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Essential Apple Podcast 292: AI image search with CYME

This week Simon and Nick are joined by Mattieu Kopp co-founder and CTO of CYME.io, makers of Avalanche (a tool for migrating photo libraries from App to App), plus Peakto, Find My Snaps, and since we recorded this Peakto for Lightroom, which are amazing AI/ML powered tools for searching and organising your photos in clever and interesting ways. After discussing that they all take a wander through some of the news from the week, including an M series chip flaw and a medical world’s first.

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Essential Apple Podcast 291: WWW is 35 years old!

On this show: the World Wide Web turned 35, Nick still has hacker issues, Sonoma bugs, Vision Pro used in neuro surgery, hints that Apple are ramping up on their AI works and more. As ever Simon and Nick have a natter about it all.

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Essential Apple Podcast 290: Spats, Hacks & A.I.

On the show this time, Nick got hacked! Apple and Epic get into another spat, in which they both came off looking stupid, and childish… Simon and Nick have been playing with A.I. image tools. Apple made modifications to its new EU rules, a man has recovered over 200 Apple Watches from lakes in Illinois and Donny is disappointed in his Zagg pencils for iPads, and of course some other stuff too!

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Essential Apple Podcast 289: So long Apple car… We never knew you at all!

This week Simon has a new microphone so hopefully the sound will be a little better. Meanwhile apparently the “Titan has Fallen”, the Apple car project is “officially” dead, Vision Pro returns are no worse than any other Apple product, there is new Post Quantum crytographic protection coming for iMessage, and more! Simon and Nick set to and try to make sense of it all…

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Essential Apple Podcast 288: Happy Birthday Steve

This week Simon and Nick consider Steve’s birthday and, sadly, two years of war in the Ukraine, plus Post Quantum Cryptography, Apple’s first folding device, some Apple TV+, and an Apple Ring?
Apologies if the sound is still a little below par, Simon’s new mic didn’t arrive in time for this recording, but hopefully all will be well by the next show.

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Essential Apple Podcast 287: Small, not far away…

Late yet again! However, this time Nick and Simon talk about the DMA (again), the Vision Pro (again), Peleton backpedalling, and look at the award-winning, world’s smallest humanoid robot ironically reported on by Giant Freakin Robot!
Also Simon’s microphone failed suddenly and unexpectedly with no apparent cause just before the show… so sound quality isn’t quite as good as normal – sorry.

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Essential Apple Podcast 286: Don’t Mess About

Simon and Nick have a chat about the Vision Pro, Apple’s DMA proposals and the Quarterly results… And yes, the title is a deliberate misquote of Kenneth Williams’ famous “stop messing about!”

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Essential Apple Podcast 285: Seafarers & The Wizard of Woke

This week Simon and Nick are joined by the Revd Canon Andrew Dotchin, Suffolk MUG member, longtime Mac user and Vicar of Felixstowe (Britain’s busiest port), to talk about Apple, 40 years of the Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro and lots of other stuff which may (or may not) be related to tech…

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    Being able to contact home when making shore half way round the world from home is something priceless to these merchant matelots.
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Essential Apple Podcast 284: Visions of Angels (Landing)

Happy New Year! It is 2024 (even though it was 1976 a few months ago wasn’t it?) Anyway, Simon and Nick finally get back together after the Holiday Season (and a few other things) got in the way… Chatter covers the Vision Pro, a bunch of security stories, a nuclear battery, and lots more, as always seems to happen.

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Essential Apple Podcast 283: A whole heap of news

Simon and Nick get together to chat over what is actually quite a lot of news – Apple unexpectedly announce RCS support is coming to iOS, how much Google pay Apple leaks out in court, Black Friday is coming and there will be deals to be had on Macs new and not quite so new, latest betas are out, and more!

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Essential Apple Podcast 282: Score one for the UK

Bit late again with this one, sorry – Simon and Nick talk about the MBP M3s and is 8GB RAM enough, is it worth upgrading if you have an earlier M series, and a variety of other stuff (as they always do) including Nick’s NuKi and the UK bonus in ApplePay courtesy of the UK Banking’s Open Banking API.

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Essential Apple Podcast 280: Come Hell or High Water

Another unexpected hiatus and Simon tells us wome of why that was before he and Nick try to settle down and discuss what they think Apple might have to tell us in the Scary Fast event… except it doesn’t pan out that way and Simon has to do most of the show solo…

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Essential Apple Podcast 279: New Apple OS’s and a new car

OK so Simon is finally catching up, and here is the show from only a week ago where he and Nick spend some time on what’s new in Apple’s most recent releases, some customer support experiences they’ve had, and to be honest a lot of time talking about Simon’s new EV… and why not? Also sorry about the intrusion of a bunch of folk and Vinnie the dog part of the way through… Apparently the “On Air” sign wasn’t enough to deter them – edited out the worst of it but you will find Vinnie wasn’t going to give up until his opinions were heard :D, and there is some background noise in the later part of the show.
Anyway hope you enjoy this one regardless!

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Essential Apple Podcast 278: A Lust for Wonder?

Another disgracefully late release as I (Simon) try desperately to get back on track and publish the stuff that should have been out weeks ago… Anyway this time Nick and I natter about the WonderLust event and what new shiny toys Apple brought us this time. Also because we never get any reviews, Nick goes all out to see if he can generate a few for us! (Listen to the results in the Aftershow).

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Recorded 17th September 2023

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