Essential Apple Podcast 200: Bicentennial

This week for show 200 Mark takes the chair and original co-host Karl Madden of the Mac & Forth Show joins Simon, and Donny to talk about new Macs, HomePod Mini, iPhone 12 Mini, Windows on M1 and more.

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 29th November 2020

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On this week’s show:

KARL MADDEN

Host of the Mac & Forth Show

MARK CHAPPELL

@oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter
Puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube

DONNY YANKELLOW

@rtteachr on Twitter
Find his work at hedgehogalley.com
Books in Apple Book Store
DesignBundles.net as Skrbly
Skrbly Studio on YouTube
Skrbly Store
Leo the Lonely Guitar
Donny’s Classes on Outschool.com for kids 7-18
Skrbly Studio on Etsy for iOS custom icon sets

APPLE

M1 shiny talk…
- Rogue Amoeba – latest builds isapplesiliconready.com Carbon Copy Cloner
- Dev successfully runs ARM Windows virtualization on M1 Mac, says it’s ‘pretty snappy – 9to5 Mac
- Developer Successfully Virtualizes Windows for Arm on M1 Mac – Mac Rumors

TECHNOLOGY

Amazon Sidewalk comes to UK – BBC News (or doesn’t… actually)

SECURITY & PRIVACY

iPhone ‘Weak Security’ Wi-Fi Warning: Here’s What It Means – Forbes
Spotify Starts A Rolling Reset Of Passwords Following Security Issues – Ubergizmo
Sophos notifies customers of data exposure after database misconfiguration – ZDNet

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

iMazing developers offer “Silicon” app for free; a tool for detecting supported architecture for Mac apps – Apple World Today
Capto Cyber Monday 45% off at time of recording…

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

Pock – Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
Amazon Smile donate to charity as you buy. Go to smile.amazon.(your local Amazon)

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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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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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