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Pre-show:
New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
Become an ATP Member to listen
ATP Gift Memberships
Follow-up:
“Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
Can Marco recognize waveforms?
Descript
Emo Siri
It started...
618: Type System Says No
New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
Follow-up:
John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
Christian Kent’s correction/joke
More app name ideas…
Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
Alternative space-savin...
617: An Incredibly Dangerous App
Pre-show: Laundry tactics
Follow-up:
Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news
Channels
Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights
CGPath
Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime
Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase)
FotS Jonat...
616: I Have No Grippers
Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
Follow-up:
Yet more football (🏈) news
Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
TVEverywhere & Channels
AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
...
615: A Mildly Brisk Walk
Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
Follow-up:
Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
Sunday Ticket updates
On sale!
It was free yesterday… kind of
TV Everywhere
An alternative approach
DAZN
NFL Replay
Tailscale and Exit Nodes
Concert for One: Ray...
614: Don’t Puke for the Show
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
The Weeknd: Open Hearts
Link to the video itself
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Lensrentals: Vision Pro
M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johan...
613: Dress for the Chip You Want
🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by Sunday!
Follow-up:
Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
“Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
Mac mini
“Modular” storage
Quinn’s teardown
...
612: Screen on Face
Pre-show: Politics later.
#195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link)
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
Follow-up:
Mac mini
Headphone jack placement
Quinn’s observation
Cruical 32GB DIMM
Samsung SSD
iMac
Apple removes colo...
611: RAM Christmas
Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱)
Submerged
Sleep No More
Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz.
Please don’t elect a racist with facist goals
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
No, Kamala isn’t perfect, but she’s far better.
I Wi...
610: More Values in the Darkness
Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special
Follow-up:
New iPad Mini
“Jelly Scrolling” is fixed?
David Pierce disagrees though
Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham)
Apple may stop producing Vision Pro soon?
Some follow...
609: You’re the Oreo Cookie
🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️
Follow-up:
Marco updates
AutoSleep
iPhone leather backs
Suti PhoneBack
Nomad Magnetic Leather Back
HDR photos from big cameras
Apple laptops can run without a battery connected
XKCD: Ravioli-Shaped Obj...
608: Boot to Toot
Follow-up:
NotebookLM podcast
Camera Control button material
iPhone case suggestions
Spigen Ultra Hybrid T MagFit
Arc Pulse
Leather backs
Suti
Nomad
Atom Studios
Sleep-tagging app suggestions
Windows anti-malware app suggestions
Adaptive Transparency report
Wirel...
607: The Structure and Vibe of a Podcast
Pre-show: Windows woes
Follow-up:
Thank you, listeners. 💙
Hard-wired camera indicator light
AirPods 4 bass & new MagSafe puck (via Wayne Dixon)
Quinn’s AirPods 4 review
The A18 is not a binned A18 Pro
Fabian Häusler’s interpretation
The tiny ∆ between These...
606: A Decade of Half-Presses
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Ryan Ricard’s great idea
Calculate your Marco Offset
Podcastathon: Casey was live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September
Follow-up:
John filename extraction from Photos
Fr...
605: Manage the Moisture Situation
Pre-show: It’s early 🥱
ATP live announcement post
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Calculate your Marco Offset
Podcastathon: Casey will be live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September
🗣️ New ATP Member’s s...
604: Minimized Embiggening
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Apple September 2024 Event
Quinn’s video on Apple’s new OLED
Underscore’s Apple Watch size comparison
AirPods 4’s hidden capacitive button
Camera Control overview
Qi 2 [and more!...
603: Too Smart to Move
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Follow-up:
Mac mini redesign updates from Mark Gurman
Minimum Mac RAM (via Brian)
Apple’s 1996 revival
JPEG XL support (via Kelly Thompson)
Google’s Image Coding Comparison...
602: A Glimpse of a Better World
Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Follow-up:
Overcast 2024.8.2 update
Downsides to visual screen capture indications (via Josh Hattersly)
John makes it through the Apple ...
601: Foreheads Over the Years
Pre-show:
App Store reorganization
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows
Follow-up:
iPhone 16 “Capture Button” (via Aaron Dippner)
iPhone 16 Pro’s fourth color
More from MacRumors
Microsoft Zune
Available on Amazon!
System color picker (...
600: Everyone Ends Up at Crab
Pre-show: 🎉 Happy 600 Episodes, ATP! 🎉
Clear Channel
ATP #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
Follow-up:
Vista-fication of macOS
Is the problem really the UI? (via Nathanial Cohen)
What if it’s actually about domestic abuse?
The alerts will now be monthly
How gas st...
599: Where Did Salad Go?
Pre-show: Mophie 3-in-1
Analog(ue) #228: We Don’t Have to Talk About Air Conditioning (Posted on Sunday, 11 August)
Follow-up:
Apology Tour
Mistaken theme song
“Users hate all change”
Sonos still reeling after new app release
Curbside charging does exist in t...
598: Three-Burner Stove
Follow-up:
Rivian Repair
Becki & Chris (timestamp link) (via Matt Rigby)
Marco’s Repair Breakdown
Parts: 39%
Right Uniside assembly quarter panel: $2,751
Bumper cover: $940
Right tail lamp assembly: $630
Right quarter panel glass: $537
Labor: 53%
Miscellaneou...
597: Apple Watch Shuffle
Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️
Follow-up:
Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers (via Josh Osborne)
EU approves Apple’s commitments to open NFC access
EU announcement
Apple approves emulator UTM SE after initial rej...
596: A New Foundation for Progress
Pre-show: Casey’s phoenix
Follow-up:
More on “S-Tier” (via kuriko)
More on the HP iPod (via Voline)
David Schaub identifies the iMac clone that Apple sued over
European Union regulations & profits (via Yury Molodtsov)
More on non-competes (via Gary Havens)
🇹🇼/🇺🇸 Cul...
595: The Best Secret Store
Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe
Fully Herman Miller Jarvis
Follow-up:
An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss from the iPod Tier List special (via Scott Shuchart)
The origins of S-Tier in tier lists (via David Schaub)
Grading in Japan
AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphon...
594: We Just Found It on the Doorstep
Pre-show:
Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
New member’s special: iPod Tier List
Follow-up:
Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
One EU citizen’s persp...
593: Not a European Lawyer
Pre-show: Casey’s thought processes and traditions
The Last Dance
Follow-up:
iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia
Ricky Mondello on
Chrome Native Messaging JSON files documentations
Simeon (formerly Chrome, now Firefox) weighs in
Use alternative i...
592: I Think He Won the Game
Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro
The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024
Theatre (App Store link)
Sandwich
SpatialGen
ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
Microsoft Recall
7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in
13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall
Micros...
ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
- Holly Borla: Swift Language Engineering Manager
- @holly on Mastodon
- Ben Cohen: Senior Software Engineering Manager, Swift Team
- @airspeedswift on Mastodon
591: That’s Why I Like Computers
Our WWDC 2024 recap episode.
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