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Pre-show: John's vacation wrap-up
Chunnel
Auto Train
Follow-up:
John's Apple sticker on his Civic
Shallow water blackout
Thunder in Paradise
Dropbox alternatives
Synology Drive
Resilio
Growl
Port forwarding information
The Talk Show #258 with discussion about iClou...
336: Your Face Is Not Your Face
Pre-show: Nutrition is hard when you're in high school.
Top Four #19: Cereals From a Van
WSJ Grape-Nuts article
Follow-up:
iOS 13 optimized-battery-charging specifics
Apple TV remote's influence on product box size
Time Machine reliability when hosted on a NAS
RAID
"Dr...
335: Withhold the Fun
Relay FM 5th Anniversary Show
iOS 13 charging optimization
Follow-up:
APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images
Dave Nanian tweets: 1 2
SuperDuper
Fun Fact on the root group being named wheel
shall/should/may/can
iPhone SE & headphones
Powerbeats Pro...
334: Mechanical Disadvantage
Pre-show: Must vs. Shall
RFC 2119
FAA: What's the only word that means mandatory?
Follow-up:
John's cheese grater broke
Casey's shaming
OXO current model
John's model
Casey's pitched option
99% Invisible: Built on Sand
Deviation from the Ive design philosophy
Marco's ...
333: Pesky Human Issues
Follow-up:
Expansion Slot Utility
PCI Express
Jony Ive leaves Apple
Clockwise #301: My Vulcan Mind
Ben Thompson's piece
ATP #120: One Magical Wire
Wall Street Journal on Ive's Departure
Jony Ive's Christmas Tree
The Talk Show #256: 'A Bit Too Thin', with Special Gues...
332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt
Pre-show: Marco's new beach toy
Follow-up:
Ricky Mondello on Sign In with Apple
macOS app-removal bets: #287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich (Overcast timestamp link)
Marco's spirit walk
AirPods
{Fit in The case} Airpods Earpods Covers Compatible with airpods 2&1 An...
331: The Technical Burden of Users
Follow-up:
Mac Pro vent design
New Yorker article
Apple Reverses Course on MDM & Parental Control Apps
Apple tightens up rules for enterprise app certificates
iOS 13 Bluetooth permission dialogs
Marco's tweets 1 2 3
Benjamin Herrin's findings
application(_:didFin...
330: A Rotation You Can’t Complete
Pre-show: root's wheel group (more)
Marco comes to terms with Swift
John's preposterous Safari Extension
Follow-up:
ASCII art apps
Mac: Monodraw
Web: ASCII Flow
Blending stump is a lasso tool
"Sim" game series
Transport Tycoon
100 WWDC features that may have gone u...
329: Mac Pro Day
Our live show from WWDC 2019!
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328: The Pixel Stump
Follow-up:
Explaining Code using ASCII Art
iFixit's New MBP Teardown
Apple Watch Independence
_'s Watch Usage Chart
Apple Watch Designer Anna-Katrina Shedletsky
Decrypted: Conversation with Phillip Shoemaker
Previously about Shoemaker: Apple's App Store Director Sell...
327: Better Late Than Wrong
Follow-up:
"Interactive version control" comic
"Preview for video"
Videoloupe (via Matthew Schaffer)
LumaFX
Perfect Horizon (via Jan Östlund)
Telestream Switch+
Vignette (App Store Link)
Analog(ue) #157: I Just Want People to Like My Stuff
MacStories
Cult of Mac
9t...
326: Blow Your Redo Stack
Pre-show: Bug-out bags and disaster planning
Casey's Go Pack
Northeast blackout of 2003
Casey's fantasy generator
Follow-up:
THANK YOU for buying T-Shirts!
John's "Frame Game"
Apple's fix for the new ZombieLoad Intel CPU exploit
HeartBleed
Steve T-S on macOS 10.15 ...
325: Relive Your Calculator-Watch Dreams
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Follow-up:
MDM parental-control conspiracy theory
Jury-duty technology
iPod Nano 5th-gen had a video ca...
324: Automatic Kicking Machine
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Follow-up:
Australia Post's website link guidelines (via Robb McAlavey)
How could one leverage copyrig...
323: A Slightly Smaller Thumb
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Our thanks to The Iconfactory for helping us out with the T-Shirt designs this year.
Pre-show: Amazing refrigerator episode of Reconcilable Differences
ATP Store
Iconfactory Patreon
Iconfact...
322: Morale-Sucking Maple Syrup Fires
Pre-show: Casey and John file Overcast bugs
Follow-up:
More AirPower follow-up. (Really!)
Netflix, AirPlay, and screen rights
AirPlay quality loss
AirPod fidget spinner
Of course Katie Bouman should get the credit
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
Apple and ...
