No matter what some may say, there is no such thing as good or bad news, there’s just news. However the LACK of news lately has been Maddening (pun intended), so the announcement of an event on Tuesday, September 14th fills our hearts with glee, sunshine and rainbows, THAT IS good news!

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https://www.strasburgrailroad.com

Guy:- Two picks. The Inn at Leona is a fabulous place to stay with a wonderful staff and so much ambiance you could choke on it. Reasonably priced rooms too. Also the Strasburg Railroad is a 45 minute to the past that if you don’t enjoy, well then you just suck. COVID rules shut down their reservation system the day before, so we had the entire dining car to ourselves. Just luck of the draw, but it still would have been fun even full up.

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Guy is away and so I very nearly decided to take the week off from recording as well, then I met up up a listener and he said ‘what’s all this about no recording next week’ so I said well come on and we’ll do a show, so with no further ado……. Karl the Mad Madden

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Guy:- None this week

Gaz:- None this week

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Remember when simplicity was actually almost built-in to Apple products? When presenters would stand on stage and say “All you need to do is push this button and we’ll do all the heavy lifting.” Those days? LONG gone. 

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Contactless card payment limit in UK to rise to £100 in October

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Recent experiments by Guy has made him start to think. A dangerous precedent that you would believe the world would want to avoid, but they did it anyway. Is the current crop of emulation of not just X86 coded apps, but iOS and iPadOS apps a look into the future? Are we getting closer to that time when what OS you’re running is irrelevant? That’s the subject for the next section anyway.

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Crypto Currency no safer than any other funds

And we worry about our phones

Electron

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Guy:-

Gaz:-

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That pesky Apple Car just won’t go away! Just when you thought it was safe to start looking at what analysts say again, this crops up once again proving the old saying…”Analysts are idiots who will say anything to get you to part ways with your money in the direction they’re being paid to tell you to spend it at.”. OK, the saying might not be old, in fact we may have made it up here on the spot, but it it doesn’t make it any less true.

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The old hotness! Heil PR-40 broadcast dynamic microphone

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Guy:- Tex Avery’s Symphony in Slang

Gaz:-

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BIG thanks to Karl Madden from the Mac and Forth podcast for stepping in and keeping Guy sane…company while Gaz was away. Apple is the company that gives and then takes away. Announcements have been made that they are going to start scanning users Photos library to help stop underage exploitation and while that is a lofty goal, what does it mean in regards to user’s privacy that Apple has touted in their press clippings?

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Guy:- Other World Computing’s Thunderbolt 3 dock $269

Gaz:-

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Gaz is off doing all things Gaz this week so Karl Madden of the Mac and Forth Podcast graciously allowed himself to be blackmailed into being on. For fulfilling his end of the deal, those pictures will never be released to the general public. They go into their recording setup and gear because there’s not really all that much else going on and Guy LOVES talking about that stuff.

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Karl:- Mac and Forth Website

The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400

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Guy:- Newp

Gaz:- Newp

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With fall about to drop in about a month, a lot people begin to focus of new iPhones. However with the transition away from Intel for the Macs, it has been a very chaotic kind of year not even including a global pandemic. The M1 Macs have been pretty good, but there’s lots of room for improvement with the Macs that haven’t gotten out of the labs yet.

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The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400

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Guy:- Newp

Gaz:- Newp

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We talked about some of the new features coming up for macOS Monterey last week and said we’d talk some more about it this week…which is what we’re going to do. So that shouldn’t be all that surprising.

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The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400

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For Pick’s Sake (none this week)

Guy:- 

Gaz:- 

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The first public beta for macOS Monterey is now out and SO many people are talking about, so we thought we might too! Because we’re all about getting out the information our listeners demand! Oooor…we just like jumping on any bandwagon that we can. There’ll be more on this next week for the bits we didn’t get to this time.

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Oh Ho
Apple lists products that pose risk to pacemakers

Flying car

The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400 ()

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For Pick’s Sake (none this week)

Guy:- Apple’s News App. Never thought I’d use it much, but I like it as a content aggregator.

Gaz:- Apple 1 subscription service

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Lots of talk from Capital Hill in regards to those naughty big tech companies. Congress wants them to play by the same rules as the average person. As if the average person could create a big tech company…or that they could either. Oddly enough, Apple is probably in less of a fix as the other four by these bills definition.

