Essential Apple Podcast 128: Mindblowing stuff is coming!

Recorded 17th March 2019 This week I am joined by fellow Suffolk MUG member and Slackroom resident Suffolk Pete to ponder the likely shenanigans to come on the 25th, and WWDC in June, pour scorn on scientists claims that AirPods give you cancer, scratch our heads over the Apple headmounted display patents and of course a few other things that caught our attention this week. <h4>GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS</h4> Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Photolemur 2 free by helping this YouTube video to 100,000 views. 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! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week’s show: <h4>SUFFOLK PETE</h4> Very occasionally on Twitter as @hermboy and in the Slackroom <h4>APPLE</h4> Everything you need to know before Apple’s March 25 “it’s show time” event – Ars Technica Apple Will Offer its Content For Free and is Targeting Oscars – Mac Observer New ‘Apple News Magazine’ details uncovered in iOS and Mac betas: PDF-based, offline reading, more – 9to5 Mac Apple to host annual Worldwide Developers Conference June 3-7 in San Jose – Apple Newsroom Apple's SVP Phil Schiller hypes 2019 WWDC in rare interview – Apple Insider From Animoji to TestFlight: Apple's four WWDC invitations are bursting with app icons – Apple Insider Apple just released a 45-second video on why you should care about your smartphone's privacy – Business Insider Scientists sign petition saying that AirPods can cause cancer – Phone Arena CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 comes to Mac with Mojave & Dark Mode support, Touch Bar integration, more – 9to5 Mac Apple's Fourth Head Mounted Display Device Patent this Month focuses on Engineering a Superior Face Seal System – Patently Apple <h4>TECHNOLOGY</h4> Mozilla launches its free, encrypted file sharing service, Firefox Send – Tech Crunch Dropbox limits free users to 3 devices – [https://www.pcmag.com/news/367184/dropbox-limits-account-linking-to-3-devices-for-free-users] Ikea’s 3D-printed add-ons make its furniture more accessible for people with disabilities – The Verge <h4>SECURITY & PRIVACY</h4> National Cyber Security Centre – UK Gov MacQuisition Will Decrypt Physical Images From Macs With T2 Chip – BlackBag Technologies IBM used Flickr photos for facial-recognition project – BBC News ProtonMail Transparency report – ProtonMail Blog <h4>WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS</h4> Tip: if you can’t find a symbol you need via the iOS keyboard, then check out this website for the one you need. Just press and hold the one wanted and it’ll copy and allow you to paste it in where needed – Glyphboard There are several apps on the App Store that also help with this. WiFi Blast – sorry, seems this is just a scammy ad promoting who knows what it is... probably better off with a cheap Mesh like this Amazon UK / Amazon USqup.co Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:01:50) Black Eye - PRO Portrait Tele G4 - Universal smartphone lens for IOS and Android – Amazon £82 UK or $90 US Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery - protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. 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... 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? 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