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Follow-up:
iMacs and IR ports
mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook
German video
Vint Cerf
DARPA
TCP/IP
IETF
Stuart Cheshire
iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack
Existing Lightning-equipped headphones
Slimmed-down headphone jack
Lightning Di...
145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens
Pre-show / Follow-out‡:
John Siracusa Paper Doll
John riding on Merlin's back
John on top of Hypercritical Mountain
Marco's version of John... plus a bowtie
Top Four on Take-Out Food
Roanoke Colony
Extracurriculars:
Reconcilable Differences
Top Four
Robot or Not
The ...
144: Digital Schmear
- Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles
- Mac App Store certificate problems
- iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment
- USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector
- Post-show:
- Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K
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143: Capital F, Capital C
- Follow-up:
- Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote
- John's children react to the remote
- Marco and Apple TV gaming
- iPad Pro
- Multitasking UI paradigms
- Post-show: Neutral
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142: Hateful Game of Frogger
Follow-out*:
Marco and _David Smith's new show, Under the Radar
Follow-up:
Facebook's ineptitude
Spotlight indexing for NAS drives
Why do Google Play Music and Stitcher re-host podcasts?
CPM
Apple TV
S/PDIF
The Talk Show #134
Upgrade #61
Konami Code
John's Wii U Set...
141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden
Apple TV and home theater
Apple's guide to choosing a capacity
Optical splitter from HDMI
Marco doesn't know what a "sound bar" is
Follow-up:
5400 RPM benchmarks, charts
Mac GPUs, heat, and noise
2015 5K iMac overheats?
Dynamic range compression in the new AppleTV?
M...
140: Harpooned a Turtle
- John tries to buy Star Wars tickets
- Follow-up:
- Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive?
- iMac revisited
- Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit
- Facebook battery usage
- Post-show: Perl 6
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139: I’ve Seen This Train Before
- Pre-show: Where is the updated 15" MacBook Pro?
- Follow-up:
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Overcast 2
- File formats are fun
- Bugs
- Facebook KVOController
- FCModel
- What's next
- Authenticated feeds?
- Business model
- Marco sees a medium
- Post-show: New iMacs
- Increased gamut 1 & 2
- Fusion drive down to 24 GB of flash
- New keyboard, trackpad, and mouse
- Key travel comparison
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138: Only Microsoft
Follow-up:
Boxee Box and oddly-shaped TV dinguses
TiVo Bolt feature upgrades for Roamios
Top Gear redux begins (Clarkson's tweet)
A tale of two A9s
Extra battery life? (more at Engadget)
Geekbench results: 1 2
Test App
Released after we recorded, Apple's statemen...
137: Feature Photos
Follow-up:
Endowment effect
VFX and Wacom tablets
Dr. Wave, iPad Pros, and Pixar
Ad-blocker penetration
Ruggedized phones
Apple Music trial ends for day-one adopters
Who renewed?
What's to like?
What's not to like?
Getting rid of "loves"
iPhone 6s
3D Touch
Web 3D ...
136: War and Peace
- Follow-up:
- Requirements that Find My iPhone and passcodes are disabled for iPhone repairs
- iPhone 6s Live Photos
- watchOS/2 and colored activity rings
- Peace
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135: Uncomfortable in My Pants
Pre-show:
Top Four
Follow-up:
CEC Unicorns
_David Smith's 16 GB iPhone Research
Damocles
iPhone 6/6S battery numbers
Naked robotic core
Casey's Lenmar battery case
Mophie Juice Pack Reserve
Anker's very similar battery case
Casey's crescent moon and Genius Bar polic...
134: Who Did It Firster?
Pre-show:
Casey, Plex, his Synology, and transcoding
Don Melton's scripts
DLNA
DS214Play
TouchID and "S" iPhones
iPhone crescent moon
Safari pinned tabs markup
W3 mailing list
Apple September Event
Apple Watch
[New watch metals and bands]
watchOS 2, custom comp...
133: You Have to Walk the Dog
Follow-up:
Why not use push notifications for the iPhone 6 Plus iSight replacement program
Apple, attitude, "cool", and change
Songs of Innocence
iPod Hi-Fi
Force Touch and Taptic Engine in the iPhone 6S
Upgrade #51
New York Times on Amazon's stressful culture
Jeff ...
132: Digital Hearth
Pre-show:
Casey's Tom Bihn Cadet review
Follow-up:
John's 802.11ac device (via @_adamluther)
John's Wi-Fi Routers
AirPort Extreme Teardown
Noctua fan
What computer should Casey buy?
Mouse design
Apple Mouse
Apology Mouse
Apple Pro Mouse
Logitech MX Revolution
Low Me...
