Essential Apple Podcast 247: Banksy’s Spraycation

This week, Amazon had a big outage creating havoc, a dangerous flaw was found in a key server tool that puts attackers one step ahead, Tim pledged money to Tornado relief, Apple started pushing out release candidates for the next wave of OS updates, and more… Plus Simon and Nick go off on the odd tangent.

GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS

Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO
Affinity Sale – 30% off most stock, 50% off iPad apps

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!

Recorded 12th December 2021

Listen to the show:

This and other episodes are available at:

NICK RILEY

@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 gets last-minute delay in complying with App Store changes after Epic lawsuit – Engadget
Apple Is Rolling Out a Manual Firmware Updater for AirPods — Gizmodo
- Apple finally makes a firmware updater for AirPods, but you can’t use it — 9to5Mac
macOS Monterey: Exploring the redesigned “Go To Folder” RocketYard via Chuck Joiner
µBrowser is a new web browser for Apple Watch that’s surprisingly great — 9to5Mac
iPhone 13 Pro ‘Steve Jobs Edition’ packs parts from original 2007 iPhone — CNET
Apple’s upcoming macOS 12.1 update will fix the MacBook Pro’s notch and menu bar issues — The Verge
Apple Donating to Relief Efforts Following Tornadoes in Several U.S. States — MacRumors
Apple updates AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max firmware versions – the Apple Post

TECHNOLOGY

NASA Returns Hubble to Full Science Operations – NASA
Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone is now available on YouTube — The Verge
Amazon says software problem was at root of huge Internet outage this week — Fortune

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Report: iOS Users Who Opt-Out of App Tracking Continue to Be Tracked – MacRumors
Warning Issued For Millions Of Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11 Users — Forbes
Threat grows from newly discovered online vulnerability — SiliconValley.com
- Update on Apache Log4j Zero-Day Vulnerability – Security Intellignce
- iCloud and other services vulnerable to new ‘Log4Shell’ exploit – 9to5Mac

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

NeuralCam App Adds 48MP AI Super Resolution Upscaler to iPhone – PetaPixel
Ubuntu Web: A Chrome OS Alternative That Respects Your Privacy – MakeUseOf

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

Apple renews trademark for Mammoth operating system name – AppleInsider
Banksy’s East Coast Spraycation

NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE (43:37)

Nemo’s PRODUCT OF THE YEAR Audio Technica AT 2040 Microphone $99 USD / £85 UKP – Amazon

Essential Apple Recommended Services:

All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers.
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 and on the App Stores – 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.

Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services… We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion.

Social Media and Slack

You can follow us on:

Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast

Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn’t have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement.
You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it.
If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations)
And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do.