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- Fetched
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
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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...
157: As Many People in the Sandbox as Possible
- Follow-up:
- Potential Apple Car ECU
- Adobe bug deletes Backblaze folder
- Sandboxing on the Mac
- Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on The Talk Show
- Figma's Vector Networks
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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156: A Mac on Fire
Follow-up:
Previous-episode feedback and constructive criticism
Einstein's quote
Photos.app crop/aspect behavior theories
Keyboard shortcuts
Bluetoot (©MerlinCo 2011) headphone dongle concept
TDK Boombox
AGPtek Bluetooth to headphone converter
Modern equivalent
Se...
155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original
Follow-up:
Serial numbers on serviced Mac logic boards
Long-distance wireless charging
Artemis
Shared iPad developer guidelines
Walt Mossberg discovers the functional high ground
Jim Dalrymple weighs in
John Gruber weighs in
Apple app design
Marco's piece from last...
154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy
Follow-up:
Audiobus used MIDI SysEx, not loopback networking
Inter-App Audio on iOS offers Audio Unit extensibility
Could Apple make a universal Lightning-headphone replacement cable?
John's Destiny Heads-Up Display
HDR
Panasonic P55VT60
Pirate Eye Patches
Quirks &a...
153: Larger, Less Portable Pastures
Pre-Show: Winter weather
The Long Dark
Memory barrier
Pirate eye patches
Follow-up:
Protocol extensions
Testing NSURLSession with Swift
Studies on blue light and sleep quality
National Center for Biotechnology Information (via @technorav)
Harvard
The shade of blue
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152: Daddy Didn’t Want the Good Graphics Card
- Casey bought an iMac... and you won't believe what happened next.
- Plex vs. Infuse
- Follow-up:
- Apple TV Tech Talk
- iOS 9.3
- Post-show: Wheel of iMacs
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151: The Opposite of Final
Follow-up:
UpThere
AWS
Little Snitch
Upthere's response
EC2
iPhone 7 Headphone Jack
New USB-C peripherals for the MacBook One
Griffin "MagSafe"
Hyper USB-C Hub
CES
E3
Swift Code of Conduct
linux-kernel mailing list
Randi Harper (FreeBSDGirl)'s post
Swift pro...
150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot
Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores
Casey gets a new Apple TV
Plex
Harmy's Despecialized Editions
Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini
Apple SIM
Steven Troughton-Smith making windows on iOS
Cintiq
What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016?
Marco — Apple TV:...
149: Everyone’s on Vacation
- Casey's reconciled differences
- Three truths and a lie
- Marco experiments with his website
- Chrome vs. Safari on the desktop
-
Phil Schiller takes over the App Store
- Ben Thompson's take (Stratechery members only)
- Apache Mesos
- Les Moonves
- CBS/60 Minutes feature on Apple
- Upthere
- Post-show:
- Neutral: Marco has ordered a Tesla
- The great bagel dispute
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148: Your Feelings Are Real
Follow-up:
Green shifting (see also)
Continuous release schedules
Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version
iPhone 7 battery theories
4-inch iPhone 6S predictions
Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case
Marco's slim battery brick
Negativity about Apple
Apple TV App Store challenges
Ctr...
147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery
Follow-up:
The iPhone Lightning Dock exists
Benefits of Lightning headphones
USB Type C supports analog audio
Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV
Swift/Foundation bridging
Apple iPhone 6S battery case
Porsche Panamera
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