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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...
97: You Have to Know When to Stop
Follow-Up:
Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey)
Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs
Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately
Marco expands his horizons
POODLE attack
cURL
SSL/TLS
Node.js
supervisord
beanstalkd
cu...
96: The Windows of Siracusa County
Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience
Follow-up:
App Store Woes
Panic's Transmit woes reversed
DragonDrop
Timebar
Launcher
Crossy Road financials
PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_)
Plex has announced PS4 support (via @retur...
95: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You
Follow-Up:
Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.)
Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response
Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps
This week's App Store drama
The phone call to Launcher's developer
Apple's questionabl...
94: Spirited Defense of Pong
Follow-Up:
Casey clears up his car intentions
Golf R Wagon/Estate
Apple using push notifications for an advertisement
App Store Rule 5.6
Paul Haddad's Idea
Drafts' Today Widget fiasco
Tweets from Greg Pierce, author of Drafts
One, two, three, four
PCalc's Today W...
93: I’m Not Running a Boarding House Here
Follow-up:
Correction on battery increases year over year
Hypercritical #74
Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs
The Prompt (succeeded by Connected)
Palm V
IIS on !Windows
Kestrel
libuv
nginx
Scott Hanselman's summary
Casey can't manufacture that thing l...
92: You Don’t Know My Pants
- Follow-up:
- Inside info on why iWork seems so screwed up
- More on open source .NET, from @Scionwest
- Germany's equivalent of Consumer Reports tests the bendiness of the new iPhones (link in German)
- Nokia's new tablet features the USB Type C connector
- WatchKit
- Post-show:
- John's iPhone activation woes
- John critiques cutting-edge apps:
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91: Press Agree to Drive
Twitter's absurd mission strategy statement
Demotivational Poster
Should we use a carousel?
Follow-up:
More on app bundles
Does iWork help Apple sell hardware?
RiMac GPUs are throttled?
It's possible to get hot even in OS X
Gaming benchmarks
More from Ars
iStat Menus...
90: Speculative Abandonware
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...
89: DeLorean + McLaren
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 ...
88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym
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...
87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills
- Follow-up:
- Apple's event: Yosemite, iPad Air 2, Retina iMac
- Unfunny funny skits
- Retconned Retina iPad Mini
- The A5 lives on for another year or two
- Apple's ASP strategy tax (John, previously)
- The new iPads
- John's iOS device plans
- Authy two-factor auth app
- iMac Retina 5K
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John's Review
- Buy the iBook!
- Buy the Kindle eBook
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- About John's review
- xScope
- Lattner's tweet
- Mike Ash's Friday Q&A
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