MacBites

By Elaine Giles and Mike Thomas

MacBites - getting to the core of all things Apple... more

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December 22, 20250199 - Liquid Regret! The Arsonist Has Left the Building
In this episode, trust the parents, pay the premium, and pass the paracetamol
BackBites
Jami's Gym Bound
Gym Bound Again
In The News
Timmy's Campaigning
Tim Cook Goes to Washington to Fight App Store Age Verification Legislation
ChatBites
YouTube - Ad Blockers
AdBlock

uBlock Origin

YouTube Premium - YouTube
YouTube - Download Live Chat
YCS - YouTube Comment Search (Continued) - Chrome Web Store
Liquid Regret
Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software design - Apple (UK)

Apple UI Design Chief Alan Dye Leaving for Metas
Mike's Power Query for Mac Course
Excel for Mac: Power Query Essentials Waitlist
Events
Create a Trifold Brochure in Affinity by Canva
Create a Trifold Brochure in Affinity by Canva
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Mike on Bluesky

MacBites on Bluesky

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38min
December 11, 20250198 - Daylight Robbery, Google Style
In this episode, Shrek chic, Silicon shake-ups, and studio spotlight shenanigans
BackBites
Honoured Jami
Honoured Jami
In The News
Shrek's Mankini Knock-off Edition
iPhone Pocket dupes hit Amazon after Apple's sellout
BRSK Data Breach
UK Broadband ISP BRSK Hit by Major Customer Data Breach - ISPreview UK

BRSK confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ records - The Register
Google's Billing Blunder
More Shuffling at Apple
Alan Dye joins Meta and snark ensues

Apple UI Design Chief Alan Dye Leaving for Meta

Apple design boss Alan Dye departing for Meta

Apple's human interface design chief Alan Dye poached by Meta

John Gruber Shares Scathing Commentary About Apple's Departing Software Design Chief
The One Man That's Going Nowhere
Apple's chip boss squashes exit rumors, says he's not leaving the company
Podcast of the Year
Apple Podcasts names 'The Rest is History' show of the year
Snivelling and Grovelling
Gavin Newsom says Cook's dealings with Trump 'break his heart'
ChatBites
Mike's New Lights
NEEWER GL25C LED RGB Streaming Key Light - Amazon

NEEWER Studio App - App Store

LitONES Desk Lights - Amazon
Excel Bites
Excel Bites - Pivot Tables
Excel Pivot Tables for Beginners - YouTube

Pivot Tables in Excel for Mac (and how it Differs from Windows) - YouTube
Events
MacBites After Hours
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Design a Photo Book in Affinity by Canva
Design a Photo Book in Affinity by Canva
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Elaine on Bluesky

Mike on Bluesky

MacBites on Bluesky

MacBites Siri on Bluesky
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38min
November 26, 20250197 - Paying Homage to Jony I's Glowing Aura at a Snail's Pace
In this episode, tech team turbulence with joyless jargon and mass migrations
BackBites
Crowning King Jami
Crowning King Jami
In The News
MacPro RIP
The Mac Pro is essentially dead | Macworld
Staffing Woes and Layoffs
Apple confirms recent sales team layoffs in uncharacteristic move - 9to5Mac
AI Exodus
OpenAI poaching Apple hardware engineers 'left and right'
ChatBites
YouTube Playback Speed Broken
Premium users can now speed up videos up to 4x - Reddit

Can't change the playback speed on videos anymore- Reddit
Focus
Options for Great Screenshots
TechSmith Snagit | Screen capture and screen recording

Eternal Storms Software - ScreenFloat - Power up your Screenshots

CleanShot X for Mac
Excel Bites
Excel Bites - Lists and Tables
Excel Tables - YouTube
Events
MacBites After Hours
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Create a Calendar in Affinity by Canva
Create a Calendar in Affinity by Canva
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Elaine on Bluesky

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MacBites on Bluesky

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36min
November 19, 20250196 - Timmy and the Trial Balloon
In this episode, Meta mayhem, malfunctioning mankinis, and membership meltdowns
BackBites
Panic at Jami Towers
Panic at Jami Towers

Shrek Green Reigns
In The News
End of the Line for Timmy?
Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

Are we nearing the end of Apple's Tim Cook era?

