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140: Harpooned a Turtle

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139: I’ve Seen This Train Before

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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...

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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 ...

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136: War and 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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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129: Tap-to-Click Wizard

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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...

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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...

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126: The Web Kind of Happens to You

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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-...

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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:

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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116: Women Aren’t a Minority

Pre-show: Marco defends his backyard duck from raccoons Follow-up: HFS+ and Network Attached Storage The Synology we use is the DS1813+, but the DS1815+ is the modern version DS214play Photos.app Saving and transferring edits between photo apps Flickr gives 1 TB free (...

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115: Empathy for the Machine

ATP Shirt: Last chance, buy now! Available until Wednesday, 6 May. Pre-show: Neko Atsume ("the cat game") Follow-up: Bad Seagate hard drives How Hard Disks Work (page 7) The MacBook Air survives... for now! launchd launchd plist generator Lingon cron Photos Backgr...

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114: So Far, So OK

ATP T-Shirts available until Wednesday, 6 May! Follow-up: Natural disasters, Thailand, and hard drives Synology hard drive redundancy strategies Synology Hybrid Raid Synology DS1814+ (our Synology) New MacBook battery life under load AnandTech Marco on "battery outl...

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113: Get Your Ears Ready to Hear Me Complain

Donate to the EFF as a thanks for invalidating key claims of the "podcasting patent" Follow-up: There is no air gap in at least "most models" of the Apple Watch (via Jeremy Heberlein) What watches did we order? Apple Store App (iTunes Link) Marco's Blog Post Casey's Bl...

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112: The Problem Is You

Follow-up: There are some nice people on Twitter MacBook Pros and external displays Specs page Grandma's Boy's seat/display setup Scrubbing streaming video Koenigsegg "One to One" PowerPC Macs with x86 hardware compatibility, PC users, and the power button Meta-discu...

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111: That Big Ring Underground Somewhere in Europe

Follow-up: Pork food safety F-16 and F/A-18 control sticks External displays and the current MacBook Pro "This never would have happened if Steve was alive" Comparing past actions versus intentions The Macalope's take Marco is sleepy and Casey is envious Siracusa's ref...