321: Dumbed Down, Locked Down, and Locked Out
Pre-show:
Casey's #snelltalk submission
John's appearance on Upgrade
Follow-up:
Last week's PowerByProxy-AirPower story is disputed
Game of Thrones and modern television
Apple News on John's Mac is still broken
Apple Cinema Display LED
Netflix No Longer Supports AirP...
320: Here Comes the Big But
Follow-up:
AirPods 2 hinge is different
iFixIt Teardown
People use GSuite! Dozens of us!
Workaround that uses Charles Proxy
Probably a Google issue?
AirPower cancelled
Studio Neat Material Dock
Google Stadia
Previously on ATP
OnLive
Playstation Now
GeForce Now
G...
319: We Should Probably Get to the Apple Event
ATP Live at WWDC 2019
Tickets are $29 and go on sale Friday, March 29
Hammer Theatre, Monday June 3, 6:00 PM
Follow-up:
"Pro" iPad Mini
Studio Neat Canopy
AMD vs. NVIDIA
iMacs with spinning disks
Marco and HDMI-CEC
Joe and Scott's tip
Ivan's tip
Joanna Stern on t...
318: Not a Casino I Want to Play In
Follow-up:
Hierarchy of Needs is satisfied... by a ThinkPad?
Searching for things in Settings.app
Nvidia and Apple
CUDA
Apple's wild and crazy week
Monday: New iPads!
iPad Mini!!!
iPad Air
Jessie Char's revised lineup
Tuesday: New iMacs!
Upgrade #237: New iMacs, ...
317: We’re Customers Too
- Our interview with Phil Schiller
- Live ATP "Save the Date": evening of June 3
- Apple and Spotify
-
#askatp:- Is Perl dead? (via Gustavo Poscidonio)
- Can using AirPods in loud environments cause hearing damage?
- Post-show: Casey's rejiggered priorities
- Analog(ue) #151: Super Simple? Thank You Very Much
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316: MacBook Hierarchy of Needs
Follow-up:
Two-hand Springboard rearrangement
Ask Tog
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
Finding 32-bit apps
Corning is working on flexible glass
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Thunderbolt 3 → USB4
Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass
Apple vs. NVIDIA
System Integrity Pro...
315: 1.0 Was Just Speed
Follow-up:
16" laptops
Bus-powered Thunderbolt 3 hubs
Elgato
CalDigit
Monoprice
StarTech (2 USB ports! But $183.)
USB 3.2 standard names
Foldable phones from Samsung and Huawei
Upgrade #234: The Ideological Folding Wars
Hypercritical #86: Naked Robotic Core
A giant...
314: Kernel Panic in the Night
- Follow-up:
- Hosting a podcast for free on Anchor or SoundCloud
- Contacts syncing limits
- Mojave stability
- Rumor explosion from Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman
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#askatp:- Could the next Apple TV be wireless? (via Ed Cormany)
- Is wireless CarPlay a deal-breaker? (via Eddie Lee)
- How is season 3 of The Grand Tour? (via Paul Walker (not that one))
- Post-show: Apple ID Management
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313: The Residue of Seven People
Pre-show:
Casey is surfing the 'net at lightning speeds
Marco's 👂🏻💦
Eustachian tube
Scott O'Reilly
Spider Strategies
The Dash
Apple's security bug bounties
Apple compensates FaceTime bug kid
Some information on Deirdre O'Brien
Ryan's tweet
Business Insider profil...
312: Fashion Phase
Pre-show: Marco's hideous audio code
Accelerate vDSP framework
Follow-up:
Google's enterprise certificate was revoked
Facebook's was reinstated
Apple apologizes for FaceTime bug and takes a field trip
John's "MagSafe" MacBook Air
Marco's USB-C light-up cable
Marco's iPa...
311: Mutually Assured Destruction
Follow-up:
👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻 screwed up "finsta"
Debate over the prevalence of the stage lighting problem
Silence of Siri and other IoT info
Wireless Accessory Config
Does anyone doubt that Facebook is straight garbage?
TechCrunch summary
ReCode recaps Apple's response
Confirmation ...
310: Apple Playstore
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Follow-up:
The Terminator saga continues
"Apple One" feedback
Instagram, friendstagrams, and spam accounts
Google+ Circles
John's Internet of Things
Smart Outlet²
Belk...
309: Do Not Expect Five Nines From My Plex
Pre-show: Affluent bezelles (Overcast: bezelle, correction)
Follow-up: Casey's WAF-F20 waffle maker 🤤
John's Terminator woes
Apple's universal subscription-management URL
Movies Anywhere
iPhone Smart Battery Cases
XS, XS Max, XR
iPhone X compatibility
Studio Neat Materi...
308: Left-Handed Streaming Service
Pre-show: What is a jam band, mannnnn?
Follow-up:
Unshaky
China is an equal-opportunity financial disappointment for everyone
iPhone quarterly growth
John's graph
Samsung warns of 30% dive also via Horace
China smartphone shipments down
LG sees 80% 4th quarter drop vi...