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Happy new year!
John reviews the Tesla Model 3
John reviews Casey's Volvo XC90
John reviews Casey's iPad Pro
Casey's sticker situation
Casey reviews his Apple Pencil
SketchParty TV
Marco reviews Linea
Linea blog post
Screen protector update
Apple's financial news
...
306: My Watch Has Ended
Follow-up:
Casey gets medium very upset about Medium
Did Google really cripple Edge's YouTube performance?
John's 2018 Butterfly Keyboard Watch
Paul and Storm tweet
Clean your Mac at a 75º angle
Marco's fingerprinty iPad solution
Paperlike
John's LEGO and the instruct...
305: An Uneasy Peace
Follow-up:
Tesla update
Wired article
Why DSLRs and mirrorless cameras have a 30-minute video limit
GarageBand as an example of why not to use Dropbox for everything
Bundle
Shortcuts JS
Behind the scenes
Examples
CAML
Apple Music sunsets Connect
Microsoft Edge is...
304: Island of Shortcuts
Marco's lost video
Casey reviews a product that Marco loves
Patagonia Micro-Puff Hoody
Accidental Trunk Podcast
An update on Marco's Tesla problems
What is the mystery box in the trunk?
i3 frunk is not weather-sealed
Casey's superior cars
Porsche Panamera
Audi A7
BMW 3-...
303: Your Mahogany World
Follow-up:
Another iSH and youtube-dl update
Unknown encoder 'copy'
Github issue
Maybe 8K is all about @3x?
PenTile
More theories on Apple price increases
Comparing modern devices against their premiere versions
What about tariffs? (via Andy Hansen)
Is Apple's prio...
302: Paint This Square
Follow-up:
Another iSH and youtube-dl update
Google Photos
Disk images and filesystems — oh my!
Tips for transitioning careers for employees and hiring managers
Fizz Buzz Test
What happened to 5K displays?
LG Ultrafine Display
Planar IX2790
Dell UP2715K
Bjango/Marc Ed...
301: I Cut Them Up in the Air
Essential's "audiophile" headphone-bump dongle
Follow-up: Total ATP length so far
The Surface Go is more interesting than we thought
An update on youtube-dl and iSH
Google Photos has let Casey down
#askatp
How would we quarterback a x86 → ARM transition? (via Cameron Ke...
300: First of All, It’s Easy
🎉 300th Episode Spectacular! 🎉
ATP #96: The Windows of Siracusa County
ATP #225: A Conversation with Siri
Hypercritical #15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
Follow-up:
Retina MacBook Air battery replacements are easier
iFixIt
Command Strips
command.com
Control Strip
Mac...
299: Headphone Bump
- The ATP Store is back!! Place your orders until 15 November!
- Follow-up:
- The Good News Podcast #201 with Jeremy Burge
- iPad Pro and Apple Pencil compatibility
- Some Macs' microphones are disconnected by hardware
- Our website is now dark-mode enabled! Thanks, Spencer Wohlers!
- iPad Pro impressions
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#askatp- How has being a programmer changed our world view? (via Jonathan Bowling)
- Why do high-end iOS devices need so much less RAM than Macs? (via Benedikt Beckmann)
- Post-show: More iPad thoughts & John's homework laptop
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298: Protective Sandwich
- ATP T-shirts and pins are back!
- Apple October 2018 event
- Post-show: Hobnobbing with the Apple executives
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297: It Also Deserves to Die
Instagram stories and the dynamimcs of retweets
Independence #37: Evolution of an App
Follow-up:
Marco's lookahead limiter
iOS and memory swapping
Wear leveling
John's last Apple Photos book
The iPhone XR
The Stalman Podcast #36: "Just" Creators and Hands-On with the...
296: Giant Buffers of Floats
Pre-show: Marco's look-ahead limiter
Accelerate framework
objc_msgSend()
Let's build objc_msgSend
Apple fixes bagel emoji
Follow-up:
Screen Time issues abound
Emergency bypass
Casey's blog post
Apple iCloud contacts sync limits
Apple printer compatibility list
Palm...
295: Outlets That Suck
Watch pontification
Panerai watches
Trading in with Apple GiveBack
Follow-up:
ARMv8.3 improves JavaScript benchmarks
Minecraft left Apple TV
Screen Time
Quitter
iCloud Family accounts
Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie
Intercom systems and central vacuums
Bloomberg's ...
294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever
The abomination that is Apple's take on the bagel emoji
Apple PR post
iOS 12.1 wrap-up
Lender's bagels
iPhone 🎾 charging times
Follow-up:
The A12 has a lot of cache (via Henrik Wannheden)
Chris Lattner weighs in on 64-bit watches and excuses
Apple Watch fall detection is...
