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This week on the show:

Stephen solves a problem that has been plaguing the podcast, Federico has concerns about Apple’s rumored news service and Myke is fighting a losing battle with AirPlay 2.

All of this, plus the problem with WWDC.

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Apple:

Learn how to use the Weather app on your iPhone to check the weather in your current location or in other cities.

With the Weather app in iOS, you can look up the weather by city name, postal or zip code, and airport code. You can also create a list of cities to track and arrange the cities in the order that you want.

The Tornado and Haze icons particularly speak to me.

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John Paczkowski:

Apple has settled on a date for its first big product announcement of 2019. Sources tell BuzzFeed News that the company plans to hold a special event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater on its Apple Park campus. Headlining the gathering: That subscription news service that has been all over the news today. Unlikely to make an appearance: next generation AirPods, or that rumored new iPad Mini.

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This week on Liftoff, Jason and I catch up on the news, then talk about the Pioneer and Ranger programs.

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This week’s Ungeniused is an uplifting one:

One day, our Pale Blue Dot will become a fiery landscape of destruction.

Thankfully, it’s not any time soon…

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At its “Back to the Mac” event in the fall of 2010, Apple took the wraps of the second-generation MacBook Air. In one keynote, the MacBook Air went from a too-expensive, underpowered notebook¹ to the computer that would define an entire generation of laptops.

For the next five years, the MacBook Air was the clear “default” Mac notebook for the masses, and the machine that Apple’s competitors aimed to beat in terms of power and design.

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This time on Mac Power Users, we look at G Suite, and how it can be a great option for small business owners like me.

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This is what modularity means.

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Federico has been working on a set of tools to manage his Mac from his iPad:

This doesn’t change the fact that the iPad Pro is my main computer, and that I want to interact with macOS as little as possible. Aside from recording podcasts using Mac apps, I rely on the Mac mini as a server that performs tasks or provides media in the background. Any server requires a front-end interface to access and manage it; in my case, that meant finding apps, creating shortcuts, and setting up workflows on my iPad Pro to access, manage, and use the Mac mini from iOS without having to physically sit down in front of it.

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Go forth and Group FaceTime.

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Another big security and privacy article from TechCrunch. This time, Zack Whittaker has written about several iOS apps that are secretly recording the screen without permission:

Apps like Abercrombie & Fitch, Hotels.com and Singapore Airlines also use Glassbox, a customer experience analytics firm, one of a handful of companies that allows developers to embed “session replay” technology into their apps. These session replays let app developers record the screen and play them back to see how its users interacted with the app to figure out if something didn’t work or if there was an error. Every tap, button push and keyboard entry is recorded — effectively screenshotted — and sent back to the app developers.

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This week on Connected:

Stephen was right, Angela is gone, Myke has a theory and Federico is automating his TV.

We get into Apple Retail, the iOS 12.2 beta and talk about the future of AirPods.

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