Mac Apple’s New Mac Pro Could Feature A Stackable Design – Uber Gizmo The latest on Apple’s plan to merge iOS and Mac apps: convert iPad app to Mac app this year, iPhone apps on Mac in 2020, combined single binaries by 2021 + Mac Pro possibly at WWDC 2019 – Mark Gurman Bloomberg Some iOS Apps Sending an Alarming Amount of Data to Facebook and Most Users Are Unaware - MacRumors Customers 'Dear Tim' emails have big impact within Apple – Apple Insider Smartwatches Are Changing the Purpose of the EKG – The Atalantic TECHNOLOGY Samsung Unveils New $1,980 Galaxy Fold Smartphone – Mac Rumours Samsung reveals Galaxy Fold and S10 5G – BBC News Huawei Mate X first look: Three screen modes, four cameras and five Gs for €2299 – Android Central Google says Nest microphone was 'never supposed to be a secret' – Business Insider SECURITY Password managers have a security flaw. But you should still use one – Washington Post WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to block browser and website notifications. Rid yourself of website notification requests in just a few easy steps Digital Trends JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Are You One of the 37 People in the World That Misses Windows 95? Relive it on Your Mac With This App – Mac Trast Nemo’s Hardware Store (55:36) Üzbl Shockwave Rugged iPad Case from approx £27 UK to £44 UK or approx $29 US to $45 US dependent on model 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 y

Recorded 17th February 2019 This week I am joined by our resident digital forensics specialist and the Slackroom security guru @dougee (Andy J) for a Cyber Security Special to talk about passwords, password managers, browsers, tracking, fingerprinting, AV/Malware protection and lots more. We even find time to fit in a few short news stories 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! 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: Andy J (aka @dougee) In the Slackroom SECURITY SPECIAL Americans and Cyber Security – Pew Internet Top 10 Security Practices – Cal Poly 2019 State of Malware report: Trojans and cryptominers dominate threat landscape – Malwarebytes Blog Malwarebytes The best Mac antivirus of 2019 Mac World PC Mag How to stay as private as possible on Apple's iPad and iPhone – Computerworld Fingerprinting So, how much information are you giving away right now? These two sites will show you: AmIUnique.org and Panopticlick.eff.org – I think you’ll be surprised. Browser Audit Device Info Me Detect My Browser DNS Leak Detector Email Privacy Tester 99 Free Privacy Tools That Will Keep You Safe Online in 2019 – Cloudwards 7 security tips to stop apps from stealing your data - CNET Two Factor and U2F authentication Authentictor Apps inc Authy, Google, Microsoft, Last Pass YubiKey or Simon's is the Feitian ePass FIDO-NFC Security Key VPNs – so many out there, but be cautious that the one you use is reputable (and I am never sure comparison sites aren't taking a kickback to promote one or more services... call me cynical) Best VPN VPN Pro Advertising/Content Blockers/Anti Trackers Ghostery / Ghostery Lite / Ghostery Plus Privacy Badger Ad Block Plus Crystal Content Blocker (iOS) Password Managers - like anything based around securing your privacy be sure your chosen solution is verifiably reputable iOS KeyChain 1 Password LastPass Dashlane Password Boss Browsers Brave Cliqz Tor Vivaldi Safari Reverse Firewall / Network Blocking Little Snitch LuLu Hands Off Radio Silence APPLE New macOS Malware Variant of Shlayer (OSX) Discovered – Carbon Black Apple's latest update for iOS 12 makes it easier to manage subscriptions – BGR Apple being sued because two-factor authentication on an iPhone or Mac takes too much time – Apple Insider Apple to acquire voice app firm PullString in deal worth below $100M, report says - AppleInsider Apple reportedly acquires digital marketing firm DataTiger – Apple Insider TECHNOLOGY ‘Surveillance capitalism’ has gone rogue. We must curb its excesses – Washington Post Not only was glass box spying on people apparently it was insecure as hell to boot... Computer World Google Is Forcing Some Nest Customers to Reset Their Potentially Compromised Passwords - Gizmodo 'Google, this is bogus as hell' — one of the fathers of the internet blasts Google for how Chromecast behaves on his home network – Business Insider Consumer groups call out retailers in a bid for better IoT security – Digital Trends US needs an internet data privacy law, GAO tells Congress – CNet JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast TCL is working on a foldable phone that bends into a smartwatch – CNet Nemo’s Hardware Store (55:24) ATH-M50xBT Wireless Over-Ear Headphones – Amazon $200 US or £174 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 Switz

