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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
ATP: The Fully Verified Podcast™
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180: Don’t Cry for John, Argentina
- Follow-up:
- Pokémon Free-to-Play Dogs
- Looking at the bright side of Apple's ancient Mac lineup
- Twitter Verification
- Marco's podcast post-production app
- Under the Radar #36: Should You Release Every App?
- Bugshot
- Quitter
- Piracy-reduction techniques
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
- More on passwords and piracy protection
- How Tiff can play Inside
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179: Free-to-Play Dogs
- Follow-up:
- SoftBank to buy ARM
- Apple hardware stagnation
- How does Marco's Sidetrack work?
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: What's appropriate to talk about on ATP?
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178: Mama Needs That Pokémon
- Follow-up:
- Hackintoshes work sometimes
- Charles Perry's Mac Mini Story
- Contour Design RollerMouse Pro2
- Casey's 5K iMac (Late 2015, 4GHz i7) Woes
WindowServer: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continous seconds of unreadiness)- Later RTFU tweet
- Planet of the Apps
- Pokémon Go
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
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177: Paying for Someone to Blame
- Follow-up: Dave Nanian of SuperDuper fame on HDMI CEC
- Ripping Blu-rays for Apple TV:
- MakeMKV
- Subler
- Plex
- Infuse
- DS Video
- Don Melton's video-transcoding scripts
- The TV Database
- The Movie Database
- Follow-up on Marco's HDMI CEC woes
- Follow-up: Matt Bischoff on ice cream ingredients
- iCloud Drive vs. Dropbox for file syncing
- Scrivener Sync
- macOS Sierra and the case of the missing files
- Dropbox Infinite
- Hackintoshes still exist, apparently
- The poor Mac Mini
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show Neutral: Honda Accord SE
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176: Yellow Sock Time
Follow-up:
Linus Torvalds on HFS+
See also
IntegrityChecker
chkbit
PAR2 and Parchive
Protecting against bit rot
Mac Toolbox
More on APFS
Space sharing
Time Machine and file/directory clones
FSEvents
Hard links
Atomic clones
TeachText
Snapshots
BackupLoupe
...
175: Dance Palace
Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder
macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro
/System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
The Talk Show Live
Marco's Pictures
Deleting system apps on iOS 10
Search ads using names of other apps
Apple Photos and c...
174: A Ding in the Room
- Recorded live from Marco's hotel room at WWDC
- Apple WWDC reactions
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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173: A Series of Heartbreaking Rejections
Follow-up:
No 5K Monitor at WWDC
iPhone "7" & SE: Third Time's a Charm
macOS in official documentation?
Photo evidence
App Store changes announced this week
Apple's official pages:
Subscription changes
Search ads
Example image
Press interviews with Phil Schill...
172: iPhone X
- Last call for ATP Shirts! Sale ends on Friday ATP-time!
- John's attic
- More on the rumored new MBPs
- External Retina Display
- Apple opening Siri
- iPhone 7 "tick"?
- Apple considered buying Time Warner
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: New Top Gear
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171: WWDC Is Not Santa Claus
Pre-show: ATP Shirts!
BMW M
Marco's illustration
Follow-up:
App Store review times
The Talk Show #154 - Facebook on Your Face
Force quitting apps on Android & iOS
Rumored new MacBook Pro
MacRumors Buying Guide
Optimus Keyboard
Clockwise #138 – You Know What You'...
170: Casey Beats John, 29–29
- Buy ATP 2016 T-shirts by June 3!
