S1E233 - Essential Apple Podcast 233: Around the Houses with Essential Apple

With the likely Apple Event(s) drowing closer and “silly season” in full swing actual news is a little thin on the ground but Simon, Nick and Jim take a drive around the houses anyway 😀

GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS

Glenn Fleishman’s book Take Control of Securing Your Mac can be found at takecontrolbooks.com along with many other titles by him, Joe Kissell, Jeff Carlson and others.
Steve at Geeks Corner has a podcast which is usually 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.

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Recorded 22nd August 2021

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
Nick’s church stream videos – You Tube

JAMES ORMISTON

MacJim in the Slack
Also on Flickr as Ormie (O)
Has videos on Vimeo

APPLE

Simon’s M1 Mac
Trouble with Quip
Apple will reportedly begin hosting in-store classes again on August 30th – Engadget
9to5Mac Writer Paid Source $500 in Bitcoin for Stolen Apple Data – Vice
- Apple’s Double Agent – Vice
With 9 Words, Tim Cook Just Explained the Biggest Problem With Facebook — Inc. – Apple News.
- Tech industry needs to rebuild user trust after privacy losses, says Tim Cook — AppleInsider
Glass
DaVinci Resolve update brings 3x faster M1 Mac performance along with 30% longer battery life — 9to5Mac
Comment: SharePlay won’t be available when iOS 15 releases, but there’s plenty to be excited about — 9to5Mac
‘Magic’ is a free Mac app that lets you draw anything with the trackpad — 9to5Mac
WhatsApp Beta for Mac and Windows – TechSpot
- WhatsApp for iPad coming as the company works on multi-device support – 9to5Mac

TECHNOLOGY

Elon Musk: What the Tesla Bot may mean for the future of Mars city – Inverse
- Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke – The Verge
SHOUT OUT: ConsoleWizard

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Customers are suing T-Mobile as its breach climbs to 53 million – Business Insider
- T-Mobile Suffered a Massive Data Breach. Its Response Is the 1 Thing No Company Should Ever Do — Inc.– Apple News
AT&T denies data breach after hacker auctions 70 million user database – CyberSecDN
Secrets password manager – On the App Stores iOS and Mac

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Via David Ginsburg of In Touch with iOS Podcast – How to Quit All Your Mac Apps in Seconds – MakeUseOf
- Cmd+Option+Shift+Q will quit everything and log you out – Simon

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.

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