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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...
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 (...
115: Empathy for the Machine
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
110: And on That Bombshell…
- Follow-up:
- Pronunciation of Marques Brownlee
- Has Intel Skylake been delayed?
- Reasons for MacBook limitations
- 16 GB RAM
- 1 USB port
- RAM and silicon process sizes
- Apple apps updated to use Force Touch trackpad
- New MacBook missing 3-finger drag?
- Tim Cook's model-lineup philosophy
- Intel SkyLake and the wireless PC
- Nintendo and DeNA Partnership
- Post-show about the presumed demise of Top Gear:
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109: Bigger in the Pocket
Follow-up:
Tipster's compatriot
Nintendo World Championships
Stadium Events - The rare Nintendo cartridge that starts with an "s."
McLaren F1 resale
Bluetooth headphones
Casey's headphones
Marco's Bluetooth headphones (discontinued)
AptX codec
VoiceOver (via @lionc...
108: Zero is Better Than One
Pre-Show: Last Exile
Follow-Up:
More on Crossy Road
Previously on ATP 94, 95, 96
Previous interview with Crossy Road creators
Anonymous tips from last episode
Casey's tweet recap
USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
USB-C VGA Mulitport Adapter
Monday's Apple...
107: We Get the Most Boring Tips
Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things
Analog(ue)
Ferrari 488 GTB
488 Seat controls
Follow-up:
Tesla margins (as brought up by William Fairaday)
Being enthusiastic about your "team"
Tesla vs. Top Gear
Tesla vs. The New York Times
Heathrow's self-dr...
106: That’s Slightly Right
Follow-up:
Tesla and "customer sat"
Tweet from Elon Musk
Apple's Minivan
Apple Columbus
iPhone prototypes
BMW X7 testing
BMW i3
Apple/Tesla poaching
9to5Mac staff details
9to5Mac on hiring of Mercedes Benz head of R&D
What is Apple building?
Jason Snell at Si...
105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?
Follow-up:
Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync?
Trailers App?
Keyboard Shortcuts?
React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak
Apple making a car?
Neutral
CarPlay
9to5 Mac on hiring Mercedes-Benz R&D
Wall Street Journal
Tesla
GM EV1
Nissan Leaf
Mr....
104: Minutiæ
Follow-up
Email to the show's feedback form
What's a toaster oven?
The canonical "Breville"
J'SON
Photos.app does exist!
Jason Snell's Preview
Jason Snell's Q&A, including info on hard links
The Verge's FAQ
Learning to Love Photo Management
Casey's script
Dr. D...
103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan
Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition
@dansherson
Will Hains' Video
Jumanji
Inkwell
John's OS X 10.2 Review
Marco hates everyone and their email
FCC and Net Neutrality
Title II
Tom Wheeler
Apple sensor cars
Running Ov...
102: Marco Is Not a Platform
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson)
Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations
The Talk Show #107: Now It's All Floppy
Overcast earnings
Hello Internet #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Rep...
101: Big Plastic Finger
Follow-up:
12" MacBook Air
Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port.
RIP Thunderbolt?
Sessile
Thunderbolt Display
Duo Dock
Belkin Thunderbolt Dock
How do you power it?
WiTricity
Demo video
Artemis/pCell
ATP #61
ATP #62
Back ...
100: MacBook Shuffle
Pre-show:
🎉 Episode 100 🎉
Hypercritical
Build and Analyze
Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels
Showbot woes (again)
Camel updates
marked
markdown-it
Showbot issue screencap
Follow-up:
Anecdotal evidence of USB usage
Context of the 12" Air discussion
Keynote
Th...
99: Pop-Up Headlights
Follow-Up:
SSL
In schools & corporations
Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL
SOCKS
Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger)
Marco's Go feed poller update
IDE
Eclipse
Rust
Communicating sequential processes
Apple's Software Qua...
98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits
Follow-up:
More on John's windowing strategy
Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down)
DragThing
Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites
Marco (mostly) hates new things again
Node
Go
Python
Generics
C Macros
Operator overloading
Rails
John's though...