Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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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...
240: Undefined Wait Period
Stephen Hackett's St. Jude's Fundraiser
Follow up:
iPhone X screen size
John Siracusa, Dongletown, USA
Bigger OWC dock
John's forthcoming OWC dock
Elgato dock
Window management
Apple Watch LTE pricing: Data is substitutive, not additive (via Oliver Thomas)
More on Apple...
239: Set This Money on Fire
Apple Special Event, September 2017
Dan Frommer's photo essay
Today at Apple
Apple Watch intro video
Featuring Kyles the Gray!
Louis CK: Everything is Amazing & Nobody is Happy
Overcast and Apple Watch offline playback
Watch Dots
Qi charging standard
ATP #172: iPhon...
238: Begging for the Hub
Follow-Up:
Isn't iCloud close to full-machine backup?
Do you really need to spend $1000 on a camera?
Printing photos
Photo resolution
#askatp
iPhone-buying strategies
Casey's lessons learned
Is 4K worth it?
Steve Yedlin on 4K
Viewing distance calculator
Why & h...
237: You Are Not a Datacenter
Follow-Up:
Marco's tukhus, sit bones, and cushioned saddles
Backing up /Applications
Casey's new-Mac strategy
CrashPlan native client may not be for small business
CrashPlan migrations over 5 TB
Arq and macOS metadata
Michael Tsai: What Backblaze Doesn't Back Up
Backb...
236: Irresponsible Use of Infinite Terabytes
- Pre-show:
- Follow-Up:
- iTunes U → Apple Podcasts
- Marco's hindquarters
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#askatp- OLED vs. LCD
- Mall of Marco
- Have we had RSI issues?
- Casey's Bad News
- CrashPlan sunsets consumer backups
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Marco's security adventures
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235: Notch-Savvy
Pre-show: Always on vacation in... New York?
Follow-Up:
Mighty, the Spotify "iPod Shuffle"
Audio bit depth
24/192 Music Downloads... and why they make no sense
Monty's explainer video
"iPhone Pro" notch
What happens in landscape?
Why bother with a notch?
Android notc...
234: Everybody Has Asterisks
- Toasters
- Cameras
- Ad Blockers
- A/V
- Brace styles
- Dolphin emulator behind the scenes
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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233: Nobody Cares But Me, But I Do Care
Follow-Up:
TSMC 10nm vs. Intel 10nm
Naming of process nodes
Intel's claimed three-year advantage
Intel set to lose process leadership after 2018?
Home audio & subwoofers
HiFiMan HE-6
Christmas Island crabs
Neutral Coast?
Isla
Pronunciation video
Woom
Derailleur ...
232: You’ve Exceeded Some Limit
- Send us questions! Tweet with the hashtag
#askatp! - The A10X is 10nm as per AnandTech
- Netflix credits skipping
- Community management
- Disney may have wanted to buy Twitter... a long time ago
- Player Unknown's Battlegrounds
- Odd Overcast crash
- Post-show: Mongoose Californian
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231: I Am Not a Salad Power User
Follow-up:
Calibrating a TV
Rtings TV Settings
Chopt or SaladWorks
Smart Signage
Samsung Frame TV
THX Tune-Up app
Lightning Digital AV Adapter
Panic's surprise
Sony / 7669
Marco's discontinued small speaker amp: NuForce Dia. Some alternatives Marco has considered (b...