Linode allows you to instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and choice of 10 node locations.
They are giving all new Maccast customers a $20 credit.
I've been wanting to set up a Minecraft server and Linode offers One-click installs including gaming installs
They have Minecraft, Ark, Terraria, and more.
Also one-click installs for things like Wordpress, Drupal, GitLab, OpenVPN and more.
Plus a whole bunch of distros. If it runs on Linux, it runs on Linode.
Most Linux distributions available out of the box, but you can upload custom images or create your own
Basically you can build whatever server you want.
Featuring native SSD storage, a 40 Gbit network, with industry leading processors
Pick from any of our 10 worldwide data centers
They just opened their newest one in Toronto, Canada
Built using their most up to date hardware and their Next Generation Network backbone
Allows users to comply with in-country data protection requirements while taking advantage of all Linode's technology and tools.
Additional datacenter opening in Mumbai India by end of 2019
Pricing is simple with no surprise fees. Pay for what you use with hourly billing across all plans and add-on services
Can get what you need from a $5/month Nanodes plan to high power Dedicated CPU plans
Their dashboard makes it easy to manage your Linodes and upgrading your plan is easy.
Can add-on backups, large storage volumes, and load balancing
And if you need support they have 24x7 live customer support and a large documentation library which provides a great resource when you get stuck.
Visit: linode.com/maccast to set up your first Linode and get a $20 credit when you use promo code: maccast2019
News
Apple's "By Innovation Only" Event
Apple Services
Apple Arcade
Priced at just $4.99 USD / mo. One month free trial
Includes support for up to 6 family members
Accessed from the "Arcade" tab in the App Store
100 titles from 35 different studios. More titles will be added in the following weeks
Will launch in 150 countries globally
Games playable on iPadOS and tvOS 13 September 13th and on macOS Catalina when it releases in October
Apple TV+
Also priced at just $4.99 USD/mo with a seven-day free trial
Even better you get a free year of service when you buy a new iPad, iPhone, Mac, or Apple TV.
Customers have three months after device activation to claim the offer, or if the device was purchased and activated before the launch of Apple TV+, they will have three months starting November 1.
And it's also good for up to 6 family members.
Content will be available in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atoms on supported Macs, devices, and Apple TV 4K
The service will launch with just seven TV series and one documentary
See, The Morning Show, Dickinson, For All Mankind,, Helpsters (kids), Snoopy In Space, Ghostwriter
The Elephant Queen (documentary)
Most Apple TV+ series will premiere with three episodes, adding one new episode on a weekly basis, though some shows will have all episodes available for binging.
Apple will be adding more shows in the future including book club content from Oprah, a thriller from M. Night Shyamalan, a new Truth Be Told series starring Octavia Spencer
All the same specs as the iPad 9.7-inch 6th gen EXCEPT:
This includes the SAME A10 Fusion chip, which I feel is a little disappointing
At least could be A12 same as iPad mini
Still Apple claims it's twice as fast as the pervious model, how?
10.2-inch display at 2160-by-1620 resolution (same 264 ppi)
Missing Full sRGB standard
Smart Connector
Full size Smart Keyboard
No CDMA, but does support eSIM
Still first gen Apple Pencil
32GB and 128GB sizes (sorry 32GB is ridiculous)
Available now and starting at $329 USD
Apple dropped the prices of the 11-inch and 12.9-inch 1TB iPad Pros in the US by $200, likely because updates are expected in October.
Apple Watch 5
Always on display showing the time and complications
Raising wrist now brightens the display
Has an ultra-low power display driver and new optimized watch faces
Maintains an 18-hour battery life
Enabled by a new 64-bit dual-core S5 processor, plus W3 wireless chip
Built in compass
New case options brushed and space black titanium and ceramic
Now using Apple Watch Studio you can choose your Watch and band combo online or in store.
You can order now. Pricing: $399 for GPS, $499 for cellular, launching September 20
They discontinued the Series 4, but Series 3 GPS is still available starting at $199 USD
New Research App and health studies
Hearing, menstrual cycle tracking, and heart and movement research
Can now get an Apple Watch USB-C cable on Apple's site.
Apple dropped the prices of the Leather Loop and Milanese Loop bands down to $99 USD
iPhone 11
Apple's update to the iPhone XR is the iPhone 11
New A13 processor and U1 Ultra Wideband chip
quad-core GPU and a 6-core CPU
fastest smartphone on the market.
Can perform over 1 trillion operations per second
Optimized for power efficiency
The U1 chip can create a "personal area network" and allows for spatial awareness
Can help locate nearby items
Can point your iPhone at another iPhone when using AirDrop and that person will be at the top of the list
Help you locate your AirPods or devices in the FindMy app
Still using a 6.1-inch Liquid retina LCD
Now features two camera on the back
You get a wide angle and a Ultra Wide Angle with a 120-degree field of view
Sensors are 12 mega-pixel
The wide angle lens is 26mm f/1.8 version with a six-element lens, optical image stabilization, and 100% Focus Pixels
the Ultra Wide is a 13mm f/2.4 lens with a five-elements
New Night Mode, that looks great (but seems like Apple following Google Pixel)
The front TrueDepth Camera has been upgraded to a 12-megapixel camera
Can capture slow motions for… ugh, Slofies
An hour more battery life than the previous generation
Dolby Atmos sound with support for spatial audio
Pricing is lower than the previous iPhone XR starting at $699 USD.
