This week on my new tech Q&A show with Serenity Caldwell:
Michael wants to keep his location private on social media, Neal is looking into iCloud Family Sharing and Max just wants to keep his AirPods clean. Then, a fix for a forgetful Spotlight and the country Ren calls home.
Oh, and Ren has a fake child in her iCloud account, stuck there until they turn 18.
This week on the most educational podcast on your iPhone:
Many people have gone over Niagara Falls in things like barrels and giant rubber balls. You shouldn’t try it.
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On this week’s Connected, Federico is busy chasing turtles, so Myke and I got to talk about Echo rumors, phones you can squeeze, and macOS High Sierra.
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This week on Query, my new show with Serenity Caldwell:
iCloud Photo Library can have a serious impact on your backup strategy, as Matthew, Dave and Ryan have learned. After trying to clear up the cloud service’s various modes, Ren and Stephen talk about task managers, help Alex pick out a drawing app for the iPad, and discuss gaming PCs.
If you haven’t check out this podcast yet, this is a good place to start. We’re answering all types of tech questions, not just Apple ones, so if something’s on your mind, tweet it with #askquery and we’ll see it.
While we’re on the topic of my recent appearances, I was pleased to sit down with David Sparks and Jason Snell to talk about my early attempt at being an Apple blogger, a fateful meeting over tea and how I ended up leaving my job two years ago.
There are a bunch of milestones to celebrate this week: Juno’s been at Jupiter for a year, I built his LEGO Saturn V and Pathfinder landed on Mars 20 years ago.
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Serenity Caldwell has a long background in helping people with their Apple products. She started out as a Creative at Apple retail, teaching classes and training individuals on how to use the software that came on their devices. After writing at Macworld, she now works as the Managing Editor at iMore.
Before I was a professional podcaster, I had a career in IT. Like Serenity, that started at my local Apple Store, but behind the Genius Bar.
On this week’s Ungeniused, things got dark:
Christmas Eve 1945 brought tragedy to the home of the Sodder family. A fire leveled their home, and four children disappeared, with little evidence left that they perished in the flames.
Will the next iPhone eschew TouchID for facial scanning? Is Stephen keeping his Echo Show? Can Ticci explain CoreML in a way that normal humans can understand?
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Ten years ago, the original iPhone went on sale, launching the smartphone market as we know it today. More recently, the EU fined Google 2.4 billion euros in an antitrust case, and the Amazon Echo Show has shipped to customers.
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I missed this week’s Connected, but enjoyed listening to it last night:
The Prompt Curse strikes again! Find out what has been struck down, as Myke and Federico discuss the current state of iOS 11, Ticci’s keyboard woes, reviews of the Echo Show, and ARKit.
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For centuries, treasure hunters have been digging up a tiny island off the coast of Nova Scotia in search of a pirate treasure. The thing is, there is very little evidence of it actually existing.