MyMac Podcast 710: Wub a Dub Dub


So like nearly everyone else, the GMen Talk about the recent WWDC developer’s conference but with their own special spin. They REALLY hope you like spinning because this show ended up being much longer than usual. Gaz also has car troubles and Guy has trouble finding a car.

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Guy’s Pick: Ed Isen’s “This is the Light Side” book for Mac Users. A good guide for all those functions that new and even old time Mac users may have forgotten about. .99 cents 

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Pages, I’m using more and more on the Mac and on the iPad.

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MyMac Podcast 709: The Cost of Privacy

Gaz is away but Guy is still in the UK zone as Simon Parnell joins him to talk about VPN’s (and why some countries hate them) and data privacy in regards to the EU’s GDPR and the still being debated ePrivacy Act. And just general silliness.

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Guy’s Pick: Acorn by Flying Meat software () $29.99

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Not here so no pic HA!

Simon’s Pick/Tip: ProtonVPN native Mac/Windows client apps

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Simon: Serenak on Twitter and one of the hosts of the Essential Apple Podcast

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MyMac Podcast 708: The Tired Show


Both Guy and Gaz are tired but manage to stay awake long enough to record a show that includes a little bit of Mac news, a few laughs, and Guy’s fiery moments of uncontrollable rage! A few technical glitches make their way in to.

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Guy’s Pick: Faviconer by Nikita Zubkov free!

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: iMazing 34.99 GBP
Want to get trusted software to transfer and save your music, messages, files and data. Safely back up any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Powerful and user-friendly, well iMazing is simply the best iOS device manager for Mac and PC.

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MyMac Podcast 707: Do I Care. No!


Gaz is back but this week Guy has gone, that could be good, or equally it could be bad! Don’t panic though has has a guest who he finds out hasn’t been on before, shocker! Simon AKA Serenak joints Gaz and brings some intelligence the the show, finally I here you say.
So does Gaz care well you’ll have to listen particularly to the middle section, but with Gaz’s view from his garden you might already guess the answer.

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Guy’s Pick: Nothing this week but he’ll be back

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Score Hero IOS
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/score-hero/id847492141?mt=8

Simons Pick(s): 33Mail.com https://33mail.com
ProtonMail https://protonmail.com
Proton VNP https://protonvpn.com
Hill Climb Racer https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/hill-climb-racing/id564540143?mt=8

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MyMac Podcast 705: A Lonely Guy


Because Guy can barely pay attention to …well anything, he forgot that Gaz wasn’t going to be this week and hadn’t set up to record with anyone else. He talks about seeing the new Avengers flick, Apple financials, and the potential for broken microphones in iPhones after updating to iOS 11.3

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Guy’s Pick: Sim City for iOS. TOTAL click for cash bait, but if you have patience you can do nearly everything in the game. Free of course, but if you want the goodies and want them now, you’ll have to buy simolies as in-app purchases.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Nada

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MyMac Podcast 704: Lots of iPhones


Next week is the annual report from Apple when we find out once and for whether or not all those people predicting doom and gloom for Apple are right or wrong. Until next quarter that is. The GMen also talk about updates, Irish tax bills, and the UK’s Year of Engineering! Whatever THAT’s all about.

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Guy’s Pick: The FireFox browser because that was the only one I could easily download a video off my FaceBook account.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: CarbonCopyCloner

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MyMac Podcast 703: Dumb Arsed Analysts


So the GMen are tired of dancing around this, the world is filled with dumb arsed analysts and every media outlet seems determined to give them a platform to speak from. They do the show live (still in testing) on FaceBook, and are very sorry they missed last week and promise it will never happen again unless it does.

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Guy’s Pick: Behringer UMC404HD Audio Interface. Space for four XLR/6.3mm devices with four Digital mono outputs, reasonably clean Midas Pre-amps and half the price of similar devices. $99

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: UB Clock

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MyMac Podcast 702: Ultracrepidarian


When is an 8th anniversary actually a 10th anniversary? Well…never. Lot’s of Brou-ha-ha over stuff like less apps in the iOS App Store than last year, ARM vs X86, iOS apps to the Mac and lots of little things that lead to a full show.