Recorded 10th February 2019 This week things went bonkers, Jeff Bezos refused to be blackmailed, Apple fixed one bug and then got accused of another... Some apps have been recording your screens and Apple tells them stop that or else, Angela Arhendts is leaving Apple, Apple are working on making their own modems and rumours surface of revised iPhone 7s and 8s because of the German sales ban won by Qualcomm. To talk to me about that and of course “anything else that comes to mind” is my friend and SMUG colleague Mark Elliss, the owner of Suffolk Macs, a local Mac and PC service and support business covering the East Anglia and deeply knowledgeable computer user. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Ghostery has gifted us 10x Ghostery “swag bags” to give away! The winners are: Andy Joyce, Bob Wood, Guy Serle, John Nemerovski, James Ormiston, Ivor Pope, Elisa Pacelli, Mackyasse, Cutie Melon, Curt Blanchard One lucky listener wins a free entry to Dr Mac's Working Smarter for Mac Users Video course and one his book. Winner – Dan Murphy, Book – Bob Wood 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 Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: Mark Elliss of Suffolk Macs On Twitter as @SuffolkMacs Suffolk Macs Founding member and committee stalwart of the Suffolk Mac User Group Friend of the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park Supporter of the St Elizabeth Hospice, Bury St Edmunds. APPLE Apple releases FaceTime fix, rewards 14-year-old who discovered eavesdropping bug – Washington Post A Teen Won't Tell Apple How He Hacked MacOS – Forbes Apple is Extending its Chip Prowess to 5G Modems – iPad Insight A Billion Users – Asymco Apple's retail chief Angela Ahrendts to leave the company in April – CNBC HoloLens creator leaves Apple AR headset team – Cult of Mac Some Popular iPhone Apps Secretly Record Your Screen for Analytics Purposes – MacRumors Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code – TechCrunch TECHNOLOGY Tokyo succeeds in plan to make 2020 Olympic medals from recycled gadgets – The Verge Spotify buys Gimlet, Anchor to ramp up its podcast game – USA Today Spotify will soon ban accounts that use ad blockers – Cult of Mac SECURITY Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use Internet Explorer anymore – The Verge Creepy incidents with Nest cameras prompt password warning – The Independent What does ‘consent to tracking’ really mean? – Malwarebytes Cyber security: funding to take academic ideas to market – GOV.UK WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Password Boss for iOS and Mac Recasto Another freeware winner from the app store. 72 jpgs into pdf files in two seconds with this app - Nemo’s Hardware Store (26:18) Hexbrand Echelon Patrol Backpack – Note that they have a UK site, but this product is so new it isn't on there yet! amFilm iPad Pro 10.5 inch Tempered Glass Screen Protector Twin pack approx $12 US or Single Pack approx £10 UK ESR Clear Hard Case for The iPad Pro 10.5" – $11 US or £12 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

Recorded 3rd February 2019 This week Simon had trouble with iCloud, Facebook and Google had trouble with Apple, and Apple had trouble with FaceTime. Meanwhile criminals are tapping into the phone system backbone to attack banks, governments continue to try and get into everyones chats, and the Internet of Things may be an even worse security threat than you ever imagined. Meanwhile guest Guy Serle of the MyMac podcast has problems of his own with some shelves, Apple's “awful terrible no good very bad quarter” might be down on estimates but is still the second biggest quarter they ever had... but over all bad news is all there is. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Ghostery has gifted us 10x Ghostery “swag bags” to give away! First 10 out of the hat! Email me on essentialapple@sudomail.com with your postal address and preferred T Shirt size to be in with a chance... One lucky listener can win a free entry to Dr Mac's Working Smarter for Mac Users Video course (worth $500), and also we have one copy of the Working Smarter book to give away. As usual email essentialapple@sudomail.com with the subject Dr Mac and you will be entered into the draw. 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 Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. 