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A strange week of Apple news from rumoured thunderbolt displays, rumoured iPhone release cycles, rumoured rumours and sources familiar with the matter. Yet we still manage to pack over an 1h 20 mins with something..
Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 5: Dodgy Bluetooth Vans…
To celebrate the launch of 1Password Teams we are having an amazing Early adopter sale: if you create your team before July 31st, you will get all the Pro features for the price of the Standard plan.
We covered password issues in the latest edition of the Essential Apple Show and 1Password is considered an essential pick amongst the team.
Find out more on the AgileBits website
Your time has run out with iTunes music, Spotify doesn’t appeal to you so why not try Deezer for only just 99p for 3 months.
Set your summer free and take all your music offline when you upgrade to Deezer Premium+ this month.
You can say goodbye to ads and hello to unlimited skipping too, all for just 99p*.
Feral Interactive today announced that the award-winning episodic adventure game Life is Strange™ will be released on Mac soon. Created by Paris-based developer DONTNOD and published by Square Enix on console and Windows, Life is Strange has been highly praised by critics and fans alike for its moving narrative, stylish visuals and compelling system of choice and consequences. All five episodes will be available to play at launch.
Follow the story of Max Caulfield, a photography senior who discovers she can rewind time while saving her best friend Chloe Price. The pair soon find themselves investigating the mysterious disappearance of fellow student Rachel Amber, uncovering a dark side to life in Arcadia Bay. Meanwhile, Max must quickly learn that changing the past can sometimes lead to a devastating future.
Continue reading → Life is Strange Critically episodic adventure heading to Mac
Alien Hunters, the second DLC pack for XCOM 2, is out now!
Available to buy separately, or as part of the Reinforcement Pack, Alien Hunters DLC features a narrative-driven mission, new weapons and armor, a new Hunter’s Lodge facility in the Avenger, plus three new “Ruler” alien units to combat.
Today Mophie have come up with an ingenious solution to wireless charging for us iPhone users in the form of the Mophie Juice Pack Wireless.
The battery case maker is launching a wirelessly charging battery case for iPhone 6, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 6S Plus. Mophie says the Juice Pack Wireless will add more than 50% extra battery life though the wireless charging will likely be the big sell.
Continue reading → iPhone Wireless Charging Now Possible Thanks To Mophie Juice Pack Wireless
Another week and another episode of the Essential Apple show and we have a new game to start things off simply called “What’s in my hand”. We discuss iPhones potentially becoming cheaper after sales slump, iPads and education might be marked for failure, Skype issues for podcasters, Nemos hardware store and Google IO.
Not happy with being awarded $625m (£426m) a company called VirnetX is seeking further damages and a potential blocking of iMessage and Facetime.
Continue reading → Apple Facetime And iMessage Under Threat From VirnetX
Sonys creative software offerings such as Full Vegas Pro, Movie Studio, Sound Forge Pro and ACID Pro lines have been acquired by Magix Software
Continue reading → Sony Vegas Pro, Sound Forge and Acid Pro Aquired By Magix.
Last month Amazon launched Amazon Prime monthly in the US, allowing customers to subscribe to the service on a monthly basis, instead of paying a full year of service upfront. No information was provided on offering this subscription tier to other markets that the company operates in.
We have spotted that the monthly tier of Prime is now available in the UK, too. When going to the Prime Subscription page, you are greeted with two options as shown above: monthly or annually. The monthly option comes in at £7.99/month and includes all of the Prime features you’d expect, whereas the annual tier comes to £79/year, equating to £6.58/month.
Continue reading → Amazon Prime monthly subscription now available in the UK
Trainers that tell you where to go, BBC goes all netflix, Barry’s new career path / diaries of an allotment owner, Apple invests in Didi, Nemos hardware store and worth a chip. Are you not amused 😀
Continue reading → The Essential Apple Podcast 3: Self Guiding Trainers…
TwelveSouth make some lovely items and although they may be a bit on the pricey side they certainly look good and last well. To complement their ever expanding range of BookBook covers available for virtually everything that Apple currently makes (with the exception of the iMac and Mac Pro…although I REALLY want to see a BookBook cover for a 27inch iMac) they now produce one for the 12.9inch iPad Pro.
The case features all of their usual stylish trademarks including being manufactured from genuine leather. Also included is a kickstand to place the iPad at an angle for wrist-friendly typing and artistic drawing with an Apple Pencil.
Continue reading → TwelveSouth Releases BookBook for iPad Pro
This weeks show we discussed Apple music and Connect now seemingly going the way of “Ping”. Was connect serving a purpose that twitter didnt? The outrage of an icon change is also up for discussion and our views on advertising in podcasts.
I had the opportunity to test out two great little devices from Manfrotto this weekend. The TwistGrip is a small device that allows you to easily attach your phone to a tri-pod or other form of mount. The Second device was the Pixi Tripod.
Both worked exceptionally well together and I had fun shooting some video at a farm pretty local to me.
Continue reading → Manfrotto Pixi Tripod and TwistGrip Review
Did you hear the one about Apple stopping sales of iTunes downloads? The website Digital Music News ran a piece on Wednesday with two end of life timeliness for individual track and album sales. One possibility had that happening within two years, while another had the music sales stopping in the next three to four years, maybe longer.