S1E183 - Essential Apple Podcast 183: A chat inspired by WWDC

Recorded 23rd June 2020

Simon, Mark and Jim are joined by the wonderful Kelly Guimont of The Mac Observer to talk about WWDC 2020 and what it all means. In the usual Essential Apple manner we don’t talk about WWDC so much as get into a conversation about a variety of things that WWDC kind of made our addled brains think about…

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 and Take Control of Slack too.
Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye 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.

On this week’s show:

KELLY GUIMONT

@verso on Twitter
Host of TMO Daily Observations Podcast
The Aftershow Podcast
Greetings from the Uncanny Valley (a Westworld podcast)
Various other shows on the Incomparable Network

MARK CHAPPELL

@oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter
Puts Essential Apple related stuff on [YouTube] (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvXHkqN9IWFlKtQFptemRcQ/)
Co-host of the The Watching Men Podcast with Karl Madden

JAMES ORMISTON

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

NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE (1:18:43)

Kensington Privacy Screens for MacBook 2016 & Later – ($50-$65 US) – Amazon £48 – £77 UK Full range from 2016-2019 and 13“, 15” and 16“) – Unable to find a sensible link on Amazon US from here in the UK… sorry!
Diamond Dog DiamondClad Tempered Glass Screen Protector – Amazon $30 US – Doesn’t appear to be available in the Amazon UK store.

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.
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.

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.

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