Essential Apple Podcast 218: All the Colours of the Rainbow

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Recorded 25th April 2021

This week, of course, is all about the Spring Loaded event, and yes those who said it meant exactly that were right! We have a full house with. Simon Mark, Jim, GazMaz from the MyMac Podcast, and Steve Durbin from Geeks Corner to go over the announcements and give our own views on what we thought of 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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On this week’s show:

GAZMAZ

STEVE DURBIN

  • Runs the Geeks Corner website
  • Produces the Geeks Corner podcast
  • @GeekCorner_uk on Twitter

JAMES ORMISTON

APPLE

  • All the new stuff…
  • Apple Event 2021: Everything Apple Announced at Its ‘Spring Loaded’ Event in Just 6 Minutes – MacRumors
  • AirTags Separated From Owners for Three Days or More Play Audible Sound When Moved – MacRumors
  • AirTags can be read with iPhone and Android using NFC – Geeks Corner
    • Lost AirTags Can Be Read By NFC-Enabled iPhones and Android Devices – MacRumors
  • Precision Finding compatible with:
    • iPhone 11
    • iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
    • iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
    • iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max
  • Apple’s new TV calibration feature is coming to older Apple TV models – What Hi Fi
  • New Siri Remote Lacks Accelerometer and Gyroscope for Gaming on Apple TV – MacRumors
  • M1 iMac Tidbits: Storage up to 2TB, RAM up to 16GB, base model trade-offs, Touch ID keyboard – 9to5Mac
  • Touch ID on New Magic Keyboard Isn’t Compatible With M1 iPad Pro – MacRumors
  • Apple’s Greg Joswiak: No Plans to Merge Mac and iPad – MacRumors
  • ‘Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model’ – Daring Fireball

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
  • 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 – 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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