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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 206: Simple photo and video adjustment with Darkroom

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 17th January 2021 This week there was a virtual CES, somewhat reduced in size but still with its array of prototypes, new products

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Essential Apple Podcast 205: Talking to Jean-Louis Gassée

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 11th January 2021 A very special show this week as we are humbled to have a giant of the tech industry as our

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Essential Apple Podcast 204: Happy New Year!

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 3rd January 2021 Happy New Year – and let’s all hope it brings us better times! This week we are joined once again

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Essential Apple Podcast 203: Essential MyMac Podcast #1 “Christmas Mayhem”

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 20th December 2020 In a moment of madness Simon and Guy decide to do a joint Christmas Mayhem Zoom call podcast with GazMaz,

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Essential Apple Podcast 202: Gabbing Apple Geeks

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 12th December 2020 Well that was a surprise for sure AirPods Max shimmied out the door at a teeth-sucking, sharp intake of breath,

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Essential Apple Podcast 201: Weird News Weekly

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 6th December 2020 As we move into December Simon, Nick and Jim take a look at some of the news of the week

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Essential Apple Podcast Bonus: Art Apps with Donny

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 1st December 2020 An extra bonus show where Donny and I discuss some of the art, drawing, vector and photo apps we like

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Essential Apple Podcast 200: Bicentennial

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 29th November 2020 This week for show 200 Mark takes the chair and original co-host Karl Madden of the Mac & Forth Show

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Essential Apple Podcast 199: The Essential Maccast

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 22nd November 2020 This week Adam “Maccast” Christianson joins Simon, Nick and Donny to talk about M1 Macs, iOS on M1, Emulation, Apple’s

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Essential Apple Podcast 198: M1 ahead – no stopping, no turning.

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 15th November 2020 This week the gang (including Donny) get together to talk about the only news in town! The one more thing

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Essential Apple Podcast 197: TheMacMommy Returns

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 6th November 2020 This week Nick and Simon are joined by Melissa “TheMacMommy” Davis from Geekiest Show Ever with a view to talking

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Essential Apple Podcast Special: In conversation with Ben Bajarin

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 30th October 2020 A special episode with internationally renowned Ben Barjarin of Creative Strategies and of course Tech.pinions and the Tech.pinions Podcast. I

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Essential Apple Podcast 196: A fairly short show

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 25th October 2020 This week there isn’t a huge amount going on as everyone waits with bated breath for the next Apple thing

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Essential Apple Podcast 195: What did you expect?

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 18th October 2020 This week Nick, Mark and Jim join me again to talk about the just past event, unpack what we thought

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Essential Apple Podcast 194: Anticipating Hi, Speed

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

This week Mark and Jim join me to talk about the possibilities of the upcoming event… and take a quick gander at the news

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Essential Apple Podcast 193: Mark is fading away…

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 4th October 2020 This week Nick and Simon are joined by Mark (who has some trouble with his mixer so unfortunately his sound

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Essential Apple Podcast 192: Disyenaekenwitamtalkinaboot?

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 28th September 2020 This week Nick, Jim, and Simon are joined by Guy Serle of the MyMac Podcast (and more) to talk about

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Essential Apple Podcast 191: Time’s flown by…

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast, Review 0

Recorded 20th September 2020 Nick, Jim, and Donny join me to talk about new watches, iPads, AppleOne bundles, and a few other bits and

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Essential Apple Podcast 190: Hey! Hey! The boys are here

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 13th September 2020 Nick and Jim are both back and we take a look at some stories from the week and of course

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Essential Apple Podcast 189: The Preshow is the Aftershow… or something

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 Essential Apple Podcast 0

Recorded 7th September 2020 No Jim this time as he is back at work, but I am joined by Nick to actually do a

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