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S1E307 - Essential Apple Podcast 307: A Sad Loss
Episode 307
Tuesday, 22 July, 2025
We start with the very sad news that Tim Roberton, founder of MyMac, podcasting pioneer, and mentor and enabler to many, many novices to podcasting has passed away, peacefully at home with his family after a short illness. I am sure you will all join myself and Nick in sending our deepest sympathies to all of his family and friends everywhere. After that Simon and Nick take their usual circuitous route through the “silly season” news they considered interesting enough and, as ever, some other stuff as well… Sound is back to normal btw… don’t really know what fixed it, I just fiddled a bit and tested and the problem was gone (thankfully!) After the sad death of Tim Robertson, please consider making a donation, no matter how small, to the GoFundMe to help support Tim’s wife and four children at this difficult time. Recorded 20th July 2025 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick’s church stream videos on You Tube TIM ROBERSTON Tim’s Obituary TidBITS Tribute Tim’s Memorial Service Guy Serle and David Cohen discuss Tim and the future of MyMac GoFundMe for Tim’s family APPLE 25 years later, Apples most infamous Mac can teach some valuable lessons – Macworld iOS 26s Liquid Glass design brings big changes to your iPhone – Tom’s Guide Apple Releases Third iOS 18.6 and macOS Sequoia 15.6 Public Betas – MacRumors New Apple Watch Gesture in watchOS 26 Limited to Newer Models – MacRumors Other Apple executives to take on retiring Jeff Williams’ duties – Apple Insider Meta just poached two more AI researchers from Apple – 9to5Mac Apple has now fully paid $16.5B to Ireland in back taxes – 9to5Mac Apple chipmaker TSMC might finish building its next U.S. plants early – BGR New Apple video comedically says: be careful what you remove from photos – 9to5Mac SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Anode-free battert tech – Battery Tech Online SECURITY & PRIVACY Swiss tax probe sparks battle over Apple account records – Apple Insider WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Mac Preferences/Settings through the ages – Aresluna Simon discovers Temu.com Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J’s security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack <h4>You can follow us on:</h4> Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
