MacBites Elaine Giles and Mike Thomas

In this episode, we’re Playing Scrabble with Big Brother in the Bubble Boutique

BackBites
- Adobe Sign
- GoodNotes
- Fortnite for iOS and Mac is now officially blocked from receiving updates
- Apple kicks every app from Epic Games out of App Store
- Rethinking the App Store

ChatBites
- 'Creepy men' message women on Scrabble Go app
- Singapore: Apple set to premiere 1st floating store in the world
- New Singapore store may be Apple’s most spectacular retail venue yet
- Apple apologizes to WordPress, no longer requires free app to add purchases
- Matt Mullenweg’s series of Tweets
- Developers highlight more anomalies in Apple’s 30% cut
- Apple brings in kinder, gentler App Store policies
- Mac malware slips through Apple notarization process
- Yoga app accuses Apple of pushing subscription auto-renewals
- Antitrust 101: Why everyone is probing Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
- Facebook Launches Paid Online Events for Creators, Complains That Apple Will Take 30% of Payments Made Through iOS App
- Why is Facebook not Paying the Apple Tax?
- Apple’s Final Cut Pro X video software gets new tools, better performance
- Apple Releases Updates to Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor with Workflow and Other Enhancements

App Review
- Camtasia
- Camtasia Pricing
- Camtasia Package Files
- ScreenFlow
- Camtasia Demonstrations in MacBites After Hours 0016
- MacBites After Hours 0092

Reality Bites
- ASUS USB Portable Monitor
- MacBites Episode 112
- Over Door Organizers

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- MacBites After Hours 0093

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In this episode, we're gazumping and gazundering with mask wearing chicken McNuggets

BackBites
- Definition of Gazunder
- Gazunder on Wiktionary
- Definition of Gazump
- MacBites 0131 - An Unexpected Resurrection on Apple's Stairway to Heaven
- MacBites.fm
- McDonald's: 'Face mask' found inside Aldershot store's chicken nugget

ChatBites
- Apple vs. Fortnite: Tech battle means old iPhones are valuable on eBay
- Flappy Bird clones flood App Store, now with in-app purchases
- PlayStation with P.T. Installed on eBay
- What's going on between Fortnite developer Epic Games and Apple?
- Microsoft backs Fortnite developer Epic Games in legal battle with Apple
- Microsoft joins court battle between Apple and Fortnite maker Epic
- Fortnite Apple row: Microsoft backs Epic in court filing
- Adobe Accidentally Deleted People's Photos in Latest Lightroom Update
- iOS: Missing Pictures, Presets, and Watermark Data after 5.4 Update
- Lightroom for mobile (5.4.0) on iOS and iPadOS

Focus
- Find Empty Folders website
- How to access hidden files on a Mac

Shopping with Elaine
- Audible.co.uk
- What are the different membership plans Audible offers?
- Audible.com
- Whispersync
- Free Amazon Kindle Books
- Amazon Movers and Shakers Kindle Books
- Cost of Extra Credits

Reality Bites
- Setapp website
- DEVONtechnologies

BiteBack
- Jane on Slack
- 17 August
- Jane on Slack
- 20 August
- Storm Garelli Tweet

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- MacBites After Hours 0091

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In this episode, we're growing magic wooden mushrooms in a Swedish sauna while getting down with the cool kids

BackBites
- Coronavirus: Greencore staff self-isolate after outbreak

ChatBites
- Microsoft's Surface Duo arrives on September 10th for $1,399
- Fortnite: Apple ban sparks court action from Epic Games
- Epic files suit against Apple after Fortnite pulled from iOS App Store
- ‘Fortnite' mobile app drama: Can you still play on iOS and Android?
- Fortnite vs Apple vs Google: A Brief and Very Incomplete Timeline
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple fight is about 'basic freedoms of all consumers and developers'
- Epic rallies Fortnite players against Apple with a warning that they'll miss the next season
- Fortnite Translation Guide
- Microsoft condemns Apple's App Store policies
- Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines
- Facebook Claims Apple is Damaging Small Businesses by Collecting Fees From Paid Facebook Events
- Tree-like column is centrepiece of Apple Central World

Focus
- Fujitsu Press Release
- 25 June 2020
- Models for ScanSnap Manager V7 Download
- S510M Driver for Mac
- ScanSnap Online Manual
- Fujitsu iX1500 ScanSnap Document Scanner
- Surprise! Fujitsu Releases 64-Bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners
- VueScan
- ExactScan Pro

MacBites After Hours
- MacBites After Hours 0090
- MacBites.fm

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In this episode, It's Lights, Camera, Action at the Big Boys Billionaire's Club

BackBites
- Tell Us Just How Surprised You Are at Two MacBites in Two Days!
- Halley's Comet
- Parallels Website
- Mr Memory RAM for 2020 iMac