Pre-orders start Friday the 13th at 5:00 AM PT (new time) and arrive on September 20th
Can get unlocked devices day one
can still get an iPhone XR starting at $599 USD or an iPhone 8 starting at $449 USD
iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max
A13 chip
It's efficiency allows these iPhone to have massive battery life increases
+4 hours on the iPhone 11 Pro and +5 hours on the iPhone 11 Pro Max
They are also slightly thicker and heavier (not clear if they will have larger batteries too)
Come with an 18W fast-charger. USB-C to Lightning cable
Same physical sizes at 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch
Improved OLED display
Apple calls it Super Retina XDR
1,200 nits and a wider dynamic range with a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio
Triple lens camera system mounted in the square "cracker" bump
12MP sensors
Along with the telephoto and wide angle you now get a f/2.4 aperture 120-degree ultra-wide lens
Like on the 11 you get Night mode and something Apple is calling Deep Fusion. Basically next gen HDR
Record 4K video with extended dynamic range at 60 frames per second
Apple didn't "hide" it that's for sure
Same upgraded 12MP TrueDepth Camera that is in the iPhone 11
Groupies (with the wide angle) and Slofies
Spatial audio and Dolby Atmos sound
Not a surprise, but no 5G
They do have "Faster Gigabit-class LTE"
About 13 percent faster LTE speeds
New midnight green color and updated space gray and silver, and a gold finishes.
The glass is the most shatter resistant Apple has ever used
The back finish is a textured matte glass
improved water resistance with an IP68 rating (same for iPhone 11)
Prices are the same as last year, starting at $999 and $1,099.
Preorders start Friday at 5 a.m. Pacific Time.
Other Tidbits
Did not get bi-directional wireless charging
You can use the Apple Store app to pre-ready your pre-order and get pre-approval for the iPhone upgrade program.
3D Touch is gone on ALL new devices and replace by Haptic Touch (press and hold)
Can tweak hold length in the settings
Apple will release iOS 13 on September 19th
iPad OS and iOS 13.1 will release on September 30th
New clear cases available for ALL the new models, not just the iPhone 11
You can now get AppleCare+ on and installment plan and $29 US AppleCare+ for AirPods and Beats headphones
Software updates for HomePod
The addition of 100,000 radio stations trough support for iHeartRadio, Radio.com, and TuneIn coming on September 3oth
An "Ambient Sounds" update coming later this fall.
And also "later this fall", support for a "personalized experience". Will recognize up to six different people for Music and Personal Requests.
Still may be a headset
Guilherme Rambo and developer Steve Troughton-Smith found that Xcode 11 features an ARDisplayDevice framework
Not only that there seem to be references to codenamed Apple headsets
There also seems to be mentions of support of a gamepad profile that would work in conjunction with stereo AR apps
Could more likely be a face mounted AR system vs a true AR headset
Most likely this would be a product we'd see in 2020 and probably not this year.
Sponsor: MasterClass
MasterClass
One of my favorite things about Masterclass is the amazing depth and variety of the courses taught by the masters in their fields.
No place else do you have access to this kind of talent.
I've been taking Neil Gaiman's course on writing so I can improve my Podcasting
Yeah, he's teaching writing, but more than that how to engage and entertain an audience
I found his comments in the Finding your voice" lesson particularly relevant as you need to find your voice in podcasting too.
Plus his lessons, like many I've taken, feels very intimate. It's like he's speaking just to you. A classroom of one.
The quality and presentation of the courses is the best I've ever seen and they're each unique in their style which keeps them interesting.
Plus they are presented in small chunks, typically 10-15 minutes so I can easily fit then into my schedule
That's made even easier by the fact I can access them on any device iPhone, iPad, Mac, and best of all my Apple TV.
While you can get courses individually I really love having the all-access pass because here's what happens…
You'll want one course, like Documentary Filmmaking with Ken Burns
But if you're like me… you'll see Aaron Franklin will show you how to make Smoked Pork Ribs (I love ribs)
I'm not kidding I watched this and learned how to trim up and prep ribs and why it's important. Something I've never even thought was part of cooking ribs
And then I've always been fascinated with wanting to learn magic. I've tried other videos, but the Pen & Teller one was hands down the best
They went though the concept, then teaching to a group, then detailed step by step
Also supplemental downloadable PDF with photos and instructions.
They have over 60 classes and they are constantly adding more, so I think it's a great investment in learning.
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It's free for home / personal use and uses Peer to Peer technology
One concern some may have is this was formerly BitTorrent Sync and is built on BitTorrent technology
They claim:
Sync only transfers data by establishing a direct connection between peers you select.
Sync data is encrypted in transit and keys are all stored locally (no cloud)
As I said, several Maccast users say the use it and love it, so this might be an option.
Purging Time Machine Local Snapshots
Play tip from John
In case you weren't already aware… if you use Time Machine and are disconnected from your Time Machine volume Time Machine will still run but save the backups locally to your hard drive if there is enough available free space
Only runs if there is at least 20 percent free disk space
System see the space used by local snapshots as "free" space
You can also delete these manually via Time Machine, but it's not as easy as the [DaisyDisk](https://daisydiskapp.com) method
1. Open Time Machine preferences from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Or choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Time Machine.
2. Deselect ”Back Up Automatically” or click the Off/On switch, depending on what you see in Time Machine preferences.
3. Wait a few minutes to allow the local snapshots to be deleted. Then turn on Time Machine again. It remembers your backup disks.
in the menu bar. Or choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Time Machine.