S1E198 - Essential Apple Podcast 198: M1 Ahead, no stopping, no turning

Recorded 15th November 2020

This week the gang (including Donny) get together to talk about the only news in town! The one more thing event, M1 Macs and Big Sur. Also because Big Sur went live and Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba is as good as his word his team got all their apps working on Big Sur! So this podcast comes courtesy of Rogue Amoeba on Big Sur!

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 Essentials free as well.
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:

NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.
Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots’ Let’s Talk Apple
Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube

JAMES ORMISTON

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

DONNY YANKELLOW

@rtteachr on Twitter
Find his work at hedgehogalley.com
Books in Apple Book Store
DesignBundles.net as Skrbly
Skrbly Studio on YouTube
Skrbly Store
Leo the Lonely Guitar
Donny’s Classes on Outschool.com for kids 7-18

APPLE

Apple “One more thing” event
The M1
The Macs
Simon’s MacBook Air order
Big Sur goes public
Apple VPs talk M1 Macs, Rosetta 2 translation, and more in new interviews – 9to5 Mac
Apple server problems
- PSA: macOS is a little broken this morning, with many non-Apple apps hanging at launch – TechCrunch
- Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue – The Verge
MFi hearing aid static issues reported by iPhone 12 users – AppleInsider
macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models – Mac Rumors https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/macos-big-sur-update-bricking-some-macbook-pros/

TECHNOLOGY

Amazon’s Ring video doorbells catch fire because wrong screw used – BBC
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee announces first step in privacy-for-all project, Solid – 9to5 Mac
Popular app T&Cs ‘longer than Harry Potter’ – BBC

SECURITY & PRIVACY

New ‘Platypus’ attack can extract data from Intel chips, but Macs are mostly safe – AppleInsider
Microsoft tells users to ditch SMS multi-factor authentication – Verdict

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

macOS Big Sur and Carbon Copy Cloner – Bootable clones are back – Bombich Blog
Pixelmator Pro 2.0 – All new, M1, Big Sur and free to existing users! – Pixelmator
- Pixelmator Pro 2.0 brings macOS Big Sur support and huge Apple silicon boost. – iMore
Bartender 4 for Big Sur – Bartender
Satechi Mac Mini Hub – CNN
- Nick returned this as the USB ports aren’t powered so you can’t charge from them…

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.
Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with
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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 – 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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