June 22, 2021

S1E225 - Essential Apple Podcast 225: The boys are back

Recorded 20th June 2021

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The boys are back... Nick and Jim and Steve (from GeeksCorner.info) return to chat more about the WWDC and stuff that has happened since...

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.

Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter!

Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation.

On this week’s show:

NICK RILEY

Big Show on the @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.

Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple

Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube

JAMES ORMISTON

MacJim in the Slack

In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr

Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop

Has videos on Vimeo

STEVE DURBIN

Runs the Geeks Corner website

Produces the Geeks Corner podcast

@GeekCorner_uk on Twitter

APPLE

You can place multiple copies of the same app on your home screen with iOS 15 — 9to5Mac

iOS 15 Allows You to Request Refunds for In-App Purchases Directly Wit... – MacRumors

Daring Fireball: The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak – Daring Fireball

Apple pays millions in iPhone-repair explicit photo case – BBC News

Apple has reportedly considered launching its own primary healthcare service – Engadget

Apple drops price of AppleCare+ for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, with an extra discount for M1 – 9to5Mac

iPhone bug 'breaks' your WiFi when you join an oddly-named network – Engadget

TECHNOLOGY

Fastly CDN Server Issue Brings Down Swathes of Websites [Update: Solved] – MacRumors

Websites begin to work again after major breakage – BBC News

Australia internet banking outage blamed on DDoS mitigation service – IT Pro

SECURITY & PRIVACY

'RockYou2021' is the Biggest Password Leak Ever (So Far) – The Mac Observer

Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them – Ars Technica

UK government to consider gutting GDPR rules – IT Pro

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Opera GX: Gaming Browser – Opera

via Retro Rewind on YouTube

Simon plays Fallout 4 on YouTube

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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