S1E184 - Essential Apple Podcast 184: Goodbye OS X - Hello OS 11

Recorded 30th June 2020**

Nick, Jim, Simon and Nick get together once more to talk about more WWDC stuff basically – there was so much news, so much stuff, and so many changes ahead that we are probably going to all be talking about it for months. Still better than having nothing to talk 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 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.

On this week’s show:

MARK CHAPPELL

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

NICK RILEY

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

APPLE

Big Sur is officially macOS 11
First Apple Silicon Macs this year, and a two year transition
Here’s the full list of macOS Big Sur compatible Macs – 9to5 Mac
iOS 14 Supported Devices: A Wide Range Of Compatibility – iGeeks Blog
- One of the Best Features of iPadOS 14- It Runs On 6 Year Old Devices – iPad Insight
BootCamp won’t make it to Apple Silicon and at least for now virtualisation apps won’t be able to run x86 Windows (no news yet regards Microsoft’s ARM version)
- Say Goodbye to Boot Camp and Windows Virtualization on Apple’s New ARM-Based Macs – iDrop News
Steven Sinofsky full of praise for Apple
- Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View – Medium
And a piece from directly before WWDC
- Apple Macintosh and ARM Processors – Medium
And a more recent one posted after we recorded
- Apple Drags The PC Into The 21st Century – Seeking Alpha – Another long article from Sinofsky but it’s worth the effort as he lays out a lot of info here
Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak talk with Gruber – The Talk Show
Craig Federighi talks to Marques Brownlee – 9to5 Mac
First Dev Kit Benchmarks appear – 9to5 Mac
13 years of iPhone: Fans line up to get their hands on the very first iPhones – Cult of Mac

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Apple Reveals Touch ID And Face ID Are Coming To Safari – Forbes

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

@Dougee says “If anyone is looking for services like 33mail, I have been using both Anonaddy and Simplelogin.
Both are very good services and don’t seem to get blocked as often on sites like 33mail.”
- AnonAddy
- Simple Login
- GhoSTORIES – a new podcast by Pete Knowlton of Ghostery – Anchor

NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE (1:17:31)

Freemove Collapsible Trekking Poles – Amazon $35 US / Not in the UK store.
AirTurn Stands, Tablet Holders and more – Nemo says “they have a ton of useful and affordable products for every possible situation, and that the MANOS clamp works with all iPads and all iPhones!”
- Probably best to either buy direct or search Amazon as there is a wide selection of clamps, pedals etc.

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.
AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses
Simple Login – Another anonymisation service
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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