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Pre-show:
⚠️ LAST CHANCE FOR HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ⚠️
Follow-up:
Mophie 3-in-1 travel charger
Reported issues
Firmware update kit
Casey’s fire hazard
John’s Photos issues
He knows about modifier keys, y’all.
MacPaint
MacDraw
Odd behavior with iPhone camera a...
546: Re-Crop With the Wisdom of Age
Pre-show:
Marco’s Overcast rewrite
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
Synology Dynamic DNS
Alex Mazanov (of SwiftBar fame)’s interesting idea
CNAME
Marco’s security camera update
Scrypted
Eufy
Cameras with HomeKit Secure Video support
John’s s...
545: My Butler Can’t Use It
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Pre-show: Marco mended something!
How-to video
The good replacement part
Which one of us is which?
Meet Your Hosts
Apple Vision Pro labs, developer kits, and more
MacVoices #1070: Marco’s first podcast appearance?
James T...
544: Valid in a Marco Way
Pre-show:
Blue Man Group
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
EV thoughts from Sam Abuelsamid
ID.4 vs. Honda Accord
EVs make more particulate matter
DeMuro on the Kia EV6 GT
Tesla V4 Superchargers
iPadOS 17 window management
An extended aside...
543: 100 Million Tire-Kickers
Pre-show: Marco’s butt-crack update
Follow-up:
Upgrade #467: The Least Important Mac Follow-out
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor (2013)
Vision Pro eyes
The Talk Show #378 (YouTube link)
Listener Occupation Overview
Statistical analysis and standard error (...
542: Penguin Camel Monkey Shark
Pre-show:
How did we celebrate the Fourth of July?
Member Episodes Survey
Follow-up:
As per anonymous, Ternus received our Mac Pro shirt. 🫣
Adam Eccles expands the ATP Listener Universe™
Yes, Full Photos Access gives apps carte blanche (via Peter Gertsen-Schibbye)
...
541: Make a Little Maze
Pre-show: 🗣️ New Member’s Special Just Dropped 🗣️
Tier List - Wikipedia
Tier Lists - Know Your Meme
Follow-up:
With regard to the “real-time OS” and the roles of the R1
Secure Enclave Processor
Real-time operating system
Vision Pro and vision
VAC
James O’Laughli...
540: The Points Don’t Matter
Pre-show: Good SwiftUI days
Follow-up:
Vision Pro
Privacy considerations (via Brandon Jones)
WWDC 2023 #10096: Build Great Games for Spatial Computing
Designing for Spatial Input
6m5s
7m8s
Vergence & accommodation in eyesight (via Christopher Masto)
Ve...
539: The Strap Situation
Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi
Flighty
“Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames)
“Alexa” not recognized with frequency-range muting (or known-fingerprint matching)
iOS 17: Siri & Search → Listen For
Vision Pro
Promo video
xrOS at WWDC
Mas...
538: We Studied Thousands of Heads
- Pre-show: 🧘 Feelings check 🧘
- WWDC
- Post-show: WWDC food review
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537: Worse Than All of Our Toilets
Pre-show: Phish season
Live Phish
DMB Friday Night Concert Series
Goose on Bandcamp
Follow-up:
The Anonymous Corner
Some anonymous thoughts on mail delivery to Apple Park
BELIEVE shirts are at Apple Park
Rank-and-file engineers also hate Radar
Why does Apple both...
536: I Reboot With Reason
Follow-up:
Alex Stevenson-Price’s thread on his initial experiences with the Dell 6K monitor
Monitor Control
Dell Display Manager (via Ben Smith)
Hands on with Final Cut Pro & Logic for iPad
Ferrite
Dan Moren says Time-based rulers don’t work
Keep Final Cut P...
535: My Computer Supports Math
Pre-show:
🗣️ New Member’s Special posted 🗣️
A New Yorker’s View of the United States
Follow-up:
The Kobo FU continues
The Libra 2 does have support, kinda (via Stefano Costatini)
Install NickelMenu
Add the Dropbox menu item
Libra 2
Other Kobos
Multiple Displ...
534: On the Cheerleader Bus
Follow-up:
Marco’s new Kobo
Kobo will price-match (via Bob Pekol)
Games breaking the fourth wall
Metal Gear Solid Controller Swap Trick
Blackbox (App Store link) (via Andrew Clark)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (via David Kung)
Business perspective on 15” MacBook Air (...
533: The Beach Is the Beach
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch ⚠️ before Saturday, 6 May ⚠️.
Pre-show: Marco has e-reader pre-show follow-up
kobo sage
PMN Caecilia
Calibre
what if?
Pragmatic Programmer
Tao Te Ching
1984
Follow-up:
Mac Pro Believe art update (thanks, Cristofer Cruz)
Q...
532: The Meat Part of Multitasking
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch before Saturday, 6 May.