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 iCLOUD WOES Big shout out to Monica and Terry in Apple Support Simon and his iCloud issues APPLE Apple reports $84.3 billion revenue for Q1 2019 after historic downward revision – Venturebeat Apple apologises for FaceTime bug – MacRumors The Smartphone Market’s Tough Year – Tech.pinions Samsung edges Apple as smartphone woes continue with worldwide shipments down 4.9% in holiday quarter IDC Tim Cook Is Right: Why Differentiating Apple From Other Tech Giants Is Such A Smart Move – Forbes What Tim Cook Knows That Facebook Doesn't - Forbes Apple have patented a revolutionary new type of ‘glass keyboard’ - ShortList TECHNOLOGY Facebook secretly pays users for complete access to their data – Engadget Facebook to Shut Down Controversial iOS Market Research App MacRumors Apple bans Facebook from running internal iOS apps following data misuse – Enadget Chaos has reportedly erupted inside Facebook as employees find themselves unable to open the company's apps on their iPhones – Business Insider New report states Google also violated App Store privacy rules – iMore Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps – The Verge SECURITY 'Internet of things' or 'vulnerability of everything'? Japan will hack its own citizens to find out – CNN Cheap Internet of Things gadgets betray you even after you toss them in the trash – TechCrunch Nightmare on Connected Home Street – Wired Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts - Motherboard Collections #2-5 unearthed with 2.2 billion unique records now exposed online IT Pro JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Something for the future from Proton? – protondrive.com ProtonDrive: Secure Digital Storage Nemo’s Hardware Store (38:36) Supcase Unicorn Beetle Rugged Case with Screen Protector – $30 (other prices for other models for iPad or iPhone) Zugu Case iPad Pro 10.5 Case Prodigy X – $60 Amazon UK or Amazon US Adobe Photoshop Elements Essential Apple Interview with Adobe Elements 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 a

Recorded 27th January 2019 This week it was 35 years since Steve pulled the Macintosh out of the bag to say hello, also it is 30 years since the launch of the SE/30. The latest iOS Beta holds clues about new iPads and even a possible new iPod Touch! Apple reassigned 200+ staff from the Titan project elsewhere (notice I said “reassigned” not laid off...). Apple got some flack about a photo competition and promptly did the right thing about it, while Zuckerberg continues to be a lying two-faced hypocrite (in Simon's opinion). To discuss all of that, and whatever else came to mind during the conversation, I am joined by Nick Riley (@spligosh) and Melissa Davis (@TheMacMommy / TheMacMommy.com) GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Ghostery has gifted us 10x Ghostery “swag bags” to give away! First 10 out of the hat! Email me on essentialapple@sudomail.com with your postal address and preferred T Shirt size to be in with a chance... One lucky listener can win a free entry to Dr Mac's Working Smarter for Mac Users Video course (worth $500), and also we have one copy of the Working Smarter book to give away. As usual email essentialapple@sudomail.com with the subject Dr Mac and you will be entered into the draw. 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 Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: MELISSA DAVIS – TheMacMommy @TheMacMommy on Twitter Blogs at TheMacMommy.com Appears on the Geekiest Show Ever NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. He sometimes appears on Let's Talk Apple APPLE 35 years ago, Macintosh said hello – @tim_cook and last week the SE/30 turned 30 – Threadreader If you never experienced that era you can sample it with either James Friend's Mac Classic Emulator Archive.org iOS 12.2 beta includes references to new iPod touch, and four new iPad models – The Apple Post iOS 12.2 beta 1 brings Apple News to Canada – Cult of Mac Google nabs senior macOS engineer Bill Stevenson for Fuchsia OS – Cult of Mac Apple Says It Will Pay ‘Shot on iPhone’ Photo Contest Winners After Backlash – Gizmodo Apple Lays Off 200+ People From Project Titan, Its Self-Driving Car Effort – ExtremeTech TECHNOLOGY Zuckerberg's “facts about Facebook” - the peak of hypocrisy – Cliqz Zuckerberg wants to merge Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp messaging – Daily Dot SECURITY 2FA - What are the best apps? – 9to5 Mac I just ordered myself this to try out – Feitian ePass FIDO-NFC Security Key It's a U2F FIDO key with NFC support. Let's see what I think of it... How to Secure Your Accounts With a U2F Key or YubiKey – How to Geek WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS A shortcut that takes you to iTunes & App Store Subscriptions in one tap – https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/013a7fc44fc640eea1e2aa3fddba7473 This website that is a great GIF editor – EzGIF.com GoodNotes 5 Upgrade Bundle by Time Base Technology Limited – iOS App Store Hackintosher - Build Your Own – Hackintosher The Twitter thread with a host of “did you know” tips in it… Twitter and related to it this article *Nemo’s Hardware Store* () No hardware store this week as John is still awaiting post CES items for review. 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

