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Pre-show: Marco’s accident
DJI Mavic 2
Follow-up:
There are dozens of people who like compact Safari (via Anthony Lee)
Perhaps wonky Safari is a nod to an AR future? (via Dan Blondell)
Round Rects Are Everywhere!
Mac Safari’s tab-close UI (via Guy English)
Other...
439: Eventually Converge on Correctness
Pre-show:
Casey’s macOS Bug Report
Math Emporium
Power Mac G4 Cube
Crystal Garden
Follow-up:
New Safari tab interface in Monterey beta 3
Toppy Tabs
Ribbon
Word 6 Screenshot
Elective AppleCare+ Repairs
Photo Ingest
Photo Mechanic
Lightning to SD Card Camer...
438: Some Amount of Futzing
Pre-show: Case-Liss Casey Liss
ZZQ
Q Barbeque
Casey’s Shattered Windshield
John’s iPhone case
Follow-up:
HomeKit and Bonjour/zeroconf
Lutron Caseta
Matter
Thread
Quinn’s Video
HSTS and Safari (via Jakob)
DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption
Thoughts on Safari from S...
437: The Right Side of the Mouse Pad
Pre-show:
Nostalgia for compulsory technology
Toshiba e740
Microdrive
Volvo XC90
Being old in a college town
Top of the Stairs
Follow-up:
Safari reload update in Monterey beta 2
HTTP Strict Transport Security
hstspreload.org
Report for hypercritical.co
...
436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door
Pre-show:
FAA’s TRUST program
FAA Part 107
DJI Mini 2
Follow-up:
Safari page reloading
Pull-to-refresh
John’s extension
Finn Voorhees’ experiment
Safari on iOS 15 & Monterey automatically upgrades HTTP → HTTPS… kinda
iCloud Private Relay
Rauli Rikama’s obs...
435: A Strong Number Four
Pre-show:
Freaks and Geeks
Follow-up:
Universal Control & device arrangement (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
More from Viticci
Center Stage
Object Capture quality
Matt Waller’s Baby Yoda
Mikko Haapoja’s pineapple
macOS Monterey Live Text (OCR) works with capt...
434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles
- Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
- Post-show:
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Original Prince video
- What happened?
- Remastered version in which the outcome is more visible
- Todd Vaziri
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Original Prince video
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433: Before We Leave the Dump
Follow-up:
Casey’s HDMI HOMI Update
HDMI cable types
Wi-Fi 6
Back to Work
Thread
Dolby Vision and raised blacks (via Kai Kontio)
iMac Fans
Jonathan Dietz’s Apple Silicon cost-estimate spreadsheet
Apple Podcasts issues:
Broken show notes?
Apple Podcasts subscrip...
432: I Shouldn’t Need to Wiggle
Pre-show: Compacted sugar
Fun Dip
SweetTarts
Candy Cigarette
Big League Chew
Follow-up:
John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread
High resolution image
Chiplet
AMD Discussing X3d Die stacking
Keeping Up Moore’s Law with Chiplets
Chiplet vs. Monolithic
Some speculation about ...
431: City of Chips
ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Thank you, ATP Store purchasers!
Follow-up:
Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut)
NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h
Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo
CMHeadpho...
430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.
Pre-show:
⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Colonial Pipeline
How long does gas last?
Follow-up:
Overpriced AirTag mounts
AirTag Leather Key Ring
Ai...
429: Digital Speedo
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. (Don’t forget, members get 15% off!)
Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Follow-up:
Some notes about the ATP store
support@cottonbureau.com
Casey’s ...
428: A Series of Rectangles
THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.
Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Apple TV
...
427: The Apology Remote
Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Apple Card Family
Apple Podcasts App Updates & Subscriptions
RSS Feed Access
Podcast Index
Robot or Not #141: Podcasting
User-Agent string
ALAC
AirTag...
426: Loaded Baked Potato
Pre-show:
[Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Thanks, Paul
Follow-up:
Smart outlet update
Reconcilable Differences
For eero:
Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connec...
425: Hey Billionaire
Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Fork Hands
FU: Why two doses?
Reverse Engineering the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Follow-up:
How is John replacing a router with a switch?
