This week, Stephen and Myke are joined by David Sparks to talk about Relay FM’s first anniversary, the MacBook and the Apple Music Festival. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. TextExpander 5, from Smile: Type more with less effort. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Guest Starring: David Sparks Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership David Sparks (@MacSparky) | Twitter MacSparky Mac Power Users - Relay FM Ben's Smart Cover Gif Stump Stand Performance Mouse MX - Rechargeable Wireless Mouse - Logitech Leap Motion | 3D Motion and Gesture Control for PC & Mac Apple Pay now works with over a dozen more US banks and credit unions | 9to5Mac Introducing Liftoff and Top Four — Relay FM Top Four - Relay FM Liftoff - Relay FM B-Sides - Relay FM How Relay FM Proves That Podcasts Aren’t An Overnight Success | TechCrunch The New MacBook Review — MacSparky Mac Power Users #273: Workflows with Jonathan Mann - Relay FM Mac Power Users #272: Mac Based Small Business - Relay FM How I'm spending my (indie) time so far — 512 Pixels Hours Time Tracking on the App Store on iTunes SPARKS lawDavid's Legal Business Pharrell & One Direction headlining Apple Music Festival September 19-28 in London | 9to5Mac Apple - Press Info - Apple Music Festival Brings Incredible Live Performances to Fans Worldwide in September Listen to Full Beats 1 Shows Again with Beats 1 Replays – MacStories

This week, Federico returns to discuss Force Touch on the iPhone with Stephen and Myke, then the trio discuss the upcoming iOS 9 review on MacStories. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code 'CONNECTED' to get 15% off. Hover: Simplified Domain Management. Use code 'SUMMERTIME' for 10% off your first purchase. Squarespace: Build it Beautiful. Use code WORLD for 10% off. Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Stephen's NeXTstation NeXTstation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A year of Relay FM — Relay FM B-Sides - Relay FM Force Touch on iPhone 6S revealed: expect shortcuts, faster actions across iOS | 9to5Mac

This week: the end of iCloud Drive follow-up, the start of Stephen’s independent life, a super-late Apple Watch review and the return of “weekly” picks. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Casper: Because everyone deserves a great night sleep. Get $50 off with the code 'CONNECTED' Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Where in the world is Federico? Teddy proving Stephen wrong (1) Teddy proving Stephen wrong (2) Teddy proving Stephen wrong (3) Teddy proving Stephen wrong (4) Michael proving Stephen wrong Apple Pay Adds 46 More Banks and Credit Unions in U.S. - Mac Rumors Whole-Ass One Thing — 512 Pixels Stephen's Pants Tweet Review: With OS X Yosemite, Aqua's all grown up — 512 Pixels NeXTstation N1100 - Computing History Stephen's Desk Review: Three Months of Apple Watch — 512 Pixels Due: The Superfast Reminder App for iPhone & iPad Spark by Readdle Flexibits | Fantastical 2 for iPhone | The fast and friendly calendar and reminder app. On Apple Watch faces — 512 Pixels Apple in talks to launch an MVNO in the US and Europe - Business Insider Latest On Apple's Phone: Cingular Out, MVNO In? - Mac Rumors Apple MVNO Patent Reveals Abandoned Possibility - Mac Rumors Apple denies reports, says its not planning to become a carrier with MVNO service | 9to5Mac Project Fi The Johnson & Johnson Official 7 Minute Workout App on the App Store on iTunes Cloak VPN - Cloak - Super-simple VPN

On the golden anniversary of Connected, the crew sits down to talk about Apple Pay in the UK, Apple News and RSS before sharing a little about how they write articles and prepare for podcasts. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Todoist: The task management app that's with you everywhere. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code 'CONNECTED' to get 15% off Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Robot or Not? | Roomba (Episode 8) B-Sides #12: Jason & Stephen Talk Space - Relay FM HiRise for iPhone & iPad - Twelve South Teddy's tweet about iCloud versioning OS X Yosemite: Restore items backed up with Time Machine OS X Yosemite: View and restore past versions of documents Marcella Royal Hotel Rome :: Official Web Site Why I Left iCloud Reminders for Todoist – MacStories DO Note - IFTTT Apple Pay participating banks - Apple Support Search Apple's Support site with Alfred — 512 Pixels Apple News Feedbin Unread – An RSS Reader NewsBlur Signal-to-noise ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia iThoughts Stephen's Articles at iMore Mactracker Low End Mac: Make the most of your Apple gear Instapaper Byword • Simple and efficient text editor for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Editorial for iOS Call Recorder for Skype - Ecamm Network Drafts | Agile Tortoise

This week, the Connected gang talk about the iOS 9 beta, new iPods and what the future may hold for the iPad. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Backblaze: Online backup made easy, for just $5/month. TextExpander 5, from Smile: Type more with less effort. Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it - The Loop Matt's iCloud Backup System Michael Tsai - How iCloud Drive Deletes Your Files Without Warning Six Colors: Recovering deleted iCloud Drive files Apple Prevents App Store Reviews From Users on iOS 9 Betas – MacStories Apple updates iPod line — 512 Pixels Stephen's new Shuffle JayBird BlueBuds X Sport Bluetooth Headphones - Midnight Black Wireless Earbuds | Powerbeats2 Wireless | Beats by Dre Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days? — BirchTree Daring Fireball: The New iPod Nano The 5 biggest takeaways of Apple's Q3 2015 quarterly earnings | Macworld Apple Q3 2015 Results: $49.6 Billion Revenue, 47.5 Million iPhones, 10.9 Million iPads Sold – MacStories Apple Q3 2015: Tim Cook on iPad – MacStories The push and pull of iPad — 512 Pixels