Recorded 20th January 2019 This week Slackers everywhere lost their collective cool over a new Slack logo, Apple put some iPhone SE's on clearance for $249 and they sold out almost instantly, a huge cache of email addresses and passwords got put online and Duck Duck Go moved over to Apple Maps. Here to talk with me about all of that, plus woodworking, a great computer cutting machine he discovered and much more is the always effervescent Bob “Dr Mac” LeVitus. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Ghostery has gifted us 10x Ghostery “swag bags” to give away! First 10 out of the hat! Email me on essentialapple@sudomail.com with your postal address and preferred T Shirt size to be in with a chance... One lucky listener can win a free entry to Dr Mac's Working Smarter for Mac Users Video course (worth $500), and also we have one copy of the Working Smarter book to give away. As usual email essentialapple@sudomail.com with the subject Dr Mac and you will be entered into the draw. 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 Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: BOB “DR MAC” LEVITUS Bob LeVitus, often referred to as “Dr. Mac,” is a well-known authority on all things Macintosh, OS X, and Apple devices including the iPad and iPhone. One of the Apple community’s most trusted advisors for almost thirty years. Author of over 80 books including Working Smarter for Mac Users and macOS Mojave for Dummies Visit https://www.workingsmarterformacusers.com (https://www.workingsmarterformacusers.com/) @LeVitus on Twitter APPLE Amadine Beta: Vector Graphic Design Software for Mac and iOS from BeLight – https://amadine.com (https://amadine.com/) Popular VLC video player is getting AirPlay support – Cult of Mac DuckDuckGo Moves to Apple Maps for Mapping-Related Queries – iPad Insight Watch Apple’s $249 iPhone SE clearance stock evaporate – Apple 3.0 SECURITY 2FA codes can be phished by new pentest tool – Naked Security Computer scientist David Magerman wants to build a more ethical internet - CBC News The father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, has been trying to do the same with his Solid project Troy Hunt: The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach – Troy Hunt WORTH A CHIRP Keychron K1 Mechanical Keyboard – Keychron Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard – Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Louis Vuitton wireless earbuds will cost you almost $1,000 – Engadget Nemo’s Hardware Store () No hardware store this week as John is off 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 / S

Recorded 11th January 2019 This week Apple caught everyone by surprise by bringing their services to Samsung and other smart TVs... CES was surprisingly “iterative” - that LG roll up TV was back again plus there was a demonstration of my Sci Fi fantasy OTA power with promises it could be in consumer's hands by 2020. Meanwhile I am joined by semi regular co hosts Nick Riley and Donny Yankellow and special guest Pete Knowlton of Ghostery - the amazing free “anti tracker” that helps you browse smarter by giving you control over ads and tracking technologies to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data. GIVEAWAYS Pete has gifted us 10x Ghostery “swag bags” to give away! First 10 out of the hat! Email me on essentialapple@sudomail.com with your postal address and preferred T Shirt size to be in with a chance... 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! WINNER of the BeLight Home 3D is Ananda Y... expect your licences direct from Tanya at BeLight. 