293: You Know My Pouches
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
Apple Watch making-of fire/water faces video
Apple Watch 64-bit compilation magic
Steve Troughton-Smith
Chris Lattner interview
iPhone 🎾 is fast
The iPhone 🎾 camera is good
Our Marco & J...
292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer
Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
Ben Bajarin on A-fib detection
Dead man's switch
50% faster tessellation... maybe?
Works on contingency. No money down.
Underplayed improvements to iPhone XR/XS camera and Watch Series 4
Gr...
291: John’s Special Day
- Follow-up:
- Nokia phone with five cameras
- Phil: "muhmoji"
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Apple's September Event
- Leaked names
- Tim's tweet
- Apple Watch
- iPhone XS, XS Max, XR
- AirPower?
- HomePod & tvOS
- Post-show: John's special day
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290: A Weird Sandwich
- Follow-up:
- AirPrint on old printers
- Eero competitors and privacy
- iPhone preorder PSA
- iPhone "XS" marketing image found
- Apple Watch "Series 4" marketing image found
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#askatp:- Getting started with backups (via JD Lewin)
- Pre-ordering an unlocked iPhone (via the very handsome Stephen Kim)
- What's the "cheapest" Apple product?
- Post-show Neutral: Casey's walk of shame... but also pride.
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289: Everybody’s in the Alliance
Follow-up:
MoCA and MoCA Bridge
Hades Canyon NUCs
Engadget Video Review
Snell's NUC article
Anandtech
The AirPort Express lives!
Snell's iPod Hi-Fi
Sonos Connect
The End of AirPort
DD-WRT
Tomato
WRT54G
Phil Schiller flies
Panzer's tweet
iPhone mockups preview
...
288: Rich Person’s Raspberry Pi
- Follow-up:
- Photo books → PDF (
File→Export→Export Book as PDF→ ☑️Production PDF) - Active vs. Passive Thunderbolt 3 cables
- Graphing Calculator vs. Grapher
- Photo books → PDF (
- Low-end Mac rumors
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#askatp:- Long-distance Wi-Fi
- OLED TVs
-
Jaguar i-Pace (via Wayne Robinson)
- Top Gear's overview
- Porsche Taycan
- Small electric cars:
- Post-show: John's 🐝
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287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich
Follow-up:
Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel
Finding the settings
Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button
Backblaze
Data retention
Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter
Dock auto-hide delay
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modi...
286: I Respect a Good Crust
Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation
John's seemingly impossible picture
Follow-up:
CrashPlan, John, and Java
java mx
java mx {newNumber}m
SpiderOak
BackBlaze
BackBlaze B2
Arq
John's Photo books
DiskInventoryX
DaisyDisk
Photo printer's extension
AMD and TSMC and 7nm
D...
285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House
Follow-up:
The law is complicated
Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year
On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel?
RISC-V
Die
What happened to Apple's whimsy?
Michael Tsai's summary
Marco's comment
#askatp:
Overflowing portable...
284: Hotel California Keyboard
Follow-up:
Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard
Membranes are for ingress prevention
More from MacRumors
"Subsequent remedial measures"
iFixit particle experiment
Intel giveth and Intel taketh away
The mythical USB-C hub
Sad recent history of Intel CPUs
Cor...
283: Just Lower Your Standards
Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
iJustine & MKBHD unbox a sealed, 18-year-old iBook G3
Casey Neistat and MKBHD review a Lamborghini
DeMuro's botched video
Follow-up:
Patenting the perpetual motion machine
Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard
"Beware ...
282: Not Unreliable Enough
Follow-up:
Distributing Marzipan Apps
Siri is multilingual... until it isn't.
Window air-conditioner hacks
New MacBook Pros
The Verge's review
iFixIt reveals key-protecting membranes
Apple's Patent
Keyboard Service Program
Apple T2
Apple A10
Geekbench
Marco's tweet...
281: My Private Siri
Home repairs: Window air conditioners
Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner
Computer repairs
Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe.
Local snapshots maybe?
Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's
Follow-up:
Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex
A A A A V...
280: Extinction-Level Event
Follow-up:
Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all
Adobe is rethinking things
Many people have written their own de-dupe apps
One example of many
The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over
A a a a a Very Good Song
...
279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing
Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops
International cellular-data options
AT&T International Day Pass
Verizon TravelPass
Follow-up:
Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning
cp -c
Notarized apps and signing
Marco's 🏖️ setup
Carrying case
John's rel...
278: Best Worst Influence
Follow-up:
WWDC Intro Video
It was Stephen Fry channeling David Attenborough
A perspective from Jen Simmons
Feminist Frequency
It's Road Trip!
RIP, other chat networks in Messages.app (via Sam Gross)
APFS snapshotting and iOS Simulator parallel testing (via Renaud Le...