This week, Stephen and Myke discuss Apple Pay coming to the U.K., NASA’s imagery of Pluto and Twitter’s iOS apps before Myke quizzes Stephen about his backup strategy. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code CONNECTED for $5 off your first purchase Squarespace: Build it Beautiful. Use code WORLD for 10% off Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Beats 1 Schedule Calendar – MacStories Benji's Tweet to Myke Apple Pay goes live in the UK: Here's how to use it - Engadget Apple Pay Launches Today in the UK – MacStories Tim Cook Apple Pay Tweet NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter | NASA Pluto on Pluto NASA Deep Space Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia We're scientists on the NASA New Horizons team, which is at Pluto. Ask us anything about the mission & Pluto! : IAmA Space and NASA News – Universe and Deep Space Information SpaceFlight Insider - For the inside line on Space Flight news NASA Twitter Adds iOS 8 Share Sheet Support to iPhone App – MacStories My backup strategy — 512 Pixels MacStories Weekly – MacStories SuperDuper!

This week, the guys talk about Stephen “going indie,” Apple Music, and Federico’s second Apple Watch. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code 'CONNECTED' to get 15% off Hover: Simplified Domain Management. Use code 'TELETEXT' for 10% off your first purchase. Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Tearaway (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elton John's Rocket Hour - July 6, 2015 You can now "Love" podcast episodes in iTunes : apple What Connected does to 'Love' Apple To Buy Swell For $30 Million, Per Report | TechCrunch I'm going independent — 512 Pixels Never trust a computer you can't lift! | TeespringStephen's T-shirt Campaign For You, perhaps, but not for me - All this

This week, the Connected crew is reunited to talk about Stephen’s trip to space, Federico’s iOS 9 review, and Apple Music. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it Beautiful. Use code WORLD for 10% off Tap Forms Organizer: An easy to use, yet very powerful database application for Mac, iOS and Apple Watch. Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Apple launches public beta program for would-be iOS testers - Engadget The sky calls to us — 512 Pixels SpaceX CRS-7 breaks up post-launch — 512 Pixels We — 512 Pixels SpaceX CRS-7 Launch | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Apple Music Schedule St. Vincent's Mixtape Delivery Service: June 30, 2015 - Apple Music Playlist Apple Music - History of Sound - YouTube Conscious Coupling: Indie and Hip Hop - Apple Music Playlist Major iTunes 12.2 bug is ruining music libraries - Mashable How to check if your Mac's songs are uploaded, matched, purchased, or Apple Music DRM-laden | iMore Material - Relay FM Please welcome 'Material', our new show about Android and Google — Relay FM

This week Federico and Myke are joined by David Smith to talk about how WWDC felt for developers, the effect of a public beta for iOS, reminders on iOS 9, and Taylor Swift. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Casper: Because everyone deserves a great night sleep. Get $50 off with the code 'CONNECTED' App Camp 4 Girls: Help support their Indiegogo Campaign for App Camp 3.0. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Guest Starring: David Smith Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership David Smith (@_DavidSmith) | Twitter david-smith.org Developing Perspective Collecting with Siri in OmniFocus 2 - Support - The Omni Group Amazon.com : Aukey Bluetooth 4.0 Wireless Pedometer++ on the App Store on iTunes watchOS 2 Overview – MacStories Apple Beta Software Program Taylor Swift Criticizes Apple Music for Lack of Artist Compensation in Free Trial Period – MacStories Apple Will Pay Rights Holders During Free Trial of Apple Music – MacStories

This week the Europeans are going it alone to talk about the new iOS Notes app, iOS 9 on the iPad, Editorial 1.2, and whether WatchKit should have existed. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. PDFpenPro 7, from Smile: The ultimate all-purpose PDF editor from Smile. Field Notes: Buy a year-long Colors subscription starting with the Workshop Companion, and use the code 'RELAY' and you’ll get 3 Carpenter Pencils and a 3-Pack of “Pitch Black” memo books free. Links and Show Notes: Support Connected with a Relay FM Membership Chris Evans to be new Top Gear presenter - BBC News Italy threatens to give Schengen visas to migrants as EU ministers meet | World news | The Guardian Josiah UpdatesStephen's family blog. CEO Change Brewing at Evernote — The Information Evernote Food | Evernote Introducing: Evernote Peek, The First iPad Smart Cover App - Evernote Blog Initial Thoughts on iOS 9’s iPad Multitasking: A Deep Transformation – MacStories ignore the code: Window Management and Apple Cortex - Relay FM watchOS 2 Overview – MacStories Editorial 1.2 Brings Powerful New Text Editing Features, More iOS Automation – MacStories Virtual - Relay FM Virtual #41: E3 2015: Microsoft and Sony - Relay FM