ChatBites
- Apple boss Tim Cook joins the billionaires club
- Apple Believes This German Cycling Path Logo Infringes on Its Own Logo
- Apple takes legal action against meal planning service with a pear-shaped logo
- Voice Recorder Pro
- Recording
- Griffin iTalk Recorder Hardware Review
- AboveTEK Tablet Stand
- Alfort Selfie Stick Tripod
- MacBites Episode 102
- Alarming Undulations
- Sony ZV-1 Vlogging Camera
- Sony GP-VPT2BT Handgrip
- Sony ZV-1 Unboxing on MacBites After Hours 0088

Focus
- PDF Expert
- Spark

MacBites After Hours
- DEVONthink Part 1: Configuration and Capture
- DEVONthink Part 2: Organizing and Creating Structure
- DEVONthink Part 3: Effectively Retrieving Stored Information
- DEVONthink Part 4: Maintenance and System Management

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Events
- How to Create a Newsletter in Affinity Publisher

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In this episode, it's Money, Money, Money!

BackBites
- White Noise Pro

ChatBites
- watchOS 7: How to Use the New Apple Watch Hand-washing Feature
- Amazon takes on supermarkets with free food delivery
- Apple Store App Now Offers iPhone Comparisons, New ‘For You' Tab
- The Morning Show leads Apple TV+ to 19 Emmy nominations
- The Morning Show curse? Apple TV+ show's second season gets a rewrite.
- Spotify hits 138 million paying subscribers
- Apple Store badges are back with Memoji, here's how to make your own
- Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow
- Congress may scrutinize Apple's ‘copy-acquire-kill' strategy
- Read Tim Cook's opening remarks for his antitrust testimony Wednesday
- Emails revealed in antitrust hearing show Apple has considered increasing App Store fees to 40%
- Apple once considered increasing App Store commissions to 40%
- Apple says all developers treated equally, yet documents show Amazon Prime Video pays half the usual App Store commission
- Apple Offered to Halve App Store Fee to Get Amazon Prime Video on iOS and Apple TV
- Eddy Cue emails confirm Apple's deal to cut Amazon's App Store fees
- Apple in 2011 Considered Collecting a 40% Fee From Some Subscription Apps
- Tim Cook says Apple treats devs fairly in ‘street fight for market share'
- Tim Cook mostly avoids grilling during historic congressional antitrust hearing
- What to expect from Apple's pandemic-afflicted Q3 2020 earnings report
- Today's earnings call won't tell us the usual things about AAPL, say analysts
- Apple stock will split 4-to-1
- Apple says new iPhones likely won't land until October this year
- How Apple made money in the middle of a crushing pandemic
- Apple's new Thunderbolt 3 cable costs a mere $129
- Apple's nano-texture Pro Display XDR requires a special cloth to clean it
- How to clean your Apple Pro Display XDR
- Apple's 27-inch iMac gets Comet Lake, T2 chip, a better camera, and more
- 27-inch iMac gets a major update
- Automated Mistake by Apple Kills All Mac Developer's App
- A Day Without Business

Focus
- Parallels Configuration KB
- Parallels Homepage
- ZoomIt for Windows Annotation

App Review
- Due on the Mac App Store
- Due on the iOS App Store

MacBites After Hours
- DEVONthink Part 1: Configuration and Capture
- DEVONthink Part 2: Organizing and Creating Structure
- DEVONthink Part 3: Effectively Retrieving Stored Information
- DEVONthink Part 4: Maintenance and System Management

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Events
- How to Create a Newsletter in Affinity Publisher

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In this episode, the Covid Cat Collective prove tricky for the Track and Trace Turkeys

ChatBites
- “iPhone 12 Introducing Trailer - Apple”
- Amazing iPhone 12 concept video shows all Apple's upcoming smartphones
- Coronavirus: ‘Almost half' of Blackburn Covid-19 contacts not reached
- Coronavirus: Outbreak investigated at Motherwell contact tracing centre
- Coronavirus: The inside story of how government failed to develop a contact-tracing app
- Coronavirus: Government admits its Test and Trace programme is unlawful
- Coronavirus: Pet cat becomes first animal to test positive for COVID-19 in UK
- Amazon Finally Confirms Prime Day Is Delayed
- Helpful and human: G Suite's vision for your future workspace
- Norman Collier - The Faulty Microphone

App Review
- Meeter on the MAS
- Dark Noise at Charlie Chapman
- Dark Noise on iOS App Store
- Dark Noise 2 Launch Video
- GOOJODOQ Sleeping Bluetooth Headphones

After Hours
- MacBites After Hours 0087
- DEVONthink Part 1: Configuration and Capture
- DEVONthink Part 2: Organizing and Creating Structure

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