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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 ...
209: Making Sausage-Making Glamorous
- AirPods, a couple of months in
- Follow up:
- Chromebooks vs. ARM Macs
- Case sensitive HFS+
- Twitterrific for the Mac
- Planet of the Apps
- Caavo
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
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208: Your Face Is Your Face
- Follow up:
- What could ARM coprocessors in Macs do?
- Windows Hello face recognition
- More on iPads vs. Macs
- Crazy locked-down ARM-Mac rumor
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Casey learns the fine art of waffling
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207: Selling Hot Dogs on a Stick
- iPhone 7 long-term review, waffling about sizes
- Marco's review of spam-call blockers
- Nomorobo, the one you should get
- Follow up: Casey is un-American
- Upgrading your iOS device from HFS+ to APFS
- Apple earnings results
- What's up with iPad sales?
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: ARM chip doing more in future MacBooks
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206: All You Need Is Five Nerds
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 ...
205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts
- Follow up: MacRumors talks with Lattner
- LLVM
- Clang
- OpenGL
- Swift
- ARC
- Swift Open Source
- Casey's love letter to Swift
enums - Swift Evolution "Commonly Rejected Changes" list
- asm.js, WebAssembly & TypeScript
- RxSwift
- Garbage collection vs. ARC
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show Neutral
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204: You’re Only Stable When You’re Dead
- Follow up: Marco and AirDrop
- Mac Progress Quandary 1 2 3
- Consumer Reports test results
- Chris Lattner leaves Apple for Tesla
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Blog CMS languages
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203: Screaming At Us From The Future
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
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202: Something Has Gone Wrong
- Pre-show: Back Channel
- Follow up: Ryan Jones on the AirPods charging port
- Gurman on Mac Malaise
- Q&A
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201: Volume Micromanager
- Windows and Tabs of Siracusa County (Overcast)
- Follow up:
- Android Battery burn-down chart
- Our reviews of Super Mario Run launches
- Updated numbers
- Angry reviewers
- Apple extends accessory discount
- Our reviews of AirPods
- Tim Cook's comment on Mac desktops
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
- Marco discovers gasoline
- A new member of the Siracusa family
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200: I Had a Dream About the Mac Pro
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...
199: 10,000 Hours of Coughing
- Coughing and machining
- Follow-up: The future of the Nintendo 3DS
- John's Keychain woes
- John's headphone woes
- Amazon Go
-
Windows on ARM
- Upgrade #118: Missed That by 100% (Relevant section Overcast link)
- Apple's Machine Learning
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Not complaining about the Apple TV
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198: Puppy Game Boy
- Casey learns Scala and Akka
- Shouty Visual Studio
- Programming language genealogy
- Follow up:
- John's EarPods
-
The Grand Tour downloads
- Episode 2 mini-review
- Netflix allowing downloads
- New MacBook Pro power bricks
- People love Apple's Wi-Fi routers
- Nintendo Switch
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Marco posts to YouTube
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197: Life by a Thousand Hugs
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...
196: Roasting Your Own Beans
- John's 4K display
- Invisibly wide colors
- Follow-up on Windows: Jordan's tweets 1 2 3 4 5
- Marco and laptops
- Apple's new art book, Designed by Apple in California
- Humanity and whimsy
- Microsoft Surface Studio
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Sal Soghoian leaves Apple
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195: The Show Must Go On
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...
194: Dark Night of the Soul
- Baseball
- "MacBook Escape"
- Millenials
- External Thunderbolt GPUs
- Is Apple out of the standalone display business?
- Pushback on new MacBook Pros
- Mac startup chime is dead
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: A silver lining for Macs?
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193: The Escape Zone
- October 27th Apple Event
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
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192: Hello Again Again
- Follow-up on camera dust: Tips from the Top Floor #748: Bust the Dust (Overcast link)
- October 27th Apple Event
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
- Marco's camera may affect his laptop choices
- Prompt
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191: The Failure Mode of a Train
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
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190: The Girl Who Never Came Over
- Follow-up:
- Casey and John's bet
- Compu-blur and Stephen Hackett's brother
- Ceramic iPhone 8??
- Interchangeable-lens camera contamination
- Which Bluetooth headphones to buy?
- Google Pixel phones
- Home automation hubs
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Workplace computer-hardware woes
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189: The Museum of Pristine Apple Hardware
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!...
188: $850 Fidget Cube
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...
187: Putting Plastic on Your Couches
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...
186: Jony Ive Has a Lot of White Pants
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...
185: The Delaware of Europe
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 ...
184: Procedural Marriage Mistakes
- Twitter quality filter for everyone
- John buys a camera
- Tiff tries to play Inside using Boot Camp
- Ridiculous habits of the youths of Britain
- iPhone 7 rumors
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Casey and John share a private moment
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183: I Filed a Radar
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 ...
182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today
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 ...
181: Eat Your Vegetables
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
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