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Author: Simon Parnell

Co-host of the Essential Apple Podcast alongside Mark Chappell who lives in the far West of Wales, while I make my abode deep in the East of Suffolk. Father, Husband, Mac Lover, DTP & Prepress Professional, Geek, Cook, Drinker of Wines, Beers & Spirits. I am British, and now the "wrong" side of 50 years old, I am married and have 3 children. I started working in a design studio in the early 80's back in the days of Cow Gum, Rotring Pens and Scalpels. I moved on to using Macs in about 1989 (way back when 40MB Hard Drives were BIG and 8MB RAM was a top end spec, System 6.0.3 was the cutting edge and the IIcx I worked on set me back about £5000... eek!). Since then I have worked on pretty much every generation of Macintosh and every Mac OS Apple have released. I have done design and pre-press work with a wide variety of "DTP" applications old, new, well known and obscure. I have a fascination with finding cheaper alternatives to the "big guns" so DTP can be accessible to everybody! For the last 15+ years I have worked in a small print works close to my home doing design and pre-press work.

Essential Apple Podcast 263: Apple Surprise!

January 28, 2023January 28, 2023 Review 0

Wow what a week, Apple went quietly mad and released new M2 Macs, full size HomePods and iOS 16.3! Simon and Nick chat about

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Essential Apple Podcast 262: Back on the Tracks

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Essential Apple Podcast 0

After a year of turmoil and upheaval Simon is finally in a position to get back behind the microphone and get the podcast back

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Essential Apple Podcast 261: Bugs, Glitches, & Technical Hitches

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

OK so the new toys have started to make their way into the hands of the reviewers and the public… and as always there

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Essential Apple Podcast 260: Shiny New toys

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

So it’s. the post Far Out Event show and Simon, returning guest Suffolk Pete, and Nick get together to talk about what they thought

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Essential Apple Podcast 259: Far Out – Man!

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

This one is ridiculously (Nay, obscenely) late -– sorry all, Obviously it is now out of date but you might still enjoy our guesses

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Essential Apple Podcast Extra: Interview with SimpleLogin

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

A special show with Son Nguyen Kim of SimpleLogin who joins us again to talk about being acquired by Proton, what that means for

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Essential Apple Podcast 255A: We just “ramble on”

May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

This is the second part of EAP 255 – Im putting it out as bonus content because it just Nick and Jim and myself

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Essential Apple Podcast 255: So long iPods… We knew you well

May 29, 2022November 20, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Yes, last week was a desert for news after the glut of the week of EAP 254 – also Simon felt a bit under

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Essential Apple Podcast 254: All the news that’s fit to print…

May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Sorry this one is a bit late, there’s a lot of real life stuff going on. Anyway Nick and I get together again to

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Essential Apple Podcast 253: #StandwithUkraine

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Nick, Simon and Jim return after an unscheduled hiatus… Such is life! Lots has happened since the last show, including the version of 253

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Essential Apple Podcast 252: A smorgasbord of stories

February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Nick and Simon are joined by David Ginsburg of In Touch With iOS, The Mac Show and MacVoices Live to mull over the news

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Essential Apple Podcast 251: Talking to Aidan Fitzpatrick of Reincubate

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

This week Simon is joined by special guest Aidan Fitzpatrick, a serial app inventor and data privacy evangelist who has the distinction of being

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Essential Apple Podcast 250: Runaway vacuums and more

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

We’re back! There’s not a huge amount of Apple news but some tech stuff did catch our eye. Lawmakers gonna legislate, UK Gov plans

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Essential Apple Podcast 249: New Year New Stuff

January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Happy New Year to all, and after our Holiday Break we’re back! This time the iPhone is 15, CES (sort of) happened, Apple’s top

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Essential Apple Podcast 248: Essential Christmas Party Work Meeting

December 21, 2021January 26, 2022 Review 0

Party Time (Oh no, sorry… Essential Work Meeting). Jeff Gamet, GazMaz, Patrice Brendamour and Mark join the regulars Nick, Simon and Jim to just

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Essential Apple Podcast 247: Banksy’s Spraycation

December 16, 2021May 24, 2022 Essential Apple Podcast 0

This week, Amazon had a big outage creating havoc, a dangerous flaw was found in a key server tool that puts attackers one step

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Essential Apple Podcast 246: All about Apple with Peter Cohen

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Essential Apple Podcast 0

This week Nick is off singing carols and Jim is doing something or other, but Simon is joined by Peter Cohen (of RCR Wireless

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Essential Apple Podcast 245: Rarest Mac Accessory Ever?

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 Essential Apple Podcast 0

We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and a Happy Hannuka to those who will be celebrating that… Not much news really but Nick

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Essential Apple Podcast 244: Fix it yourself?

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021 Essential Apple Podcast 0

This week Simon and Nick discuss if Apple are planning their car to launch without a steering wheel or pedals in 2025. The surprise

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Essential Apple Podcast 243: Can I do the twirling thing now?

November 10, 2021November 10, 2021 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Warren Sklar (of Mac To The Future, In Touch With iOS, and more) joins Simon and Nick to chat over the goings on this

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