Essential Apple Podcast 189: The Preshow is the Aftershow... or something

No Jim this time as he is back at work, but I am joined by Nick to actually do a show – but based on the feedback related to the “Not a show…” last week we are going to try a slightly less structured approach for the next few shows – feel free to let me know what you think about it. Somehow we managed to end up with nearly as much preshow as show… so although some of it covers the same ground the Aftershow is the Preshow (or something).

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 Essentials free as well.
Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways.

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!

Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular – if you’re interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation.

Recorded 7th September 2020

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On this week’s show:

NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.
Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots’ Let’s Talk Apple
Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube

APPLE

Apple Investing in Two of The World’s Largest Onshore Wind Turbines in European Renewable Energy Drive – The Mac Observer
Apple delays predicted iOS 14 data transparency ‘adpocalypse’ until 2021 – TechSpot
- Apple will release iOS 14 without this privacy feature: What iPhone users and developers need to know – TechRepublic
Apple iPhone 11 was the world’s most-shipped smartphone in H1 2020: Omdia – Pocketnow
Apple’s new privacy ad has a ton of Easter eggs. Here’s what they reference – Fast Company

TECHNOLOGY

Citroën cube car is set to win friends across France – The Times and The Sunday Times
Mineral rich undersea nodules – Robert Llewyln, Fully Charged Podcast: Material for 1 billion batteries

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Windows Computers Were Targets of 83% of All Malware Attacks in Q1 2020 – PCMag

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Pixelmator Pro reaches 10,000 five-star ratings – and goes on sale! – Pixelmator Blog
Luminar AI – AI photo editing for Mac & PC – Skylum
Introducing Vectornator X4 – Vectornator Blog

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

People love this man’s response to a lad cycling round his drive every morning – The Poke

NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE

Nemo will be back soon with more goodies.

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.
Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing.
Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with
33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again.
AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses
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… You get to keep 2 free avatars though.
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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