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Affinity Photo is a steal at this price! In honour of being App of the Year they are having a “flash sale” of Affinity Photo for iPad. Affinity has a Vimeo Channel with loads of helpful tutorials too.
Continue reading → Affinity Photo goes on sale for £9.99 UK / $9.99 US / $13.99 CAD!
This week, being the week of Thanksgiving/Black Friday where the news is a little thin on the ground (unless you count the endless “Black Friday greatest deals ever” stuff) we are joined by Andrius Gailiunas from Pixelmator to talk about Pixelmator and the upcoming Pixelmator Pro.
Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 65: Andrius Gailiunas of Pixelmator
Mark is back from Munich, and we are joined by Mike Bombich of Carbon Copy Cloner fame to talk about his career, his software, Apple, and some other bits and pieces.
Recorded 8th October 2017
Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 59: CCC’s Mike Bombich In Conversation
This week Cassini made its final manoeuvre and crashed into Saturn ending its 13 year scientific mission, some muppets set off a bomb in the Parson’s Green Tube Station injuring 29 people (some of them children) but thankfully there were no fatalities and Apple held a small gathering at their new Steve Jobs Theatre to announce some new shiny toys.
Mark is off in Budapest enjoying a relaxing break from it all. So in his absence I am joined by Sherman Gossett (Commander Shroom) from Utah, Ruth (@CutieMelon321) and, at incredibly short notice, Guy Searle (@MacParrot) from the My Mac Show. We, of course, give our reactions to the Apple Event, and some other stuff – because, well, what else would we be doing on a podcast?
Recorded 17th September 2017
Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 56: Wire Chaos & Apple Event Reactions
‘I’m a Photographer’: those are the words that conjure up an image in the reader’s mind making them think, “he’s a Professional”, but that’s not always the case.
To me, we’re all photographers, every one of us, whether we’re using the most expensive all bells and whistles camera, or the cheapest mobile phone: we’re all photographers.
Why do I say that? Well, we all have the dream of taking the most amazing images, those that will stand the test of time and leave future generations in a place of wonderment, but I don’t consider myself a professional because of that.
This seems to have been the ultimate vision for Apple and the Watch since it’s inceptop. AppleWatch Series 3 comes with built in cellular without the bulk that hampered the Samsung Gear offering on it’s release.
Continue reading → Apple’s Vision For the AppleWatch Comes True
So many people are apparently are getting healthier with Apple Watch OS 4 people are going to be able to do even. Features like Smart Activity Coaching will help more people, like me, close rings more often.
A completely redesigned workout app with High Intensity Interval Training (Hiit). New features for swimmers like auto sets and gymKit an industry first. Gym Kits is activated just by tapping your watch against machine to get going and all your metrics will be in synch.
Continue reading → Apple Watch Series 3 Aims To Inspire Workouts
First impressions: You can tell the emotions were flowing at the Steve Jobs Theatre on 12th September. Despite the grand occasion of what was essentially an already spoiled event, could Apple show us any surprises from a leaked keynote event. The answer… Sort of. Serenak from the EssentialApple podcast shares his thoughts.
Continue reading → First Impressions From The Apple 2017 Special Event
Another two hour long event but from the newly crowned and somewhat emotional Steve Jobs Theatre. Tim cook signed off with a visible lump in this throat when talking about Steve but not before a whole host of reveals.
Continue reading → All the Apple Event Reveals From The Steve Jobs Theatre.
Being an old geezer, I’m a little set in my ways and can be a little resistant to new fangled apps and software. It’s not that I don’t like technology or the latest toys and software, I’m a Mac user after all, but when it comes to my photography work, I’ve always been in the Mac and OS X/macOS universe, so when it was suggested that the iPad could some day be my main photography editing device, I’d have laughed at you… but not any more.
I’ve listened to podcasts for a long time and on many, professional photographers have said that the iPad would never be a viable device to produce professional work on but… yes, it’s that ‘but’ word… maybe it could.
Continue reading → Can The iPad Replace Your Mac For Photo Editing?
I’ve been using the iOS 11 public beta’s for some time now and I’ve had mixed feelings about the way iOS 11 works… some features are really useful, and others are not, some are really intuitive and some are… not.
Some nice features that I have been discovering, such as the drag and drop multiple items feature, has been really useful, but due to them being so different, I keep forgetting about them. One of those was the multi drop feature, which this morning I remembered about when I decided to rearrange my apps due to storage issues. I’ve been finding that iOS 11 (Public Beta 8) has some annoying ways of working. Whether this is meant to happen when space is at a premium, or just an annoying bug I don’t know, but we will see when the full version finally arrives later this month.
On the week where Uncle Tim had an iPhone 8 in his pocket, Accu Weather got caught out, Elon Musk warned us about “autonomous weapons” and a leak that surprised no-one revealed the CIA spy on everyone, including their security “partners”; we are joined by Kelly Guimont of The Mac Observer and App Camp 4 Girls fame, and, well, let’s just say the show notes went out the window and this is what happened instead!
Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast Special: The Kelly Guimont Show
Karl Madden, host of the Mac & Forth Show and the Here ‘N’ There Show, founding member of this podcast AND one of the biggest reasons Simon ended up getting into podcasting and becoming co-host, joins Simon while Mark is off “enjoying” a 100 mile cycle ride in London.