Pre-show: Marco re-discovers reading
Boox Nova Air C
Kindle Oasis (2nd-gen.)
reMarkable
Jason’s e-Reader Roundup
iPad Mini (6th-gen.)
Tobor Robot
PMN Caecilia (the original Kindle font)
Follow-up:...
531: Rock It in the Right Direction
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch before Saturday, 6 May.
Pre-show: Five K’s is just. not. enough.
Follow-up:
macOS 13.3 window-dragging lag (FB12122106) has returned 😱
John’s demo GIF
Demo Video
CarPlay does avoid some problems
Newer version of Casey...
530: You Are Not Nintendo
Pre-show:
Top Four: Hot Pockets
Hot Pockets
Pizza Rolls
Fun Dip
Pixy Stix
Nerds
The Food that Built America
Smarties
Sprees
SweetTarts
Jelly Belly
Weird and Gross
Follow-up:
The Letterboxd app (App Store) are native.
We know it’s at least in part Daniel Compton’s...
529: The Cycles of Marco
Pre-show:
Mugs & some pint glasses are in stock!
Fixes:
Member’s episodes and iPod & iTunes/Music users (yes, really)
Prospective members from 🇮🇳
Thank you, new and existing members! 💙💙💙
Follow-up:
Quick correction about the CalDigit TS4
Apple Photos de-...
528: My Favorite Slap in the Face
Pre-show: Samoas vs. Caramel DeLites
Casey found 🎉 More Occasions! 🎉
John’s anniversary & ATP #476
Jonathan’s anniversary
ATP Movie Club returns! We watched My Neighbor Totoro
Follow-up:
HDMI Quick Media Switching (QMS) in action
Threaded rod suggestions
...
527: The True Siri Experience
Pre-show: Marco has solved his Apple Watch Ultra band problem?
Orange Alpine Loop
Trail Loop
Ocean Band
Solo Loop
Follow-up:
iOS 16.4 will detect duplicate photos in iCloud Shared Photo Library
Kurt’s screenshot
John chose… poorly
RTINGS OLED Burn-In testing u...
526: Food Comes From Cans
Pre-show:
Marco’s load-bearing pinky
We stand in support of trans people, including trans youth. 🏳️⚧️
Alex Cox’s words
Alex Cox’s voice
5calls.org
Moltz’s toot
Happy 10th anniversary, ATP!
Follow-up:
Press ↑ to see the Apple TV screensaver location. (via Ted)
R...
525: The Glory Speakers
Pre-show:
Declan made an interesting observation
Marco files a bug report… AND ACTUALLY GETS A RESPONSE
unlike FB12026558: “Media services reset repeatedly upon initiating audio playback in iOS 16.4 betas”
John has…returned.
Follow-up:
Avoiding Shoulder Surfing
...
524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby
Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
Follow-up:
John’s COVID project
mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
“Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
Adam Wunn on iMazing
Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled...
523: I Can’t Give Him the Carrot Fast Enough
Pre-show: ✅ ATP hat-trick achieved ☹️
Follow-up:
Getting a copy of your data from Apple
privacy.apple.com
Zack Whittaker’s experience in 2018
GDPR
iMazing
On our slagging of Dolby Pro Logic (via Rob Howard)
A tip about Skip Intro on Apple TV (via Mark Johnson)
More o...
522: I’ll Just Keep You for Ten Years
Pre-show: Marco is living the true Land Rover experience
TFL Offroad
Your Daily Lex
Follow-up:
The foibles of a 2.1 setup (via Samuel Polay)
Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5
Video review
Bundle on Amazon
What’s the ∆ between Apple TVs? (via Andy Galletly)
An Unsolicited ...
521: Dance Compatible
Pre-show: Marco relives his middle-school years
Follow-up:
HomePod 2
Siri speed test video
And a related #askatp from Justin Saucier
Sonos Premium Entertainment Set with Arc
HomePod 2 power connector
IEC 60320
A fix for tapping the HomePod near an outlet
Foo...
520: Bananas Ingestion System
Pre-show: Your hosts have a discussion about music. We’re… um… sorry.
macOS: Settings → Advanced → Add songs to Library when adding to playlists
iOS: Settings→ Music → Add Playlist Songs
Follow-up:
Overview of US healthcare terminology
Ars Technica on the US heal...
519: Paint My Wings
Pre-show:
Frame Game
❗️ New Member’s special ❗️
Belated observation of an anniversary
Casey’s ATP announcement tweet
Follow-up:
The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one
But the base-model SSD is far slower… again.
Max Tech
Twitter officially b...
518: Deconstructed iMac
Pre-show:
Marco’s window-washing woes
Chicken hat dregs
❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️
Follow-up:
Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion Litigation
One more from CES: solid-state cooling
PC World video
Microelectromechanical s...