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Backpacks:
Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
Tom Bihn Synapse 25
Chase Reeves on YouTube and on the web
Tom Bihn Cache
Tom Bihn Cadet & Casey's review
HomePod sales look bad
CloudFlare goes ARM
When was Apple's heyday?
The best laptop ever made
Top Four
Robot or N...
269: Cooled by Jellyfish
Follow-up:
iPhone throttling notification
macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings
Learn More...
ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding)
Casey's bloody car rags are called "hucks" and are available on Amazon
Lyft subscriptions? (via Zac Bir)
San Jose isn't as small as your hosts think...
268: A Tarnished Brass Age
- Follow-up:
- HAM radio and GMRS licenses
- New iOS onboarding screens are indeed about GDPR
- Education feedback
- Pulsating help prompts
- iCloud's free storage
- Classroom for Mac: What does it mean?
- Inductive charging is great. Who knew‽
- Apple to use its own CPUs in Macs?
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#askatp- Lyft at WWDC? (via ohples)
- Should we use the new CloudFlare DNS? (via Bart Hoefs)
- External GPUs for John? (via Josh Rapoport)
- Post-show Neutral:
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267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals
Pre-show: Marco's road trip
Sudden Coffee
Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit
Follow-up:
Breath of the Wild and the Wii U
Space Gray accessories are available to everyone
Keyboard
Mouse
Trackpad
ATP Live at WWDC
Walkie talkies for tandem road trips
Apple's ed...
266: Text Adventure Mode
Follow-up:
Compound commands in cylinders
You shut down your computer because of a problem...
GDPR
Personal data
PCI
HIPAA
This keyboard feels so real, mannnnnn...
Apple is developing its own display tech
MicroLED
Marco's image retention test
Hide in this closet!
Micr...
265: Simon Says Volume Five
Follow-up:
Onboarding and GDPR
GDPR for web developers
Slack 💔 IRC
Alexa can solicit follow-up
Siri drama at The Information
Daring Fireball writeup
Crumb-proof keyboards
MacBook Air refresh?
The Talk Show #219: Podcast Amnesia
MacBook fantasies
Casey's USB-C → SD...
264: Every Building Has Bugs
- Follow-up:
- Laptop arrow keys
- Erin and Alexa
- Onboard all the things
- Apple Park is hazardous
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#askatp- Automotive windowing strategies (via Vamsi)
- Slack on Mac vs. IRC (via Peter Gosling)
- The Halting Problem (via Juan Pablo Rodríguez)
- Post-show Neutral: What car would we pick for our other hosts?
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263: Old Potato
Follow-up:
John is on NoMAD
Active Directory
Jamf's blog post
Casey adopts a new child
Timber
Fireball
AnyList
Nexia
AOL Instant Messenger handles
ICQ
Vulkan is coming to macOS
More from AnandTech
Metal
Apple's dual-display patent
ATP #193: The Escape Zone
#...
262: A Clear Path to Okayness
Casey's new career of missing obvious programming solutions
Analog(ue) #126: I Love You So Much; This is Infuriating
GIFwrapped
Slopes
Siri all up in Daniel Jalkut's business
Sonos and wood
Who has a HomePod?
Echo Spot
Google Home Mini
Doubting Apple
"No wireless. Le...
261: Seven-Dollar Plastic Garbage
- Pre-show: Shake Shack, Five Guys, and Cookout
- Follow-up:
- HomePods put a ring on it
- Waze
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#askatp- Are advanced safety features in cars comparable across marques?
- What's the deal with Leica cameras?
- Post-show: Parenting
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260: The Todoyist Problem
Follow-up:
Is throttling old phones really better?
Does anyone other than tech bloggers give a 💩 about smart speakers?
Raspberri Pi music player update
Plastic Player
Mini NES Console
Apple's emoji is theirs and you can't have it.
Connected #179: The Tiny Head Pandemic
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259: I Hired Myself
Who ordered a HomePod?
Query #23: Hands-on with the HomePod
iPod Hi-Fi
iMore HomePod FAQ
Casey orders an Ethernet adapter
USB-C Ethernet Adapter
USB-C HDMI Dongle
Amazon Locker
Forthcoming replacement
Casey's Mac "app"
Casey's photo management workflow
Dr. Drang's photo...
258: Non-Beta Data
- Follow up: Battery replacement reticence
- iOS 11.3 battery health messaging
- macOS Spectre and Meltdown fixes go back to El Capitan
- HomePod preorders and ship date announced
- iOS 11.3 preview
- tvOS 11.3
- macOS 10.13.4 and the end of 32-bit
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#askatp- Unifying 3D Touch and long presses (via Todd Vaziri)
- What is AirPlay 2? (via Alex)
- John's spines (via Andrew Lymn-Penning)
- Post-show: BMW are money-grubbing jerks
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257: Smell the Wind
- Casey and Erin had a baby!
- Casey's photo management workflow
- Follow-up: Europe's black Mac
- PCalc About screen, revver of fans
- ARM Windows PCs
- Windows 10 Sets
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#askatp- Non-Pro iMac upgrade cadence (via Erik Berlin)
- John's 🧀 grater (via Andy Hume)
- Messages in iCloud (via Kurt)
- Post-show: A gift for Casey
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256: A Heroic Threshold for Pain
Apple's Meltdown/Spectre statement
How it affects WebKit
Raspberry Pi's writeup
Measuring performance ∆
iMac Pro peripherals on eBay
Full set: $1080
Trackpad: $310+
Magic Mouse: $295+
Macintosh TV
Follow-up: Arctic Silver
Follow-up: Battery replacements and solving cu...