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: PETE KNOWLTON Visit www.ghostery.com (http://www.ghostery.com/) @Ghostery on the Twitter DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr (https://twitter.com/rtteachr) on Twitter Find his work at hedgehogalley.com (http://hedgehogalley.com/) Find his stuff in iBooks, a load of sticker packs in the App Store and DesignBundles.net as Skrbly His latest work is Skrbly Studio on YouTube NICK RILEY @spligosh (https://twitter.com/spligosh)on Twitter very occasionally. APPLE Apple brings iTunes to Samsung TV – CNBC Airplay 2 and Homekit support announced for a host of smart TVs – MacWorld TECHNOLOGY With Spigen's New Over-the-Air Charging Case, We're One Step Closer to Truly Wireless Power Being a Reality – Gizmodo SECURITY 14 iPhone apps found communicating with malware server – Cult of Mac Yubico hardware authentication through Lightning coming to the iPhone and iPad – Apple Insider The privacy risks of smart speakers like Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, and Google Home – ProtonVPN Blog WORTH A CHIRP A plea to all those who want help from us geeks from Allister Jenks (@zkarj) – Dear Technophobe Donny found Resize Master - Batch resize and watermark pictures on Mac for FREE Nemo’s Hardware Store (31:28) Fashionit GloLens $20 US Direct – Amazon: $22 US (Not currently in the UK store) MacOS Mojave “The Missing Manual” – Amazon: about $17 US or around £17 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 a

Recorded 6th January 2019 This week it was ALL about the DISASTER of Apple announcing a likely Year on Year revenue decline... CES is coming and no doubt it will be full of “smart” things! But far more importantly we are joined by Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba to talk about the new Loopback 2, and lots of other audio related things... and as ever some off script stuff too. GIVEAWAYS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 Also we have a two Licenses for BeLight Live Home 3D to give away... 1x iOS and 1x Mac DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MID JANUARY Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Live Home 3D and the phrase I give out in the BeLight interview. 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: PAUL KAFASIS Visit either Rogue Amoeba or Mac Audio What's new in Loopback 2 Designing Loopback 2 The end of Nicecast Migrating from Nicecast to Audio Hijack MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube APPLE OMG! What about Peak iPhone??? Ahead of CES, Apple puts up billboard touting iPhone security - BGR TECHNOLOGY What do we expect to see from CES? Internet founding father Larry Roberts dies at 81 – IT Pro You can finally buy Vuzix's AR smartglasses, but it'll cost you $1,000 - Digital Trends JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast User Mods New Apple Pencil to Look and Feel Like a Real Graphite Pencil - MacTrast Nemo’s Hardware Store (49:48) Hitcase Splash Case $70 US or £55 UK (not yet available via Amazon) Hitcase Truelux Lenses $40 US or £31.40 UK (around $36 US Amazon US) or (around £35 UK Amazon UK) Essential Apple Recommended Services: 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. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. 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 23rd December 2018 This week we are having a party... I am joined by Karl Madden, Guy Serle, Donny Yankellow, Bart Busschots and Mark Chappell. With six of us on the line I am afraid that some of the audio struggled a little but it held up and we had a pretty fun time. Thanks to all the listeners and guests over the last year. All the Essential Apple crew wish everybody a Merry Christmas (or your midwinter festival of choice) and all the best for 2019. GIVEAWAYS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 just use the coupon code EssentialApple at the checkout. Also we have a two Licenses for BeLight Live Home 3D to give away... 1x iOS and 1x Mac. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MID JANUARY Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Live Home 3D and the phrase I give out in the BeLight interview. 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. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 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. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. 