057 - 2015 round-up and review
A round-up of all our favourite things from 2015, as well as this week's tech news!
Show Notes:
- - It's now illegal (again) to back up your own music in the UK
- - Apple expands personal pickup to 6 more European countries
- - Chrome for Android can reduce data consumption by up to 70%
- - Chrome for iOS updated
- - A VPN exploit may show some users real IPs
- - vTech hack
- - Adobe tells people not to use Flash
- - The National Security Letter spy tool has been uncloaked, and it’s bad
- - Ballmer: Microsoft’s cloud revenue numbers are “bullshit”
- - Thunderbird “a tax” on Firefox development, and Mozilla wants to drop it
- - The Samantha Bielefeld saga went a bit mental
- - And then this...
Our purchases and highlights of 2015
- SP: iPhone 6s
- SP: Tweetbot (iOS and OS X)
- SP: Testing - Mac ID / Pzizz / Outlook
- SP: Content blocking - Ghostery / Crystal / 1Blocker
- SP: Apple TV / Plex / Sharks Live
- SP: Podcasts
- SP: Audible
- KL: MacBook (2015)
- KL: Flashcard Hero
- KL: Headspace
- KL: Apple Watch
- KL: Writing: DayOne, Evernote, Scrivener
- KL: Apple Music
- KL: iPad Pro and Apple Pencil