Ubiquiti Flex Mini
Handoff vs. AirPlay 2
Zach’s point ...
424: Ethernet Squid
Pre-show:
Read-only Tweetbot
WatchConnectivity
applicationContext
userInfo
messages
Follow-up:
[More] Tesla wheels of shame
Belvedere, CA via Alistair Logie
AirPods Max warranty repairs (via Harrison Krebs)
WWDC 2021 Announced
NSRunningApplication Ra...
423: Fort of HomePods
What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
LivePhish
Do By Friday #232: Panatee
Reconcilable Differences #152: Warnings of Gales in Trafalgar
Follow-up:
Tesla Wheel of Shame
Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet)
DC (via TG Cid)
Houston (via Aaron Farnham)
App Store ...
422: Sell a Third Box
Neutral:
The Wheel(s) of Shame™
ProClip USA MagSafe holder
Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mach-E
Tesla Model Y
Ford Mach-E
Follow-up:
Clubhouse no longer requires contacts access
Apple/ARM/TSMC
Long writeup (via Marc Kagan)
Fabricators
RISC vs. CISC
Family photo sharing ...
421: The First Miniboss
Pre-show: Marco is happy, though he shouldn’t be. ☯️
The iMac Pro is retired
Gruber’s post
Follow-up:
One reason to choose Audi
Kiss Guy is real!
Interview
Swift “header” views (via Ben Packard)
⌃⌘↑ and ⌃⌘↓ or Navigate → Jump to Next/Previous Counterpart
...
420: I Have No Urge to Speak
Follow-up:
VPNs and Supervised devices
Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres)
Skydio’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance
The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon
More on Clubhouse
Chat room
Gui Rambo’s investigations 🧵
“Ephemeral” C...
419: This Week’s Gasp
Pre-show diversions:
Posting the bootleg
Casey’s [hopefully useLiss] worries
Marco’s ball situation
Sonos Move
Casey’s Compulsory Icebreaker
Requisite link
Follow-up:
Jef e’s doubts about SMART tools
Contacts API updates
Better Trust Through Better Privacy...
418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call
Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse! (That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed.)
Chatroulette
Party line
Newton’s cradle
Should Apple remove the Contacts framework?
Follow-up:
Living outside the east coast… or America.
The UK explained
The Concert for Charlottesville was ...
417: Sand and Water Interface
Pre-show:
RIP, Call Recorder
On re-installing or transferring macOS
Launch Control
launchd
Pixelmator Pro
If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move?
Follow-up:
DTKs are worth more now!
iOS 14.5 Watch unlock
Trying to ls ~/.Trash (via Mike Vosse...
416: I Will Take Away Those Kudos
Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities
Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience
Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience
Follow-up:
Tesla
M...
415: Sent Without Pants
Follow-up:
Marco’s new computer (This is not a joke. —Ed)
T568A vs. T568B myths busted
Reminiscing about the PowerBook G4’s ethernet port (via Travis Pouarz)
The 30” Apple Cinema Display and print design (via Ted Barnes)
Audio accommodations (via Christpher Klein)
M...
414: Promoted Onto the Roof
Pre-show: John’s pecking order
Follow-up:
Curved screens to solve off-axis viewing (via Nathaniel Cohen)
AirPods Max headband removal
Quinn’s video
Blind men and an elephant
Waterfield Designs AirPods Max Case
Brighter whites
OxiClean
/System/Applications/Utiliti...
413: Suddenly I’m the Marco
Follow-up: Casey makes John reminisce about Atlanta[’s food]
Waffle House
Taco Bell
CocoaLove
Steak ‘n Shake
Denny’s
Perkins
Follow-up:
“Is it bigger than a breadbox?”
The Feedback app will automatically run a sysdiagnose
John’s bug (as mentioned on Twitter): FB871...
412: Love Batteries
Follow-up:
Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accommodations → Audiogram
Example app from
Maciej
Big Sur Update
Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge
How to do a SMC reset
Apple T2
Brid...
411: Are My Instructions Not Clear?
Follow-up:
Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
sysdiagnose
Settings → Privacy → Analytics & Improvements → Analytics Data
More on Fitness+
HDR photos
Settings → Photos → View Full HDR
Screen brightness
i...