Essential Apple Podcast 196: A fairly short show

This week there isn’t a huge amount going on as everyone waits with bated breath for the next Apple thing to be announced… Nevertheless Simon, Jim and Nick find a bit to natter about but even so it is a fairly short show by recent standards!

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 25th October 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

JAMES ORMISTON

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

APPLE

Extension of Apple TV+ – No email for me but my next payment date moved to Feb 2 2021
Upgrading to iPhone 12 causes issues for UK NHS COVID-19 app users – Apple Insider
Apple Updates iMovie and GarageBand for iOS With New Features – Mac Rumors
Apple removes its ‘TV Remote’ app from the App Store as iOS now has an integrated Remote – 9to5 Mac
First durability tests show notable improvements to the iPhone 12 with Ceramic Shield – 9to5 Mac
iPhone MagSafe Chargers Have A Big Problem – They’re Not MagSafe – Forbes
Launch Center Pro now lets you change iOS app icons without using Shortcuts – 9to5 Mac
‎The vectornator people have a font manager from iOS – App Store

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

From Donny
So I threatened that I’d do it…I designed a set of iOS 14 icons. Decided to put them for sale at Etsy. So many are these crisp and clean copycat icons so I went with a rough sketchy style. – Esty store
El Trackpad iOS part via the App Store and Mac element from the developer’s site.
Chose what happens to newly downloaded Apps on iOS 14 – the setting is in Settings > Home Screen – you can have newly downloaded items go to the home screen, or App Library only.

NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE

Nemo is restocking the shelves for the holiday season!

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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