255: The Thermal Paste Lottery
Apple's battery slowdown PR
Accelerated rollout
The Talk Show #210: Australian Battery Scam
Phone throttling isn't always the issue
iMac Pro thermal throttling
Marco's iMac Pro
Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard
Intel CPU exploit
Speculative execution
Exploits seem to have mar...
254: Hot Box With Knobs
Follow up:
Secure Boot KBase Article
Cabel's screenshot
Women car journalists
From last week: Cars from a Woman's Perspective
#askatp
Attention detection and Apple Watch (via Scott Lougheed)
RAID and SSDs and Thunderbolt (via Max Velasco Knott)
Tiff's OWC Thunde...
253: I Think I Ordered One
Follow up:
Jeep Wranglers
iMac Pro RAM upgrades
iMac Pro input devices
Mac Pro will be "upgradeable"
iMac Pro orders
#askatp
Entry-level open-backed headphones (via JD Lewin)
Schiit Fulla 2
Grado SR60e: $80, but uncomfortable
Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro: $225, for treble ...
252: Any Day Could Be Mac Pro Day
- Pre-show Neutral: Casey has car problems
- Follow up: Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad is apparently bendy
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#askatp- Holiday gift ideas
- Code nostalgia
- A not-so-brief interlude about Overcast and feed redirects
sudo
- John's black screen of death
- iMac Pro
- Post-show: More iMac Pro
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251: Uninstall Your Water Reminder App!
Casey argues for day/month/year instead of year/month/day (ISO 8601)
Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperature
Follow up:
Root bug post was in the dev forums, not the support forums.
Reporting to product-security@apple.com
XProtect and Xplorer
Shell script
iOS keyb...
250: We’re Doing a Show
Keyboard imprints on laptop screens
Butterfly keyboard
Video of Casey's old ThinkPad 701
Steganography
Marco is no longer case-liss
Jamie Clawson leather skins
Apple Leather Case
dbrand skins
Follow-up: Fingerprint gloves 1 2
Thanksgiving follow-up: What about the Nint...
249: Beehives Full of Bees
Follow up:
iPhone X multitasking gesture
Requesting refunds on AppleCare (via John Himm)
Fake fingerprint stickers
iCloud restores during iPhone X setup
HomePod gets delayed
Upgrade #168: Hail Hydrant
Welcome to Macintosh #14: Hey Siri
Regarding conspiracy theories (#...
248: Chili Cookoff
Follow up:
Tradespeople and Face ID
Multitasking gesture wonkiness on the home screen
"I got this phone for $50 and it's fine"
Pro-rated AppleCare+
MacBook key repairs
OLED and burn-in
Kbase article (👋🏻, Stephen)
iOS' commentary
iPhone X camera
Joe Rosensteel has thou...
247: A Place to Stick Your Gum
- Follow up:
- Apple TV 11.2ß makes John happy
- Time Machine local snapshots
- App Camp for Girls fundraiser
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#askatp- iPhone X cases (via Nathan Walls)
- Apple Leather Case (Casey bought black)
- Impact of Siri's ineptitude (via Kapila Wimalaratne)
- Sony A7R III (via Ananda)
- iPhone X cases (via Nathan Walls)
- iPhone X: The ATP Review
- Post-show: Casey's odd in-flight activities
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246: I Just Want My Stories
Follow up: F1 flappy paddles
iPhone X preorder results
Recent performance of the rumor mill
Marco's iMac returns
MacBook Pro keyboard repair cost
Apple TV output formats
New "WWDC" video
New Apple TV beta
The Verge's take
#askatp
Mac antivirus software?
Would we use App...
245: Senior-Citizen Advantage
- Follow up: The right to chair arms
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#askatp-
Bitcoin
- The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin
- iPhone SE... X?
- How to catch Phish
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Bitcoin
- It's preorder time
- What are the iPhone X's biggest risks?
- The Mac Mini is... still a thing?
- Post-show: Casey's still a car journalist
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244: The Mac Renaissance
Pre-show: ATP 243 notes
Follow up:
Sky platform exclusivity
John's chair
Torx
John's alternative chair
Apple Express Replacement Service
Example image
Apple Watch and proxied notifications
Due weighs in
#askatp
Running Plex with no logged-in user
Strong-ARMed ...
243: Knew About the Dollar Signs
Pre-show: macOS upgrades vs. clean installs
Follow up:
Google Pixel preorders (via Hannes Hauer)
Google customer service strategy
Casey has received his first AT&T bill with his Apple Watch
Sonos and Google sitting in a tree...
Anker and Amazon are K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Speake...
242: These Arms Are Coming Off
- Pre-show:
- iPhone X
- New Google Pixels
- Follow up: John received his Apple TV 4K
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#askatp- iOS error-logging frameworks
- Qi chargers
- Mike Bolton proposes a typing challenge
- New Amazon Echo announcements
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: John buys a chair
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241: Jazzercise Boot Camp
Pre-show: Jazzercise 1982 video compilation
Follow up:
St. Jude Fundraiser Update
Apple TV 4K has a fan 😭
Teardown
Downloading 4K iTunes movies
Boot Camp and cheesy Apple videos
Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings clarifies TLX DCT
#askatp
Being good beta citizens a...