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London Underground mobile coverage reaching all stations and tunnels by 2024

Anyone still using cash? British £50 banknote honouring Alan Turing arrives

The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400

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Guy:- 

Gaz:-

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There are several standards in regards to home automation. Reaching back into the Jurassic age there was X-10 which made it possible to connect several devices to a home security monitored (by someone else) system. However it wasn’t very interactive once set up. Coming into the modern age besides Apple’s Homekit there’s Belkin’s Wemo (now discontinued), SmartThings, Ankuoo, D-Link, and TP-Link amongst others.

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The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400

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Guy:- Meross Outdoor Smart Plug which works with HomeKit. Two outlets that can be individually controlled. $26

Gaz:-

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Guy has returned from Walton country ablaze with success after bagging multiple Mooses…meece, mice? LOT’S of plural Moose. So no matter what he says after this, he’s obviously lying. WWDC 21 starts on Monday which is probably when most people will hear this podcast. So there’s no real point in speculating much about what it’ll all be about. So a few randoms things will be thrown in instead.

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The Microphone Guy is using this week is the AKG D5. This is a hand held dynamic microphone that costs around $180.

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Guy:-

Gaz:-

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Today Guy is in Walton country apparently he’s decided that he and his his family are going to spend time together and have no electrical equipment so they all have to call out goodnight to each other. Though before they reach their destination we did try to connect with Guy but couldn’t.

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YouTube RobHK

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We are about 2 weeks away from WWDC 2021 and expectations are high! As in, anyone making predictions and claiming to have any accuracy is probably on illegal medication. That won’t stop the GMen from making predictions though because they’re naturally high…on LIFE!

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The Microphone Guy is using this week is the Rode M2. This is a hand held condenser microphone that costs around $180.

Gaz’s Mic: The AKG D5

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Guy:- If you have Disney Plus, check out Star Wars Rebels. Takes place after the events of the Clone Wars and before a New Hope.

Gaz:-

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WWDC is coming up in less than a month so we’re bound to hear about all the great changes in Apple’s various operating systems for developers. Except there’s one that rules above all the others. Be advised there’s no after show this week due to some technical issues with the recording software. The whole second part of the show would have been lost except we had the video recording that we were able to pull from. Sorry about that.

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Guy’s Mic this week: Sennheiser E835. This is a handheld Dynamic microphone. ()

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Guy:- For streamers, get Rencubate app for your iPhone or iPod touch and for the Mac. The free version will likely be good enough, but the paid version gives you many options for adjusting the quality of the picture. ()

Gaz:- SciMan Dan’s debunking video

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The first products from Apple’s last event are starting to show up, but we figured everyone is tired of talking about that OLD stuff. So let’s talk about what might (by might we mean eventually) be showing up at a slickly produced and kept at about an hour or so Apple event near you soon.

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Dam it: Beaver ate our internet, says tiny Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge

Guy’s Mic this week: Behringer BA85A. $25

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ZRAMO Black Spider Universal Microphone Shock Mount for large Condensor/Dynamic microphones. For like the Rode Podcaster/Procaster/Podmic, EV20 or EV320, various Audio Technica 20 series condenser mics, Zoom ZDM-1. $11

Gaz:- None this week

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Don’t you just LOVE how analysts and tech guessers spend SO much time in trying to tell us exactly what Apple is coming out with next thereby spoiling the surprise from everyone else. Oh and the added benefit of doing Apple’s detective work for them to fire leakers when something is reported that only one or two suspects were told about? Well there’s an apparent Apple event next month and rumours are flying! So let’s talk about that….which verifies and justifies the time spent on stupid rumour stories to get podcasters to talk about it, however it doesn’t count for us since we’re doing it IRONICALLY!

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Guy:- The MXL770 which is the Microphone Guy is using this week. ()

Gaz:-

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Several US states are trying to advance laws meant to let developers distribute and sell apps outside of Apple’s iOS App Store. North Dakota, Minnesota, and Arizona all have bills in the works to prevent Apple from retaliating against developers that use other means to distribute their apps.

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Loving that free subscription to AppleTV+ that you have with your purchase of an Apple thingy? Or is it part of your Apple One subscription? OR maybe you’re leeching it off from someone else along with Netflix. Well however you’ve gotten it, is there enough content for you to keep you coming back? No? There might be based on Apple’s trailers just released for their 2021 lineup.

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Ummm a couple of people leaving quickly from Google’s ethics department…..

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