Simon installed the High Sierra Beta and it bit him back! After a fair amount of sweat, swearing and effort though he thinks it may all have been for the best in the end. This week are joined by “internet royalty” Snaggy and Nitrozac of the revered Joy of Tech web comic and, well, hilarity ensued! Slippers, iPhone Propeller Beanies, virtual carpets and more…

Recorded 16th July 2017

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 49: Snaggy, Nitrozac and the Joy of Tech!

Recorded 10th July 2017

Simon installed the High Sierra Beta and it bit him back! He wanted to tell us all about it but we were having such a blast talking to Keith R Baker author of the Longshot series of historical fiction novels set in the American Civil War and his Technical Advisor/Cover Artist Monica Haynes about – well, everything, that we never even got around to that! Have a listen and welcome to the madness!

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Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 48: Hey Garlic Head, it’s Keith R (Longshot) Baker!!!

Recorded 25th June 2017

Yes! Proving that we are actually a “proper grown up podcast” Simon hosts, not one, not two, but THREE guests as @Spligosh and @Dougee join him to wander through the week’s tech tomfoolery and his daughter Ruth drops in to voice her opinion on the Snapchat Maps furore…

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 47: Guests Galore!

PHOTOGRAPHER: IKE EDEANI FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK

Recorded 18th June 2017

Coming up this week we discuss a few of the left overs from the week that was WWDC. Just how popular is that new iPad? (Mark had a fondle). Project Titan confirmed and a whole lot more other stuff.

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 46: WWDC Hangover

So it is the week after that big Apple thing known as the WWDC. All the cool kids have given their opinions, so now we join in on the game. Loads to cover and the show runs long, but I think it was worth it.

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 45: A Right Cornucopia

Recorded 4th June 2017

Recorded on a week when there had been two recent terror attacks on Britain… Our thoughts were with those affected. Yes, yes yes, we were late publishing this…(even more so than usual) so it was all over and done by the time this got posted – even if we did record it the day before. Anyway we tried to stay away from the WWDC and certainly all the rumours for the most part… so it won’t all be out of date!

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 44: Not Much WWDC – Honest!

Simon followed through… with dropping one of the tech giants and gives us an update on living an “alternative” lifestyle. Mark discovers Amazon Prime Reading and we talk how to use the internet without the eyes of the Government’s “snooper’s charter” bearing down on you.

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None of us are feeling too great this week so we muddle through and discuss more Microsoft, that cyberwar attack, a new Apple Watch case and in what order would we drop the big the big tech 5.

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 42: It’s The Coffin That They Carry You Off In

On this episode of our Apple based podcast we discuss Microsoft, Pebble and Android, with the odd smattering of Apple. Nick Riley from the Let’s Talk Apple Podcast joins us this week and we ponder self driving cars and best of all some real life giant fighting mechs!

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 40: The Big Bad Bots are Coming?

An extra long show as a surprise guest drops by. We talk about Mark’s unfortunate week. Apple and their remarkable and unprecedented revealing of future product plans. Apple/Microsoft/Android “market share/user base”, the Samsung Dex Dock and, well, anything else that catches our attention deficit disordered minds!

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 39: The Mac Pro! It Lives!

Mark’s AirPod problems seem to be reaching a climax, Simon gets an Apple Watch, Touch ID saves a life, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Plus MSOffice seems to be a 32 bit app on iOS shocker!

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 38: Apple, Patents, The Augmented Future and Running Out of Time

Mark’s AirPods, iPad Pro Genius support. You have failed me for the last time Apple Support. Genuine shock at just how bad Apple support can be!

Continue reading → Essential Apple Podcast 36 : Apple’s Infinite Loop of Genius “Support”