Tim Cook retirement 'leak' is clearly a deliberate test of reactions

Apple loses iPhone Air designer to unnamed AI startup
Selling Siri's Soul
Apple may finally let users switch from Siri to another voice assistant
WhatsApp Number is Up
WhatsApp security flaw exposed 3.5B phone numbers - inc yours
Shopping with Mike
Shopping with Mike Follow up
Tesco Free From Tiffin Bauble
Shopping with Elaine
Shopping By Design
Understanding ARN (Acquirer Reference Number) | NatWest Support Centre
ChatBites
Mike's New YouTube Studio
Solid Wood Bookcase

Yaheetech Adjustable Computer Armless Office Chair

Costway Rolling Computer Desk

HIBORI Projector Stand
Focus
Notebook Navigator for Obsidian
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

Notebook Navigator
Excel Bites
Excel Bites - Formatting
The Excel Trainer
Events
MacBites After Hours
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Deep Dive Data Merge in Affinity by Canva
Deep Dive Data Merge in Affinity by Canva
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Elaine on Bluesky

Mike on Bluesky

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46min
November 12, 20250195 - The Great Yule Log Robbery
In this episode, sexy socks, yellow icons, and Evernote extortion
BackBites
Jami's Coming of Age
Jami's Comment
In The News
Continued Fallout from Affinity by Canva Launch
I'm absolutely loving the Affinity rebrand | Creative Bloq

Get Color Sidebar Icons Back in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Finder Windows
Apple Unveils Revolutionary $230 Sock Technology
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone - Apple

iPhone Pocket by Issey Miyake - Long - Black - Apple

Apple launches the iPod Sock 2.0 for the iPhone--and it's weird

iPod Sock is back, iPhone Pocket knitted strap holder

Apple fans perplexed after launch of $230 iPhone Pocket in collaboration with Issey Miyake
ChatBites
Evernote Ride Again
Evernote Increases Prices and adds new plans
Focus
Tesco's Big Let Down
Tesco Gluten Free Yule Log

Jus-Rol Gluten Free Ready Rolled Puff Pastry Sheet
Excel Bites
Excel Bites - Functions
Dynamic Array Functions in Excel - YouTube

Getting Started with Functions in Excel - YouTube
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MacBites on Bluesky

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46min
November 05, 20250194 - A Marriage Made in Ratners
In this episode, we have tea in Tokyo with copious grovelling geeks and flamboyant fashion statements
BackBites
Kim's Shock
Kim's Comment
Jami's Take on the Output
Jami's Comment
In The News
Timmy's Travels Continue Apace
Apple CEO Tim Cook dines with Trump in Tokyo | AppleInsider

Panorama - Trump and the Tech Titans - BBC iPlayer
ChatBites
Affinity by Canva
Everything You Need to Know to Get Started with Affinity by Canva

Gerald Ratner - Wikipedia
Excel Bites
Excel Bites - Formulas
Back to Basics: How to Create Simple Excel Formulas in Excel - YouTube
MacBites After Hours
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Elaine on Bluesky

Mike on Bluesky

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1h 6min
October 28, 20250193 - Would You Like Pumpkin Pie with Your Windows Install?
In this episode, pumpkins, Parallels, and potty-cam pandemonium!
BackBites
Blue AI
Blue AI

Christmas Video
In The News
Genius or Waste of Time?
Kohler Launches $600 iPhone-Connected Toilet Camera That Monitors Your Health Through Waste Analysis
Dancing to the Don's Tune
Apple Donating to Trump's $350M White House Ballroom Project
Hardware Review
Mike's New Monitors
KTC 27 Inch Monitor - Amazon.co.uk
Focus
Windows Nightmare
Parallels: Mac & Windows Virtualization

Use virtual Trusted Platform Module (TPM) in Parallels Desktop

MacBites Episode 0191
Excel Bites
Mike's History with Spreadsheets
Sandwich degree - Wikipedia

IBM Personal Computer XT - Wikipedia

The Excel Trainer

Mike Thomas - YouTube
Events
Canva Serif Affinity Keynote
Canva Serif Affinity Keynote Watch Party
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Elaine on Bluesky

