Recorded 8th March 2020 Not a great deal of Apple News, except the growing expectation Apple might not be able to do WWDC in
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Category: Essential Apple Podcast
Essential Apple Podcast 165: Rampant speculation
Recorded 1st March 2020 This week would have been Steve Jobs’ 65th birthday, the product turned verb Photoshop passed 30, the StyleWriter is 29
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Essential Apple Podcast 164: Back from the dead
Recorded 23rd February 2020 After two weeks “down and out” due to my MacBook Pro charger unexpectedly failing on me literally a couple of
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Essential Apple Podcast 163: A Decade of iPad
Recorded 26th January 2020 This week Nick and Jim join me as we ponder a decade of iPad, gasp at Apple’s awe inspiring revenues,
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Essential Apple Podcast 162: Happy Birthday Macintosh & Other Amazing Tales
Recorded 26th January 2020 This week the Macintosh turned 36, Apple started removing Flash from Safari, Google say some of Apple’s anti-tracking made things
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Essential Apple Podcast 161: Slip sliding away with FotoMagico
Recorded 19th January 2020 This week Gary Starkweather, the inventor of the laser printer, passed away, Apple discovered their Smart Battery Cases are maybe
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Essential Apple Podcast 160: A New Year’s Ramble
Recorded 29th December 2019 I am joined by Nick Riley and James Ormiston (MacJim) and with no real news as such we just have
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Essential Apple Podcast 159: Merry Christmas Everyone!
Recorded 22nd December 2019 Donny is (mostly) recovered from the ‘flu, MacJim braves another appearance and Suffolk Pete pitches in so we can have
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Essential Apple Podcast 158: Ever so lonely…
Recorded 16th December 2019 No one is available again so “ever so lonely” Simon goes for a short solo – not a lot going
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Essential Apple Podcast 157: Simon does another solo show
Recorded 8th December 2019 Yes I’m back! And there is a slew of stuff to discuss, even if none of the stories are particularly
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Essential Apple Podcast 156: MacJim saves the day
Recorded 24th November 2019 Yes – I know it is really really late… Work and life and stuff. Sorry. This week I feared I’d
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Essential Apple Podcast 155: A dunce’s cap for Simon and the show that got away
Recorded 19th November 2019 I’s a dunce and did a show with Guy and Nick, but forgot to check it was recording. Sorry about
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Essential Apple Podcast 154: Tim, sort the Apple ID servers!
Recorded 3rd November 2019 If you’ve downloaded this episode expecting a Ghostery special I am afraid Pete Knowlton has had to postpone for family
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Essential Apple Podcast 153: We broke the internet!
This show is dedicated to the memory of my friend Adrian who died uexpectedly on the 28th aged 64. RIP. Recorded 27th October 2019
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Essential Apple Podcast 152: Looking forward to Luminar 4 with Alex Tsepko
Recorded 20th October 2019 This week Apple said iOS 13 reached 50% adoption, Apple TV appeared on Roku, iPhoto finally reached the end of
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Essential Apple Podcast 151: DTP for amateurs
Recorded 13th October 2019 This week Catalina went public – kind of by night with no announcements or anything and surprisingly has bugs and
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Essential Apple Podcast 150: Eyes and ears and hands and folding things…
Recorded 6th October 2019 Aaaand… we made it to 150! Alas it’s also the 8th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing… Uncle Tim was travelling
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Essential Apple Podcast 149: “Let’s Talk” … to Bart Busschots
Recorded 22nd September 2019 After a couple of weeks or more of guests and not bothering to look at the news Simon is joined
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Essential Apple Podcast 148: BeLight – no need to feel sheepish
Recorded 22nd September 2019 This week the news was of course dominated by the new iPhones, Apple Watch 5, and all that. As Simon
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Essential Apple Podcast 147: Affinity – a ten year labour of love!
Recorded 15th September 2019 Simon is still afflicted with a stuffed up nose but never mind – this week he and Donny are joined
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