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Guy’s Pick: Steam for the Mac. The best and easiest way to get games on your Mac. Always updated and usually a ton of fan-related content as well.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: YouTube wait what!

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MyMac Podcast 700: I’m sorry, did you say something?


So, 400 episodes wasn’t enough eh? Had to take it 700 didn’t you? Well of COURSE we did! Extra long show with Tim wrapped in the middle of a Guy and Gaz sandwich…wait, that didn’t sound quite right.

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Guy’s Pick: Audio Converter Pro $6.99 Changes nearly any audio to some other kind of audio

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Slopes what else I’ve been on a skiing holiday!

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MyMac Podcast 699: Just One Away


Holy moly, just ONE show away from 700! Actually since you’re reading/listening to the podcast, it is zero shows away. Or something, math is hard. Gaz not here this week, so my son Peter who is the owner of my former Mac Pro to talk about…stuff. We chat about the crazy issues we had with the three week odyssey of getting the Mac Pro working, the upcoming Apple event, and scammy/scummy ink jet printers and the companies who make them.

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Guy’s Pick: Hardware pick this week. The Triton Audio Fethead is now selling for about $90 which is half of what it used to sell for. Adds clean 27db of signal with very little noise.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip:

Peter’s Pick: Disaster Artist Movie () $19.96

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Peter’s contact info: jakeandpeter1996@gmail.com
Youtube Nano Bites

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MyMac Podcast 698: Macstock Expo…TRANSCRIBED


Getting excited about Macstock 2018? The GMen are and they dragged…INVITED Mike Potter and Barry Fulk who just happen to be the driving force behind Macstock on to the podcast to talk about what’s going on this year. They also consented (not forced!) to being on video, so you can actually WATCH too!

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Guy’s Pick: Spreaker Studio by Spreaker…FREE! Looking for a way to record audio, include sound clips, and songs? Is free a low enough price? Spreaker is a paid podcast servece, but they include a pretty good little recording app.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Star Rover

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MyMac Podcast 697: We Love-Hate Apple because…Reasons


Which pretty much sums up how most people feel about Apple but they don’t have a podcasts and we do! We’re doing a little experiment by also recording video (that will be out later) that hopefully will eventually entice people to sign up to our Patreon account or make them leave us in droves. If you leave though you’ll miss stuff on wearables, finances, Buffett (Warren not Jimmy) and our continuing hate affair with analysts. So yeah, don’t miss that.

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Guy’s Pick: Swift Publisher 5 on the Mac App Store. This is the program I use to create the WOOTies and other related podcasting stuff other than the show graphic. Been using it since version 2 and really like it. $19.99

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Time Machine Scheduler

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MyMac Podcast 695: 15 equals 51


Is this some kind of crazy new math? Have the GMen lost their minds? Well, yes but not because of this. Apple makes a disproportional amount of profit as compared to their marketshare, one bad unicode can spoil the bunch girl (Jackson 5 reference if you didn’t know), the HomePod leaves a ring around the collar, and Apple’s wearable market by itself could be a Fortune 300 company. All this and their usual silliness.

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Guy’s Pick: Flat Out 2 by Virtual Programming  $3.99

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Duplicate File Finder Remover

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MyMac Podcast 694: Defining Definitions


The GMen talk about 5G. A subject neither knows much about, but that’s never stopped them before and this time is no different. Gaz is excited about Apple’s HomePod but isn’t exactly sure why and Guy is mad at his dental insurance company but knows EXACTLY why.Oh and at some random point they talk about the last Super Bowl for some reason.

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About the 5G

Guy’s Pick: Ecamm’s Live version 2 works pretty well as a live casting tool for many different services…assuming you have a beefy enough computer to handle it. My 2010 Mac Pro apparently is not when used in conjunction with Skype. $39.95

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: iOS Game Flick Rugby 16

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MyMac Podcast 693: The Adam and Eve Show


No nudity is involved (thank God) but there may be a snake or two. Meanwhile the GMen briefly go over Apple’s quarterly results and then tear apart a writer for a certain website that they think is an idiot. And when the GMen think someone ELSE is stupid, that’s really saying something.

