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Essential ApplePodcast 55: Mark’s M.I.A.
Recorded 10th September 2017
As Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc and devastation on the Caribbean, and is making landfall in Florida as we record this, and Hurricane Jose is lining up for a “double whammy”, could we once again ask you to consider making a donation to a reputable disaster relief charity. Thanks.
This week, while Mark is delayed I am joined by Geoff Rogers: former owner of Ideas Into Print, who were a 'book packager' for the publishing industry. Like independent production companies create programmes for TV channels, they produced books for publishing companies, concentrating on natural science subjects and gardening, making big colourful books for the international market. Geoff is now retired, a committee member of our Suffolk Mac User Group and long time “not a power user”. He's here to help do what we always do; throw our “two penneth worth” of comments and opinions out into cyberspace.
On this week’s show:
APPLE
Warning, if you are like me and don't want to ruin it all before Tuesday probably best you don't follow that link.
MENTIONED BUT NOT DISCUSSED (because mark wasn’t here)
TECHNOLOGY
“Starting with Bluetooth 4.1, GAP broadened its networking abilities. Bluetooth devices gained the ability to play the roles of both parent and child, giving all devices the ability to connect and broadcast to any peer directly.”
The annualised failure rates mostly work out to between 1-2% depending on drive size and make - there were three 4TB HGST drives with a fail rate below 1% and I’d say avoid the 4TB Seagate ST4000DX000 with its 8.63% annualised failure rate.
IN THE NEWS
I looked this up and it relies on a synthetic material engineered to have a “negative Poisson's ratio” and you can find out how this interesting phenomenon works here
Cutie Melon Moment (1:08:23)
Nemo’s Hardware Store (31:53)
When I originally checked this it was available from Amazon UK, possibly it is out of stock at the moment as it is no longer showing up... If you are interested I guess you may have to just keep checking
Social Media and Slack
You can follow us on:
EssentialApple.com / Pinecast / Twitter / Facebook / Google Plus / Slack – ask us for an invite any way you can get hold of us.
You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it.
If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon
And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do.
This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
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Recorded 10th September 2017
As Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc and devastation on the Caribbean, and is making landfall in Florida as we record this, and Hurricane Jose is lining up for a “double whammy”, could we once again ask you to consider making a donation to a reputable disaster relief charity. Thanks.
This week, while Mark is delayed I am joined by Geoff Rogers: former owner of Ideas Into Print, who were a 'book packager' for the publishing industry. Like independent production companies create programmes for TV channels, they produced books for publishing companies, concentrating on natural science subjects and gardening, making big colourful books for the international market. Geoff is now retired, a committee member of our Suffolk Mac User Group and long time “not a power user”. He's here to help do what we always do; throw our “two penneth worth” of comments and opinions out into cyberspace.
On this week’s show:
APPLE
Warning, if you are like me and don't want to ruin it all before Tuesday probably best you don't follow that link.
MENTIONED BUT NOT DISCUSSED (because mark wasn’t here)
TECHNOLOGY
“Starting with Bluetooth 4.1, GAP broadened its networking abilities. Bluetooth devices gained the ability to play the roles of both parent and child, giving all devices the ability to connect and broadcast to any peer directly.”
The annualised failure rates mostly work out to between 1-2% depending on drive size and make - there were three 4TB HGST drives with a fail rate below 1% and I’d say avoid the 4TB Seagate ST4000DX000 with its 8.63% annualised failure rate.
IN THE NEWS
I looked this up and it relies on a synthetic material engineered to have a “negative Poisson's ratio” and you can find out how this interesting phenomenon works here
Cutie Melon Moment (1:08:23)
Nemo’s Hardware Store (31:53)
When I originally checked this it was available from Amazon UK, possibly it is out of stock at the moment as it is no longer showing up... If you are interested I guess you may have to just keep checking
Social Media and Slack
You can follow us on:
EssentialApple.com / Pinecast / Twitter / Facebook / Google Plus / Slack – ask us for an invite any way you can get hold of us.
You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it.
If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon
And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do.
This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
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