131: Finding Your Way Back In
Pre-show:
Microphones and Electronics
Schiit Wyrd
Shure SM7B
Shure Beta 58A
Shure Beta 87A
Neodymium magnet
Cardioid microphone
Follow-up:
How Intel Skylake is faster
ECC RAM
Failures (PDF)
Bit error likelihood
DRAM errors in the wild (PDF)
Encrypted backups and pa...
130: Technical Countermeasures
Follow-up:
IBM's TrackPoint study
More on [self-proclaimed] Tap-to-Click Wizards
Apple SIM
Apple's documentation
Lady Whimsy's summary 1 2 3 4
Carrier Performance
Feedback from Chris 1 2
Carrier plans
Derek's theory
Ben's theory
Jeffrey's theory
Links from Aaron E
...
129: Tap-to-Click Wizard
- Skylake desktop CPUs launch
- Casey joins 2012
- 2015 iPhone predictions
- Carrier subsidies and pricing games
- Post-show:
- Repairing iPads
- Hot water heaters
- Marco's new camera
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128: Blue Ring Stud
Pre-show:
Invisible formatting
Chapter markers and Germany
Follow-up:
Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac
Samsung SSDs and TRIM
MacNN SSD testing
Marco's cellular-option dilemma
Reddit
Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast
John slacked off for 46 days
What makes T...
127: Not a Cactus in Sight
Pre-follow-up:
Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0
Follow-up:
Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian)
On-demand resources API and NSProgress (via @Hunter)
Marco tries to deny he likes playing games
Desert Golfing
Alto's Adventure
Pr...
126: The Web Kind of Happens to You
- Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations
- Follow-up:
- Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government
- Browser choice on iOS
- TRIM versus over-provisioning
- Half Life is available for the Mac
- New iPod Touch
- iPod Nano
- iPod Shuffle
- Post-show:
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125: A Better Future for Everybody
Follow-up:
Do SSDs understand the data that they write?
Honda Fit cameras
BMW Top View camera
Classical music on Apple Music
Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith
Discussion from last episode
First usage from #83
Concept's ...
124: The Tyranny of Radio
Follow-up:
Bitcode and portability
Dan Gohman's mailing list post
Google PNaCL
Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2
10.10.4 and TRIM support
Overview
Ars comment thread
Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities
Apple's use of Samsung SSDs
The come...
123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism
Follow-up:
Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture
Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2
C data types
Endianness
Data structure alignment
Steve Troughton-Smith
S1 analysis by Chipworks
The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs
Apple's transition from PowerPC to In...
122: My Results Were Inconclusive
Follow-up:
John loses leaves his wallet
John on losing his wallet on ATP #121
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Casey's discontinued Yubi Wallet
Marco's Slimmy Wallet
Notes.app runs on CloudKit
The MacBook One and Photos
iOS 9 and QuickType
Casey on iOS 9 Picture-...
121: Admitted No Wrongdoing
Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco:
- The keynote presentation
- Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- Natural-language search
- Window management
- iOS 9
- iPad enhancements:
- Keyboard navigation gestures
- Side-by-side apps
- Will these revive iPad sales growth?
- New Notes app
- Folding Text is the app Marco couldn't remember the name of
- Apple Instant Articles News app
- Swift going open-source
- watchOS 2.0
- Third-party complications
- Initial thoughts on the native API
- Post-show:
- Apple Music announcement
- John's Costanza wallet
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120: One Magical Wire
Pre-show:
Weebles Wobble
Casey's temporary setup to mess with John
John starts two new podcasts:
Reconcilable Differences with Merlin Mann
Robot or Not with Jason Snell
Follow-up:
Apple Watch distance & step count accuracy
Apple Support Document
Jony Ive's p...
119: Promoretired
This week we're joined by friend of the show Christina Warren (@film_girl). Christina writes for Mashable and hosts Rocket and Overtired.
As a part of this podcast exchange program, John joined Rocket for this week's episode.
Pre-show:
Casey's new mug thanks to @_DavidSm...
118: A Fistful of Apple Watches
Follow-up:
Running with Apple Watch – what if you hurt yourself?
Major Indian retailer Flipkart is going app-only (via @voldyman)
When do apps make sense? When does the web?
Apple Store EasyPay
Cosmodrome by Brianna Wu
RSS vs. blog Twitter accounts
Hypercritical
M...
117: You Don’t Have the Antibodies
Follow-up:
Inclusivity
Twitter Accounts
Everyday Sexism
Brianna Wu
Leigh Alexander
Feminist Frequency
Christina Warren
Podcasts
Rocket
Vector
iMore Podcast
Clockwise
Plex and Network Attached Storage
iPhoto and Time Machine
Watches replacing phones
Mac App Store...