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Jim Edwards is an idiot

Guy’s Pick: A good friend asked to get some info and songs off two old iPods (not DRMed) and this program did the trick AN it’s free! Syncios from syncs.com. I just needed it to get content off old devices, but if you want to use it to manage or do device to device data transfers those cost extra.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: The rugby six nations started this weekend so try out the NatWest official six nations app

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MyMac Podcast 692: That AI is CRAZY


You can call me Al, but there’s no point as we’re talking about A.I. Artificial Intelligence, not Aladdin or Chevy Chase from a popular song from many years ago. But Wait! There’s MORE! Chromebooks, HomePods, OS Updates that Guy STILL can’t do, and Apple Buses being attacked.

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Scrolling down through a Safari Page do you use the down arrow, well try it with the CTRL or the Option button then try it with the CMD button

IBM AI to predict those on the verge of potential psychosis. Heck, just round up 80% of those doing podcasts and call it a day

EVERYONE IS BUYING CHROMEBOOKS! Wait sorry, nearly every tech company is producing Chromebooks. How many are buying them is to be determined.

HOMEPOD

HomePod disables Siri when the owner is away

HomePod ships without Multi-Room Stereo feature

Apple release Meltdown patches for older Macs

Apple Shuttle Busses attacked!

Guy’s Pick: Rogue Amoeba’s Farrago sound clip program is now out. Currently $39 which is $10 off the regular price

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Black Mirror 4 series on Netflix

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MyMac Podcast 691: Call Micronesia


What does the Empress Wu Zetian, leap years, and Beretta shotguns have in common? Guy’s wife leaves him…again, but he has a big ass heavy backpack to keep him company, Gaz’s iMac seems slow, Apple will pay more in tax in a single day that no single person ever will probably pay in their lifetimes. Also is Apple falling behind and Sir Jonny speaks!

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So all that oversea’s money is coming home, well we thinks it’s all going home, and whats going to happen to all that dosh.

We quite like this news, but it does make us wonder on a wider scale if Apple are just dropping behind when it comes to Car Kit and HomeKit and Siri, other companies seem to be taking a lead, and some of those leads could be quite large making it hard for Apple to then get a foot back in the door.

Jonny Ive on the Future of Design

Guy’s Pick: Orca Tactical SALISH 40L MOLLE Large 3-Day Army Military Survival Backpack Bug Out Bag Rucksack Assault Pack  HUGE backpack

Gaz’s Pick/Tip:

Taking a look at this one

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MyMac Podcast 690: Mistakes were made


Weird, but the title seems redundant. Micronesia and their Chinese food delivery industry is briefly discussed, another macOS password problem, CES wants Apple…BAD, the US Congress doesn’t understand tech (shocker), and a speaker says that the 4 biggest US companies were founded by immigrants or their children…like every US company…ever.

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Guy’s Pick: With the Mac and iPhone losing ports as quickly as some politicians are losing their minds, one company has been supplying an audio solution for Macs that just need more ins and outs. Behringer’s UCA222 is a USB solution with two RCA left and right channel in ports and two out ports.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: CONCENTRATE MAN CONCENTRATE

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MyMac Podcast 688: Maybe Good, Maybe bad


Last show for 2017 and the GMen knocked it out of the park! Granted it was a pretty small park and slightly run down, but it was knocked out! LOT’S of MyMac articles because they didn’t do it last week and they had some special guests to help with that. Then like every other podcast they talked about Apple and something about batteries. Lastly they give ALL their resolutions for the 2018! Or they would have if they had thought of it at the time which they didn’t!

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Guy’s Pick: If you need a good clean audio interface, the Presonas VSL series are great. 22VSL with 2 in/2 out (Mono) and 44VSL 4 in/4 out (mono)

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Parallels Tool Box, lots of great tools, but this was 9.99 a year it’s gone up to 15.99 still great value, just hope the increase isn’t the start of an ever increasing cost.

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MyMac Podcast 687: A GMenistmas Miracle

Didn’t want to leave you guys in the lurch for a show so just did a quick one describing our holiday plans mostly. Gaz’s sound much better than Guy’s since he’s cooking for his family (poor family) but does have an iPhone 8+ to play with. All of us at the MyMac Podcast and MyMac website wish all of you a wonderful holiday season!

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Guy’s Pick: No picks

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: I SAID NO PICKS!

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