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. On this week’s show: KARL MADDEN Host of the Mac & Forth 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 BART BUSSCHOTS Find him at bartb.ie Host of the Let's Talk podcasts @bbusschots on Twitter 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 and DesignBundles.net as Skrbly His latest book is Artosaurus MARK CHAPPELL @oceanspeedon Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube FEEDBACK Richard Easton gave us some feedback on the GPS show and says that there are some disputes over some assertions in the “Lonely Halls” documentary and refers us to this article GIVEAWAY WINNERS Luminar: Rob Rait, Howard Greenberg, Scott Willsey, Darren Hendley, Alan. Aurora: Andy Joyce, Steve Hammond, Paul Cruxton, Ray Parker, Ivor Pope. PARTY TIME Bring a bottle – feel free to be having a drink Highlight of the year, low point of the year (in tech story terms) Best tech / gadget of the year. Something old / something new (something we found, got, whatever) that we like this year and something old we are still finding to be great. APPLE Apple exec puts a number on what's acceptable for bendy iPads – Mashable UK Now is the time for Apple to really market privacy to mass-market consumers – 9to5 Mac VARIOUS STUFF MENTIONED The Grid Organisers Cardhop for Mac ATM510 Cardioid Dynamic Handheld Microphone Simply Sound Mic Pre Amp Old Call of Duty Games Camtasia smART Sketcher Projector Kit Nikon Coolpix W100 Camera My 2nd B

Recorded 16th December 2018 This week Apple Music started working on Amazon Echo devices (well if you live in the US anyway). Apple Pay arrived in Germany, and Apple announced a $1 billion investment in Austin, Texas, for a new campus (plus a lot of other US expansion). App developers got some extra analytics from the Mac App Store and Apple backed a move for a US Digital Privacy Law. Meanwhile I am joined by Oliver Breidenbach of Boinx Software and Nick Riley to talk about all that and more as we decide we're “simply having a wonderful Christmas time...” GIVEAWAYS Skylum has gifted us 5x of Luminar 2019 and Aurora 2019 to give away! Send an email to essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Luminar or Aurora and the phrase I give in the show to enter. PLUS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HDR 2019 with discount code EssentialApple (All the 2019 updates will be free. Learn more.) Also we have a two Licenses for BeLight Live Home 3D to give away... 1x iOS and 1x Mac. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Live Home 3D and the phrase I give out in the show. Winners for both will be announced on the Christmas Party Podcast which is recording on the 23rd December. 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. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 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. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. 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. On this week’s show: OLIVER BREIDENBACH Boinx Makers of cool photo and video software for Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch On Twitter as @boinxsoftware Oliver is on Twitter as @obreidenbach NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter, sometimes on the Let's Talk Apple Podcast. APPLE Apple plans new $1 billion campus in Austin Texas (and more) – Reuters Apple Pay arrives in Germany (at last) – Tech Crunch Apple now supports app analytics for developers on the Mac App Store 9to5 Mac Apple-backed tech group drafts US privacy bill – 9to5 Mac Apple Music launches on Amazon Echo (US Only for now)[9to5 Mac](https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/15/top-stories-apple-music-echo-more Boinx have released new version of Mouseposé TECHNOLOGY Intel unveils new 10nm Sunny Cove CPUs, possibly destined for future Macs – 9to5 Mac SECURITY Logitech app security flaw allowed keystroke injection attacks – ZDNet Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent – ProtonMail Blog The digital privacy tools you need to be using now – Fast Company 2018 saw people use eleven new dumb passwords – including 'Donald' – 9to5 Mac WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Satechi’s Aluminum Keyboard is a great alternative to Apple’s more expensive space gray option – 9to5 Mac NVIDIA Shield Streaming & Game

Recorded 8th December 2018 This week a slightly different show as I am deeply privileged to have as my special guest David Acklam, not a name you may know, but he was part of the development team for the Global Positioning System. Something that we now take forgranted but as one of the team described it a technology that went “from obscurity to ubiquity” and started out at what became known as “The Lonely Halls Meeting” which sounds more like a Peter Jackson fantasy epic than a world changing technology meeting! You can watch the documentary featuring David and many more of the team and telling the story of GPS on Amazon Prime here GIVEAWAYS Skylum has gifted us 5x of Luminar 2019 and Aurora 2019 to give away! Send an email to essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Luminar or Aurora and the phrase I give in the show to enter. PLUS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HDR 2019 with discount code EssentialApple (If you buy Luminar 2018 you’ll get all the 2019 updates for free. Learn more.) Also we have a two Licenses for BeLight Live Home 3D to give away... 1x iOS and 1x Mac. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Live Home 3D and the phrase I give out in the show. Winners for both will be announced on the Christmas Party Podcast which is recording on the 23rd December. 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. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 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. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. 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. On this week’s show: DAVID ACKLAM Retired Professional Engineer (PE inactive) BSEE, MS, University of Arizona Career Air Force Officer, retired (1966 -1987) Systems integration and test engineer with Texas Instruments Defense Group and Raytheon Missile Systems, retired (1987 - 2002) Part of the development program for Global Positioning System Documentary available on Amazon Prime Community outreach volunteer since retirement in 2003 Member, University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Director's Advisory board 2006 to present. Chairman of the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Kuiper Circle Community Outreach committee OSIRIS-REx Ambassador OSIRIS-REx on NASA Friend and Docent at the Planetary Science Institute Member of the Tucson Mac User Group Tucson MUG on Facebook Staff reviewer with MyMac.com (http://mymac.com/) APPLE Apple released a clear case for the iPhone Xr – 9to5 Mac Apple released watchOS 5.1.2 with the ECG function for Apple Watch 4... Apple Watch user discovers A-fib heart issue with new ECG app – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Corning is building impossibly thin, flexible Gorilla Glass for foldable phones – BGR 50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart's

Recorded 2nd December 2018 This week George Bush Snr (41st President of the USA) passed away. Amazon announced the Apple Music service will be available on their devices by Christmas. Amazon also announced it is going with custom designed ARM Graviton chips for AWS servers. The iPhone Xr is declared best selling iPhone, Apple offers increased trade in values on old iPhones and Apple supports anti AIDS efforts. PLUS our guest this week is Alex Tsepko of Skylum who returns to the show to tell us all about Luminar 2019, its Libraries features, free updates, forthcoming additions and lots more. Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 with discount code EssentialApple (If you buy Luminar 2018 you’ll get all 2019 updates for free. Learn more). GIVEAWAYS Skylum has gifted us 5x of Luminar 2019 and Aurora 2019 to give away! Send an email to essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Luminar or Aurora and the phrase I give in the show to enter. Also we have a two Licenses for BeLight Live Home 3D to give away... 1x iOS and 1x Mac. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Live Home 3D Mac or iOS and the phrase I give out in the show. Winners for both will be announced on the Christmas Party Podcast which is recording on the 23rd December. 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: SKYLUM Skylum Photolemur Luminar 2019 Aurora HDR Skylum Creative Kit Blog Roadmap @wearemacphun on Twitter Email support@skylum.com or alex@skylum.com Question from @MacJim in the Slack “Will the Fujifilm XF10 be supported soon? I can't edit my images just now. Will we be able to import images, catalogues, RAW images over from Lightroom, and if not, will it be featured at a later update?” @Oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on [YouTube] APPLE Apple Music is coming to Amazon Echo speakers week of Dec. 17 – USA Today The iPhone XR Is Apple's Best-Selling iPhone - Forbes Apple Store purchases this week generate donations to AIDS treatment – Cult of Mac Apple boosting iPhone trade-in credit with up to an extra $100 – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY AWS goes for custom ARM Graviton Chips – CNBC Nemo’s Hardware Store (44:54) Creative Metallix Twin Pack $80 – Amazon (single speakers) $30 US or £25 UK Creative Metallix Plus Twin Pack $100 US – Amazon (single speakers) $30 US or £32 UK Aurvana Trio Audiophile In-Ear Headphones with Hybrid Triple-Driver System $150 US – Amazon $100 £110 UK 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.