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Accidental Tech Podcast

90: Speculative Abandonware

01:44:37
Follow-up: Declan night one It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island, not "Adam Sandberg". Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics. Saturday Night Live Brooklyn Nine-Nine "Lazy Sunday" "On a Boat" "[Cheney] in a Box" T-Pain Autotune "Semicolon" App stor...

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89: DeLorean + McLaren

01:40:45
Casey's new arrival Some background The Jackal Follow-Up: Marco's Retina iMacs may be on a boat The Talk Show FU: the new iMac displays are laminated FCC sues AT&T for heavy throttling of their "unlimited" plan ECC RAM is actually worth it Marco's intentions ...

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88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym

02:17:47
Follow-up: SMS Relay doesn't require Bluetooth Low Energy (Tweet by @Jury) Is a grandfathered AT&T unlimited-data plan worth keeping? Dropbox versus iCloud Drive versus OneDrive Dropbox document picker Bluetooth mesh networking Twitter's developer conference Twitt...

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87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills

02:24:31

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86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block

01:37:36
Trends in social networks App.net Broadcast Ello (@marcoarment, @caseyliss, @johnsiracusa, @atpfm) Cupcake The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin Follow-up: iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik's research) Dev Forums Hendrik's video Test patt...

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85: The Unexpected Hard Part

01:20:47
Follow-Up: John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger Thumb commercial Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape) iPad resizable-apps vid...

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84: The Load-Bearing Finger

02:12:33
Follow-Up: Jason Snell on iPhone 6 CPUs Upgradeable Apple Watches Apple S1 How do you sell a $10,000+ watch in an Apple Store? Apple Watch Edition's special box Apple Pay and banking The hidden meanings of Apple "tv"/"WATCH" text styling Trade names and the NFL If Steve...

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83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life

01:45:50
Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets Follow-up: More on Retina displays for the Mac Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and Skylake iPhones 6 and 6 Plus Optical image stabilization Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review Barefeats benchmark Marco teaches Casey about photography ...

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82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate

02:49:47

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81: You Left Your Money in a Bank

02:25:29
Follow-up: TiVo service charges and OTA channels Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple Anand's announcement Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III Hackers stea...

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80: Tangled in Version Numbers

01:27:46
Follow-up: iTunes on Windows uses Objective-C Lightning cables Advice from Geniuses at the Apple Bar When to ask for a replacement Strain relief design USB icon on the cable There's still a Mac with an optical drive CD-ROM nostalgia CD caddy Math co-processor Kenwoo...

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79: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve

01:34:54
Pre-show: Relay FM and Casey's new show about feelings Follow-up: Rumored Lightning cable with reversible USB end, too Lightning cables breaking at the strain-delay cuff PVC Apple's official cable Amazon's knockoffs Monoprice's knockoffs Cables' Springy Bits TRRS conne...

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78: Fleece the Whales

01:33:01
Pre-Show: Casey's New Podcast Follow-Up: USB Type-C connector finalized Peter Bright's comment xkcd ARM Macs Summly WIMP _DavidSmith's Version Stats More on Jared Sinclair and the App Store economy Jared's new job Release Notes #65 _DavidSmith's Developing Perspec...

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77: Full-Stack Businessperson

01:57:53
Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ Journey Soundtrack Transport Tycoon TT Original MIDI Music TT Remastered MP3 Music OpenTTD Follow-up: Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app Apple and IBM John's review status Synergy Overcast status Mixing server roles for burst capacity nic...

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76: Not Suitable for Any Purpose

01:52:06
Follow-up on Overcast: Debug Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing Previously on ATP The Incomparable Top Gear Series 3 Episode 4 Sega Saturn Yosemite Public Beta IMAP VPN woes of the past Radar SuperDuper...

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75: You Had Your Moment

01:27:06
Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags Follow-up: Overcast week one update Server side vs. local feed crawling XML wonkiness XPath XSLT UI Changes in 1.0.1 What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app? Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra Mo...

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74: One Of Us Shipped Something

02:13:04
Follow-up: Showbot status and pull requests Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies Vindictive but self-defeating defections Screen size, small hand...

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73: Notifications Duck

01:20:22
Follow-up: Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates? Framily Google I/O Inclusiveness Penny-farthing bicycle RAW editing in iPhoto Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones More on health monitoring by Ben Gr...

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72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day

01:51:11
Pre-Show: Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs. Follow-up: Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Gri...

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71: Security By Guilt

01:42:27
Pre-show: Million Dollar Homepage (more on Wikipedia) Alex Tew's Twitter Account and new venture Casey's Showbot returns. SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Casey mentioned Casey breaks Marco's brain with consulting terminology Is "!s" pronounced "bang-S" or "exclamation-point...

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70: The Endgame Is Omnipotence

01:27:22
  • Follow-up on app bundles as upgrade pricing.
  • Whether games are more like apps or movies.
  • Amazon's Fire Phone
  • Amazon and Apple doing what they're respectively, exclusively good at.
    • Continuity and Handoff in Yosemite and iOS 8
    • Only Apple (John Gruber)
  • John's opinion of iMessage.
  • Casey's further adventures developing a small web app in a hostile environment.

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69: Welcome to the Web, Casey

01:46:09
Follow-up: It's OK if you got two T-shirts. Keep them both. Marco was wrong about CloudKit limits. Casey's broken Showbot. Abusing new App Bundles and Complete This Bundle to achieve upgrade pricing in the App Store. The WWDC NDA is mostly gone. WWDC 2014 videos Marco...

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68: Siracusa Waited Impatiently For This

01:43:31

Our initial WWDC reactions.

Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell!

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67: Tim Said, Man

02:09:39
We'll be guests on the WWDC live episode of The Talk Show: Tuesday, June 3, 6–9 PM. Get tickets here ASAP! John will be taking a plane... for you. Follow-up: Which is faster: installing Showbot or reimplementing it? Casey's open-source Node version PHP isn't faster than ...

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66: Boiling A Pretty Big Lake

02:02:22
The modern Apple-store experience Follow-up: Marco reneges on his recent praise of Beats headphones, then receives the saddest real-time follow-up ever Headphones mentioned: B&O BeoPlay H6: Great comfort, but not sound. Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro (32-ohm version; Case...

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65: The Year Of Casey

02:01:00

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64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived

01:34:38
Hurry if you want an ATP T-Shirt! Just $19, and the sale may be over by the time you read this! Follow-up: Who plays video games vs. self-identified "gamers" ComiXology Is Apple's 30% cut of in-app purchases the same as net neutrality? Vihart Video Internet2 Who should b...

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63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard

01:51:03
ATP T-Shirts: $19 each, available for only 1 week! Follow-up: Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association) Your favorite game genres going out of fashion Apps and games Mentioned: Metal Gear Solid Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time...

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62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You

02:13:16
Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers, and taking a stand against the "premature optimization" tautology. When and why do developers learn something new, and why does Marco keep using PHP for everything? Second C...

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61: Perfectly Neutral

01:54:59
Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate sound. (Marco's open and closed headphones, amp, and DAC) The Apple insight attained by way of documents released in the Sa...