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210: My Stupid Thumb

02:10:29
Pre-show: Noses, Sinuses, and Snot Do By Friday Follow up: Control Center and AirPods Stagehand Backwards Bike Online chat latency Booting macOS from case-insensitive APFS Recipe parts 1 & 2 Overcast 3 Under the Radar #68: Overcast 3 The Talk Show #182: AAA ...

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209: Making Sausage-Making Glamorous

02:06:55

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208: Your Face Is Your Face

02:02:11

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207: Selling Hot Dogs on a Stick

01:56:24

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206: All You Need Is Five Nerds

02:05:34
Pre-show: Casey needs his morning coffee Follow up: Consumer Reports does an about-face Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Apple Magic Keyboard WebKit's new Garbage Collector: Riptide APFS is in iOS 10.3 Developers will be able ...

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205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts

02:18:08

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204: You’re Only Stable When You’re Dead

01:57:06

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203: Screaming At Us From The Future

01:50:24
Naked robotic MacBook Pro core MacRumors post (Hands-on video from after we recorded that answers some of our questions) VGA passthrough coupler Powerbook G5 Faux Mockup On pros leaving the Mac Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings on CarPlay Mac users are grumpy Apple's 2016 Year in Review Chris Adamson buys a Mac Pro he didn't want Finding an Alternative to macOS John's tweet John's Google Home Dan Moren's early impressions Ending theme by Jonathan Mann Post-show: Marco goes for a drive Sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code ATP for $50 toward your mattress. Betterment: Investing made better.

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202: Something Has Gone Wrong

02:33:34

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201: Volume Micromanager

02:09:01

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200: I Had a Dream About the Mac Pro

02:04:51
Our 200th-episode spectacular! 🎉 Pre-show: PC 99 standard Holiday clip show: ATP 174: A Ding in the Room (Overcast) ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County (Overcast) Follow up: LG 4K HDR monitor Machining crankshafts Amazon Go AirPods are now for sale Casey's Afters...

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199: 10,000 Hours of Coughing

01:50:38

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198: Puppy Game Boy

01:58:20

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197: Life by a Thousand Hugs

02:10:18
John's Energy Star sticker "Trust, but verify" Hypercritical: Trust, but Verify Casey and John visit an Apple Store Stephen Hackett's keyboard sound comparison video Marco buys a thing gfxCardStatus iStat Menus Griffin BreakSafe Power Cable Designed by Apple in Californ...

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196: Roasting Your Own Beans

01:53:01

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195: The Show Must Go On

01:44:48
Follow up: Iris Pro and Skylake Touch Bar and touch sensitivity TouchBar app with iPad viewer Control Strip Marco's Mac Pro post Empathy for the Machine External monitors in Cupertino Dell 5K display DisplayPort and Thunderbolt capabilities MacBook Pro as the Naked...

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194: Dark Night of the Soul

02:09:52

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193: The Escape Zone

02:41:27

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192: Hello Again Again

01:41:56

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191: The Failure Mode of a Train

02:18:08
Dealing with DNS trouble Hover outage DDoS Follow-up: Steve Troughton-Smith poll on iCloud files Casey's headphones update Motorola S305 Plantronics Backbeat Fit Kinivo BTH260 LG Tone Pro HBS-750 Aftershokz Trekz Titanium Jaybird X2 Greg Koenig on the ceramic iPhone A...

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190: The Girl Who Never Came Over

01:48:26

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189: The Museum of Pristine Apple Hardware

01:52:53
Follow-up: OWC iMac RAM update Headphone jack remote issue: solved! Assistive Touch in East Asia iCloud backups on iOS 10 now include passwords? Bluetooth and volume control (PDF) AVRCP Why are there three audio chips in the iPhone 7? (You won't believe what we found!...

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188: $850 Fidget Cube

01:49:39
Follow-up: "Far East" → "East Asia" The Casey/John Bet Luke Brewster Henrik Cednert Assistive Touch and East Asia Scott O'Reilly discovers a Lightning → Headphone adapter quirk Demonstration video Fix is forthcoming There is a DAC in the headphone adapter Three ampl...

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187: Putting Plastic on Your Couches

01:59:02
Home button habits New iOS 10 home button behavior Settings → General → Accessibility → Home Button Widespread home-button conservation The iPhone 7 Smart Battery Case is larger than the 6's Apple iPhone 7 Leather Case's side buttons Are the Lightning EarPods digita...

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186: Jony Ive Has a Lot of White Pants

03:14:07
Apple's September 2016 Event Tim Cook & James Corden do Carpool Karaoke Pharrell Williams WWDC 2015 intro Design video iWork Updates Mario Run (App Store Link) Shigeru Miyamoto Only one IAP Apple Watch Series 2 Series 1 Apple Watch Edition Interactive Gallery Cera...

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185: The Delaware of Europe

02:06:03
Pre-show: 🌊 The beach 🏖 Casey's Instant Canopy Marco's beach umbrella Ready Player One Fire Island Laptop sizes and relative weight savings (Marco's tweet) Casey's iMac RAM update Hello Internet's vinyl episode Apple 1984 commercial StuffIt Expander OS/2 Warp Windows ...

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184: Procedural Marriage Mistakes

01:47:59

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183: I Filed a Radar

01:28:53
QNX and generally crappy car computing hardware Audio sync, drift, and quartz crystals Marco files a Radar MLLT Audiocogs CORS Libsyn's podcast with global stats ATP's audience podcast-app stats from a recent episode John and Wi-Fi calling (Settings → Phone → Wi-Fi ...

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182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today

01:58:36
John's camera hunt continues The tradeoffs of zoom lenses Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm lens Sony RX10 III superzoom that John probably should get, but won't Fuji X-T2 Sony A7R II, Marco's camera iFixit teardown Sony A7 II, the cheaper, older one Differences between A7 ...

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181: Eat Your Vegetables

01:38:31
John rents a camera for his Long Island vacation Lens Rentals Sony α7R II John's rentals Sony Alpha α6300 (at LensRentals) Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS Sony E 18-105mm f/4 G PZ OSS Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS Sony RX10 Casey's setup ATP: The Fully Verified Podcast™ Tempor...