Essential Apple Podcast 243: Can I do the twirling thing now?

Warren Sklar (of Mac To The Future, In Touch With iOS, and more) joins Simon and Nick to chat over the goings on this week including “hidden features” in Monterey, Siri Apple Watch commands, a MyCharge safety recall, a Quick Notes tip, and more stuff that caught our eye this week…

GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS

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The next meeting of Suffolk Mac User Group is on Wednesday 24 November at 7.30pm GMT, when member Tony Bramley, professional photographer and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, will be ripping the lid off DaVinci Resolve, and illustrating how easy it is to use. Amazingly, a free piece of software, way beyond iMovie and GarageBand and used quite often for high end work in Hollywood, DaVinci Resolve has incredible power that rivals Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premier Pro.
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Recorded 31st October 2021

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WARREN SKLAR

Co-host of Mac To The Future Go!
Co-host of In Touch With iOS
Appears on MacVoices Live

NICK RILEY

@spligosh (https://twitter.com/spligosh) on Twitter very occasionally.
Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots’ Let’s Talk Apple
Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube
Nick’s church stream videos – You Tube

APPLE

Apple’s Extended Return Policy Now in Effect for 2021 Holiday Season – MacRumors
Tim Cook on Twitter
12 Hidden Features in macOS Monterey Worth Finding – LifeHacker
Hands-on: ‘Magicut’ is a free iOS video editor app for your new iPad mini 6 – 9to5Mac
- From @MacJim feedback for you regarding Magicut on the iPad Pro M1… It crashes all the time
M1 Pro/M1 Max MacBook Pro Crashes When Playing HDR Videos on YouTube, Report Users — iPhone in Canada
Apple fixes macOS Monterey glitch that prevented some Macs from booting – Apple World Today
11 Siri Commands on Apple Watch You Need to Try – iDropNews
What macOS Monterey’s ‘Relocated Items’ are, and how to delete them — AppleInsider
Apple hires former Tesla Autopilot software exec to bolster self-driving car effort — 9to5Mac
Third-party iPhone 13 screen repairs disable Face ID, iFixit confirms – BGR

TECHNOLOGY

‘Squid Game’ cryptocurrency collapses in a $3 million scam – Engadget
Intel Alder Lake Chips For Desktop Beats Apples M1 Pro, M1 Max in Benchmarks. – Wccftech
Microsoft OneDrive app will stop syncing with Windows 7 and 8 on March 1st 2022 – Engadget
Urgent recall issued after people were burned, so stop using this phone charger now – BGR

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Interesting point – had difficulty trying to activate the new Quick Note (generally said to be put the mouse in the bottom right of the screen… courtesy of MacGeekGab I learned that Fn-Q will activate it, also I looked into the hot corners settings and lo and behold the reason it didn’t work for me is because I already use that as a hot corner for “show desktop” but New Quick Note is a hot corner option – so actually you can set it to any corner (with or without an extra modifier key)
From @Donny NEW Apple Microfiber Cleaning Cloth Wipe GENUINE 5-pack – eBay

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

5 Dumb Phone Accessories That We Cant Help But Love Anyway – Digital Trends
I’ve created human-style eyes for robots – with some inspiration from Jabba the Hut. – The Conversation

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