October 13, 2021

S1E239 - Essential Apple Podcast 239: In Touch With Essential Apple

1 hour 20 minutes

Nick, Jim and Simon are joined by David Ginsburg of In Touch With iOS, The Mac Show and MacVoices to mull over the news of the week - including iOS 15, CarPlay, Google’s new Password Shield and various other things that come up along the way.

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!

Recorded 10th October 2021

DAVID GINSBURG

David Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

In Touch With iOS

YouTube channel

@daveg65 on Twitter

Regular guest on The Mac Show

Regular panelist on MacVoices

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

JAMES ORMISTON

MacJim in the Slack

Also on Flickr as Ormie (O)

Has videos on Vimeo

APPLE

Apple stops signing iOS 15 following release of iOS 15.0.1 — AppleInsider

iOS 15 adoption remains slower compared to iOS 14 numbers last year — **9to5Mac

Apple Looking to Expand CarPlay With New Integrations for AC, Seats, Instrument Cluster, and More – MacRumors

Former Apple employee faces criminal charges over trade secrets leak — iMore

Apple Is Forcing iOS Developers to Add Account Deletion Buttons to Apps — PCMag

Apple Crediting 3% Daily Cash to Apple Card Users Who Experienced Issues With iPhone 13 Purchases — MacRumors

TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio review: back to the drawing board — The Verge

Google teasingly offers to 'help' Apple switch to RCS text messages — 9to5Mac

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Google Confirms Powerful Password Shield Heading For 150 Million ‘Chosen Ones’ — Forbes

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Safari 15 Extension for Mac Helps You Tell Which Tab Is Active – MacRumors

From @dougee I have been having great results blocking ads on iOS with Blokada. The only ad blocker that I can find to block the ads in most apps including Apple News. The free version is all I have been using Blokada

I played around a bit and settled on the following settings

Blokada>Advanced>All: Disable all lists

Blokada>Advanced>All: Enable "Energized"

Blokada>Advanced>All: Click "Energized"

Blokada>Advanced>All: Enable "Ultimate" and disable all others

If that is too aggressive, disable "Ulitmate" and enable "Blu"

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

User Successfully Builds an M1 Powered iMac G4 – Wccftech

M1 Chip in a 20 year old G4 Cube – YouTube

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Volonic – Transform Your Vision Into Reality – from about $585 USD

Essential Apple Recommended Services:

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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