Technically Correct Podcast

It’s like a pub, but it sucks!

Your genial hosts discuss everything announced at WWDC 2018.

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• Apple: iOS 12
• App Store: Lego AR Studio
• Wikipedia: Lego Creator
• Flic App
• Apple: watch OS 5
• Apple: Apple TV 4K
• Apple: macOS Mojave
• Bloomberg: Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad & Mac Apps to Create One User Experience

Aggressively flashing your headlights at someone 10% of the time – is still a lot of times!

The gang are back, here to discuss the more serious implications of the ‘internet of things’ rather than doing what they usually do - dismiss the whole thing as nonesense.

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• Gizmodo: The House That Spied On Me
• Arlo by Netgear
• Maciej Cegłowski: The Moral Economy of Tech
• Schneier On Security: The Value of Privacy
• Strava’s Global Heat Map
• Huawei’s Matebook X Pro

What have we told you about using logic in the work environment?

The Technically Correct Podcast enters 2018! Mark celebrates by getting a second phone, and Simon celebrates with an interesting new purchase. Apparently Richard is happy as a voyeur of consumerism, at least on this evidence.

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• Episode 103: We Have Some Good News About Your Johnson
• Episode 42: Grippy By Comparison
• Just a few ways you can play the Nintendo Switch

When you say ‘sometimes’, by ‘sometimes’ do you mean ‘always’?

With Mark away this week, it falls to Simon and Richard to discuss Apple’s bad week of software flaws, before exploring a new UI feature Microsoft is adding to Windows 10. Also, RJ45 origami.

This is the last Technically Correct Podcast show for 2017; we’ll be back in January.

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• The Hacker News: macOS High Sierra Bug Lets Anyone Gain Root Access Without a Password
• Objective-See: Why gets you root
• Daring Fireball: High Sierra Root Login Bug Was Mentioned on Apple’s Support Forums Two Weeks Ago
• MacRumors: Date Bug in iOS 11.1.2 Causing Crash Loop on iPhones as December 2 Hits
• MacRumors: Apple Shares Fix for File Sharing Issues Following macOS High Sierra Security Update
• YouTube: Sets in Windows 10
• Ars Technica: Tabs come to every window in Windows 10 “Sets”\
• YouTube: Installing Windows 1.0 to 10 Uncut Original Footage
• @decryption on Twitter: “Check out the crazy origami Ethernet port on this new Fujitsu laptop …”

Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the phone?

Mark has his iPhone X and the gang discuss the current abomination that is the MacBook lineup.

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• Marco Arment: Fixing the MacBook Pro
• Marco Arment: The Best Laptop Ever Made
• Quartz: Did Steve Jobs doom Apple by choosing Tim Cook as its CEO?
• Macworld: Will your new MacBook crash to the ground without MagSafe? (Yes.)

One of those is gonna destroy the planet, the other is base 16.

Simon follows up on his backup storage woes and Mark is feeling good about his iPhone X pre-order.

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• Wikipedia: HFS+
• Wikipedia: NTFS
• Leo Notenboom: How Do I Test Backups?
• Wikipedia: JPEG File Interchange Format
• 9 To 5 Mac: Apple extends repair coverage to 3 years for Apple Watch (1st gen) w/ expanded/swollen batteries
• Youtube: AvE - Qi Wireless Charging EXPLAINED!

Listeners, please check your can.

Mark buys a ton of Apple products and returns 75% of them, Simon is hurtling towards data backup problems, and Richard purchases American Truck Simulator.

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• Technically Correct Episode 97: Western Digital Colour Wheel
• American Truck Simulator
• Technically Correct Archive: Season 1, Episode 9 - It Feels Like Stealing
• Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door

Is he even listening to what I’m saying? It was a kind of iPad, you dick!

In a cruel and entirely predictable twist of fate, the podcast ventures in three-digit episode numbers. Mark seriously considers buying a new iPad, Simon goes one further and does, all the while Richard is in the mire with photo library issues , for which he has all our sympathies.

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• The iPad 9.7 Inch – Apple
• WPA2 is badly broken

Bonus points, people learn to indicate!

Mark’s driving escapades in France lead to another discussion about cars, smart features, CarPlay, and fully autonomous vehicles.

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• Wikipedia: Ford Edge
• Wikipedia: Warburton Toll Bridge
• The Richard Bailey Seal Of Approval

Thank you for opening that can of worms so I didn’t have to.

Later than billed, this episode sees your trio of hosts discuss all the announcement’s from Apple’s recent keynote. Including: Apple Watch Series 3, Apple TV 4K, the iPhones 8 and 8 Plus, and the iPhone X.

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• Apple Special Event. September 12, 2017 — Video
• Apple Watch Series 3
• Apple TV 4K
• Apple iPhone 8
• Apple iPhone X
• Marco.org - Courage