S1E182 - Essential Apple Podcast 182: And in other news…

Recorded 15th June 2020

The second part of the previous show where Simon, Nick and Jim carry on and take a look at some of the other news of the week.

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 too.
Steve at Geeks Corner will be having more giveaways in the near future. Keep an eye on the site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk
Serif have expanded their sale to everything in the Affinity store until June 20th

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.

On this week’s show:

JAMES ORMISTON

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

NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.
Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots’ Let’s Talk Apple

APPLE

Apple commits $100 million to racial equity initiative, boosting black partners – Venture Beat
Apple renames Buchanan Street store as Glasgow calls for racial justice — 9to5 Mac
Apple Maps Real-Time Transit Information Now Available in Several More Countries and Regions – Mac Rumors
Apple removes Pocket Casts podcast player from App Store in China at government request – 9to5 Mac
Apple Discontinuing iBooks Author on July 1, Encourages Writers to Transition to Pages – Mac Rumors
Apple Discontinuing iTunes U at the End of 2021 – Mac Rumors
Apple should acquire DuckDuckGo to put pressure on Google Search, analyst argues – 9to5 Mac

ARM MAC SPECULATION

Will the 12-inch MacBook return fully ‘ARM’ed? – Creative Bloq
- New 12-inch MacBook could be Apple’s first ARM Mac – Apple Post

TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft Just Gave A Billion Users A Reason To Quit Windows 10 — Forbes
‘OpenCore Computer’ Launches Commercial Hackintosh in Violation of Apple’s macOS Licensing Agreement [Updated] — MacRumors
Lego Mindstorms blasts back after seven years with a 5-in-1 programmable robot kit — Stuff
UK competition watchdog launches investigation into Facebook’s $400M acquisition of Giphy – TechCrunch
Adobe Photoshop Camera Brings Real-Time Filters and AI to Photo Sharing – Mac Stories

SECURITY & PRIVACY

This app will tell you if your iPhone has been hacked — ZDNet

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

You can block YouTube ads by adding one symbol to the URL. ‘With great power…’ – Android Authority
Krita: Digital Painting. Creative Freedom – Krita.org
OpenToonz 2D Animation and vector illustration – GitHub

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.
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33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again.
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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