Essential Apple Podcast 176: Wilful nonsense!

This week I am joined once more by Jim and Mark and Nick to ponder over the mysteries of the week in Apple and Tech and for whatever reason it all goes a bit weird… Lockdown brainrot setting in? Regardless of that here it is in all of its “glory”

GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS

Glenn Fleishman’s Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom too.
Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk

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Recorded 18th May 2020

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On this week’s show:

JAMES ORMISTON

MacJim in the Slack
In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr
Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop

NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.
Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots’ Let’s Talk Apple

APPLE

Some iPad Pro users complaining that the Magic Keyboard causes excessive battery drain — 9to5 Mac
John Gruber calls for Post to retract Apple-Google article — Apple 3.0
Leaker says he’s seen Apple Glasses. And they’re coming next year — iMore
FBI Serves Apple Warrant to Gain US Senator’s iCloud Data – Mac Rumors
Ubisoft Sues Apple for refusing to remove an Alibaba game from their App Store that is a ‘Rainbow Six|Siege’ Ripoff – Patently Apple

TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft: we were wrong about open source — The Verge
AR Copy Paste tool allows users to drop images of objects into a computer — Dezeen
The Robot Dog That is Enforcing Social Distancing — AI Daily
Facebook’s Giphy acquisition might have big implications for iMessage and Twitter — The Verge
Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source – again – ZDNet
IKEA play forts – Dezeen

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Major security flaw found in Thunderbolt Macs and PCs: Should you be worried? – Macworld
Adobe Acrobat Security Vulnerabilities Allow Root Privileges on Mac, Update Now – Mac Rumors

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Mophie unveils new Powerstation XL with USB-C and Lightning, Qi charging, more – 9to5 Mac

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

Sony Unveils the World’s First Camera Sensors with Built-in AI – PetaPixel

NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE

Basically waiting for the pandemic to pass…

Essential Apple Recommended Services:

Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online.
Doug.ee Blog for Andy J’s security tips.
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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!
Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test.
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.

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