Recorded 11th May 2020 A full house of guests this week as Suffolk Pete, MacJim, Nick Riley and Mark Chappell join me – other
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Category: Essential Apple Podcast
Essential Apple Podcast 174: A mixed bag of news and Jim’s new mic
Recorded 3rd May 2020 This week I am joined again by MacJim and Mark to talk about Jim’s new microphone, the iOS 13.5 beta,
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Essential Apple Podcast 173: Don’t y’all forget about me!
Recorded 27th April 2020 This week I am joined once more by MacJim and Mark and somehow we totally forget to mention that Uncle
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Essential Apple Podcast 172: Apple’s Super iPhone SE 2020
Recorded 20th April 2020 Apple launched the iPhone SE 2020 – and delivery dates have already slipped into May… Uncle Tim has been appointed
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Essential Apple Podcast 171: Apple & Google Sitting in a Tree
Recorded 12th March 2020 Mark Nick and Jim join Simon to talk about another week in lockdown, the tech news from the week and
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Essential Apple Podcast 170: Insane Sandwich
Mark returns to the show and we’re joined by Donny Yankellow and Guy Serle to talk about the iPad turning 10, iCloud folder sharing,
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Essential Apple Podcast 169: LOCKDOWN!
Recorded 29th March 2020 You may notice some difference in the sound this episode – Simon’s Mac had a kernel panic right at the
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Essential Apple Podcast 168: Working from home special
Recorded 22nd March 2020 Apple launch and all new MacBook Air, iPad Pros with LiDAR, a keyboard with backlighting and trackpad for the new
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Essential Apple Podcast 166: A show with no notes?
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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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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