Mike on Bluesky

MacBites on Bluesky

MacBites Siri on Bluesky
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48min
October 21, 20250192 - Business According to Arthur Daley's Dodgy Deals Handbook
In this episode, Clips collapse, corporate couplings, and cloud-based carnage
BackBites
Tangerine Gold
MacBites Episode 0191 | The MacBites Podcast - Jami
In The News
RIP Clips
RIP Clips: Apple abandons its quirky short-form video app

Clips (software) - Wikipedia
Apple wins US F1 TV rights
Formula 1: Apple wins US broadcast rights

Eddy Cue dancing at WWDC 2015 - YouTube
Age Verification Rides Again
Apple needs to comply with another App Store age verification law
Fifty Shades of AI
'Treat adult users like adults': ChatGPT to write erotica
Evernote's Big AI Update
Evernote unveils its biggest update yet- and unsurprisingly there's AI involved

Ribbon (computing) - Wikipedia
TimBuBu
Apple CEO Tim Cook Gifted Custom Labubu During China Visit
ChatBites
The Great Dropbox Shuffle
MacBites Episode 0162

pCloud

Dropbox
Take-Overs: Good or Bad?
Evernote Corporation - Wikipedia

Evernote Announces A Market For Physical Products, Including Post-Its ... And Socks?

Fiverr is acquiring online learning company CreativeLive

Chase Jarvis - Wikipedia

Obsidian's Manifesto

Ain't nobody acquiring us

The Affinity and Canva Pledge

Arthur Daley: The Original Dodgy Geezer Who Taught Us the Art of the Hustle

Minder TV series - Wikipedia
Focus
Mike's Training Spreadsheet
The Excel Trainer
Events
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46min
October 14, 20250191 - Stick a Bit of Beading on It
In this episode, blue screens, brilliant new toys and beading, lots and lots of beading!
BackBites
Retiring Apps Live
Jami's Comments

Retiring Apps Live

Anticipation Marketing: Crushing Your Next Launch Without Being Salesy : Social Media Examiner
In The News
Antenna-gate Solved
The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate in the iPhone 4
Scratch-gate's Silicon Solution
Apple Stores update chargers to stop damaging iPhone 17 Pro
Samsung's Cosmic Orange Tribute
Samsung might copy Apple's Cosmic Orange with the Galaxy S26

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Leaks Reveal Bold Orange Colour Inspired by Apple
Blue Screen of Death
Apple Mocks Windows PCs in Humorous New 'Blue Screen of Death' Ad

The Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) | Apple at Work - YouTube
App Review
Telescore
Telescore on the App Store
Focus
How We Use AI
Expressions - the coolest app for regex - Apptorium

Sublime Text - Text Editing, Done Right

A Better Finder Rename

Yate | 2ManyRobots

Keyboard Maestro 11.0.4: Work Faster with Macros for macOS

Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 15

Scrivener

ChatGPT

Claude

Amazon's shockingly bad James Bond posters have me worried about 007's future
Mike's New Mac
John Lewis
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46min
October 08, 20250190 - Microsoft? Kings of the Wild Frontier
In this episode, Microsoft mayhem, MacBites mischief, and a truly Magic Mouse
BackBites
Cosmic Orange Howling
Cosmic Orange Howling

Drafts Pro Patron Subscription - News & Updates - Drafts Community
In The News
Logitech MX4 Mouse
MX Master 4 Wireless Mouse | Logitech

Logitech MX4 Mouse - Amazon
Canva Affinity Keynote
A message to our amazing Affinity community

The Affinity and Canva Pledge

Affinity on X: "Ain't nobody acquiring us"
ChatBites
TNT Sports Debacle
Sky Sports

Discovery Plus
Microsoft Copilot Update
Microsoft 365 Premium - Microsoft

Microsoft 365 Premium - The Verge

Frontier program

MacBites Episode 0182
Calls in WhatsApp
How to make a voice call | WhatsApp Help Center
MacBites Birthday
The MacBites Story | The MacBites Podcast

Apple Special Event | The MacBites Podcast

MacBites After Hours
Focus
Mike's Use of AI
ChatGPT

Claude
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49min

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