S1E238 - Essential Apple Podcast 238: OMG – What the hell is that?

It’s ten years since Steve died, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went off for 6 hours, Amazon introduce a cute privacy nightmare and more, and Nick and Simon cogitate on it all.

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 5th October 2021

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

ESSENTIAL APPLE

Allister Jenks (@zkarj) joined the Patreon – thanks Allister
Gareth Evans (@shongum) joined the Slack – Welcome

APPLE

Jony Ive Writes Touching Letter About Steve Jobs a Decade After His Passing – MacRumors
- Celebrating Steve – Apple
Apple Agrees to Pay $95 Million to Settle Lawsuit Claiming Refurbished Devices Aren’t ‘Equivalent to New’ – MacRumors
Apple adds original Apple Watch to list of vintage products – AppleMagazine
Intel takes another sad swing at Apples MacBooks – BGR
Daring Fireball: The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’ – Daring Fireball

TECHNOLOGY

Facebook says ‘faulty configuration change’ to blame for 6-hour outage – Apple Insider
- Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet – Cloudflare
Amazon announces Astro butler bot, home drone, and more – The Register
- Amazon’s Astro robot is an adorable privacy nightmare – Cnet
Captain Kirk: Bezos Blue Origin to send William Shatner into space – BBC
Windows 11 Launch day – Sky News

SECURITY & PRIVACY

1Password launches iCloud-like Hide My Email feature – 9to5Mac
YubiKey Bio security key adds fingerprint recognition to older Macs – Apple Insider
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked – Vice

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

FirstSeed Calendar: Best Calendar, Best Widgets – MacStories

NEMO’S HARDWARE STORE (36:55)

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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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