- Follow-up:
- Foodgate 2016
- Bing bans "tech support" ads
- Debunking an Apple/podcasting conspiracy theory
- App Store approval times
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Google I/O
- Keynote
- Google Home
- Google Allo
- Google Duo & Knock Knock
- Android N
- Vulkan
- JIT compilation
- Multitasking
- Instant Apps
- Android Wear 2.0
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Compulsive app quitters
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169: My Fingers Are Still Moving
- Casey's iPhone battery woes
- John's drug days in Reconcilable Differences #25: Zarro Droogs
- Tesla's In-Car Purchase
- Follow-up: Mere-exposure effect
- New York Times article on Apple meeting with podcasters
- Viv & Hound
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
- New Instagram Icon
- A tour of bad food
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168: Coffee Stops Working
Pre-show:
Our lack of T-shirts
Casey's "Doppelgänger"
Casey's "Doppelgänger's" Twin Brother
Follow-up:
No more WWDC failed-charge issues
Volvo trashes Tesla
SAE Automated Driving Levels
Ejecting volumes in Windows
Overcast quicksync
Unit testing is a Good Thing™
Clo...
167: They’ve Opened the Door to Streakers
John was on vacation in California
Alcatraz
Cable cars
Lombard Street
WWDC 2016 tickets and considerations
Under the Radar #24
Transfer Policy
Layers Conference
Expenses
Follow-up on EV charging stations
ChargePoint.com
MacBook One update
MKBHD pokes fun at himself...
166: Fitness Turd
Tesla facelift
Neutral #3: A Bra Phase
Follow-up:
Superchargers vs. gas stations
SAE's automated driving levels
Amazon Echo, Dash Button, and Siri outside the U.S.
Siri feature availability
Networking gear
Ubiquiti's 8-port PoE switch
Marco's big HP 1810G-24 switch
...
165: Time Was…
Follow-up: Tesla model naming
Today's Tesla Autopilot, tomorrow's self-driving cars?
_David Smith's Tesla Review
Self-driving truck convoy completes journey across Europe
Tesla Superchargers
Marco's surveillance camera
Ubiquiti
ERLite-3 router
UniFi 802.11ac long-range ...
164: Waiting for the Bla-Bloop
Flash drives for car music
Samsung Flash Drive Fit
Marco's modification
Follow-up:
Apple and renewable energy
Purple Safari
1Password stable override
1Password beta
TextExpander 6's controversial move to subscription pricing
MJ Tsai's summary
1Password for Teams
1Pa...
163: Wet Right Thumb
Pre-show: Theories on seasonal allergies
Follow-up: Walmart is slightly less evil than we thought, at least in renewable energy
Sustainability
Walmart's Approach to Renewable Energy (PDF)
Will we ever see USB ports on the iPad Pro?
Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter
Ubun...
162: iPhone Sorry Erin
Follow-up:
How many iPad and Mac users also carry iPhones?
Why not use CloudKit or BackBlaze B2 for Overcast file uploads?
Car break-ins via keyless entry amplifiers
Apple's "Loop You In" Event
Sad times for the Mac
Intel Skylake
Oculus founder's comments
40 Years in 4...
161: Dark Mode Is Your Hat
- Why don't we have cellular MacBooks?
- Could Photos.app's "UXKit" become AppKit's successor on the Mac?
- Marco might be a Mac developer shortly
- Overcast 2.5 released
- Apple Event on March 21
- Post-show: John suffers a loss
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160: Be Careful Out There
- Follow-up:
- SQL Server on Linux
- TV Mounts
- Marco's surprising product review
- Marketing the next 9.7-inch iPad
- Transmission's ransomware infection
- The future of Mac OS X
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: John doesn't go to Las Vegas.
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159: A Typo On Your Brake Pads
Pre-show: The Ferrari Siracusa (really)
Ruf
Dinan
BMW 1M
Cobb
Follow-up: Mono vs. Xamarin
Apple's self-blacklisted ethernet driver
Disk Utility typos
Disk Utility and SuperDuper
John can't resist a history lesson about filesystems (🛎)
MFS
HFS
HFS+
btrfs
John's q...
158: You Can’t Outlaw Math
Pre-show: Driving John's cold over to Craig's house
The Talk Show interview with Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue
Follow-up:
Figma is in the browser
Comic Sans was created for Microsoft Bob
Microsoft Buys Xamarin
Project Islandwood
Ximian
Apple and the FBI
Statement...