Apple Services with Gannon Nordberg
02/20/23 • 64 min
In this episode:
- Apple security updates you should install
- Thoughts on the rumored MacBook Air 15”
- Gannon’s Apple products and his wild keyboard
- What we like about Apple Fitness+
- Saving money with Apple One
- Apple Pay, Apple Card, and Apple Cash
- Is AppleCare worth it?
Guest - Gannon Nordberg
Gannon is a Google Certified Educator, Apple Teacher, and a Canvas Advocate who aims to create polished and user-friendly instructional support resources, including help guides, webinars, videos, and course design elements that are entirely free from confusing techie jargon.
He has spoken at several national conferences, and won the national award for outstanding support to faculty and students in 2019 through the Instructional Technology Council, and the 2022 Excellence in Education Award for Collaboration within the Virginia Community College System.
He also feeds off an endless pile of productivity and self-help books surrounding focus, building margin, minimalism, reducing digital distractions, and using time intentionally.
Find more on Gannon at https://www.gannonnordberg.com.
Links from the show:
- Apple Security Updates Support Article
- MacRumors: 15-Inch MacBook Air Rumored to Launch in April
- Refurb Tracker: Track availability of Apple refurbished products
- Apple Studio Display
- ZSA Moonlander split ergo mechanical keyboard
- Magic Trackpad
- Elgato Stream Deck MK.2
- Elgator Wave:3 Microphone
- Apple Fitness+
- Apple Entertainment Services
Question or Comment? Send us a Text Message!
Contact Us
- Drop us a line at [email protected]
- You’ll find Jeff at @reyespoint on Threads and reyespoint.bsky.social on Bluesky
- Find Tom at @tomanderson on Threads
- Join Tom’s newsletter, Apple Talk, for more Apple coverage and tips & tricks.
- Tom has a new YouTube channel
- Show artwork by the great Randall Martin Design
Enjoy Basic AF? Leave a review or rating!
- Review on Apple Podcasts
- Rate on Spotify
- Recommend in Overcast
Intro Music: Psychokinetics - The Chosen
Transcripts and some images are AI generated and may contain errors and general silliness.
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In this episode:
- Apple security updates you should install
- Thoughts on the rumored MacBook Air 15”
- Gannon’s Apple products and his wild keyboard
- What we like about Apple Fitness+
- Saving money with Apple One
- Apple Pay, Apple Card, and Apple Cash
- Is AppleCare worth it?
Guest - Gannon Nordberg
Gannon is a Google Certified Educator, Apple Teacher, and a Canvas Advocate who aims to create polished and user-friendly instructional support resources, including help guides, webinars, videos, and course design elements that are entirely free from confusing techie jargon.
He has spoken at several national conferences, and won the national award for outstanding support to faculty and students in 2019 through the Instructional Technology Council, and the 2022 Excellence in Education Award for Collaboration within the Virginia Community College System.
He also feeds off an endless pile of productivity and self-help books surrounding focus, building margin, minimalism, reducing digital distractions, and using time intentionally.
Find more on Gannon at https://www.gannonnordberg.com.
Links from the show:
- Apple Security Updates Support Article
- MacRumors: 15-Inch MacBook Air Rumored to Launch in April
- Refurb Tracker: Track availability of Apple refurbished products
- Apple Studio Display
- ZSA Moonlander split ergo mechanical keyboard
- Magic Trackpad
- Elgato Stream Deck MK.2
- Elgator Wave:3 Microphone
- Apple Fitness+
- Apple Entertainment Services
Question or Comment? Send us a Text Message!
Contact Us
- Drop us a line at [email protected]
- You’ll find Jeff at @reyespoint on Threads and reyespoint.bsky.social on Bluesky
- Find Tom at @tomanderson on Threads
- Join Tom’s newsletter, Apple Talk, for more Apple coverage and tips & tricks.
- Tom has a new YouTube channel
- Show artwork by the great Randall Martin Design
Enjoy Basic AF? Leave a review or rating!
- Review on Apple Podcasts
- Rate on Spotify
- Recommend in Overcast
Intro Music: Psychokinetics - The Chosen
Transcripts and some images are AI generated and may contain errors and general silliness.
...
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Folding iPad or MacBook, Apps We Pay For vs Apps We're Using
In this episode:
- Jeff has not one, but two (!!) new Watch bands
- New 🔥 wallpapers from Basic Apple Guy
- Apple’s folding something though the “experts” don’t agree just what
- Apps we’ve bought and don’t use, and why we bought them
- Apps we are using (list and links below)
Links from the show:
- Basic Apple Guy: M2 Wallpapers
- Kuo: Apple to Release Foldable iPad with Carbon Fiber Kickstand in 2024
- Apple Working on 20.5-inch All-Screen Foldable Notebook for 2025
- Mark Gurman on iPad plans for 2024
- Highland 2 for writing
- Tyme for time tracking
- Fantastical
- Ivory Mastodon app
- Movetodon for moving your follows from Twitter to Mastodon
- Radio Paradise
- PocketCasts
- Craft
- CleanShot X
- Paste
- Athlytic
- MindNode
- YNAB
Question or Comment? Send us a Text Message!
Contact Us
- Drop us a line at [email protected]
- You’ll find Jeff at @reyespoint on Threads and reyespoint.bsky.social on Bluesky
- Find Tom at @tomanderson on Threads
- Join Tom’s newsletter, Apple Talk, for more Apple coverage and tips & tricks.
- Tom has a new YouTube channel
- Show artwork by the great Randall Martin Design
Enjoy Basic AF? Leave a review or rating!
- Review on Apple Podcasts
- Rate on Spotify
- Recommend in Overcast
Intro Music: Psychokinetics - The Chosen
Transcripts and some images are AI generated and may contain errors and general silliness.
...Next Episode
Security...What a Pain in the Pass!
In this episode:
- The boys get some new toys
- LastPass breach
- The Big Security Show
- Keeping your devices secure
- Why you should install software updates
- Managing Accounts & Passwords
- Apple’s iCloud Keychain & 1Password
- Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
Links from the show:
- LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken
- Why you can trust 1Password’s cloud-based storage and syncing
- Use Face ID on your iPhone or iPad Pro
- Use Touch ID on iPhone and iPad
- Use Touch ID on Mac
- Update your iPhone or iPad
- Update macOS on Mac
- Manage passwords using keychains on Mac
- Set up iCloud Keychain
- Rapid Security Responses on Apple devices
- Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
- iCloud data security overview
- Use iCloud Keychain to keep passwords, accounts, and more up to date with iCloud
- Create unique, random email addresses with Hide My Email and iCloud+
- About iCloud Private Relay
Question or Comment? Send us a Text Message!
Contact Us
- Drop us a line at [email protected]
- You’ll find Jeff at @reyespoint on Threads and reyespoint.bsky.social on Bluesky
- Find Tom at @tomanderson on Threads
- Join Tom’s newsletter, Apple Talk, for more Apple coverage and tips & tricks.
- Tom has a new YouTube channel
- Show artwork by the great Randall Martin Design
Enjoy Basic AF? Leave a review or rating!
- Review on Apple Podcasts
- Rate on Spotify
- Recommend in Overcast
Intro Music: Psychokinetics - The Chosen
Transcripts and some images are AI generated and may contain errors and general silliness.
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